During a mass service in São Paulo, Brazil on Sunday afternoon, a woman came onstage and pushed Father Marcelo Rossi offstage. Rossi is an anti-gay priest and one of Brazil’s most famous priests, but her attack doesn’t seem to have anything to do with his anti-gay stances.
Although the attack was humiliating — it occurred on TV and in front of an audience of over 50,000 people — the priest was reportedly unharmed, returned to the stage minutes later and didn’t press charges.
According to various Brazilian media, the unnamed woman drove in from out of town with her three-year-old son and somehow got through security to rush Rossi onstage. She reportedly claims to have bipolar disorder and has given conflicting accounts of her intentions.
An official told Brazilian media:
“She said that she wanted to come in to talk to him and that she was scared the moment she saw the security guards running after her. It’s her version, but anyone who sees the pictures sees that there is none of it [security guards running after her]. She says she got scared and pushed him at a time when she kind of freaked out, lost control, but she had no intention [of hurting him], she just wanted to talk to him.”
Helpful social note: If you “just want to talk” to somebody, don’t shove them off of an elevated platform like this:
Rossi has made numerous anti-gay statements throughout his career. In November 1998, he said, “A lot of ideas will change the day homosexuality is proven to be an illness.” In a 2014 interview, he said, “Sex between man causes pain, if something causes pain, it can’t be a good thing.” He has also opposed same-sex marriage because, “The word of God is clear that man and woman were created to unite and bear fruit.”
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He is also a prolific author and Christian musician with over 11 million sales in Latin America and a radio show with over 3 million listeners nationwide.
Peacemaker
It was gods plan and he works in mysterious ways.
masterwill7
I couldn’t have sayd it better!! Amen! Lol
djmcgamester
Definitely. I feel no sorrow for him. Maybe for her since she probably suffered some consequences.
JaredMacBride
WWJD? Throw the money changer out of the temple, just like this woman did.
Chrisk
“A lot of ideas will change the day religion is proven to be an illness”.
Now I totally agree with him. Religion is totally a mental illness.
Diplomat-G
Always a great day when you can tackle a homophobic pedophile priest
stevieboy3362
AAAAAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAA!!!
Chrisk
I think it’s funny because this is the kind of shit that attracts the crazies. I guess she was just a little too crazy or not the right kind of crazy. Lol
James
The worst of catholic trash.
Raybee
Uh, last I heard the pain of childbirth is almost unbearable. No go there, too?
startenout
Too true. Also, if he’s so against the gay sex, how does he know how it feels? Something, you’d like to discuss, Father? LOL
Stephen
Priest abstinence means zero sexuality development or right to an opinion about sex. I would not go to a mechanic and ask about faith or religious concerns!
This is crap. Old farts judging and knowing nothing. Bigots spewing hate speech and increasing public bias and spreading ignorance.
Old Testament is Yahweh … jealous, wrathful, to be feared. I thought the Christian Faith was built on the New Testament. Forgiveness. Love. Compassion.
… Treat thy neighbour as thyself. …
And what Jesus said about homosexuality …………………………………………………………………………………..
………………………….. and…………………………………………….
………AND …………………………………………………………………
THATS RIGHT! Nothing. Not a single word.
Trust a catholic to adhere only the sexual misinterpreted
Greek references to the most common problem of the period
of Jesus, INCEST. The misinterpretation is simple. Hide the
guilty sex predatory/pedophiles and blame the LGBTQ minorities.
The issue of monks given blessed unions by priests is historical
record in the 4th to 8th century. Only in the 9th century … when
families of priests were winning cases in court for staying in the
refectory after the death of the priest … did Real Estate issues create
the need for revisionism of Jesus as a celibate come about. FACT.
It’s been known the youngest Pope in history turned the Vatican
into a full time brothel.
So the hypocrisy on all aspects of sexuality in Catholicism is mute.
There are thousands of cases of of abuse, violent abuse, tyranny and rape of children from 19th century to 1966 of First Nation families having children ripped from reserve families to be sold as church profiteering or sent to residency
schools and predatory charges pending on women, men and children. I know
of a family of 6 children removed from 2 to 18 years old while parents were 6 houses away at a First Nations wedding. They returned to no information, no children, no way to regain their family back together. The mother committed suicide and the father moved to Regina to live and die a broken alcoholic. It took 4 law suits and 29 years of efforts to connect three of the 6. The eldest children were reported as suicides. The youngest is schizophrenic and lifelong PTSD survivor. Horror story!
In 2015, $5 billion was taken from Catholic Investments and put into Nun, Monk, Priests Retirement Funds rather than actual assets of the Catholic Church to be used for settlements for legal cases to survivors of violence, kidnapping, illegal human trafficking/adoption, sexual abuse and indecent exposures.
Only in the last few years has the current Pope tried to enforce firing sexually abusive church staff for any violent or sexual assault charges referred to the police not held only as in house matters to resolve. Corruption could take a long time to resolve as they are using lawyers paid by the church still to blame the victims.
slake1236
“Sex between man causes pain, if something causes pain, it can’t be a good thing.” I beg to differ, I am sure there are plenty of men who would love to enjoy a night of pain, especially in brazil.
just me
, “Sex between man causes pain, if something causes pain, it can’t be a good thing.”
er… senhor padre… er… giving birth causes pain…. er… and how do you know sex between men causes pain?
Pii
I’m sure he’s okay, he probably landed in an altar boy
re_horst
OMG I laughed out loud !!!
Ladisteele
I spit my tea! Better on than in lol
strap2900
Science and education is whittling away at religion, the millenials are at the forefront. There are very few college educated 20 somethings that still believe in Jeebus. Many pretend they do to placate their families, as I once did.
RandomGuy
Holy Shit!
Felecia
I find it VERY painful that I am expected to believe in pregnant virgins and re-animated corpses….in 2019. Yeesh !
batesmotel
Well he did have it coming. The woman was taken over by Jesus who saw through the priests obsession with constantly spitting out anti-gay rhetoric. Jesus finally had enough and took over the woman.
jesse davis
I feel conflicted with my beliefs. I was raised Catholic and when I’m really down I turn to God, its like programmed into me. When I read about their scandals, it makes me think twice. I believe in Love.
Pii
You’re lucky that you are just reading about their scandals and not remembering or re-living them like the thousands of victims, myself included.
Pii
I keep coming back and re-watching this every time I need a good laugh. Picks me right up.
Josh447
Men and women do unite and bear fruit(s),
they are called gay people.
LARRY
you my love have made my day! <3
LARRY
Thoughts and Prayers Sister…Thoughts and Prayers! LMAO
nitejonboy
He lived ? Damn.
michel_banen
How cool would it have been if the woman did indeed confirm she was sick of catholic priests shoving gay people around with negative words so she decided to do some shoving as well…..
Vince
Maybe she just thought the cuckoo bird could fly.