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Friday, October 5, 2012

Crime Anti-Gay Bishop Uses Pulpit to Joke About Recent DUI Arrest

Posted by Cienna Madrid on Fri, Oct 5, 2012 at 10:01 AM

Amid heavy security and the splendor of his faith's most sacred rites, the new Roman Catholic archbishop of San Francisco assumed office Thursday without referring to the distress his appointment has aroused in this gay-friendly city, but offering self-deprecating jokes about his recent drunken driving arrest.

..."I know in my life God has always had a way of putting me in my place. I would say, though, that in the latest episode of my life God has outdone himself," Cordileone said with a chuckle as he delivered his first homily as archbishop.

...Cordileone, who served as bishop of neighboring Oakland for the last three-and-a-half years, has a nationwide reputation as a fierce defender of the Catholic Church's positions on homosexuality in general and same-sex marriage in particular.

He was one of the early engineers of California's voter-approved ban on same-sex marriage in 2008, and since 2011 has chaired the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops' subcommittee charged with opposing efforts to legalize gay unions.

Fucker.

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Are these the "Catholic values" the church big shots are always blabbing about?

Posted by Pope Peabrain on October 5, 2012 at 10:21 AM

Hopefully he drunk drives himself off the bay bridge.

Posted by pragmatic on October 5, 2012 at 10:23 AM

Laughing about drunk driving is like laughing about walking into a croweded pre-school with a loaded gun with a blind fold and firing all the bullets randomly but managing not to kill anyone.

Posted by Cato the Younger Younger on October 5, 2012 at 10:25 AM

IS this satire or a real quote"?

Posted by spock on October 5, 2012 at 11:00 AM

They're all fuckers, Cienna. Anyone who thinks of himself more valuable in God's eyes than anyone else (whether you believe in God or not) - and entitled. They all act so entitled. I'm closer to God than you are in my $10000 robe and my Prada slippers. I can tell you how to run your life because I'm more holy.

Go fuck a duck.(Not really - the duck deserves better.)

Posted by Bauhaus I on October 5, 2012 at 11:26 AM

Maybe God will see fit to send a drunken driver his way and put us all out of our misery.

Posted by TVDinner

on October 5, 2012 at 11:27 AM

People actually choose to drive drunk, you shit-pig.

Posted by Quintus Slide on October 5, 2012 at 12:40 PM

seeing that raving homophobes are homos themselves, what's he doing in san francisco? talk about the near (and rear) occasion of sin!

Posted by scary tyler moore

on October 5, 2012 at 12:58 PM

At least he didn't make any child molestation jokes. That we know of, at any rate.

Posted by seatackled on October 5, 2012 at 1:12 PM

It's even worse than you think. The Episcopalian bishop came to Cordileone's installation and they refused to seat him for the ceremony because he opposed Prop 8.
Utterly despicable.

http://bishopmarc.typepad.com/blog/2012/…

Posted by Smartypants on October 5, 2012 at 1:48 PM