Comments on: SF Catholic Archbishop Compares Prop. 8 Supporters to Abolitionists & Civil Rights Marchers

By: Robert

Robert — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 01:26:36 +0000

This is very sad. I went to Catholic high school in SLC and I shook his hand when I received my diploma. Until now, I had relative respect for the guy — he was promoted to San Francisco because of his more progressive and diplomatic views — but now I’m sick that he would not only voice his support for such hate, but also do so with numbskull logic.

By: Boycott Utah

Boycott Utah — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 20:35:33 +0000

According to the Orange County Register, Chapman University Law School Dean John Eastman was an avid Prop 8 supporter.
http://www.ocregister.com/arti.....-state-gay

Here is their website information http://www.chapman.edu/LAW/

Here is his contact information: Email: jeastman@chapman.edu
Phone: (714) 628-2587

Chapman is ranked at the bottom of the Fourth Tier according to US News and World Reports. It is known as “Crapman Law” by many across the state of California.

By: Boycott Utah

Boycott Utah — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 20:11:59 +0000

Chapman University Law School Dean John Eastman was an avid Prop 8 supporter.
http://thegreatestofthese.word...../yes-on-8/

Here is their website information http://www.chapman.edu/LAW/ Here is his contact information: Email: jeastman@chapman.edu
Phone: (714) 628-2587

By: David

David — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 15:23:08 +0000

I think the clergy and the church goers are both at fault: when they both trade out factual knowledge for woo woo faith, trouble is bound to ensue.

By: alan brickman

alan brickman — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 00:38:02 +0000

it’s always the ugly (closeted) guys that tell us to ban gay rights..coincidence?

By: BobP

BobP — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 23:30:35 +0000

He’d be singing a different tune if the largest pedophile ring in the history of the world, oops, I mean the catholic church lost its tax exempt status and he actually had to work for a living.

By: Leland Frances

Leland Frances — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 22:14:36 +0000

Go James II, GO!

Someone please tell me again why the San Francisco “Impact” demo was at City Hall and not at:

The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of San Francisco
One Peter Yorke Way
San Francisco 94109?

The report that he had literally conspired with Mormom leaders to pass Prop H8TE was published a few days before so THAT’S where [in addition to the Mormon Tabernacle in Oakland] demonstrations and nonviolent civil disobedience should have been and should continue to be occuring in order to NAME the Bigots for all to understand [and not fantasizing about changing their minds].

NOT at SF City Hall, and, for fuck’s sake, NOT in the middle of 18th & Castro. Those places, repeat, THEY are not the center of the problem!

Until someone does stop wasting our time finger fucking themselves with retarded ideas like “A Day Without A Gay” and organizes disruptions of the business as usual of the sources of our oppression [as the black civil rights movement did, hint hint], here’s the ReichArchbishop’s office phone number and e-mail address:

(415) 614-5500
info@sfarchdiocese.org

Harvey 2008 would be shouting:

OUT OF THE BLOGS AND INTO THE STREETS.

OUT OF THE BLOGS AND INTO THE STREETS!!!

By: Rudy

Rudy — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 19:25:41 +0000

This is why the Vatican wants to make Pius XII a saint – collaborate with Nazis ands fascvists and pass themselves off as victims.

They made Thomas Moore a saint in 1948 – a man who burned Protestants alive!

So much for their concern for human rights.

By: Carsen T.

Carsen T. — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 18:30:12 +0000

Yeah….I am going to be one of the chaperones they are sending to youth congress. I have to go to the archdiocese today…Oh God, I wish they I had one day were I didn’t have something to bitch to them about…plus they are still fucking patting themselves on the back for prop 8…smug jerks. And they say they suffered for their work now. Come on, the worst those guys got may have been a couple of rose gardens screwed, and they say they suffered.

By: james ii

james ii — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 18:25:09 +0000

so where are all the boycotts and protests against the catholic church? why haven’t any of the marches ended at or included the mansions where the cardinals and bishops in the U.S. live (yeah, i mean you, francis)?

the catholic church is so hypocritical, considering that the great art and music and liturgy produced for them has largely been made by gay men, from michelangelo on to today, not to mention the great majority of priests over time who have been gay, practicing or not. kind of like living in a catholic family — we know about you, we’ll tolerate you as long as you benefit us, but we’re not to acknowledge who you are, so you’d better keep your lips buttoned up, lest you offend the more sensitive parishioners/family members. i’m so sick of them.

By: Robert71350

Robert71350 — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 18:19:36 +0000

Since when is marriage a public policy matter? Last time I checked, its a basic civil right. Who is this idiot kidding? I propose forming a national movement both gay and straight for those of us who want tax-exempt status removed from every religious cult or business supporting and advocating for discrimination against us. We should also publish their names just as they published the names of those who supported our right to marry. We must keep the momentum going, no letup, ever. They want to bash us, then we should bash back, only harder by hitting them in their pockets. They can’t have it both ways. The IRS code on tax-exemption clearly states that no religious entity or business may interfere in the political process or influence the outcome of legislation. These busy bodies are already in violation of their tax status, therefore, we should demand its removal and they need to be put on notice, NOW!

By: Charles J. Mueller

Charles J. Mueller — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 17:15:50 +0000

Would someone please hold this Bishop’s mouth open….So I can take a piss in it!!!

Hey, fair is fair. If he and the Church is free to take a shit on us whenever and wherever then they he deserves it.

By: rae

rae — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 16:31:02 +0000

somehow i think bayard rustin and james baldwin (and while we’re at it mrs. coretta scott king) would disagree with that statement.

By: Brian

Brian — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 16:22:44 +0000

If the church thinks they have the constitutional right to makes statements on public policy they can volunteer to start paying taxes on everything from their income (donations) to their business and property.

By: ChicagoJimmy

ChicagoJimmy — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 15:56:57 +0000

The bible was actually used to support slavery. It tacitly condones it throughout with instructions on how to properly treat your slaves and how your daughters should best be sold into slavery.

It’s very difficult to listen to someone who so strongly believes he is right because he knows the mind of his god.

The Aztec god demanded human sacrifice. I’m glad we don’t listen to him anymore!

By: Phil

Phil — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 15:35:59 +0000

Such a gag order would have silenced many abolitionists in the nineteenth century and many civil rights advocates in the twentieth.

And then I stopped listening. (That isn’t to say I stopped reading.)

Are we not civil rights advocates? Are we, instead, homosexual fascists aiming to push our lifestyle unto others? And should we, then, be silenced?

By: jon

jon — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 15:29:20 +0000

“Whatever others may say, the proponents of Proposition 8 supported it as a defense of the traditional understanding and definition of marriage, not as an attack on any group, or as an attempt to deprive others of their civil rights.”

It doesnt matter why you supported it, maybe you liked the number eight, maybe you always vote yes on everything, mybe it was a dare from your friends, or maybe you are hateful and discrimnatory and bigoted, the effect was to strip civil rights from a minority. God may know the intent of your heart, but the citizens of california know your voting record.

By: Joe Moag

Joe Moag — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 15:24:14 +0000

You know, if wanted to, you could post a new piece of ridiculous gay-bashing bullshit from the Catholic Church every hour on the hour. There’s no shortage of supply.

At some point, you just gotta understand these idiots for who they are.