Today the Old Baguette received a sympathy call. People must be giving her a hard time. Why a hard time? Because she's Catholic. The Archbishop of the Catholic Church in her area is being regularly quoted in the media, and he comes across as narrow, unloving, less "holey" than a chunk of Swiss cheese. People assume that the Catholics who still go to Mass on Sunday "go along" with the Archbishop's narrow, unloving pronouncements. That assumption is just plain wrong. Some "go along," but the rest don;t. Others who aren't Catholic either agree or disagree with the Archbishop. One doesn't have to be a Catholic Archbishop to be narrow and unloving.
Just what is the Archbishop all hot and bothered about? Same sex marriages. The Pope's against them. Officially, the Cardinals, the Archbishops, the Bishops, and the priests are against them. But unofficially? Unofficially, despite their vows of celibacy, many of the above have had or are having same sex relationships. The Old Baguette suspects that more than a few Cardinals, Archbishops, etc., are actually unopposed to same sex marriages. Back to the Archbishop here. He'd like to see every Catholic in his territory working to prevent the legalization of same sex marriages. "Now, that's going much too far, Archbishop. You can put on your suit of armor and launch your crusade. Some of us will follow you. The rest of us won't."
By the way, where do you expect to get the money for your war?
I also was born and raised Catholic. I say "live and let live"! If gays want to be miserably married like 90% of the married people I know then more power to them! Aren't there more important things the church should be worried about?
ReplyDeleteThe divorce lawyers are in favor of it.
ReplyDeleteInteresting observation about the celibates being in same sex relationships. So let me ask you Old Dear and Wise Baguette, are the virgin club boys in same sex relationships because they are gay, or do they find that the drive of testosterone is too powerful and they figure it is less sinful too spill their seed in each other than in the belly of a vile woman?
Again I am not Catholic so it is none of my affair, (I do have that Irish DNA thing though) but how refreshing would it be if a pope in his infallibility suddenly got a call on the red phone from heaven, and was told that the Church is no longer going to concern itself with sex. God just tells the pope..."hey forget that shit, all you are doing is pissing off the faithful." If I was God that frigging phone would have been ringing a long time ago and my language would be far blunter. Just think, we wouldn't have to look under a frock to make sure that the plumbing hangs down on a priest. We could quit looking into married people's bed rooms to make sure they are doing it correctly and without birth control. We could quit dropping drawers on those to be wed to make sure that there is an opposition of plumbing. We could allow the clergy to marry who ever hell they want and not worry about them screwing kids or each other. You could reduce the shortage of priests. You could get some thoughtful skirts in the Vatican. Just because they don't have hydraulically operated pee-pees, does not mean they don't have brains! Pee-pees and brains are unrelated.
You could worry about how to best help humanity rather than trying to control it. All it takes God is to get on the red phone and tell the pope "knock it off". How refreshing!
"God, oh God, yoohoo, are you there?"
Aside from that, I believe the Archbishop has every right to fight against gay marriage in the Church. However, we have a little thing in the US Constitution known as separation of church and state. I wished all these religious bastards (Catholic and otherwise) would respect our Constitution and quit telling the voters of Minnesota and the United State how to vote.