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Thursday, December 6, 2007

The Pope? The Navy? The Air Force? Felony Ass-Rape? Hail Mary! What’s the Connection?!

posted by on December 6 at 23:41 PM

Hold on to your shower soap. In the confessional.

An HIV-positive Navy chaplain was sentenced to two years in prison Thursday after admitting he had sex with an Air Force officer without disclosing he had the virus and that he forced himself on a Naval Academy midshipman. Lt. Cmdr. John Thomas Lee, 42, of Burke, Va., pleaded guilty to forcible sodomy with the midshipman, aggravated assault on the officer and other crimes after reaching a plea agreement with prosecutors at a court-martial at Quantico Marine Corps Base, south of Washington.

But WAIT. It gets…uh…ugh.

Lee, a Catholic priest, was assigned to the academy from 2003 to 2006 and later to Quantico. He was relieved of his duties in June.

Now Navy “authorities”, in the grand old “punish the victim” tradition of, oh, say, fucking Dubai, are considering…well, this:

Navy spokeswoman Lt. Candice Tresch said it would be up to the ensign’s local command authorities to decide whether to pursue consensual sodomy charges against the ensign.

Please to bear in mind that there are still no homosexuals in the military. Or the church. Thank you.

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1

ugh... can't read that shit... Tops in Blue???? Adrian... help me win Blake Lewis!!

Posted by M | December 7, 2007 12:07 AM
2

don't forget the classic disco bellbottoms

Posted by vooodooo84 | December 7, 2007 12:32 AM
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Oof.

Posted by Mr. Poe | December 7, 2007 8:53 AM
4

This is why I only engage in safe sects.

Posted by NapoleonXIV | December 7, 2007 9:16 AM
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Are we talking two separate victims here? It wasn't totally clear... Did the chaplain have forcible sex with one guy and consensual sex with another?

Posted by hmm | December 7, 2007 9:19 AM
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Yes, two victims, one coerced and one not. Both lied to. By a priest. Update: The military court gave him a plea-bargain punishment of two years in brig plus dishonorable discharge. Two years. Un-effing-believable. Twenty, with no possibility of parole, would have been more like it.

Posted by piet | December 7, 2007 10:04 AM
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John Thomas, huh? Enough said.

Posted by Irena | December 7, 2007 4:16 PM

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