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Poor Thierry Henry. Sales of Gillette shall plummet in Ireland now. Which is a good thing, because it’s Movember!
More at MarriageEquality.ie
UPDATE: Had to include this snippet from the always-reliable It Was Ever Thus:
As regards the rest well he [Brady] may, or may not, be correct that a heterosexual marriage environment is the best one in which to raise a child, however, the point is moot because that is not happening. Independent corroboration could be provided by, oh, the four year olds getting beaten all shades of blue in Haringey by their mothers, mother’s lovers and mother’s lover’s brother or the surprising number of children doing perfectly fine in second families or alternative community structures. On balance though I suspect we should keep kiddie-Church dialogue muted for now. Suffice to say you can want the traditional family all you want these days – you just ain’t getting it or ain’t getting that, that show moved out of town long before the gays got in the act.
Fantastic! Read more.
They’re beginning to call this child abuse saga the Irish Holocaust. After watching this man, you’ll begin to see why.
—Start of transcript
Mr. Chairman, I’m surprised at the minister there now.
First of all Mr Minister (directed at Minister Noel Dempsey) you made a bags of it in the beginning by changing the judges. You made a complete bags of it at that time, because I went to the La Foy commission and ye had seven barristers there, questioning me and telling that I was telling lies, when I told them that I got raped of a Saturday, got a merciful beating after it, and then stuffed…
… he came along the following morning and put holy communion in my mouth.
You don’t know what happened there. You haven’t the foggiest, you’re talking through your hat there. And you’re talking to a Fianna Fáil man, a former councilor and former mayor you’re talking to, that worked tooth and nail or you, for the party that you’re talking about now. Ye didn’t do it right, ye got it wrong.
Admit it.
And apologize for doing that. Because you don’t know what I feel inside me. You don’t know the hurt I am.
You said it was non-adversarial.
My God.
Seven barristers.
Throwing questions at us.
Non-stop.
I tri.. attempted to commit suicide, there’s the woman who saved me from committing suicide, on me way down from Dublin, after spending five days at the commission. Five days I spent at the commission. They brought a man over from Rome, ninety odd years of age, to tell me I was telling lies.
That I wasn’t beaten for an hour, non-stop by two of them.
By two of them.
Non-stop from head to toe without a shred of cloth on my body.
My God minister.
And could I speak to you (comment directed to Leo Varadkar, Fianna Gael), and ask your leader, would you stop making a political football of this.
You hurt this when you do that.
You tear the shreds from inside our body.
For God’s sake, try and give us some peace.
Try to give us some peace and not to continue hurting us.
That woman will tell you how many times I jump out of the bed at night with the sweat pumping out of me. Because I see these fellas at the end of the bed with their fingers doing that (gestures) to me. And pulling me in to the room, to rape me, to bugger me and bate the shite out of me. That’s the way it is.
And you know what?
You know what, sometimes I listen to the leader of Fianna Fáil. I even listened to the apology. T’was mealy mouthed, but at least t’was an apology.
At least t’was an apology.
The Rosminians said in the report, they said they were easy on us. The first day I went to them. The first day to Rosminians in my home which is Ferryhouse in Clonmel, ’cause its the only home I know. He said “you’re in it for the money”.
We didn’t want money.
We didn’t want money. We wanted the pr… someone to stand up and say “yes, these fellas were buggered, these people were ra…”
Little girls. My daughter, oh sorry, my sister. A month old when she was put in to an institution. Eight of us from the one family, dragged by the ISPCC cruelty man. Put in to two cars, brought to the court in Clonmel. Left standing there without food or anything, and the fella in the long black frock and the white collar came along and he put us in to a van.
Not a van, a scut truck, I don’t know what you call it now. And landed us below with two hundred other boys. Two night later I was raped.
How can anyone…
You’re talking about constitution. These people would gladly say “yes” to a constitution to freeze the funds of the religous orders.
This state, this country of ours, would say “yes” to that constitition if you have to change it.
Don’t say you can’t change it.
You’re the governement of this state. You run this state. So for God’s sake stop mealy mouthing. ‘Cause I’m sick of it.
I’m sick of it.
You’re turning me away from voting Fianna Fáil which I have done from the first day that I could vote. Because. And you know me. You know me Mister Minister. You’ve met me on a number of ocassions. So you know what I’m like.
— End of transcript
Transcript via Will Knott
Last weekend I was a slight muppet and muddled dates. I was supposed to attend my nephew’s First Holy Communion back in Galway. I’m sorry that I disappointed my sister and all the effort that she would have gone to to celebrate the occasion, but how on earth could I stand in a church and endorse such nonsense especially when so many of their leaders are people whom one cannot take seriously.
On ITV’s News At Ten last night, the Most Rev Vincent Nichols, the chap who became the latest Archbishop of Westminster, most senior Catholic in the UK, was asked about the 2,600 page report on clerical abuse in Ireland published yesterday.
His response:
“It’s very distressing and very disturbing. And my heart goes out today, first of all to those people who will find that their stories are now told in public.
“Second, I think of those in religious orders and some of the clergy in Dublin who have to face these facts from their past, which instinctively and quite naturally they’d rather not look at.
“That takes courage. And also we shouldn’t forget that this account today will also overshadow all of the good that they also did.”
I’m trying to think of something articulate and measured to say here, but the only word coming to my mind is ‘muppet’. At least Patrick Walsh, a spokesman for the Irish Survivors of Child Abuse, has more eloquence, describing the archbishop’s utterances as ‘the verbiage of unreason’.
After all these years, I’ll give the Church one thing, it still knows how to get our attention.
However, it stopped deserving our respect a long time ago.
Read more: The Executive Summary [pdf] of the Report of the Commission to Inquire into Child Abuse and the full Report.
Also: On April 10, 2009, Nichols rejected the calls of former Prime Minister and Catholic convert Tony Blair for the Church to change its views on homosexuality, saying, “I am afraid the way the Catholic Church thinks is rather different to [Blair's thinking] and…I will take my guide from Pope Benedict actually.” Daily Mail
Just to show how well-travelled she is, she tells us that she has been to Kuwait, Germany and Ireland.
And it’s true. Her plane stopped to refuel at Shannon on the way.
Unbelievable.
Best. Election. EVAH!
According to The Guardian, Northern Ireland just had its largest Pride event ever this weekend with ’several thousand’ revellers coming out to show solidarity with the NI gays & pals.
The huge turnout seems to be attributable to the decent NI folk wishing to show how little they think of MP Iris Robinson’s rather backward view of homosexuality. Recently she has come under attack from all sides for asserting that homosexuality is ‘disgusting, loathsome, nauseating, wicked and vile’. She also claimed that homosexuality is comparable to child abuse, telling the Belfast Telegraph: “I cannot think of anything more sickening than a child being abused. It is comparable to the act of homosexuality. I think they are all comparable. I feel totally repulsed by both.”
Robinson, the wife of the Northern Irish Assembly’s First Minister, has been reported to the police for her statement, the second time the police have been called to investigate her statements.
Anyway, the pictures of the event look great and first hands tales from the day suggest that a lot of fun was had.
Belfast was once considered the most homophobic place in Europe, but events like Pride should help change that.
In the meantime, I’d like to direct Iris and her fans to a rather good post on Leviticus. Yes, it makes a mockery of the prescriptions of the Old Testament, but it’s a pretty good illustration of how self-respecting Christians really shouldn’t rely on literal interpretations on the Bible. It’s dodgy territory, guys, and not even proper theologians go there anymore.
No can has mansex liek has ladysex. (hehe) Taht iz teh ghey. (Leviticus 18:22)
Yes, the LOLcat Bible translation is underway…
