Do Republicans have a Catholic Priest problem?
September 10, 2007
I get asked a lot: How can such an overtly and avowedly anti-Homosexual institution like the Catholic Church be so heavily stocked with gays? Simple. If the laity knew that homosexuality was acceptable, then sexually confused young men wouldn’t be driven in to the priesthood. In a shocking parallel, another anti-gay institution, the Republican Party, is discovering its own leadership to have far more San Francisco values than they would like to admit. And despite their best efforts to portray Sen. Larry Craig (R-ID) as an abberation, he’s instead looking like a trend.
Craig is really just the bookend to a year of Republican gay scandal that began with former Rep. Mark Foley‘s (R-FL) page-o-philia, and was filled with a startlingly constant stream of involuntary outings. Since the GOP Congressional leadership had known of Foley’s recruitment campaigns for some time, they might have done more about it…except that they mode of dealing with it was to tell their staff to do something about it. Problem is that their staffers keep turning out to be gay too. Mike Rodgers, now belatedly famous for outing Craig almost a year ago, has been outing Republican hill staffers since 2004 on his site BlogActive, including ones who served über-gaybashers James Inohofe (R-OK) and Rick Santorum (R-PA).
Now nobody can figure out if Mark Foley was a pedophile
August 30, 2007
Mark Foley can thank William “Bank of Freezer” Jefferson (D-LA) for the fact that law enforcement agents won’t be searching his Congressional computer for any lewd messages sent to former pages.
Foley is using the same Separation of Powers argument that Jefferson employed to have the Feds raid on his Congressional office declared unconstitutional. The House Office of the Chief Administrative Officer has assured us, however, that they’ve searched all of Foley’s email traffic and they found NO GRAPHIC IMAGES….Woo. That’s a relief. But…um…didn’t he prefer to use Instant Messenger? Yeah whatever. He’s in Scientologist Alcohol Rehab, so we shouldn’t pick on him so much, especially now with Larry Craig to kick around.
The Original Michelangelo Code (With FOOTNOTES!)
August 28, 2007
Something leads me to believe that sooner or later, someone is going to want to see my footnotes (and this a blog, mind you!), so I’ve posted the entire text (with citations) that I use in the film, here below:
Text of the Michelangelo Code as read in the December 1, 2006 YouTube posting
We were in Rome back in August, and went to the Vatican, and made the long snaking route through the museum to the Sistine Chapel. So we’re looking up at the ceiling, and I’m listening to the audioguide: this is God separating light from darkness, and this is God creating the Sun and the Moon…Creating the Sun and the Moon. And then I’m looking around at the rest of the ceiling. [ignudi] that’s right, Michelangelo was supposed to be Gay. In fact, he’s really gay. In fact…I don’t know if you’ve been to the Vatican Museum, but it’s basically some rooms by Raphael, the Sistine Chapel, and then acres of naked Classical sculpture. And I’m like, yeah, those Classicals they were kinda gay too. And, you know, the one actually inspired the other. The Popes started the cult of digging up statuary from antiquity, and basically began art collecting in its modern sense. And it was this cult for all things classical that fueled the Renaissances obsession with the human body. So I’m thinking…if the elite of Greece and Rome were gay, and Michelangelo was gay, then where were all the gay men in the intervening 1200 years. I mean where did all the gay men go when the Classical world collapsed?
