Our Lord, Who Art in Despair
Every day the news brings another howler. Yesterday there was the story about the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Gen. Peter Pace declaring in a press conference, in response to a question about the military's "don't ask, don't tell" policy, that homosexuality was an immoral act akin to adultery. Gen. Pace would like to go back to the time when there were plenty of soldiers to kill all the people we wanted to, and gays were simply booted out of the armed services for being "unfit." So my question is, does the general think adulterers should also be thrown out? Perhaps he feels that any kind of immorality is grounds for dismissal, or for keeping someone out of the military in the first place. Pace hasn't been reading the newspapers lately. If he had, he would have seen that Newt Gingrich, that newly avowed adulterer, wants to be his boss. He would have seen so-called "immoral" behavior cropping up all over the place, not just of a sexual nature. Everywhere you look someone is coveting his neighbor's ox. The religious and political leadership of our society is riddled with immorality. No problem, I guess, just so long as ordinary grunts don't do piggy things in the privacy of cheesy motel rooms.
posted by John M Crowther @ 7:29 AM
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[The religious and political leadership of our society is riddled with immorality]
... and inequality. Whatever happened to our democratic right to freedom of speech and expression. The recent uprising of the self appointed politically correct police has seen good men (and women) do (say) nothing... for fear of persecution for their differing ideas.
As for immorality... more bad deeds have been perpetrated in the name of politics and religion... (and sex gets a guernsey in there somewhere too)... than any other cause... (what other cause could there be right?) That's why polite society is warned to avoid these conversations... it's not politically correct to discuss our political and religious leaders blatant abdication from moral (and ethical) responsibility.
And of course... they know they can rely on us to turn a blind eye and a deaf ear... and our propensity for selective short term memory loss is historical... (hysterical)
The local priest in our neighborhood is a kind, wonderful, caring individual who is celibate and homosexual. A vow is a vow, says he, no matter what the circumstances are and promises to God should be kept, execpt about giving up chocolate. God turns a blind eye to that slip. No one ever speaks or hears of those priests. The words'man of God' should not be so lightly tossed around, my humble opinion.
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