In Jesus we pray

UPIA?

[Reads TFA]

Wow. Its like someone's pounding on the IRS's door and screaming "Please take away my tax-exempt status!"

And I still can't think of an actual Catholic official in the USA that's gone to jail over the child sexual abuse scandal.

They forgot the bumper stickers:

My pedophile priest supports traditional marriage.

Somacandra: And I still can't think of an actual Catholic official in the USA that's gone to jail over the child sexual abuse scandal.

Cardinal Bernard Law was about to be indicted in MA.

He got transferred to the Vatican, immediately, and wasn't pursed. This cost the then AG the governorship in 2006

markie_farkie: UPIA?

Unintended Penis In the Anus?

SurfaceTension: markie_farkie: UPIA?

Unintended Penis In the Anus?

You just slipped and fell on it did you?

James!: You just slipped and fell on it did you?

Whatever you do, DO NOT do a GIS with SafeSearch turned off for "Jesus Butt Plug"

I repeat.. DO NOT do a GIS with SafeSearch turned off for "Jesus Butt Plug"

In Jesus we pray. In IRS we pay.

James!: SurfaceTension: markie_farkie: UPIA?

Unintended Penis In the Anus?

You just slipped and fell on it did you?

100 to 1 shot, Doc.

In Jesus we pray

And I thought...........................................He smelled bad.................................on the outside.

Diogenes: James!: SurfaceTension: markie_farkie: UPIA?

Unintended Penis In the Anus?

You just slipped and fell on it did you?

100 to 1 shot, Doc.

And yet you managed it 6 times in an evening? Tell me, what lotto numbers would you play?

Totally understandable

/the Catholic Church depends on procreation for a continuous stream of new molestation victims

Jebus christ, people are still falling for a 2000 year old conspiracy. Joe obviously dumped a hot sticky load in mary's shame hole and lied about it. Yea right, the magic sky man raped her, get a f*cking life.

swaniefrmreddeer: Jebus christ, people are still falling for a 2000 year old conspiracy. Joe obviously dumped a hot sticky load in mary's shame hole and lied about it. Yea right, the magic sky man raped her, get a f*cking life.

Maybe she slipped and fell in his man goo.

Diogenes: swaniefrmreddeer: Jebus christ, people are still falling for a 2000 year old conspiracy. Joe obviously dumped a hot sticky load in mary's shame hole and lied about it. Yea right, the magic sky man raped her, get a f*cking life.

Maybe she slipped and fell in his man goo.

Personal hygiene was pretty miserable back then..

He probably rubbed one out and unloaded in the dirt out behind their hut, and flies did the rest.

Sorry, but the Catholic Church kind of lost all credibility for me when it was revealed to be an international child abuse ring.

markie_farkie: Diogenes: swaniefrmreddeer: Jebus christ, people are still falling for a 2000 year old conspiracy. Joe obviously dumped a hot sticky load in mary's shame hole and lied about it. Yea right, the magic sky man raped her, get a f*cking life.

Maybe she slipped and fell in his man goo.

Personal hygiene was pretty miserable back then..

He probably rubbed one out and unloaded in the dirt out behind their hut, and flies did the rest.

I'm all for some good old sacrilege, but ewwww.

markie_farkie: Diogenes: swaniefrmreddeer: Jebus christ, people are still falling for a 2000 year old conspiracy. Joe obviously dumped a hot sticky load in mary's shame hole and lied about it. Yea right, the magic sky man raped her, get a f*cking life.

Maybe she slipped and fell in his man goo.

Personal hygiene was pretty miserable back then..

God and Mary were just horsing around! He was just showing her how to bathe properly.

Diogenes: markie_farkie: Diogenes: swaniefrmreddeer: Jebus christ, people are still falling for a 2000 year old conspiracy. Joe obviously dumped a hot sticky load in mary's shame hole and lied about it. Yea right, the magic sky man raped her, get a f*cking life.

Maybe she slipped and fell in his man goo.

Personal hygiene was pretty miserable back then..

He probably rubbed one out and unloaded in the dirt out behind their hut, and flies did the rest.

I'm all for some good old sacrilege, but ewwww.

Jizz flies, in her vagina? It's more likely than you think.

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Do you take it in the pooper?

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vernonFL: Sorry, but the Catholic Church kind of lost all credibility for me when it was revealed to be an international child abuse ring.

But they said they're sorry!

FTA: "Much rides on the success of our struggle to defend marriage," according to Nienstedt

... and those things are ..... ???

"Archbishop John Nienstedt" is an anagram of "His Itch? Porn, Teen Handjobs"

Diogenes: James!: SurfaceTension: markie_farkie: UPIA?

Unintended Penis In the Anus?

You just slipped and fell on it did you?

100 to 1 shot, Doc.

Good thing you greased it up first or it would have hurt like hell.

swaniefrmreddeer: Jebus christ, people are still falling for a 2000 year old conspiracy. Joe obviously dumped a hot sticky load in mary's shame hole and lied about it. Yea right, the magic sky man raped her, get a f*cking life

Actually, it's more like an 1860-year-old conspiracy... "See, so there's this story that's been passed down verbally for the last 140 years or so. Huh? Oh, don't worry, I'm sure the story is exactly the same after all this time. Anyway, it's about this dude Jesus, he was a mortal, but he was also the son of God (and a ghost, but we'll get into that later). No, no, not your heathen god, the real God. And believing in him is the only way to get into heaven, which is this totally biatchin' place. All you have to do to get there is read this book and do what it says. What? You can't read? Well, let me take care of that part for you. Um... let's see... so we need to start by you giving me 10% of your money. What? You don't want to? I mean, you do want to get into Heaven, right? Did I mention that the alternative is eternal burning in a fiery pit? No, really, it says so right here. Honest."

prayer and sacrifice for the success of this most current struggle to defend marriage with our civil constitution. Without such deliberate prayers and sacrifices, our efforts will be in vain. But with God, all things are possible

Because, Lord, stopping the marriage of people who have the homosexual impulses you gave them is clearly the most important thing we should be praying about.

And even though you are both omniscient and omnipotent and clearly have a grand design for everything, us collection of hicks getting together and asking you for shiat is going to change your plan and more importantly, legislation on this microscopic dot inside a microscopic dot inside a microscopic dot of a planet. And I might have to roll of Shabbos. It's that farking kraut in charge of scheduling. But I that's a separate issue. One thing at a time. Amen.

if god wanted marriage to be defined as such, couldn't he just take care of it himself instead of requiring these people to pray to him to do it?

vernonFL: Sorry, but the Catholic Church kind of lost all credibility for me when it was revealed to be an international child abuse ring.

Kind of like the Public School System and Youth Sports amirite?

shivashakti: They have their own damned country whose laws they control. Why do they have to control ours.

They aren't trying to "control" our country any more than say a group of environmentalists are, or non-profits when they get together to discuss how current policy will effect them. As a Representative Republic, they deserve to be represented as well, no? I agree, the Bishop was being a bit of a douche by orchestrating a prayer around this, I don't see any type of foul play here. They aren't broadcasting commercials attempting to sway the opinion of people who don't attend the church, so it really doesn't violate their tax exempt status. It's simply an expression of their belief system within the context of those particular rituals.

Coming to a certain conclusion regarding public policy based upon your personal religious beliefs is no more heinous than coming to that same conclusion simply because you think it's the "right" thing to do if one were an Atheist.

timujin: Actually, it's more like an 1860-year-old conspiracy...

To be fair, archeologists are currently putting the birth of Christ right around 84BC +/- 5-10 years. So 2000 year old conspiracy was closer to the truth (though not a conspiracy) Granted if you take it back to the earliest records of the tribes of Judea before the written word, it goes back quite a bit longer, but it's all pretty academic really.

CanisNoir: Kind of like the Public School System and Youth Sports amirite?

If the public school system was run by an ex-Nazi, maybe.

CanisNoir: Coming to a certain conclusion regarding public policy based upon your personal religious beliefs is no more heinous than coming to that same conclusion simply because you think it's the "right" thing to do if one were an Atheist.

We already have laws based on religious bullshiat, stopping gays from marrying is just one. For example, for what reason do liquor stores open at 11:00am on Sundays other than religious bullshiat? Do you have any idea what alcohol withdrawals are like? Farking religion.

vernonFL: If the public school system was run by an ex-Nazi, maybe.

So you *have* run into my Junior High School principle.

I hope my grandkids see the day when our government is free of the overwhelming influence of religious farkwads.

I have accepted the fact that it *will not* happen in my lifetime, and that it most likely won't happen in my kids' lifetime.

A long and winding road...

CanisNoir: vernonFL: If the public school system was run by an ex-Nazi, maybe.

So you *have* run into my Junior High School principle.

Do you really expect any of us to believe you once had principles?

Mugato: For example, for what reason do liquor stores open at 11:00am on Sundays other than religious bullshiat?

The owners like to sleep in at least one day out of the week too?

I'm not arguing that many of the local laws are based around a communities religious beliefs, but again, that's how it works in a Representative Democracy, even a secular one like ours. The majority of the people in the community elect a representative that they feel will craft public policy around their preferred beliefs and surprise, surprise, when the majority of a community are highly religious folks, it stands to reason that the candidate that follows in those beliefs will become elected, and, (gasp), represent them. Religious folk have same right to partake of our Democracy as non-religious, within certain guidelines and a prayer said inside of a church during mass regarding public policy does *not* break those guidelines.

Oh and Principal is spelled incorrectly in my previous post, yes, yes I know - my argument is now invalid :(

CanisNoir: So you *have* run into my Junior High School principle

Okay, that was kind of funny. : )

For a group that believes in a Zombie and cannibalism they are awfully concerned about the tax code for others as long as they do not have to pay any themselves. It is time churches started to pay some share, I have heard about people saying something about fairness and taxes.

I was raised Catholic, went through 12 years of Catholic schools and my kids go to Catholic schools. Never, not once, have or my kids been told that being gay is wrong. No herpaderp on evolution either.

Minnesota Catholics must be assholes.

As someone that is on a church "Marriage Task Force", this is BS.

The church can teach that something is or is not acceptable. The cannot push for a specific ballot measure or vote. I'm trying to be very careful; at our church, we cannot say that people should vote for gay marriage. We can, however, say that there is nothing wrong with it, that people should be legally equal, and we can say that people should vote their conscience.

shivashakti:
But don't push to change the secular law to prevent people who want to get married from getting married. That's just obnoxious.


In America, everyone has the right to practice my religion.

Jesus Christ, churches. If you don't believe in same-sex marriage, don't perform same-sex marriages. Just don't try to use your religion to stomp on my civil rights. Defend marriage? You want to defend marriage from loving couples getting married? And Catholic Church, you don't recognize divorce. We still have civil divorce. Are you praying that we have a Constitutional amendment to ban divorce too?

markie_farkie: James!: You just slipped and fell on it did you?

Whatever you do, DO NOT do a GIS with SafeSearch turned off for "Jesus Butt Plug"

I repeat.. DO NOT do a GIS with SafeSearch turned off for "Jesus Butt Plug"

Afraid of a few dildos are ya? I expected gore, or at least a little nudity.

WorldCitizen: Jesus Christ, churches. If you don't believe in same-sex marriage, don't perform same-sex marriages. Just don't try to use your religion to stomp on my civil rights. Defend marriage? You want to defend marriage from loving couples getting married? And Catholic Church, you don't recognize divorce. We still have civil divorce. Are you praying that we have a Constitutional amendment to ban divorce too?

One step at a time.

There's still those pesky Protestants and Unitarians to take care of...