Pagan band demands "quiet area for fornication"

Ananova ^ | June 20, 2003

[Jimmyclyde]

Pagan band demands 'quiet area for sex'

A pagan rock band is demanding a "quiet area for fornication" during a summer solstice celebration in Birmingham.

The event, billed as a family fun day out, has been condemned by the Church of England, reports the Birmingham Evening Mail.

Headliners Inkubus Sukkubus demanded the "fornicatorium" at the event, which is being held to mark the longest day of the year.

Managers at the Custard Factory venue confirmed a quiet area would be provided for the group, fronted by female vocalist Candia.

A spokesman said: "They said they needed a quiet fornicatorium. They say it is a fertility rite. The singer goes into a trance-like state. We don't quite know what will happen once the frenzied activity begins."

Druids from across the country will descend on the Custard Factory for the celebration, which is billed as a perfect day out for the whole family, on Saturday.

Rhiannon Biddulph, of the UK Pagan Association, said: "There are certain festivals were we celebrate the creation of life where you have to have sex. Most pagans have a fairly relaxed attitude to sex."

But a spokesman for the Church of England in Birmingham said: "It seems the Druids have overdosed on the magic mushrooms when arranging this event. It beggars belief that this kind of tackiness and tawdriness is being promoted as a cultural family event."

Story filed: 11:27 Friday 20th June 2003

[Sender]

Good advice, but it's the resulting fires that are embarrassing.

[Xenalyte]

Asbestos handkerchief! (Which would be a good name for a band.)

[socal_parrot]

demanding a "quiet area for fornication"

We recently remodeled our house and I asked for the same thing. My wife didn't exactly like the idea and decided on a sewing room.

[Kevin Curry]

How about I get back to my Nordic roots . . .

Your Nordic roots today push out fruit of extreme socialism from Scandinavia to Minnesota.

I wish your Nordic roots were still roasting the occasional Christian monk. You would be far less destructive to society as a whole.

[LiteKeeper]

SPOTREP

[Dead Corpse]

So what is your excuse? I've seen you advocate bigger government and more socialism yourself.

How 'bout you keep your blue-nose out of everyone else's business?

[Jonah Hex]

Managers at the Custard Factory venue confirmed a quiet area would be provided for the group, fronted by female vocalist Candia.

Willy Wanker and the Custard Factory

[twigs]

which sin is worse? Fornicating or killing the product of the fornication?

Both. Sin is separation from God. All sin is equally repugnant to him.

If pharisees like yourself

That's true and why I need Jesus.

would be more accepting of the Mary Magdalene's of the world abortion would never be an issue.

I think you do not understand the heart of man. Abortion will always be an issue as long as man insists on doing his own will apart from God.

you believe that all Arabs (sons of Abraham thru the handmaid) are the "ongoing consequence of sin."

Yes.

We're all sinners

Absolutely.

why not try a little forgiveness

I do on a daily basis because I have to. Jesus forgives me daily and asks that I do the same.

instead of blaming the problems of the Middle East on a little lovin'.

This involved no "lovin'". It was Abraham taking matters in his own hands because he didn't trust God to fulfill His word. Plain and simple.

[Dead Corpse]

Judaic law held that life began and ended with the first breath. There are several instances in the Bible where God commands the "ripping up" of pregnant women who God took a disliking to.

Get your story straight.

[twigs]

I have my story straight. My life began at conception.

[Dead Corpse]

So says you. Not the Bible.

Don't get me wrong, I don't like abortion. Particularly Second and Third term. However, there is NO Biblical argument that can be made to support an anti-abortion stance. Period.

[Chad Fairbanks]

"Fornicate, good time, come on! Let's fornicate!"

Wasn't that a 70s song?

[RussianConservative]

Remember, Anglican drop off cliff of Christian morality long ago...they liberal left of Christianity.

[RussianConservative]

Question...does scrying with human organs work? Is it legal?

[RussianConservative]

Why only monks...Norse burn, pillage most pagan England too....time for long boat raid on coast.

[twigs]

That's just not true. At all. Here are a few:

Job 10:8-12 Your hands shaped me and made me... Did you not clothe me with skin and flesh and knit me together with bones and sinews? You gave me life…

Job 31:15 Did not he who made me in the womb make them? Did not the same one form us both within our mothers?

Psalm 139:13-16 For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother's womb. I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well. My frame was not hidden from you when I was made in the secret place. When I was woven together in the depths of the earth, your eyes saw my unformed body.

Isaiah 44:2 This is what the Lord says -- he who made you, who formed you in the womb, and who will help you...

Isaiah 44:24 This is what the Lord says -- your Redeemer, who formed you in the womb: "I am the Lord, who has made all things, who alone stretched out the heavens, who spread out the earth by myself..."

Isaiah 46:3-4 Listen to me, O house of Jacob, all you who remain of the house of Israel, you whom I have upheld since you were conceived, and have carried since your birth. Even to your old age and gray hairs, I am He, I am He who will sustain you. I have made you and I will carry you; I will sustain you and I will rescue you.

Isaiah 49:5 And now the Lord says -- he who formed me in the womb to be his servant to bring Jacob back to him and gather Israel to himself, for I am honored in the eyes of the Lord and my God has been my strength.

Jeremiah 1:5 Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, before you were born I set you apart; I appointed you as a prophet to the nations.

[wimpycat]

Ummm...I'm sorry, but I'm not quite sure what you mean.

[RussianConservative]

So there no difference between say thief or liar and mass murderer? So latin of you.

[twigs]

I do not understand what you are saying.

[wimpycat]

I hope you two will take this debate about abortion to a different thread.