Cosmos-Liturgy-Sex

Jeff over at the Curt Jester has an almost unbelievable thread today illustrating the absolute confusion some folks still possess; specifically, over sexuality and human personhood.  I am not even sure Shelray could find the sarcasm to put the ridiculousness of these ”intellects” into any more sharp relief than just reading the articles (but maybe he could try, but don’t use your fingers).

Jeff actually has two references in the post.  The first is from a Toronto Star answers column.  The questioner, whom I will affectionately call Mr. Bonehead, asks the Star’s oh so insightful answer man if he should lie about his once-a-week same-sex orgies with a small group of friends…when applying to become a Catholic priest.  After all, Mr. Bonehead reasons (?), he considers these nature contravening trysts, just a hobby.  Oh yea, he doesn’t intend to stop.

The savant they have answering the question is little better.  Mr. Dimwit (chosen with all charity but little inventiveness) responds that Catholic priests, in general, only violate their vows of celibacy for meaningful relationships, be they unnatural or just the run-of-the-mill mortally sinful type.  Mr. Dimwit doesn’t think that Mr. Bonehead is of Catholic priest-making material any way.  Everyone knows that sex shouldn’t be a game.  One should only engage in sex, whether it violate vows or not, for deeply loving relationships (again I assume of either the deviant or just the garden variety sinful flavors).

Not to be out done in minds-darkened-by-sin, an America magazine (I had hopes that with the change of editors things would improve…alas, it appears not…) editorial comes to the defense of “the document” and says that, sure the Vatican has just concerns over “gays” in the priesthood.  After all, they were starting to become a dominant demographic.  Imagine what kind of priesthood we would have if they were all Irish, or from Canada, or something like that.  That would violate the dissenter’s prime directives of diversity and plurality and stupidity (well, o.k., maybe I’m going too far; I don’t suppose the last one is explicitly articulated anyway).  America does have an admonition for the Church however; they mustn’t let their attempts to deal with the sex abuse crisis be the cause for discrimination against the gay, lesbian, bi-sexual, bestial, foot-fetish-al, or any other gender… After all, these genders make just as good priests as any other genders (well, perhaps they might rule out the ork-al gender, but who knows).

Hey, they are running a poll on the editorial.  When Jeff published his thread, it was 57% in agreement with the editorial and 43% responding “what are you smoking?”.  Well, it seems that perhaps Jeff’s little post has had an effect because as of this posting, it is standing at 52% to 48%.  If you haven’t already, perhaps you would also like to ask what they are smoking over there at America?