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Catholic school is forced to cover up a brand new statue after 'unfortunate' design showing ...
Daily Mail ^ | 11/21/2017 | Stephen Johnson

Posted on 11/22/2017 2:13:15 PM PST by Responsibility2nd

FULL TITLE: Catholic school is forced to cover up a brand new statue after 'unfortunate' design showing a kneeling boy and a saint

A Catholic boys school has been forced to cover up a brand new statue after a rather unfortunate design created a storm on social media.

Blackfriars Priory School in Adelaide last week unveiled a statue of St Dominic handing a young boy a loaf of bread.

However the design featuring a boy kneeling at the foot of the 12th century Spanish-born saint has caused embarrassment to the inner-city school, which teaches boys from kindergarten to year 12.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


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To: Ouchthatonehurt
I think you have to be looking for this kind of thing to find it.

No. Not really. I was LMAO the moment I clicked on the pic.

21 posted on 11/22/2017 2:25:46 PM PST by Drew68
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To: BlessedBeGod

Perverts see what they want to see.

The statue is fine....................


22 posted on 11/22/2017 2:26:02 PM PST by Red Badger (Road Rage lasts 5 minutes. Road Rash lasts 5 months!.....................)
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To: Red Badger

Surely you must be joking. This was done on purpose.


23 posted on 11/22/2017 2:30:21 PM PST by fieldmarshaldj ("It's Slappin' Time !")
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To: Drew68

Same here.


24 posted on 11/22/2017 2:32:36 PM PST by bar sin·is·ter (Climate Scientology - another example of science fiction morphing into a religious cult)
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To: Responsibility2nd

True to reality...


25 posted on 11/22/2017 2:36:10 PM PST by aMorePerfectUnion
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To: Red Badger
"I didn’t see ‘kneeling’. Looked like he was standing to me.'
26 posted on 11/22/2017 2:37:35 PM PST by unread (Joe McCarthy was right.......)
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To: fieldmarshaldj

No, an don’t call me Shirley..............


27 posted on 11/22/2017 2:37:49 PM PST by Red Badger (Road Rage lasts 5 minutes. Road Rash lasts 5 months!.....................)
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To: Ouchthatonehurt

True but today there are millions on the internet that look first at licentious views.


28 posted on 11/22/2017 2:38:17 PM PST by JimSEA
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To: Red Badger
The school was forced to cover the statue with a black cloth after students took inappropriate photos on Friday

The statue appears to be 'inspirational', just not in the way the school intended.

The school could have used a person with worldly-type wisdom in order to screen for potential problems, because this one writes its own jokes.

29 posted on 11/22/2017 2:39:23 PM PST by Ezekiel (All who mourn(ed!) the destruction of America merit the celebration of her rebirth.)
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To: Responsibility2nd

Whoever did this double entendre statue must be laughing all the way to the bank.


30 posted on 11/22/2017 2:39:41 PM PST by Lent
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To: fieldmarshaldj

I agree. It looks like it was done on purpose.
He didn’t have to be holding directly up against himself in that particular spot. You would have also thought he would have been over handing it the child with an outstretched hand too. But no, it was very much obvious the designer wanted this to have (obvious) hidden meanings.


31 posted on 11/22/2017 2:41:18 PM PST by TianaHighrider (Deplorable me)
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To: Red Badger

The perverts have certainly exposed themselves on this thread ...


32 posted on 11/22/2017 2:41:39 PM PST by NorthMountain (... the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: NorthMountain

The bread looks exactly like bread..................


33 posted on 11/22/2017 2:42:39 PM PST by Red Badger (Road Rage lasts 5 minutes. Road Rash lasts 5 months!.....................)
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To: Responsibility2nd

Ain’t no way the artist did this by mistake.


34 posted on 11/22/2017 2:43:34 PM PST by Haiku Guy (ELIMINATE PERVERSE INCENTIVES)
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To: Responsibility2nd

Seen it, and I still don’t believe it. How could this slip by? Especially since the Church is still facing repercussions from the priest abuse scandals. And we thought the Rolling Stones Sticky Fingers album cover was over the top. (not gonna post an image of that for the same reason, but we “old farts” remember it well)


35 posted on 11/22/2017 2:44:30 PM PST by Impala64ssa (Islamophobic? NO! IslamABHORic)
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To: Red Badger

To some people a loaf is a loaf.

To some people, anything substantially longer than its width is a phallic symbol. This latter group may fairly be classified as “perverts”.


36 posted on 11/22/2017 2:46:21 PM PST by NorthMountain (... the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: Responsibility2nd

Years ago the state of Florida was looking to replace it’s capital building with a larger, more modern structure.

One of the designs submitted was a large, tall, thin-ish, building with two shorter domed structures on either side. Part of the discription submitted with the design referred to it as a “symbol of power”.

The thing is, the submission was not meant to be taken seriously. The architect thought it was so blatent a phallic symbol that everyone would be in on the joke.

Guess which design won.

http://dos.myflorida.com/florida-facts/florida-history/the-capitol/

Scroll to the bottom of the page...


37 posted on 11/22/2017 2:47:23 PM PST by Crusher138 ("Then conquer we must, for our cause it is just")
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To: Responsibility2nd
Only about 1% of catholic priests commit crimes against kids...to assume otherwise is to agree with Western Marxists that the Catholic Church,along with the United States,are the two sources of all evil that occurs in this world.
38 posted on 11/22/2017 2:49:48 PM PST by Gay State Conservative (ObamaCare Works For Those Who Don't.)
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To: Red Badger

I saw a statue of a man giving a boy a loaf of bread.

Period.

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39 posted on 11/22/2017 2:50:05 PM PST by Mears
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To: LukeL
It is in they eye of the beholder. You see what you want to see and what you have been conditioned to see by contemporary media.

Not all priests and saints are or were perverts, far from it.

40 posted on 11/22/2017 2:50:56 PM PST by pfflier
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