Holy Mother******* Church

Anthony Sablan Apuron, archbishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Agaña, Guam issued the following statement expressing the Church’s opposition to Bill 185. Bill 185 would legalize domestic partnerships for gay men and lesbians in the U.S. territory of Guam.

I beg of you to read the statement in its entirety. Perhaps even re-read it to ensure that none of its subtleties escape you.

"Islamic fundamentalists clearly understand the damage that homosexual behavior inflicts on a culture. That is why they repress such behavior by death. Their culture is anything but one of self-absorption. It may be brutal at times, but any culture that is able to produce wave after wave of suicide bombers (women as well as men) is a culture that at least knows how to value self-sacrifice. Terrorism as a way to oppose the degeneration of the culture is to be rejected completely since such violence is itself another form of degeneracy. One, however, does not have to agree with the gruesome ways that the fundamentalists use to curb the forces that undermine their culture to admit that the Islamic fundamentalists charge that Western Civilization in general and the U.S.A. in particular is the "Great Satan" is not without an element of truth. It makes no sense for the U.S. Government to send our boys to fight Al Qaida and the Taliban in Afghanistan, while at the same time it embraces the social policies embodied in Bill 185 (as President Obama has done). Such policies only furnish further arguments for the fundamentalists in their efforts to gain more recruits for the war against the ‘Great Satan.'"

The Vatican has yet to distance itself from this statement.

These are the same people who would deny Patrick Kennedy communion because he supports a woman’s right to choose. This is consistent with my perception that those who declare themselves in favor of the “right to life” only find life sacred from conception to birth. After that it’s “Katie bar the door.”

Having been raised Catholic, attended Catholic schools kindergarten through twelfth grade, and never sourly and smugly declared myself to be a “reformed” or
 “recovering” Catholic, it saddens me deeply to see the worst of my fears about the Church and the Church’s view of me confirmed.

The pederasts, it seems, are hardly the worst of the lot. For those cluck-clucking at my hyperbole, let me reiterate Archbishop Apuron’s greatest hit, while asking how you would respond if this was being said of you:

“Islamic fundamentalists clearly understand the damage that homosexual behavior inflicts on a culture. That is why they repress such behavior by death. …”