That's the number of children they've come back with in a conservative estimate of how many were sexually assaulted by Catholic priests. Eleven thousand children. Eleven thousand children who will grow up or have grown up struggling on a daily basis to form healthy boundaries and healthy inter-personal relationships. Children who grow up to not have ths slightest clue where to draw the line between sexual behavior and romantic attraction because some fucking priest thought it would be okay to totally erase those lines from that child's development. Thousands of priests who thought it was okay to bring a lifetime of pain and continued mental suffering to the various children in their parishes. Priests who were likely abused themselves in similar situations. Priests who preach the doctrine of a church that evidently has generations of sexual abuse in its ranks.

Priests who want to tell me I can't marry the woman of my dreams because it would violate the wishes of the church. Priests who want to tell me it's okay to touch little boys and ruin their psychological little lives forever, but that it's not okay for me to enter into a perfectly healthy, loving, long-term, respectful relationship with another woman.

And if there are thousands of priests out there, how many pastors are there? How many bishops? How many Christian leaders are out there right now yelling and screaming about who God wants me to sleep with, who have slept with a young, unconsenting child? How many of them have been married and divorced? Divorced twice? Three times?

That's a lot of fucking nerve.

Jackie Goldberg and her partner have been together for over 25 years. They've raised a son together, built a house and political career together, contributed six ways to Sunday to their community and their state and their country. And as far as anyone knows, neither of them has sexually assualted a minor. And someone's going to tell me that Liz Taylor's record is better because all seven of her marriages were to men? This is honoring the sacrament of marriage? This, allowing pedophiles, adulterers, and wife beaters get together under the eyes of God is no problem. In fact, that's HONORING God. Right? Divorcing, cheating, abusing assholes getting together and then breaking up is fine. God wants that.

But when two people of the same sex want to get together, maybe raise one or two perfectly healthy children, and stay together - without cheating - for a lifetime. This is wrong? This is pulling at the fabric of civilization as we know it? This is tarnishing the church and God's name?

Well, then, FUCK God.

If that's what God's all about, then fuck it. None of that shit makes any sense to me, nor should it to anyone else with an ounce of logic in his/her head. Hurting children is better than gay marriage? Hurting children by not allowing their loving parents to get married; Hurting children by telling them to marry someone they don't want to be with; Hurting children by telling them it'll just be our little secret; Hurting children by beating up their mother in front of them; Hurting children by saying I'll kill your cousin/mother/father/brother/sister/friend/rabbit/cat if you tell...all of those are OKAY IN THE EYES OF GOD, but Gay Marriage is not?

If that's what your God wants, then fuck your God. That's the nuttiest idea of all-knowing, all-loving, made-in-his-image I've ever known, and it's pure, unadulterated (pun intended) bullshit. And if you want to live your life in blind faith to a bullshit god who makes up random rules according to your own personal psychoses, then be my friggin' guest. That's the beauty of America. You can believe whatever kind of fucked up, cockamaymey BS you want.

But keep your bullshit, crazy, phenomenally fucked right up, backward, hateful, hurtful beliefs out of my FUCKING LAWBOOKS YOU SICK FUCKING RAT GODDAMNED BASTARDS.

And rot in hell, while you're at it.

I'm so tired of this shit I could just blow something up.

Posted by twids at 7:43 am