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Monday, April 23, 2007

Gay Marriage: Who You Gonna Believe?

posted by on April 23 at 18:24 PM

Your gay son/nephew/cousin/brother/friend and his boyfriend? Or the child-raping freaks at Child Rape Inc.?

The Vatican’s second-highest ranking doctrinal official on Monday forcefully branded homosexual marriage an evil and denounced abortion and euthanasia as forms of “terrorism with a human face.”

The attack by Archbishop Angelo Amato, secretary of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, was the latest in a string of speeches made by either Pope Benedict or other Vatican officials as Italy considers giving more rights to gays.

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Ah yes--gay marriage, abortion and euthanasia. And a cold Bud to wash 'em all back with.

Not a peep about state-sponsored execution, unjust war or economic disparity. The Zombie Jesus weeps.

Posted by Boomer in NYC | April 23, 2007 6:58 PM
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That's red wine Boomer. And you get a biscuit for your troubles.

Posted by Dave Coffman | April 23, 2007 7:43 PM
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What does that have to do with child rape?

Posted by Jessica | April 23, 2007 8:26 PM
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Broken link, Dan. Child Rape Inc's site is here.

Posted by Sean | April 23, 2007 8:30 PM
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We've decided not to post anymore comments - Starting Now. Any names that are coopted are false impressions. I feel stupid for saying that, because for the most part we assume pretty much that slog readers follow blog etiquette.

Megan's enthusiasm has kickstarted us to stridently proceed with our plans for a neorock fanzine tour. In the next month we will be focusing our efforts toward booking summer dates in Europe.

Thanks to the Stranger for enabling this free speech forum for alot of us Seattlites.

We doubt that the Vatican will play a part in our tour. We don't care all that much. We follow laws, wherever the chips may fall. However, we DO LIVE outside the constructs of the powers that be. In fact, what the Vatican is saying resonates just as a weird opinion to us, sort of like the sad opinions and topics by the Stranger NEWSTEAM.

It's been fun. Reading is one our greatest joys, and we may pop in to look the slog over, but we've made a casual commitment to stay away from its addictive qualities.

Sincerely,
Congrats
keenan (maybe tour)
dilby
Nancy (maybe tour)
darling463
dwayne
brandon (maybe tour)
groot (maybe tour)
Confuseus
hmmm (maybe tour)
June (maybe tour)

Posted by Our new name - SHINY DIEMOND | April 23, 2007 8:31 PM
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in case i've left anything out, it's too late, no turning back

Posted by darling463 | April 23, 2007 8:39 PM
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To be fair . . . a lot of it is straight child rape.

Posted by Cate | April 23, 2007 8:40 PM
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Um, Boomer and Dave, check this out:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/6536773.stm

(There was a link at the bottom of the page!! See, that isn't so hard to find!)

Just because Dan Savage decides to post a news story on the Vatican's condemnation of homosexuality (as questionable as it may be), that doesn't mean that these are the only issues that Benedict and Co. are getting behind. The abortion/gay Vatican opinions are in the news more often simply because they're more controversial and less common: everyone and his mom has already taken a turn at criticizing Bush and Iraq.

Posted by Alice | April 23, 2007 10:43 PM
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Um, Boomer and Dave, check this out:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/6536773.stm

(There was a link at the bottom of the page!! See, that isn't so hard to find!)

Just because Dan Savage decides to post a news story on the Vatican's condemnation of homosexuality (as questionable as it may be), that doesn't mean that these are the only issues that Benedict and Co. are getting behind. The abortion/gay Vatican opinions are in the news more often simply because they're more controversial and less common: everyone and his mom has already taken a turn at criticizing Bush and Iraq.

Posted by Alice | April 23, 2007 10:43 PM
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This little scum bag who says he is pope is lower than parasites who feed on the scum at the bottom of a septic tank. (no offense to parasites)
If that little nazi moron wants to talk about terorism how about terrorizing innocent children with their tales of a fiction called "hell" If his fucking deity is boorish enough to create such a place then I refuse to worship such a creature. I deny his "god" . I encourage all to do so.

Posted by Offensive Dan | April 24, 2007 4:05 AM
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“terrorism with a human face” as opposed to terrorism with a lemur face?

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