Latent Homosexuality At Its Most Obvious

Archbishop Angelo Amato, secretary of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith and the Vatican's second-highest ranking doctrinal official, forcefully branded homosexual marriage an evil and denounced abortion and euthanasia as forms of "terrorism with a human face." Psychology 101: We don't like in others what we like least in ourselves.

This was the latest in a string of speeches made by either Pope Benedict or other Vatican officials as Italy considers giving more rights to homosexuals.

When are those queens in the Vatican going to come out of the closet and leave the rest of us alone? Get a load of the Pope's stunningly embroidered gown and fabulous hat, too. No doubt she's wearing Prada shoes and her Gucci sunglasses are safely tucked away in her handbag.

Quite frankly, it angers me that an institution so enmeshed in child rape and its cover-up thinks it has any moral authority superior to mine, let alone the gaul to think they can preach it at me.
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New York's St. Patrick's Day Parade

Due to the storm, I missed participating in the protest at the St. Patrick's Day parade in New York City. I was supposed to meet up with friends visiting from California for the weekend but those plans went to hell in a hand basket. I sent them over to the queer group so I can say I protested by proxy.

A good recap can be found over at the Joe.My.God blog.

The parade in Dublin — that's right, Dublin IRELAND — was welcoming of all sorts of diversity including the GLBT community. It seems that the New York parade, which has successfully defended its right to ban gay participation in the courts, is really a parade celebrating Catholicism and not Irish descent.

My great grandfather, Malachi O'Shaughnessy, was the first generation Irish-American in my family tree. Family lore has it that he died in a bar fight. How utterly stereotypical! I don't know if it's actually true or not, but it makes for a colorful story.
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