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"While they bang each other in the back side and give oral sex to each other in public, that's okay with you..." No actually it isn't, but if one goes to Mardi Gras one can expect to see such behavior, wouldn't you think? And the carnival festivals in Rio. I don't approve of heterosexuals carrying on in public like that either! For any orientation I say "Get a room!" and beyond that it's none of my business what they are doing....

Sexual repression is often unveiled in such comments you know....

Sterile insolence, in defense of a sterile biology. Are you sure you want to wear out your welcome this way?

That you should disavow the culture of sexual liberation while embracing its rhetorical clichés suggests an unresolved conflict in your own psyche that you might consider addressing someday. In the meantime, may I remind you that the authentic conservatism you affect to profess is deeply rooted in a sense of natural law and restraint of all sorts -- cultural, personal, political, and economic? The sexual "liberation" that you consider an escape from repression is actually an invitation to mutual exploitation and slavery to reptilian appetite. This career in self-coarsening has as its end the substantial impairment or even loss of empathy, introspection, and self-awareness.

If you want to talk repression, have another look at those poor souls pictured in this thread. Their determination to desensitise themselves to decency and dignity, not to mention snuff any memory of natural law and healthy human relations, is pitiful and a sorry spectacle for the rest of us. If you do not see here a whistling-past-the-graveyard defiance of vestigially puritan Americans unable to come to terms with their own guilt and shame, you have no eyes to see.

Hmmm, after having done this post and gone away for a day it is interesting to see the direction it has gone. From a moral, personal and political standpoint I do not agree with homosexuality. I do not necessarily believe, however, that every gay person is out there looking for a teen boy to molest. Unfortunately, the statistics have shown that the vast majority of problems with the priests have been as a homosexual issue. I also do not agree with Malthus that people will starve as a result of population growth. They starve as a result of famines created by politicians.

All of that being said, I do not think it is the point. You have a priest hanging out with drag queens and biker dudes, grabbing their ass, strutting his stuff shirtless. All behavior unbecoming his vows of priesthood. You can argue all you want whether it is appropriate behavior for a person in general while at Mardi Gras, but it is definately NOT appropriate behavior for a priest. This priest has gone against his vows and the teaching of the Catholic Church. He was properly forced to resign and I hope the Church will be asking more priests to do likewise.