Gay ashes.
“Sashay, sashay, sashay, sashay, sashay.”
Rainbow Sashers plan to greet the Pope when he visits next month with whistles and ashes instead of confetti. It is in protest of how the sexual abuse crises was handled and ongoing discrimination against gay people by the Catholic Church.
That’s mature.
From PinkNews:
A group that works for the rights of gay, lesbian, bisexual and trans in the Roman Catholic church is planning a series of protests against Pope Benedict during his visit to the US next month.
The Rainbow Sash Movement said it is calling on “Catholics of good will” to take the Papal visit as an opportunity to shower the Pope mobile with ashes instead of confetti.
“Ashes are an ancient and appropriate greeting for a sinner who has caused the Church so much division and pain - we will also be greeting him with whistles,” RSM said in a statement.
“We will not enter any Churches but we will bring ashes to reign down on the Popes motorcade, and call on individuals to blow whistles at any public papal events such as outside of St. Patrick’s Cathedral, Ground Zero, St. Joseph’s Seminary, and Yankee Stadium as a sign of our disgust over the way the clergy abuse scandal has been handled under his leadership,” the group said in a statement. - PinkNews
(Thanks to Paula for the story.)
March 10th, 2008 at 3:18 pm
What a bunch of contemptuous cry-babies. I’ve got some very shocking news for them. Soooooo shocking even those happy with Pope Benedict might need a chair to sit on after listening to this: YOU CAN LEAVE THE CHURCH ANYTIME YOU WANT and join Sinead O’Connor in the Rastafari movement, which sees Haile Selassie I, the former Emperor of Ethiopia, as God incarnate, and a component of the Trinity. Why can’t these whackos congregate there?
There you can consecrate your own fruitcake in the name of the Emperor.
Sheesh!
March 10th, 2008 at 5:35 pm
A few years ago I commented on the rainbow sash movement and suggested that other sinners should be so proud of their sins as well. And make sashes proudly displaying their, well, pride. Or alcoholism, or greed. You could make them with self-portraits, whiskey labels, or fitty dollah bills. Don’t forget the proud - they sure won’t!
After all the point isn’t that the church transcends all ages, the church is a product of the ages, right?
March 10th, 2008 at 6:27 pm
This is a man who had thousands of radical extremists protesting him in Europe. I don’t think the rainbow sash is going to shake him up.
He’ll probably be thinking “why do old Americans wear jeans and white tennis shoes everywhere….”
March 10th, 2008 at 6:58 pm
It occurs to me that sinners usually use ashes on themselves, they don’t hurl them at others.
March 10th, 2008 at 8:44 pm
Hmm…the parable of the Pharisee and the Tax Collector.
“Look at me in my Rainbow Sash, at least I’m not like this sinner here!” * throws ashes at the Pope *
Yeah…that’s the way to convince someone that you are capable of 1. reason, and 2. coherent conversation.
Well…let them make asses of themselves if they wish. It could, in fact, lead to actual conversion for them, believe it or not.
Or they could just leave the Church…although they already have and just won’t admit it.
Yeah, we’re all sinners…even the Pope admits he’s a sinner. The problem here is that this group won’t admit that they are sinners, too, but they have no problem setting out their own “gospel” definition of sin that causes them to remain aloof from it.
March 11th, 2008 at 2:46 am
I bet it rains that day, just as the motorcade passes by!
March 11th, 2008 at 7:32 pm
Georgette: LOL! Oh, would that be hilarious! Tee-hee.
March 12th, 2008 at 8:04 am
I’m so tired of these people.
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