August 29, 2006
Book: The Rite of Sodomy
> more info http://www.riteofsodomy.com/reviews/CFN_Interview.htm
excerpt: http://www.renewamerica.us/columns/abbott/060721
~Ouch. Could there be a homosexual mafia controlling the American Catholic Church? With its billions of dollars in real estate holdings and other financial assets?? And all along I thought gays everywhere were being discriminated against. I guess for gays also money and power decide who gets screwed and who does the screwing.
Caveat: I'm assuming, perhaps stupidly, that the writer's homophobia hasn't corrupted the facts or the parts of the book that don't equate homosexuality with perversion. Is it possible to be inspired by fear and hate and tell a partially true story?
Today I need to think so, to imagine what it might mean for a powerful institution like the Catholic Church to function in today's society with those secrets. ...as a homosexual cult. If true, given the Church's political involvement in issues like abortion, birth control, "the family" and gay rights and its place as the moral compass for its 'flock' of millions of souls... it's absolutely diabolical, unbelievably tragic and laugh out loud funny.
Is it possible to be blinded by fear and hate of the other and ignore the effects on society, the 'agendas', of organized heterosexuals and their sex economies of sexual favors, coercion, cronyism and secrets?
I sometimes imagine the Bush Administration is a BDSM cult. That the president, vice-president (and their wives) and the highest ranking appointed officials controlling America today are all adept at achieving sexual pleasure through pain....but I don't like to think about it too much.
NOT THAT THERE'S ANYTHING WRONG WITH IT.
[photo from google\ not above]
related: "Remembering" Joseph Cardinal Bernardin
Posted by Stubbornson at August 29, 2006 01:16 PM