Anglican criticism

I just love it when I read the news and there are some news bulletins that affect me. Now I’m not talking about the European Credit Crunch or the plunging US Markets and multi-million bailout plans to save the greedy and fuck the poor tax payer. No, I’m actually referring to nonsense remarks made by a London reverent.

AFP reported today (7 October 2008) that the Anglican priest, Peter Mullen, published a highly offensive post on his blog. In his original blog post, he wrote:

Let us make it obligatory for homosexuals to have their backsides tattooed with the slogan: SODOMY CAN SERIOUSLY DAMAGE YOUR HEALTH and their chins with: FELLATIO KILLS.

Surely this priest wasn’t thinking before he tossed this burning match out to the petrol soaked gay London community. It sparked a furious debate in London. In response, the priest apologized and offered the following excuse for his verbal diarrhoea:

I did not intend to cause offence when I made some joking remarks about homosexuals. I was not actually meaning to criticise individual homosexual persons, but the promoters of gay culture.

Oh my god... I’m no expert, but let’s be completely objective here; Is there really a difference between ‘criticizing individual homosexuals’ and ‘criticizing promoters of gay culture’? Are promoters of gay cultures not primarily gay? And are homosexual individuals not promoting the gay lifestyle simply by living their lives? And even if there is a profound difference like this priest insists... don’t you think it’s a little unorthodox to be an Anglican priest and criticize another individual, regardless the motivation? Should we not love our neighbours like we love ourselves?

Seriously Father Mullen... I’m not questioning you as an individual, but the people who do and say similar things.

ECDJ