Couple Arrested for Having Sex in New York City Cathedral

Fox News/NY Post ^ | Friday, August 16, 2002 | By Philip Messing, Marianne Garvey and Hasani Gittens

[Behind Liberal Lines]

NEW YORK

[stanz]

Thank goodness someone thought it was funny. I thought I was in Twilight Zone.

[NativeNewYorker]

[sigh]

I *understand* it was sacrilege.

I *understand* it is unspeakable.

[rolling eyes]

I was simply pointing out, on the assumption that most folks here aren't familiar with that particular Cathedral, just how mindlessly absurd it was, as well.

[southern rock]

Thank goodness someone thought it was funny. I thought I was in Twilight Zone.

No, your joke in post #15 was indeed funny, in and of itself. I just think people are so worked up over the sex in the cathedral "gag", their sense of humor has been suspended.

[LaBelleDameSansMerci]

"...Sorry, I don't get the reference....

Oh dear. All these devout Catholics around here who don't get the reference.

What can it all mean?

[stanz]

It's disgusting, yes, but it doesn't upset me the way it upsets you. I find it sad that people would participate in pranks like this no matter where they did it.

[stanz]

Thanks. I feel relieved that there are some folks on FR who understand what I meant and that it was not any attack on the church.

[sweetliberty]

"Caning keeps coming to mind."

That made me smile. Sometimes the more primitive ways are the most effective. Shame and humiliation and a little outright pain certainly have their place.

[Saundra Duffy]

Well, what can you expect in light of the scandals?

[Ann Archy]

You are really classless.

[wimpycat]

Even I know what you meant, and I'm Baptist.

[AmericanInTokyo]

Ol' Saint Pat's in NYC has had just about enough, in the last year, of disgusting acts of idiocy and outrage, wouldn't you say?

Man, I hope they lock 'em up and throw away the key and deliver hefty fines. You know, they would not have had THE NERVE to have tried this at the Cathedral from Black September 11th onward for several months. Only now can these scum raise their scheming and sacreligious heads again, sensing that America has returned to it's pre-9-11 receptiveness to depravity and that somehow their antics will be taken as somehow humorous or entertaining.

It is our duty to show them (the criminals, the radio hosts, the radio station and the sponsors) that they are terribly mistaken.

[stanz]

Too bad you have no sense of humor. I thought name-calling was beyond the scope of what Christ taught.

[crazykatz]

You are one of the best on FR!! I always like your posts, dearie.

[AmericanInTokyo]

Christ went into a House of God, whippping and hitting people in a rage of great anger, for the way the sacred place had been defiled when he came upon it.

Christ was no pansy. He was a strong carpenter who read 'em the riot act.

His believers today have every right to be just as incensed at what some today have done to His sacred place.

[wimpycat]

Well, now I'm not so sure.

[Ann Archy]

Did YOU leave the Idiot door open?

[Between the Lines]

I explained what the two types of sex were that were involved in the discussion in this thread- - the stunt that took place at St. Patrick's and the abuse by priests. What else is there to discuss? My very first reply, which was meant to be humorous, compared the two. How is that considered an attack?

Wrong, stanz. Before your first post #15 there was only one type of sex involved with this thread, that of the radio stunt. You were the one who brought the abuse by priests into this discussion. Check it out yourslef.

Also, I just learned that a joke someone posted on this thread was pulled. Was it so bad that it called for censorship?

Yes it was and it was posted to you and you read it and replyed to it telling him that he would be considered a Catholic basher. By your own reply you thought the joke inappropriate . You know how bad the joke was.

What has become of us that we can't see some humor in things?

We are not laughing with you, we are laughing at you.

No one here is condemning anything- - -except my posts.

Wrong again. Almost everyone condemns this sex act inside the church. Read it again. Your posts have been off topic since the begining. This is not a story about the Catholic church nor is it a story about child abuse.