The Pope's parting shot
The Pope's parting shot
#1The Pope's parting shot
Posted: 9/28/15 at 7:23am
The Pope played nice while he was here spouting cliches about peace and equality blah blah blah.
But the first thing he says when he gets back home:
....but the world goes 'round
Updated On: 9/28/15 at 07:23 AM
#3The Pope's parting shot
Posted: 9/28/15 at 8:05am
Frank is not throwing away his shot!
He is not throwing away his shot!
Hey yo, he's just like his country,
He's old, hateful and bitchy,
and he is not throwing away his shot!
He needs to talk less. Smile more...
#4The Pope's parting shot
Posted: 9/28/15 at 8:24am
But he's such a "cool" Pope!
The Advocate's "Person of the Year," no less!
#5The Pope's parting shot
Posted: 9/28/15 at 10:15am
Yeah, so cool! Let's start scraping the dogma off our shoes.
I Can Has Cheezburger With This?
#6The Pope's parting shot
Posted: 9/28/15 at 10:38am
As I told my friend, different wrapping paper on the same turd.
Those Blocked: SueStorm. N2N Nate. Good riddence to stupid! Rad-Z, shill begone!
Roscoe
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#7The Pope's parting shot
Posted: 9/28/15 at 11:26am
He didn't say anything about Kim Davis specifically, but of course he never speaks about anything specifically -- he couched his answer in very carefully worked out vague generalities that are hard to disagree as far as they go, and it has to be clearly stated that they don't go far at all.
"If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about the answers." Thomas Pynchon, GRAVITY'S RAINBOW
"Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away." Philip K. Dick
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Luscious
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#8The Pope's parting shot
Posted: 9/28/15 at 11:56am
"Who am I to judge?", my ass. Isn't discrimination the strongest form of judgement?
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#10The Pope's parting shot
Posted: 9/28/15 at 3:10pm
The "Who am I to judge?" comment was about celibate gay priests and them alone.
Roscoe
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/03
#11The Pope's parting shot
Posted: 9/28/15 at 3:14pm
The "who am I to judge?" quote has been taken by far too many well-meaning but deluded people to signal a change in attitude on the part of Pope Sunshine towards those wicked degenerate gay people.
"If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about the answers." Thomas Pynchon, GRAVITY'S RAINBOW
"Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away." Philip K. Dick
My blog: http://www.roscoewrites.blogspot.com/
#12The Pope's parting shot
Posted: 9/28/15 at 6:05pm
From what I read from the Tazber post he seemed to say defiance in the face of the law should be a right. What else did he say? Gave up my Catholichood a long time ago, but what if I'm an objector to war and refuse to fight, isn't that a right I should have?
Stephanatic
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#13The Pope's parting shot
Posted: 9/28/15 at 6:53pm
YEAH SOUTH FLORIDA THAT'S EXACTLY THE SAME THING.
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#14The Pope's parting shot
Posted: 9/28/15 at 9:27pm
Gave up my Catholichood a long time ago, but what if I'm an objector to war and refuse to fight, isn't that a right I should have?
Well, yes, and it is.
But should you be able to join the army, convert to a pacifist sect, and insist on remaining in your post while you refuse to do core aspects of your job because of your religious beliefs? I wouldn't think so. :)
#15The Pope's parting shot
Posted: 9/28/15 at 11:59pm
She wasn't required to issue marriage licenses to gays when she signed up for her job :).
Stephanatic
#16The Pope's parting shot
Posted: 9/29/15 at 1:46am
South Florida said: "Gave up my Catholichood a long time ago, but what if I'm an objector to war and refuse to fight, isn't that a right I should have?"
Not sure what your circumcision has to do with this, but the right you talk about exists:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conscientious_objector#United_States
South Florida said: "She wasn't required to issue marriage licenses to gays when she signed up for her job :)"
They didn't review every law she would have to uphold, no. The understanding was that she would uphold all of them, even ones that may change over time.
Updated On: 9/29/15 at 01:46 AM#17The Pope's parting shot
Posted: 9/29/15 at 9:26am
She wasn't required to issue marriage licenses to gays when she signed up for her job :).
Well, I can tweak the metaphor, then. Someone belongs to a pacifist religious group but decides to join the army in peacetime, when its activities present no problems of conscience. Then war breaks out, but the person refuses either to perform required duties or to quit, citing religious freedom. Would you support such a person?
Of course, this person should have been able to foresee that participating in war is a real possibility when you join the army. But Kim Davis, last November, should have been able to foresee that issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples would soon be part of the duties of the office she was running for.
#18The Pope's parting shot
Posted: 9/29/15 at 10:32am
This is the oath she took:
30A.020 Oath of clerk and deputies. Every clerk and deputy, in addition to the oath prescribed by Section 228 of the Constitution, shall, before entering on the duties of his office, take the following oath in presence of the Circuit Court: "I, ....., do swear that I will well and truly discharge the duties of the office of .............. County Circuit Court clerk, according to the best of my skill and judgment, making the due entries and records of all orders, judgments, decrees, opinions and proceedings of the court, and carefully filing and preserving in my office all books and papers which come to my possession by virtue of my office; and that I will not knowingly or willingly commit any malfeasance of office, and will faithfully execute the duties of my office without favor, affection or partiality, so help me God." The fact that the oath has been administered shall be entered on the record of the Circuit Court.
#19The Pope's parting shot
Posted: 9/29/15 at 11:13am
South Florida, she took her oath of office a little over a year ago. There was NO TALK THEN ABOUT THE POSSIBILITY OF GAY MARRIAGE?
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FindingNamo
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#20The Pope's parting shot
Posted: 9/29/15 at 11:47am
Stupid trolls are the worst.
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#21The Pope's parting shot
Posted: 9/29/15 at 1:09pm
South Florida said: "She wasn't required to issue marriage licenses to gays when she signed up for her job :).
When I was hired as a teacher 11 years ago, I wasn't required to administer a state test every year. Now, I am. I can't refuse their administration because I don't agree with them, or I'd be (justly) fired.
#22The Pope's parting shot
Posted: 9/29/15 at 2:46pm
Some are getting me wrong, I do not defend Kim Davis, that she is a focus of national attention is an outrage to me. I'd rather just forget about this than make it an issue other than to write she's a moron and morons have a right to be morons.
Stephanatic
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#23The Pope's parting shot
Posted: 9/29/15 at 3:15pm
Stop indulging the stupidity of anybody who compares objecting to two people getting married and killing civilians in a war. Just, as they say, stop.
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#25The Pope's parting shot
Posted: 9/29/15 at 11:01pm
Those Blocked: SueStorm. N2N Nate. Good riddence to stupid! Rad-Z, shill begone!
