"Sorry, But Here I Go Again!"

I have been very agitated the last couple of days over the latest bit of Holy Roman Catholic insanity I accidentally came across.  I had intended a major rant about it  but reconsidered and will try to keep it reasonable.  Roo is on an intitiative to reduce the amount of negative energy in her domain (something Oprah learned from a skinhead I think) and for her I will keep it brief.  I cannot however promise not to come back to it. I get incensed all over again just thinking about it. 

The bit of insanity I stumbled across is an organization called Courage, a Catholic initiative to help those who "suffer" from same sex attraction....help them learn how to lead a life of celibacy.  They actually have a twelve step program like the drunks and the addicts, something else I know a little about!  Are you kidding me?? 

The stated goal of the intiitative is to get the queers to stop touching each other, but as you read their website offerings you will find it is much deeper than that.  The real thing they are advocating is that you actually stop thinking about touching each other.  The most remarkable bit of wisdom I came across in one of their essays was the suggestion that when you start thinking bad thoughts you should repeatedly say the name of Jesus to drive those thoughts out of your mind.  I couldn't figure out how that was gonna work since I have always thought that Jesus was a pretty good looking guy.  Gay or straight, it may have the opposite intended affect!

For anyone who  may suggest that I'm biased because I have many gay people in my life,(a brother and a son, as well  as dear friends), I categorically deny it.  For my entire life I have believed that you should love who you choose to love, and screw who you choose to screw, and that as long as it is between consensual adults it is nobodys fucking (pun intended) business but your own!!  Screw the dog for all I care!

But you know what?  If you think I'm an idiot that's okay with me!  If you think being gay is a choice that dumb people make that's okay!  If you think same sex intimacy is wrong that's okay.  If you believe that homosexuality can be cured that's okay.  If you are against laws that allow same sex unions, or same sex marriage, and all the accompanying social benefits that's okay.  If you are intimidated by homosexuality that's also okay.

But you know what's not okay, at least with me? What is not okay with me is an organization that has for my entire life, repeatedly and consistently protected hundreds and even thousands of sexual predators, most of them homosexual, and out of the other side of their hypocritical mouths try to tell the rest of us that Fred and I should not rub each others dicks in the privacy of our own home, and that furthermore we are going to go to hell for doing it, maybe even for just thinking about doing it.  It makes me ill!

This paragraph initially started with an apology in case I offended anyone, but I back spaced out of it  I know I have not lived the life of a saint myself and as such how can I be so critical?  I defend myself and the lack of an apology by saying that my disgust is not for individuals, and/or even for their acts, or indeed I would also be a hypocrite.  My disgust is for the institution.  An institution that does more harm than it does good!!  Sorry Dad but I think the evidence is irrefutable!

Oh by the way.  Do you know the number one reason that most catholic priests chose to be catholic priests in the first place?  It's because they're gay!  Ask God.  He knows, and he's the popes boss

Here for your reading pleasure is  a link to "Courage".  Enjoy!

(swim 2000 metres, 37:15)

"Catholic theology believes that God gave man free will, and you can't give somebody free will and then send in a play from the sidelines."---Roger Ebert

"I was raised Catholic until I was old enough to say no."---John Cusack
“The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it is conformity.”---Rollo May

Love
Peter