There is much rejoicing in the diocese of the Twin Cities:
our dirtysheriff archbishop has resigned!
Back in 2010 when bink made a sculpture out of thousands of DVDs carrying the archbip's message against making civil marriage legal for all,
Anthony M. Stevens-Arroyo of the Washington Post wrote an article about the DVD debacle, "Of Bully Pulpits and Bully Bishops", in which he compared archbishop John Neinstedt to Hollywood's fat-cat bishops (or corrupt sheriffs):
Sex was indeed what finally brought the archbp down:
not his opposition to civil rights for adults who want to marry people of the same sex, but his role in covering for priests who rape children. *
Most public figures feel too remote for me to hate, but this guy got personal: I've seen the letters he wrote to churchfriends telling them they were risking damnation for supporting their own children, who were LGBT.
Even granting he may have held this as a [regrettable?] spiritual truth, I lost all respect for him when he repeatedly refused invitations to meet with bink or any of the other church-going Catholics who were distressed by his message.
I am not surprised such a man would hide other cowards behind his skirts. It is fitting that he only steps down now because of legal action.
Good riddance to a bad man.
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I don't know why the press almost always calls the rape of children by priests "sexual abuse", which sounds so much milder, like, "Oh, he just touched them."
Webster's defines "rape":
our dirty
Back in 2010 when bink made a sculpture out of thousands of DVDs carrying the archbip's message against making civil marriage legal for all,
Anthony M. Stevens-Arroyo of the Washington Post wrote an article about the DVD debacle, "Of Bully Pulpits and Bully Bishops", in which he compared archbishop John Neinstedt to Hollywood's fat-cat bishops (or corrupt sheriffs):
While medieval labels like “Robin Hood” no longer apply, the age-old temptation to make deals with the rich and powerful have not gone away. I don’t know if John Nienstedt, the Archbishop of St. Paul, Minnesota, has succumbed to this temptation, but if you substitute “same sex marriage” for “rights to hunt deer in Sherwood Forest” you’d have enough for a movie.
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bink ^ painting the archbip's DVDs
Marion: Why, you speak treason!
Robin Hood: Fluently.
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Sex was indeed what finally brought the archbp down:
not his opposition to civil rights for adults who want to marry people of the same sex, but his role in covering for priests who rape children. *
Most public figures feel too remote for me to hate, but this guy got personal: I've seen the letters he wrote to churchfriends telling them they were risking damnation for supporting their own children, who were LGBT.
Even granting he may have held this as a [regrettable?] spiritual truth, I lost all respect for him when he repeatedly refused invitations to meet with bink or any of the other church-going Catholics who were distressed by his message.
I am not surprised such a man would hide other cowards behind his skirts. It is fitting that he only steps down now because of legal action.
Good riddance to a bad man.
___________
I don't know why the press almost always calls the rape of children by priests "sexual abuse", which sounds so much milder, like, "Oh, he just touched them."
Webster's defines "rape":
unlawful sexual activity and usually sexual intercourse carried out forcibly or under threat of injury against the will usually of a female or with a person who is beneath a certain age or incapable of valid consent"Usually" does not mean "always".
