Breaking News: God changes His mind? Press Secretary says He was taken out of context!
Hey there!
If you listened to “Fresh Air” Wednesday, you heard what I heard. One gay priest spoke as to how the church shouldn’t ban gays from becoming priests; and one stiff-necked priest (with the air and dead-certain delivery of a young Libertarian on daddy’s bottomless expense account) spoke for God, Jesus, the Apostles, the Bible, and the Pope (modestly claiming no authority for himself).
Unfortunately the archived show is unavailable (I checked). If you missed the show, we’re both stuck with my memory (unless you want to shell out some bucks for a transcript – which IS available).
Anyway, the point is: Terry Gross asks Mr. Cocksure Priest (the one with the stiff …. neck) what right HE has to keep gays from becoming priests, and he sets off with the “Oh, I’m sooooo glad you asked that” set-up for: “I have NO right. It’s God and Jesus and the Apostles and the Pope and the Bible that say gay people – celibate or not – are BANNED from becoming priests”. The Church and the Pope (and he the humble messenger) are simply doing God’s will, Jesus’ will, the Apostles’ will, the Bible’s will.
Asked by Gross what he would say to a long-celibate gay man who wished to become a priest, he responded that he’d tell him, ”Well, that’s really good, and I hope I can maintain my own [heterosexual] celibacy as well as you have, but God, Jesus, blah, blah, and blah clearly prohibit YOU from becoming a priest.
That was on Wednesday.
In Saturday’s paper it is reported that God, Jesus, the Apostles, the Pope, and the Bible ALL changed their minds.
NOW, gays who have been celibate for three years (poor dears) CAN be priests!!
Damn!! It makes a fellah wonder!! Nowadays these things can change so much in just a matter of days!!
God must be keeping His eye on the sparrow a little bit better than He used to. It took him five hundred years to admit He’d fucked up on Galileo’s case.
- Uke Man
If you listened to “Fresh Air” Wednesday, you heard what I heard. One gay priest spoke as to how the church shouldn’t ban gays from becoming priests; and one stiff-necked priest (with the air and dead-certain delivery of a young Libertarian on daddy’s bottomless expense account) spoke for God, Jesus, the Apostles, the Bible, and the Pope (modestly claiming no authority for himself).
Unfortunately the archived show is unavailable (I checked). If you missed the show, we’re both stuck with my memory (unless you want to shell out some bucks for a transcript – which IS available).
Anyway, the point is: Terry Gross asks Mr. Cocksure Priest (the one with the stiff …. neck) what right HE has to keep gays from becoming priests, and he sets off with the “Oh, I’m sooooo glad you asked that” set-up for: “I have NO right. It’s God and Jesus and the Apostles and the Pope and the Bible that say gay people – celibate or not – are BANNED from becoming priests”. The Church and the Pope (and he the humble messenger) are simply doing God’s will, Jesus’ will, the Apostles’ will, the Bible’s will.
Asked by Gross what he would say to a long-celibate gay man who wished to become a priest, he responded that he’d tell him, ”Well, that’s really good, and I hope I can maintain my own [heterosexual] celibacy as well as you have, but God, Jesus, blah, blah, and blah clearly prohibit YOU from becoming a priest.
That was on Wednesday.
In Saturday’s paper it is reported that God, Jesus, the Apostles, the Pope, and the Bible ALL changed their minds.
NOW, gays who have been celibate for three years (poor dears) CAN be priests!!
Damn!! It makes a fellah wonder!! Nowadays these things can change so much in just a matter of days!!
God must be keeping His eye on the sparrow a little bit better than He used to. It took him five hundred years to admit He’d fucked up on Galileo’s case.
- Uke Man
1 Comments:
Hey Tom,
Interesting post!! Those religious people all find a way to justify whatever they want, don't they. Poor God must be spinning with all the activity. Thanks for all your insights. Sondra
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