Catholic Church gives Washington D.C. an ultimatum over Gay marriage

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Apparently unsatisfied with everything ELSE the Catholic Church has to deal with, Pope Benedict XVI decides to stick his crucifix where it doesn't belong and meddle in the affairs of Anglicans -- by inviting those displeased with Episcopalian acceptance of homosexuals to COME OVER TO THE DARK SIDE join with Rome.

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A rather good article, I feel, though its appeal may be to a relatively fairly narrow audience (consisting entirely of people who A. know jack about either CoE or Catholicism, and B. actually care) followed by surprisingly insightful comments:

Is it just me, or does the picture suggest a vampire rising from its coffin? asks riggbeck.

speaking as an excatholic he is welcome to them! although they'll probably find that there are more gay priests in the catholic church rather than in the one they are leaving! observes jamijery.

This is all very interesting and informative, but I'm sorry to say that for 90% of the population, this will have no bearing on their lives. So sayeth NapoleonKaramazov in what I think is a fairly accurate estimation, begging the question "Why, then, is Duende bothering to post this?" Because I am extremely bad at math.

...Snarking aside, some of the comments actually ARE good ones:

This is very similar to Stephen Bates' article yesterday. Again, I fail to see the problem with the Vatican's proposal. A way has been found to allow a number of people who are currently Anglicans - call them Anglo-Catholics, High Church, or whatever - to move to the Catholic Church in a fashion which will make them happier than they currently are. In their absence, people in the Church of England who wish to make more changes in terms of women bishops, gay cleargy, etc, will find it easier to make those changes. Where is the problem in this? Only if you see RC / Anglican relations as some sort of zero-sum game, where the Anglo-Catholics have to be kept locked into the Anglican communion in order to keep the numbers up. --Suleyman

The Catholic Church is seen to be modern. In one breath the Pope has spoken superstision about homosexuality, and in the next, condemned Israel for bulldozing Palistenian homes. Tell them that no-one MAKES homosexuals do what they do. Do you? The idea of fearing anything let alone God seems dubious to most of the previous commenters. Fear isn't the issue regarding the accused. The only criticism about this compromise has come from rash hackers like Lucy Mangan who have distracted from whose own questionable practices, based on personal nuerosis and egocentricities, which bare no relavance to the INCREASINGLY neccessary role of a high profile, NON VIOLENT body in today's society. --GraemeFord

The usual parade of rage-inducing ignorance and thought-inducing conspiracy theories follow. ("There is no such thing as an Anglican church there are only a bunch of jumped up hypocrites who cow-towed to the divorce demands of a fat king. If you are a Christian you either follow true Protestantism or you admit you are a catholic and follow the pope, there can be no half-way house." ...What?)

As for myself, a former member of both churches, I think that is Rome wishes to corral all the bigoted homophobes into the same pen regardless of (basically irrelevant, in this case) differences in doctrine, they have my blessing -- it only makes them that much easier to avoid.

So I got this off the Malaysian news service:

Avoiding masturbation and homosexual activities are among preventive measures one could take against Influenza A (H1N1), according to an eminent practitioner of complimentary therapy.

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I honestly don’t know what to say. I honestly do not know what to say.

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He has a blog post explaining it all. Hell, his entire blog looks like that.

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I bow to stronger minds to parse this further, because I think my mind just broke.

I've been keeping an eye on this for a while and haven't seen any posts about it.

Most of the information was found in the Feministe article, (Edit) which also summarizes up most of Thio's points for those who don't want to read the teal deer.

For those not in the know, Thio Li-Ann is a strong supporter of the law that outlaws gay sex in Singapore. She is also known for her extremely strong views on homosexuality.

NYU has invited her to teach a course on human rights in Asia. This obviously prompted the LGBT students to send out an e-mail to the student body. In addition, an IT Tech guy who is also a student named Malik Graves-Pryor at NYU sent out a plea for the dean to reconsider.

Thio, in a rather butthurt fashion, sends out her rebuttal to everyone on the NYU faculty.


( Graves-Pryor' e-mail and Thio's 18 point rebuttal for the linkphobic. It is extremely long. )


More sources:
Queerty (Includes a speech she made) / Straits Times / Feministe

Edit More previous unfunny with Thio, linked to and written by t_boy here

How does gay marriage hurt heterosexuals and their families?

I HEADDESKED TOO MANY TIMES AND NOW IT HURTS :(

I was torn between posting this in otf_wank and unfunnybusiness, but the unrepentant bigotry beat out the WTFLOL.

Anyway. Mulefucker runs for Georgia governor. When you're a reporter, you occasionally have to ask uncomfortable questions of someone. In this case, I landed an interview with the Georgia Creator's Rights Party candidate for governor, Neal Horsley, who is running on the secessionist platform. During the course of my research, I stumbled upon the fact that Horsley had screwed a mule.

Yes, his real name is Horsley, he is a secessionist, and he thinks that both abortion and gays are evil.

Shakespeare's Sister has more.

I suppose this is a reminder of how far the LGBT community in the West has come.

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You think this is bad, though? At the very least she’s Singaporean. At least in Singapore there’s a rather thin veneer of intellectual respectability that gives Our Friendly Neighbors the ability to sneer at their brutish uncivilized cousins across the Tebrau Strait.

delwynmarch makes a post in ffrantsrants arguing that since fans (generally) say that it's okay if a given kink (say, incest, pedophilia, rape, etc.) is in fanfic, since it's FICTION, and to not actually endorse or condone such things in real life, this should apply to homosexuality as well- i.e. it therefore should be okay to find yaoi/slash hot, intriguing and kinky while finding homosexuality wrong in meatspace.

Not surprisingly, people go off in the comments. Some agree, some disagree.

Posted here, because, yeah- wanky, but not funny. Not to me, anyway.

You may remember that the AFA was boycotting McDonald's because the latter was "not staying neutral in the cultural war over homosexuality".

Aaaand McDonald's caved.

Bloody hell. Thanks for sending a great message, right there. :|

ETA: My bad, it didn't happen quite like that, although the AFA would have everyone believe that it did. I'm sure that everyone will be shocked to hear that they're very keen to be known as the people who "forced" McDonalds to disassociate themselves with Teh Evil Gheis.

The newest reason to not let gay people have equal rights? It will force little girls to share restrooms with "scruffy" men who pretend to be transgendered so they can Do Dark Deeds.

No, seriously.

I guess this could be seen as funny in a "HAHAHAHA I HAVE TO LAUGH ABOUT THIS OR I'M GOING TO CRY AND NEVER, EVER BE ABLE TO STOP" way, but still. D:

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=82830

Assuming you have become aware of all this, let me ask you: Have you not seen the awful similarity between what happened in Mumbai and what's happening right now in our cities?

Oh, I know the homosexual "rights" demonstrations haven't reached the same level of violence, but I'm referring to the anger, the vehemence, the total disregard for law and order and the supposed rights of their fellow citizens.

Yeah. Demonstrating against Prop. 8 is exactly like the terrorism in Mumbai. Somebody MOTHERFUCKING WENT THERE.

Woman advocates idea of blowing up gay-friendly high school, calls it "poetic justice"

Note that the link simply goes to a blog post about this woman. It includes an actual link to her blog, which I can't bring myself to click because I like my blood pressure the way it is, thank you.

ETA: queencallipygos actually followed the link and found that the woman apparently took down the blog post in question, so all we have left is the quoted portion. That's bad enough, of course.

Son Of ETA: doomsday brought a link to the post via Google Cache. Apparently it was reported to Blogger as hate speech by several people, so the crazy woman may not have taken it down of her own accord and instead it was TOSed.

Angie Zapata was hit three times in the head with a fire extinguisher by a date when he found out she was transgender and still had some male genitalia. She was murdered and the murderer said he thought "he killed it." IT? O_O

The Rocky Mountain News seems to be taking down offensive comments by readers, sort of.

rm has a post about it and talks about her own crossdressing and queer experiences. And linked from her post is a post by er, Ginmar that frankly I'm afraid to read.

Author of Ender's Game decides to screw over his fanbase in anti-gay rant.

The American Family Association is boycotting McDonald's.

Why? Because they donated a tiny amount of their vast income to the National Gay and Lesbian Chamber of Commerce.

"McDonald's has chosen not to remain neutral but to give the full weight of their corporation to promoting the homosexual agenda."

Excuse me, I have a sudden craving for an extra large Big N' Tasty combo.

(Here instead of a wank comm because while the article is funny, the underlying issue of such batshit lolsensitive homophobia is not, and some of the people quoted in support of the boycott are only funny in a "I NEED TO LAUGH OR ELSE I'M GOING TO START CRYING AND NEVER, EVER BE ABLE TO STOP" kind of way.)

Heinz pulls ad of two men kissing

The real power in TV, of course, is advertising.