Monday, July 27, 2015
Sunday, July 26, 2015
Abp. Chaput’s Submissive Docile Obedient Celibate Homosexual Workshop At Pope Party September Philadelphia or the “New Homophiles”
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"A
Christian Dirce", by Henryk Siemieradzki.
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Homosexuals can attend a Catholic family congress in Philadelphia during Pope Francis' U.S. visit this year but won't be allowed to use it to attack Church teachings, the city's archbishop said on Thursday. "We don't want to provide a platform at the meeting for people to lobby for positions contrary to the life of our Church," said Archbishop Charles Chaput.
The Catholic Church teaches homosexuality is not sinful but homosexual acts are. "We are not providing that kind of lobbying opportunity," he told a news conference presenting the September 22-27 congress known as the World Meeting of Families. Gay Catholic groups and families headed by gay Catholics had asked for an official presence at the gathering to present their view that homosexuals should be fully welcomed in the Church.
The pope will attend the last two days of the Philadelphia meeting at the end of a trip that will take him to Cuba as well as New York and Washington. About 15,000 people from around the world are expected to attend the family congress to hear lectures and take part in workshops on family issues before the pope arrives to close the gathering.
"We hope that everyone feels welcome and certainly people who have experienced same-sex attraction are welcome like everyone else," Chaput said.
Bishop John McIntyre, also of Philadelphia, said the only event dedicated to gay issues at the congress will be one by Ron Belgau, a celibate gay Catholic and founder of the Spiritual Friendship Initiative. Belgau blogs and lectures about how Catholic gays can live by the Church's teaching.
McIntyre said Belgau "will talk about his own coming to terms with his sexual orientation and the manner in which he embraced the teachings of the Church" and his mother will also speak.
Something also
sickeningly evilly from a gutter snipe bureaucrat like Chaput, son of an
illegal French Canadian immigrant btw, and son of a native American mother with
native born American status to come into the white world of east coast
Philadelphia and wave a magic hand by “Chief Outta-Town” and tell Gays they
have no place at the table at the world meeting of families. No place - not
even to sweep the tourist made trash – like the untouchables of India - of a week-long
activities and lectures by real Catholics obedient to their Church and not the
Church of Gays who have no real church so to speak.
How does you
define families and or a family Charles? Dad needed a green card and I got out
at 13 to go to junior seminary to escape my ideal “family” experience? (A kid’s
gotta eat – ya know.)
Reading some
the of insane suedo social science that Celibate Loyal Catholic Homosexual “Spirityual
Friendship” Ron Belgau is about to be unleashed at the Pope Fair or World
Meeting of the “Family” reminds me of some throwback to trying to un-homosexual
oneself into heterosexuality a la “doctor” Marcus Bachmann, macho man behind
the genius and Christian backbone of lunatic fringe GOP goddess Michele Bachmann.
Ron Belgau
is all over the place of the orthodox catholic and Christian blogosphere,
trying to secure a niche and secure a steady income base from many non-profit
tax dodge religious entities and preaching how only obedient celibate Gays can dare for any hope of a pat on the head from their local overseer bishop or have
the slightest chance of Jesus’ salvation – he only died for some – don’t you
know.
In this
article below he blames the Abolition of Marriage not on gay marriage but
no-fault civil divorce over the decades. That children don’t need parents or
caregivers, that they need a mother (female) and a father (male). And that an abused
mother along with a drunken physically abusive father is on paper the perfect
Catholic or Christian growing grounds for children.
U have wonder
if Ron will be given a real classroom or lecture hall in Philly to explain what
holy Queers should be like or if cynical Chaput houses his sideshow in a tent,
a freak peepshow, along the Benjamin Parkway in Philly. Lol
In another
forum Crisis, Ron’s friends write articles of 90% praise and 10% critique of
Belgau’s philosophy/propaganda. And then the following week or so Ron responds
to the critique in this so called Plato like dialogue with his cronies also looking
for lifetime employment preaching what gets the most gelt from the bishop
masters of the Catholic treasury not of grace but of cash.
The most
recent article in Crisis is by somebody about Nero as Patrol Saint of Gay
Marriage. And like all homophobe’s denial of self, quoting the Roman historian Suetonius
mentioning things about dirty little body parts and the acts of Nero’s castrated
boyfriend/wife/lover in almost soft core porno fashion, the other half’s sexual
activities are what bother conservative libertarians most about these gay types
etc.
I am getting the vapors thinking of Ron Belgau’s retort in the same
magazine to illustrate how the author is right about the abominable sexual
position stuff of Nero and Company and how to cure it with “celibate homosexual friendship in
Christ”. (Puke!)
That Ron
Belgau does mention the loss of his Spiritual Friend Julie Rodgers in a twitter mention who had to
resign her Celibate Homosexual counseling job recently at Wheaton College who
probably reached a personal maturity and realization about her own
Homosexuality and had to shrink from the delusional world in which she had
existed for a decade or so, as one time co-founder of this Ron Belgau movement
regarding “spiritual friendship”.
That any Gay
person on the fence about natural humanity and manufactured spirituality to
park one’s psyche would have to enjoy emotional confusion or delusional uncertainty
and over all general head game abuse to follow the Ron Belgau’s Catholic
propaganda (Bullshit) that Chaput is dumping down his dirt shute to any crazies
looking for respect at the World Meeting of Families or Pope Fair in Philly in
late September.
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Tuesday, July 21, 2015
Pope Francis Whiting The Sepulchers at Vatican Climate Change Summit?
Pope Francis’s DirtyWar Dealings
"I’m not so sure Bergoglio was chosen to cover up the church’s current rot—the Vatican Bank’s transparency problem, the pedophile priests who’ve been exposed across the globe. It wouldn’t surprise me if, instead, Bergoglio launched a moral crusade to white the apostolic sepulchers." ~~~ By Horacio Verbitsky | 15 March 2013 The Daily Beast
Looking at the News Feed and a Summit of Climate Control at the Vatican, I ran into these words today and made a mental connection of sorts.
That Franics is master of the Twitter age sound bite just like Donald Trump. A lot of the rest of us are still listening in 1985 Reaganesque-ese Teflon radio-age communication.
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Thursday, July 16, 2015
Sunday, July 12, 2015
Harper Lee and her recent novel
Harper Lee
and her recent novel
There is
nothing in the character of Atticus Finch in To Kill a Mockingbird to suggest
that he was anything other than the average biased Southerner of his time in Depression
era America.
People,
wanting positive change, put their best foot forward in the Civil Rights
movement of the African-Americans in the 1950s and 1960s. Surely ideals and
idealic ideas about equality needed an almost magical quality to overturn the
mess of Reconstruction following the Civil War, following the collapse of the obscene and
obsolete economic system based on slavery.
To Kill A Mockingbird was such a positive view of life in the recent past that seemed to give insight and impetus to that Civil Rights moment. It was the right book at the right time in American culture.
To Kill A Mockingbird was such a positive view of life in the recent past that seemed to give insight and impetus to that Civil Rights moment. It was the right book at the right time in American culture.
Right from
the very first, white European indentured servants served seven years of
defacto slavery to gain a passage to the New World and future opportunity not afforded in the Old World.
Right from
the very first, Africans who did not speak the language got stuck in a white
man made hell of profit from the labor of people of a different culture and
race - decade after decade after decade and codified into law.
And
generation after generation people became trapped in the evil of Capitalism
that has no moral rules except that of profit and getting over on the next guy
or gal.
There is the
Atticus quote now from the second Harper Lee book which was written before
Mockingbird. And Atticus is afraid of carloads of coloreds invading the
delusional safe white town square of America.
The “carloads”
word is metaphor for technology. Putting fears from the past into exponential
power intensifies fears of things that should have been adjusted or justly
dealt with decades and generations before.
People
forget that the Infrastructure Czar Robert Moses who had dictatorial power for decades over
New York City and Long Island projects of Housing, Roads and Parks is that many
highways being built going and coming into New York City, at this same time period of Atticus in Mockingbird, those highways onto Long Island from NYC had bridges
and overpasses intentionally built very low in order to make charter buses full of "coloreds" from going out to Jones Beach etc. And ownership of a car was still a luxury to most of the masses white and black at that time.
That when
Atticus Finch talks about the technology of “carloads” of black people, he is no
different than the prejudices held in the North, but cleverly camouflaged behinds
other technologies. That the South had decades long economic depression
following the Civil War in one reason why racial equality and or racial
tolerance was an unacceptable in everyday life of the South as displayed in the
so called dark side of an aged Atticus Finch. Jobs first for the white natives and not the chattel / property class.
That few see
that Atticus defended a black on rape charges with a white woman in Mockingbird, he was no
idealist, he was as fair as any trial situation could be considering the
circumstances. Better to give a full and adequate defense of the man charged,
than have some other idiot and or blathering racist handle the defense.
In that Atticus was a full and true servant
of the law, his profession, in his professionalism that he will be remembered for that and not the green salad novel currently on the NYT’s best seller list.
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Tuesday, June 30, 2015
Saturday, June 27, 2015
As with all things Bill Donohue at Catholic League – all is reduced to dollars and cents
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Adam and Steve in Paradise |
Dear Bill (Catholic League),
Marriage is
a contract, primarily a property document with rights of surviving spouse and
recognized offspring, between two original contracting parties.
Justice
Roberts is right. Marriage – hetero or gay – is not mentioned in the U.S.
Constitution.
The U.S.
Supreme Court, a pimple on the Constitution, is supposed to iron out differences
between the laws and actions of the 50 different states.
When 2/3 of
the states define marriage between any two contracting parties and 1/3 of the
states make laws that discriminate against a sizable percentage portion of the
population, the Supremes are forced to dirty their hands and work and strike
down injustice against some – “Equal Justice for All” is carved in stone above the front door there. (Though surprisingly never above the front door of any church I know of.)
But since it is the American Catholic Church through you as official mouthpiece, that wants a debate on tax free privilege for
religions that discriminate against American citizens in employment, it is a good start Bill.
Thanks for the reminder about the sizable portion of bums in religion INC, shills such as yourself, who do not contribute to the common good
through taxes. (Even Saint Paul urged obedience and taxes to local civil authority. btw)
In order to
stop the IRS from revoking the tax-exempt status of religious institutions that
refuse to marry two men or two women, Congress needs to pass the First
Amendment Defense Act that was introduced last week. Nothing less is
acceptable.
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Wednesday, June 17, 2015
Franklin Institute in Philadelphia to Close Soon? – In Desperate Need of Tourist Bucks to Survive – Cultural Rape Cash Fire Sale
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Franklin
Institute is Morally Bankrupt – Premier American Secular Science Institution
Co-opted into Superstition Display of Roman Catholic Church Objects and Black
Magic emanating from across the way at 222 North 17th Street, Satan’s
Local HQ in Philly. (Too late in Philly to hide your children.)
Using the
excuse of big papal crowd in September with a papal visit to reinforce Duggar
Family Values and the need to welcome the dripping ice cream tourist / faithful
mob from across the Square from the ugliest Cathedral in America, The Franklin
Institute, once America’s first and foremost institution for science learning
among young adults has opted into the dark side of the force and will display
many evil and superstitious objects and relics of the Roman Catholic Church to
get cash from that crowd.
I am sorry
to hear of the Institute’s financial woes. Better to die a good simple Quaker
death as an institution in Philadelphia instead of becoming a minor whore in
the great Whore of Babylon’s Royal progress in September 2015.
No doubt the
demons and black magic and or “inquisition” era prayers of the “good” cardinal
Charles Chaput across the street has led to this cultural rape and soon total demise
of a once great civil secular American institution.
Visitors coming to
Philadelphia to see the pope this September will also be able to view treasured
art from the Vatican.
“Vatican Splendors”
opens Sept. 19 at the Franklin Institute. It will include artwork by
Michelangelo, embroidered silk vestments, religious relics, and bone fragments
of Saints Peter and Paul, and a touchable cast of Pope John Paul II’s hand.
The exhibit traces
the evolution of the Roman Catholic Church over 2,000 years through 11
galleries that include objects such as mosaics, frescoes, maps, and documents.
Galleries aim to recreate environments such as catacombs and the papal
chambers. Organizers say they want the exhibits to be a multisensory experience..
Saturday, June 13, 2015
Sunday, May 31, 2015
Changing American Demographics - St. Joan of Arc School Harrowgate Philadelphia - 1957
In a
changing American demographic from white to moca, from urban to suburban, from
blue collar to white collar and or pajama (work from home), the boomers have
been on a ride of a lifetime.
Saint Joan
of Arc in Harrowgate Philly is defunct. It as a building designed by famed
British architect George A. Audsley as his last project, in his eighties, the
building still functions as a “charter” school, whatever that is.
The church,
the parish was officially dissolved in 2013, merged with 3 or 4 other ethnic
enclave churches, just as much for lack of attendance and or interest in the
ancient Christ myth as the fact that celibacy and a lack of numbers in the
priesthood make serving in the sheep with good shepherds impossible. That and the AD of Philly had
millions to pay for decades of corrupt buggery hidden from view etc. Needed to sell a lot of R/E.
In looking
back this photo is the first grade class of boys circa 1957 and there is 62 kids
reporting this day for the photo, probably the official - take your kids photo
day marketing thing. The nuns, the catholics were always nickeling and dime-ing
the inmates in order to finance and survive, getting their cut on the promotions, Chocolate Bars, Half and Half lottery tickets on Bingo night, even shoes at one point but rather unsuccessfully I might add. The Nuns, women married to Christ and their faith,
devoted their lives to us children. For that I am grateful but somehow the
picture looks strange to me. It came into view the other day on some Facebook page
and the comments there reflected re-awaking to memories, of childhood connections
reconnected across the vastness of America now where many of these children and
their sisters, siblings now live.
There are
probably ten or so kids not present, out sick with sniffles etc. in this photo.
My first
grade class numbered in the nineties for students, the baby boom yet to peak,
in a latter first grade class, my own.
They used to
bolt two of these old cast iron and wood desks together and sit three of us
across. If you took a few sick days, you lost your place in the three across
temporary daily seating thing. Lost your pencils and boxes of cardboard letters
and numbers used as a teaching aide too etc. Lost in the shuffle of life.
Have to
wonder in retrospect what was the effect of the baby boom on class size in the local
public schools. But for us factory working, Irish Catholics and Italians mostly
in this photo, parochial school was the only way to go.
No PTA meetings and you
did what you were told. And if you got out of line with a little ADHD? That was
what the wooden ruler, wooden chalk board pointer was for - to crack over your knuckles on break over
your back to get your attention – to focus. That did happen once with the chalk board pointer but at a higher grade level, bigger boys etc., but luckily not to me. Sounds terrible. LOL. But
considering the memories I see mentioned in comments on Facebook, few remember
the discipline.
The only
thing I notice greatly between then and now, besides the numbers thing, size of the class, physical size of the room, was how white lower middle factory working class Harrowgate was in 1957.
The demographics, they are a changin’.
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Tuesday, May 12, 2015
Changing American Religious Landscape
Share of Americans who are religiously unaffiliated jumped from 16.1% in 2007 to 22.8% in 2014 http://t.co/ybR4e8POAP pic.twitter.com/XlueD6tAX0
— Pew Research Center (@pewresearch) May 12, 2015
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Wednesday, March 11, 2015
Tuesday, March 10, 2015
Saturday, February 28, 2015
Thursday, January 29, 2015
America Gothic 2015
I have seen
this recently on the Internet and wonder if the meme is true as reported. That
KFC is test marketing a “Double Down Dog” in the Philippines of a hot dog
wrapped in a fried chicken bun and covered with cheese. That the test marketing
area sells out every day this test market food.
That there
is so many things wrong with this on many levels to me in that hot dogs are
mixed with fried chicken and covered (blessed?) with the American idea of
cheese over everything.
To a person like myself that must watch his diet for
the sake of health, the youth that this fast food is targeted at is doing
nothing but eating heart bombs in terms of future health issues – a Russian Roulette
of sorts in dietary practices.
But then again
in terms of curiosity and the sometimes lure of fun in gluttony, I would not
mind test tasting this curious new food object.
So it goes.
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Wednesday, December 3, 2014
Monday, November 17, 2014
Monday, November 10, 2014
Countess Annie Leary Philanthropy Lives on At Bellevue Hospital Catholic Chapel NYC
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Father Marani standing in front of the Leary Family Donated Stained Glass “Christ Healing the Sick” from the original Bellevue Hospital RC Chapel (1897-1938)
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Salvage these days would seem to be a good business. I am glad that parts of beautiful buildings live on in other architecture. Off topic I am poised with bated breath to hopefully follow some Salviati Venetian Glass Mosaics into their third home out of two defunct churches in Philly.
While researching a lot of dead ends, no direct flow of info, on the Internet regarding the lost Leary Chapel at Bellevue Hospital 1897-1938 I have found out that some of the Stained Glass out of Miss Annie Leary’s so-called million dollar RC chapel at Bellevue lives on in the present Catholic Chapel at the Bellevue Hospital complex in NYC.
"Chapel Hall opened in the newly built administration building in 1940. In its coverage of the consecration of the Catholic chapel, The New York Times reported that “the ceremony brought to Bellevue the distinction of being the first hospital in the world to have separate houses of worship for each of three major faiths.” (The Muslim prayer room was added in recent years.)
The new Catholic chapel, resplendent with stained-glass windows salvaged from the demolished one, was placed in the center of the hall...."
The popular repeated over and over again from some one source meme is that the Arthur Leary Chapel at Bellevue Hospital 1897-1938 cost something like one million dollars to build. I don't see much bang for the buck when I look at old photos.
Doing some other research on some other gilded age micks like Annie Leary and her brother Arthur, one (one of the very few Catholics) of Mrs. Astor’s “400” in the day, I have to say that if Miss Annie Leary paid a million dollars for the little stone building on the grounds of Bellevue Hospital in 1897, she was sold a barrel of goods by the Archdiocese or the Architect William Schickel – a pig in a poke – or the press (MSM) of the day - perhaps using her grief for her older brother with exaggerated value in dollars - by using her charity work for filler and to sell copies of news to the masses or to orchestrate downright theft from the aging heiress.
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NYPL - Bellevue Hospital - 1938 |
Doing some other research on some other gilded age micks like Annie Leary and her brother Arthur, one (one of the very few Catholics) of Mrs. Astor’s “400” in the day, I have to say that if Miss Annie Leary paid a million dollars for the little stone building on the grounds of Bellevue Hospital in 1897, she was sold a barrel of goods by the Archdiocese or the Architect William Schickel – a pig in a poke – or the press (MSM) of the day - perhaps using her grief for her older brother with exaggerated value in dollars - by using her charity work for filler and to sell copies of news to the masses or to orchestrate downright theft from the aging heiress.
That if Annie Leary paid more than $200K max for this modest chapel, she paid too much, she got ripped off by the architect, contractor or the RC archdiocese, depending on who was cashing Annie’s bank drafts.
In searching for this magnificent piece of superior European style workmanship that the New York Times Article implies, I was greatly disappointed to see what looks like a plain exterior stone chapel on the corner of First Avenue and Twenty-eighth street in Manhattan.
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Image: Catholic World, Volume 65 - 1897 (Original Copyright Expired) |
The Catholic World illustration architectural drawings (above) of William Schickel is set in their publication almost as a last minute thing and after the footnotes without any of the NYT hype about the rich woman’s generous gift to the Catholic sick at Bellevue Hospital who would not touch a secular or non-Catholic place of worship in the perhaps W.A.S.P. controlled medical facility. That stays in the hospital back then lasted days and perhaps weeks for things like pneumonia that needed antibiotics by modern standards.
That the Catholic World publication and its editors may not have cared about gilded age New York and its narcissism even in the building of a Catholic chapel right on First Avenue at arm’s length for the great new city institution.
That William Schickel had already perhaps done a spec drawing, not according to Annie Leary’s desire to memorialize her dead banker broker, but the spec watercolor and some basic spec plans were perhaps already on hand to fit the needs of Archdiocese trying to weedle its way into the Protestant ruling class controlled institution of Bellevue Hospital, the city supported hospital. A lot of campaigning and negotiating there and no doubt through the Tammany crowd on that. The project was envisioned but not financed at this point?
A guest at Annie Leary's Stag Breakfast after the Chapel's dedication by the Cardinal lists John Crimmins as one of the select 40 males to dine in the nearby Waldorf Astoria banquet hall. Crimmins was known for both his Catholic charity work and his business was of course construction. And he was associated with the architect on other projects, Crimmins' upper east side mansion in particular.
Here is an excellent link to one of William Schickel’s masterpieces of Most Holy Trinity / St. Mary’s in Williamsburg Brooklyn btw.
Also cursory reading on the internet has Schickel’s name not only associated with noteworthy New York church buildings but hospital buildings in NYC such as Lenox Hill (German) Hospital as well as with Bellevue.
Schickel changed his company name according to Wikipedia in 1895 which is why I think the Spec Illustration of W. Schickel and Co. was painted long before Authur Leary went to his reward in 1893. Leary's sister somewhere along the timeline probably got conned into footing the bill for the Catholic archdiocese plans to plant the Catholic flag on Episcopalian Bellevue and with its Christ the Consoler Chapel as the only place of worship on the premises.
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As for cost of the Leary Chapel, as far as I can tell the land was donated by Bellevue. The stained glass was made in Munich, which was the architect’s native region. Do not know if this is a preference for homegrown workmanship or for cost effectiveness.
Going back to the deadends in terms of tracing salvaged stained glass windows at a secular medical facility.
Going back to the deadends in terms of tracing salvaged stained glass windows at a secular medical facility.
With all the hype of the Chapel in the elite New York Times of the Elites of Society honoring a dead knight of "the" Mrs. Astor's "400", it all lost its luster very quickly in time.
Whatever.
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Image: A Short History Of Bellevue Hospital And Of The Training Schools – 1915 (Original Copyright Expired) |
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NYPL - Bellevue Hospital - 1938 |
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Bellevue Hospital - First Avenue and 28th Street NYC (Jan 2013 Google Maps) |
Saturday, October 18, 2014
A Christmas Dream - By James Topham Brady - New York 1860
James T. Brady, one of America’s most famed jurists of his time.
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31 Flavors of Gay - Same-Sex Marriage in the USA - 31 States Plus DC
31 Flavors of Gay - Same-Sex Marriage in the USA per the States plus DC - 18 Oct 14 http://t.co/73tHpiyrxn - Change! pic.twitter.com/aEtprbTyV9
— Mike McShea (@mcshea33) October 18, 2014
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Thursday, October 16, 2014
Bill Donohue / Catholic League – Wet Dreams for Actor Tom Selleck No More?
I have been
trying for the sake of my own physical and mental health from commenting on
anything related to religion lately. My good. But this I think is more a grown man’s
attraction for another man and closeted (suppressed) in the name of
superstition and or religion (RC religion to be exact). Not quite legitimate religion I think.
While
traveling down low so to speak to try and find how tortured souls, closeted
homophobes like Bill Donohue at the Catholic League Mimeograph machine website
might be commenting (not thinking) on the recent headlines of kind words for
gays from the pope and his crew or tortured souls, closeted homophobe bishops I
ran into Bill’s disgust at an actor Tom Selleck.
In another
article BTW at the CL site is an article about how “Confused” both the Pope and
the Media are about leaked unfinished kind words for “gays” at the current “Synod of
Bishops” in Rome…
Well I confess
to a certain prejudice. I stopped watching anything the actor Tom Selleck was
in long ago once I found out he was a big contributor and card carrying member
of the GOP. Mediocre actors need mediocre audiences?
I had to
look up what Blue Bloods is as a TV show. See commercials. But don’t want to
have to waste any of the precious time I have left on earth in watching a grade
“B” Hollywood actor actor like Selleck on a TV Cop Soap Opera show. The grade “B”
Hollywood actor Ronald Reagan comes to mind when I think of Selleck and guess
what.
That is the name of the fictional character that Bill Donohue has been
getting off on in the past five seasons of “Blue Bloods” of a family of Irish
Catholic Cops doing their stuff in New York City with get this, overseen by
dad, Commissioner “Frank Reagan” (Tom Selleck) – a load of pre-cum on that
fictional name and load of brute power as chief of Police. AHH! Release! (Oh
Bill).
Well anyway,
Chief Frank Reagan says something nice about da “gays” on his TV show and Bill
Donohue wants CBS to cancel the show. Great wet dream if you can pull it off
Bill. Have a nice bigoted life.
Masturbation
Foreplay (in words):
We’ve (the royal we? Bill and little Willy?) been impressed with the underlying positive message
of “Blue Bloods” over the years, as well as its welcome treatment of
Catholicism. But after last Friday’s show, we’re now wondering whether CBS is
turning on its audience. We’ve been bombarded with complaints following the
last episode.
Police Commissioner Reagan cannot defend the Church’s
teachings on homosexuality, so when Catholicism is branded an “anti-gay faith,”
he replies, “Well, I do believe the Church is a little behind the times on
this.” Indeed, he goes so far as to say, “I do believe the Church is backwards
on this. And of all the stands to hold onto. In the midst of the scandals of
the past decade.” Viewers also meet a conflicted Cardinal Brennan, and a proud
lesbian, Sister Mary.
The Bible is “anti-gay.” That is the logical conclusion
that unfolds in this episode. The show also misrepresents the sexual abuse
scandal: almost all the molesting priests were practicing homosexuals.
Moreover, the scandal ended in the mid-1980s, thus showing how far behind the
times the show’s writers are. As for the wavering cardinal and the wayward
nun—it is what we would expect from writers who have decided to pivot….
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Wednesday, October 15, 2014
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