Holy crap.
We've read and written about scads of scary anti-gay folk in our day, but few with the frightening insanity of Rev Peter Mullen, the chaplain of London's stock exchange:
Mr Mullen, 66, wrote on his blog: 'It is time that religious believers began to recommend… discouragements of homosexual practices after the style of warnings on cigarette packets.'Let us make it obligatory for homosexuals to have their backsides tattooed with the slogan SODOMY CAN SERIOUSLY DAMAGE YOUR HEALTH and their chins with FELLATIO KILLS.'
Fuck you. Fellatio rules.
Mullen goes on to say that the "obscene" gays should be outlawed, which is sort of like saying brown people or midgets should be outlawed - impossible. We exist. Deal with it.
In addition to being a preacher man, Mullen's also quite the poet. Another internet posting contains this gem about a gay marriage between two priests: "the Bishop of London is in a high huff, Because Dr Dudley has married a puff; And not just one puff - he's married another: Two priests, two puffs and either to other." Charming.
Gay activists and other like-minded Brits are furious and calling for Mullen's job. The reverend claims he meant no harm in writing the "satirical" postings and insists he's got loads of respect for the gays. He's even friends with some! "I certainly have nothing against homosexuals. Many of my dear friends have been and are of that persuasion." Mullen does, however, object to the "militant preaching of homosexuality." And we thought Wall Street was ugly.
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My response is no response.
I can't dignify one.
Um…I was going to be sensitive about his looks until I read what he posted…so now that I am not being sensitive..
What's up with his face? He has more of a Picasso face than Shannen Doherty.
I have one thing to say concerning that photograph….
"hey you guuuuuuuuuuuuys!"
goonies forever!
White people.
Nothing to dignify in this brit trailer trash.
Wasn't there another militant dictatorship that made some minority get tatoos?
I can't seem to remember. Something about going to camp.
Now we can see the long-term skin damage of exposure to stupid religion.
The Rev. Mullen is also the parish priest at St. Micheal's Cornhill. The families with gay members must love him there too. I've posted the website and his email address in case anyone was looking for them.
http://www.st-michaels.org.uk
Rev. Mullen's e-mail address:
citychurches@pmullen.freeserve.co.uk
All this from a cannibal who believes he's eating the body and blood of Jesus every week! How long must we indulge the ranting of the superstitious?
Why do the believers in Bronze Age idiocy think that those of us who are sane and rational should be influenced by their delusion? If they really believed in their imaginary friend, they should be content to let their so-called god deal with me, and not insist that I be punished by secular laws. That they need to see me punished by "earthly" laws belies their confidence in their faith–even they don't believe the bullshit they want us to. How is it that so many people can't recognize a snake oil peddler when they see one?
Seems like he is advocating what Germany did under the Nazi party. "Marking" people they saw as "undesirable" so they could
easily be identified. Don't they have hate speech laws in England?
In Canada, he would have already been escorted out the door.
Um, if Sodomy kills I think that we would all have left a trail of dead boyfriends in our wake. You have to ask yourself, with everything else going on in the world, why do these people KEEP such an intense focus on gay sex acts? My bet is that if you searched his house you'd find every issue of Honcho and Blueboy going back for 15 years.
Funny that, in all of this, someone who's supposed to be a scholar fails to note that heterosexual sodomy accounts for more sodomy us homos could ever generate. Would you have your women branded, too, Father Tw@tslime?
What? We lesbians don't get tattoos? Sexist asshole.
How stupid. Fellatio doesn't kill. Maim…possibly. But if you check him for braces or jagged teeth, even that shouldn't be a serious concern.
Hey - at least within his stupidity he seems to be admitting that homosexuality is an immutable trait and cannot be prayed away. Tattoos are permanent, so once a homosexual, always a homosexual.
Fear not Kiddies, this sky pixie shaman is in deep doo-doo. He has undoubtedly already lost his job.
His sky pixie church will be rushing around like a headless chicken desperate to apologise to everyone.
The UK does not take religion seriously and certainly not this wanker.
If fellatio could kill, I'd be responsible for the needless deaths of literally fives of bartenders in the tri-state area.
He should have read the warning on the french fryer. 'Do not bob for fries'. Srsly what up with that face?
Just look at him, he just needs somebody to hate because if he looked in the mirror, literally and figuratively he would see that he hates himself. A self loathing, disfigured, fat Queen himself no doubt who hides behind his religion.
If fellatio is deadly, where are all the dead straight women who perform this sexual act?!
I just called the Stock Exchange and apparently this guy is no longer the Chaplain there, and indeed the Stock Exchange has not had ANY Chaplain for years. As such he has misrepresented himself as such. The SE press office tells me that all day they have been briefing the press as to the reality, and distance themselves from this. A correction is expected in tonight's Evening Standard……
Shanise,
While you were fulminating against "white trash", I missed your post over at "Ugandan Government Seeks Even More Anti-Gay Laws". What was it again?
This was actually the odd spot in the australian age i'm more outraged as to how much it was downplayed, when i read it in the paper it sounded much more amusing and harmless.
to quote
Wednesday October 8, 2008
A Church of England priest has been ordered to remove comments from his blog calling for gay men to have their backsides tattooed with a warning about sodomy. Reverend Peter Mullen 66, insisted his remarks were light-hearted jokes and satirical. http://www.theage.com.au/oddspot/
People like that priest generally get whats coming to them, saying too much, getting in the public eye, then getting abused, fired and/or charged.
But the general public, the homophobes that really need to be shown just how much damage their opinins are doing to all of society, these people are having their ideas validated or accepted by having issues such as this downlplayed as they have in the newspaper I read.
The anti-gay people are a problem, but i think a bigger issue are the anti-gay sympathises and enablers, people that downplay aall the problems that gay people face
More dumb, I suspect, than anything else.
Dumb people shouldn't have blogs.
More proof that religion is dangerous.