The scene: Intrepid interviewer approaches Catholic priest during NOM’s summer bus tour; Catholic priest spends seven minutes in increasingly convoluted justification for the church’s opposition to marriage equality.
Watch along, or just read this particularly fun sound-bite:
“If you want to get to the nuts and bolts of it in the male homosexual world, I think the most heinous act is anal sex. Now, if anybody were to think about that in truth, they would say one person is being harmed by this act, which is why there are so many gastrointenstinal afflictions that come to many homosexuals that do this, and other kinds of afflictions. When you look at that individual act, you say, ‘Did God create that? No way.’ And would you ever want one of your children or grandchildren to be submitted to that kind of act? No.” (transcript via Joe. My. God.)
Make sure to watch at 6:05, when he talks about how the interviewer’s friend looks gay. Brilliant.
For the record: This mostly-straight mother has no opinion on whether or not she would want her children or grandchildren to try anal sex.
However, if they should decide to partake I feel almost entirely certain that God won’t care one bit about it.
I was brought up Christian. (Lutheran/Northern Baptist/Liberal Quaker). I was taught God created EVERYTHING. What kind of heretic is this guy? If one believes that God created human beings, she or he must believe that God also created butts and things that go into butts.
Also, as you know, all gay men don’t like stuff in their butts any more than all straight men or women do. Liking buttsex doesn’t seem to have a lot to do with sexual orientation. But so many homophobes are so obsessed with anal sex. It’s like a big rich chocolate cake just barely out of reach that they aren’t allowed to have… mmm…
I’d love to hear more about these ‘gastrointenstinal afflictions’ that come to people who do this. Homosexual I am not, but assperson I am, and actually, I have a pretty healthy ass. So does my boy. So do most of the people I know who partake of anal sex. Because a healthy ass is a happy ass!
Shoot, you’d think they’d want to give god credit for inventing all the fun stuff but no, god gets to invent things like temperance and purity. Poor god.
Honestly? I would want my children to try anal sex, and explore all aspects of sexuality that interest them. I’d also want them to try other things, and explore all aspects of various topics that interest them.
I wish you (whomever might be reading this) would try anal sex, and explore…
As for wanting anyone “submitted” to “this act”, au contraire, everyone I’ve shared anal pleasures with has asked for, or even begged for, “this act”.
Hee! It’s amazing how much energy they put into thoughts of other folks’ sex, isn’t it?
Apparently, too many Catholic priests know too much about anal sex.
You’d think they would be worried about the “afflictions” they give to little boys.
One might suggest that the priest’s own house was in order before they started in on others.
Methinks the priest doth protest too much. As for the “gastrointestinal afflictions” I think he is talking about “Gay Bowel” an outdated idea thought up by an idiot. Also, how would he have any clue about the the wonders of straight sex. Has he had any in the past 40 years?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gay_bowel_syndrome
By the way, I’m not gay. “Not that there’s anything wrong with that” – Seinfeld
I like this from the article:
“A 1997 article in the Journal of Homosexuality concluded:
It is apparent that Gay Bowel Syndrome is an essentialized category of difference that is neither gay-specific, confined to the bowel, nor a syndrome. The use and diagnosis of Gay Bowel Syndrome must be abandoned.[5]“
I love old ignorant science. I once found a book at the used book store called “The Myth of Heterosexual Aids”, and a research article about how straight people can’t get HIV because the vagina is ‘rugged’ while the anus is ‘delicate’.
Oh, crazy old dead white men!
Ha! I’d have liked to have showed that researcher my vagina after a full day of rough sex with a man who had a very large penis. My vagina sure didn’t feel “rugged” after all that!
For real! And I’ve punched fucked the ass of a guy who got up and went dancing after we finished. Take THAT dead white men who doesn’t know much about asses or vaginas!
Dude you are so hard-core. I love it!
If it is thought about logically, one would understand that God did, in fact, create anal sex. Assuming you are one who believes in God, If God did not create anal sex as an alternative means of intercourse which would be pleasureable for both men and women, why are there nerves in the anus which allow for pleasure in the vagina in women, and the prostate, which can be stimulated for pleasure in men? If God did not want anal sex to occur, why would he allow this to happen at all? Are humans not created in Gods image, just the way he wanted them? In which case, isn’t anal intercourse something God actually wants, as a means for both men and women to enjoy? Just a thought. I’ve never had anal sex, or any sex, for that matter, but I’m just going on what I know of this act, and pure logic. And as previously stated, there are no gastro intestinal problems one can get from engaging in anal sex. The anus can tear, I believe it is possible to get hemrhoids, possibly the muscles in the sphincter can be weakened and loosened, but with propper lubricants and care, these things can be avoided. And this does not only apply strictly to homosexual men, but heterosexual ones as well, along with women of both orientations.
No no, like alcohol and sex not for procreation, if it’s fun it came from the devil.
Which makes them Manichaeans (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manichean) rather than Christians.
In Christianity, God created everything. To say otherwise is heretical. I’ve often thought that many people who called themselves Christians are either dualists, giving equal power to good and evil deities, or actually devil-worshipers, considering how much power they allot things they claim evil beings create and sustain.
They (I mean catholic cristians) will answer that all is about free will. You cannot really choose to do the right thing if there are no wrong things in the first place.
I want to make clear that I am an atheist myself and I think that all this preaching about anal sex is nonsense. I just happen to know religious “reasoning” very well. After all, they have been using logic for two thousand years. If you come to accept some very simple axioms (like “God exists” or some features of God), they have a stronger logic than you might think, unfortunately.
Of course he/she/it did. As applicable. How could it possibly be otherwise?
As a non-Catholic who attended Catholic school, this whole speech could have been an except from my senior year of high school. I (being quite rebellious) was constantly playing the Devil’s advocate and questioning the teacher. I’m pretty sure he would have been willing to waive my religion requirement if it meant that I was out of his class…
God created penises. God created asses. God didn’t NEED to create anal sex; it was inevitable.
“God did not create that”
That has also been said of wolves and flies at various points in philosophy history. Just sayin’.
I’d rather have buttsecks than wolves or flies. :)