A Vatican official suspended after being caught on hidden camera making advances to a young man said in an interview that he is not gay and was only pretending to be gay as part of his work.
So, his job description not only requires homophobia; but, hypocrisy.
In an interview with La Repubblica newspaper, Monsignor Tommaso Stenico said he frequented online gay chat rooms and met with gay men as part of his work as a psychoanalyst.
He said that he pretended to be gay in order to gather information about “those who damage the image of the Church with homosexual activity.”
Stenico was secretly filmed making advances to a young man and asserting that gay sex was not sinful. In the Repubblica interview, Stenico said he had met with the young man and pretended to talk about homosexuality “to better understand this mysterious and faraway world which, by the fault of a few people — among them some priests — is doing so much harm to the Church.”
Aside from the usual Stone Age delusions characterizing religion, the Catholic Church’s fixation on every aspect of human sexuality makes them a laughingstock in any educated dialogue.
…makes me wish I’d brought my ukelele.
29. Trance states, sensory deprivation, psychedelic drugs – all of these and more are well-known for evoking mental states that, in the perceptions of those unfamiliar with the neurochemical origins of said states, are totally convincing “religious” experiences.
Oh go then…. how about we all go off to the Mexican desert and have: “The First Annual John C. Dvorak Psychedelic Cage Match: Atheists v. God-squad”
First one to freak out or suck an orange looses….
then afterwards over breakfast the god squad can decide if the psychedelic experience was anything like their religious experience and the atheists can see if they are ‘moved’ at all. Who is up for it?
@MM
You might want to call the port-o-john people … you are obviously full of it and need to be emptied.
You go right ahead. Az 4 me: been. done. T-shirt, autographed by Mescalito hisself….
>>If you, Musty, were to have my degree of extensive psychedelic
>>experience, both first- and second-hand, you would know as
>>well as I
Sweet mother of God. Do you actually READ what you write?
…well, old rutabaga, I supposed I could’ve spent a couple minutes polishing that bit up a wee tad, so’s to not incur your merciless judgmental wrath – let me take a moment to apologize profusely for any cognitive distress visited upon your poor psyche by my careless abuse of the Mother Tongue.
If you run the preceding paragraph through Babelfish, I believe the resulting translation’ll read: “Pffffft.”
Oh my, oh my! I think I just had a neurochemical epiphany. I am laughing so hard here it hurts. 🙂
>>any cognitive distress visited upon your poor psyche by my
>>careless abuse of the Mother Tongue.
I wasn’t referring to your stumbling attempts to communicate in written English, Fish Finger King. I was referring to the content of what you write.
O wad some Pow’r the giftie gie us to see oursels as others see us! In your case, such pow’r might be fatal.
Tsk.
I doubt the pretending part! I just wrote a comedy bit on Vatican shortcomings this morning without reading about this most recent scandal.
http://www.humblenarrator.com/2007/10/15/vatican-official-hired-over-sex-scandal/
These guys just don’t really know when to quit. Maybe they should have like conjugal visits or something?
35. Lauren the Ghoti You go right ahead. Az 4 me: been. done. T-shirt, autographed by Mescalito hisself….
Ahhh…. its all beginning to make sense now….
>>Ahhh…. its all beginning to make sense now….
You’re putting FAR too much faith in Fish Man’s soi-disant Bohemianism. Christ, the guy’s a fucking gigolo!
I’m very sorry about how my occupation as a PA causes you such intense envy and resentment, Musty, old coalscuttle. If you like, I could go to work at a convenience store. Would that make you feel all better? 😉
>>I’m very sorry about how my occupation as a PA causes you
>>such intense envy and resentment, Musty, old coalscuttle.
Heh. Envy and resentment. I like that!
42. Mister Mustard You’re putting FAR too much faith in Fish Man’s soi-disant Bohemianism. Christ, the guy’s a fucking gigolo!
One job is as good as the next really….. I wouldn’t judge a man by his occupation.