Catholic Athletes for Christ urges virtue instead of Olympic sexual license

cna ^ | February 20, 2010

[NYer]

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[Asfarastheeastisfromthewest...]

Well, there are 2,800 athletes, coaches etc at the Vancouver Village and another 2,400 at the Whistler one. Assume each athlete there is for say two weeks. Well, I'll let somebody else work through the math...

[Teacher317]

About 20 condoms per person, for a 17-day event (although most don't stay for the whole time, and many presumably don't participate in the frivolity)...

and some have said that a re-supply might be necessary.

[ccmay]

Thousands of exceptionally fit and attractive ‘alpha’ males and females, average age of 23 or so, are thrown together in a walled-off wonderland of pampering and ego-stroking. They have denied themselves every pleasure throughout their lengthy, monastic, maniacal training regimens. What do you think they’re going to do when the competition is over and the valve is taken off the pressure cooker they’ve lived in for at least four years? If ever there was a time and place for sowing wild oats, this would be it.

[arealconservativeforachange]

I urge the holier than thous to mind their own damn business.

[narses]

arealconservativeforachange wrote:

I urge the holier than thous to mind their own damn business.

Why? Why does "arealconservativeforachange" want to silence social conservatives?

[George from New England]

Article is about condoms, but just as likely will be the planned barenhood business that results as well.

Don’t forget about the female athletes that planned pregnancies to boost their hormones, just in time for competition. They will now be looking to terminate the child in the womb that allowed them to excel during competition. I don’t believe there is any monitoring of this practice the way steroid usage is monitored and prohibited!

[Strategerist]

Why? Why does "arealconservativeforachange" want to silence social conservatives?

Because he's concerned about actually, say, winning elections, which isn't helped by conservatives or Republicans being seen as squarish prudes.

[narses]

ROTFLMAO! You are a hoot. Did you actually READ the story?

[arealconservativeforachange]

Where did I say I wanted them silenced?
No place.

[narses]

“I urge the holier than thous to mind their own damn business.”

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SHUT UP, no?

[arealconservativeforachange]

It means mind your own business.

[narses]

“It means mind your own business.”

=

SHUT UP, no?

[arealconservativeforachange]

It means mind your own business

[arealconservativeforachange]

“Mind your own business” is a common English saying which asks for a respect of other people’s privacy. It can mean that a person should stop meddling in what does not concern that person, attend personal affairs instead of those of others, etc.

Clear enough?

[A.A. Cunningham]

The lame excuse of the IOC made me do it won’t count for much during their particular judgments.

[narses]

Nope. It still smacks of libertine libertarian nonsense that says my immorality has no impact on you or others, a blatant falsehood. Plus the clear implication is to say to us social conservatives, “SHUT UP”. Sorry mate, not gonna happen.

[NYer]

Don’t forget about the female athletes that planned pregnancies to boost their hormones, just in time for competition. They will now be looking to terminate the child in the womb that allowed them to excel during competition.

What an absurd suggestion. Do you have proof to back up this assertion?

[ccmay]

The lame excuse of the IOC made me do it won’t count for much during their particular judgments.

Don;t shoot the messenger. I am being descriptive, not normative.