09/21/2005
Isaac Julien exhibit of three film works (Paradise Omeros, 2002, Vagabondia, 2000, and The Long Road to Mazatlán) to open at Irish Museum of Modern Art.
Parent to school board: Do not allow gay-straight alliance or God will send a hurricane. "Members of the Cornwall-Lebanon school board looked on in disbelief as Abigail Jarboe told them that hurricane Katrina was God’s way of punishing New Orleans in advance of Southern Decadence...While she addressed the board, her husband, Carl Jarboe handed out an article from the American Family Association Journal about a young girl who claimed she stopped being a lesbian after becoming a Christian." Lovely.
Pope Benedict XVI said to have approved document saying that gay men should not be ordained as Roman Catholic priests. Acting priest: "If this is true, it's a disaster. I know many celibate gay priests who feel they could not live with any integrity in a church that treats gay men like this. And I know many gay seminarians who have been living celibate lives with ease, who would simply leave."
Clinton and Lewinsky condoms to go on sale in China: "They will be given the Chinese spellings of their names - Kelitun and Laiwensiji."
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I feel bad for the open-minded, intelligent christians out there: the wackos (including the pope) are ruining your faith with intolerance, hatred and lunacy.
God sent did not send the hurricane to New Orleans. And there, at least I believe so, to be good gay priests within the catholic church (though I do not at all like the catholic religion). But I guess it doesn't matter what I think.
It's sad and I'm tired of being treated like a nut when I complain about it to people IRL rather than on the computer.
Posted by: Rob (lrdarystar) | Sep 21, 2005 11:55:07 AM
--"I know many celibate gay priests who feel they could not live with any integrity in a church that treats gay men like this."
OK, I'm sorry, but how could gay priests have lived with any integrity in the Catholic church before now? The church's hostility to gays -- at least from a doctrinal standpoint -- is longstanding and not exactly a secret. Sure, maybe there's been a tacit "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy that seems to be now discarded in favor of an active witch hunt, but that doesn't mean that gay priests who agreed to stay in the closet under the old regime were acting with "integrity." Gimme a break.
The devotion of some gays and lesbians to a church that spits in their face at every opportunity just astounds me. I will never understand it. And I don't mean to pick on Catholics; there are plenty of other hateful religions (sadly, this should be an oxymoron but it ain't).
Posted by: Glenn | Sep 21, 2005 12:04:00 PM
There are noted similarities between "evangelical", "fundamentalist", and "right wing" Christains and the "extremist", "fundamentalist" Islamic terrorists. These similarities are again seen when both groups claim that it was the wrath of God that sent Hurricane Katrina onto the shores of the U.S. Abigail Jarboe, allegedly a "Christian fundamentalist", believes that hurricane Katrina was God’s way of punishing New Orleans in advance of Southern Decadence. Al Zarqawi, Al Qaeda's leader in Iraq and allegedly an "Islamic fundamentalist", agrees with her! that it was the wrath of God that sent Hurricane Katrina to punish the US. Basically the thought patterns are the same. Kind of scary.
Posted by: David | Sep 21, 2005 1:53:31 PM
Speaking of oxymorons, are double oxymorons allowed?
"...open-minded, intelligent christians..."
You can't be a Christian AND have an open-mind; it is not allowed. In fact, it is "unchristian" to leave your mind open. Minds and closet doors are to be kept shut!
You can't be intelligent and Catholic; back in the fifties and sixties Catholic theologians were excommunicated or silenced until all the intelligence in the Church was drummed right out of it.
Posted by: jessejames | Sep 21, 2005 1:59:51 PM
If the RC Church's hierachy has signed it's own suicide pact, let it. Those of integrity that disagree with the Pact should leave, with clear consciences and join one of the Protestant-sects....the's how they got their starts in the first place. This includes the clergy and the laity....vote with your feet.
Catholicism willl not be the first widespread religion that failed to continue it's relavency to the faithful...nor the last.
Posted by: Ted B. | Sep 21, 2005 2:08:38 PM
The leadership of the RC church has decided that it would rather have a smaller but more faithful church rather than a broader more inclusive church.
I was raised in the United Church of Christ and were encouraged to explore our faith. As long as God and his image on earth were the center of that faith. We were taught to love, to accept people as they are, and to live our faith via the social gospel.
On a similar note this week there was a great article in the NYT book review section by Arthur Schlesinger about Rhinehold Neihbur the greatest protestant theologian of the 20th century. It is his teaching that are the basis of what is the more progressive mainline protestant churches. Give it a read.
Since we are talking church the fastest growing congregations in this country are the conservative churches. People, it appears, want to be told what to believe and not use the free will that the creator has given us.
Posted by: Donald | Sep 21, 2005 4:59:23 PM
Clinton and Lewinsky condoms? Aren't they a little late with this?
Posted by: Tom | Sep 21, 2005 11:38:49 PM