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| Wed Oct. 28, 2009 8:21 AM PDT
, a Jesuit-trained Catholic turned Anglican, on Pope Benedict's decision to allow conservative Anglicans to join the Catholic church while retaining some of the Anglican rites:
If personal experience and lifelong immersion in a sub-culture is any form of persuasive evidence, I can tell you that conservative Anglo-Catholicism — at the clerical level — is totally dominated by gay men. Mostly repressed. What used to be called when I was in seminary, the pink mafia. And the thing that is the initial trigger for this decision is the upcoming very likely to happen decision to ordain women as bishops in the Church of England (there have already been women priests there for about 15 years or so). Which has a certain irony in this case. If these Anglo-Catholics join the Roman Communion they can join up with very conservative Roman Catholic groups like Regnum Christi and The Legionaries of Christ, also totally dominated by closeted gay fellows. You don’t need to be Sigmund Freud to see the awesome tragic humor in a bunch of non-wife having grown men wearing pink dresses (and in the Pope’s case super expensive fabulous Prada shoes!!!) telling everybody else they shouldn’t be gay.
Well, OK then. Always nice to see a happy ending.
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I need a Venn diagram to understand this.
Submitted by Quiddity who can't login as Quiddity (not verified) on Wed Oct. 28, 2009 8:57 AM PDT.
Which group is gay and which group doesn't like women, and of those who are Anglican or conservative or Papists? Help me out, please!
snort
Submitted by optical weenie on Wed Oct. 28, 2009 9:40 AM PDT.
The faction that wants to split the Anglican church is the side that has their panties twisted in knots over allowing gay men to become bishops and the church acknowledging gay marriage.
Sometimes irony just can't be beat.
Some apostate love
Submitted by SRW1 (not verified) on Wed Oct. 28, 2009 10:23 AM PDT.
You don’t need to be Sigmund Freud to see the awesome tragic humor in a bunch of non-wife having grown men wearing pink dresses (and in the Pope’s case super expensive fabulous Prada shoes!!!) telling everybody else they shouldn’t be gay.
Nice underhanded way to out Joe Ratzi.
Why would any straight man be a part of this religion?
Submitted by maggie (not verified) on Thu Oct. 29, 2009 7:31 PM PDT.
It's run by gay men for the benefit of women.
Weird.
