Comments on: Priest sorry for ‘Adam and Steve’ joke

By: SteveMD2

SteveMD2 — Sat, 10 Jul 2010 05:53:15 +0000

The church doesn’t know the meaning of love. it does a lot better on hatred though.

And re the story of the American priest who stole 1.3 milliion $$ for things like male prostitutes……………

He should be Sainted YOu can replace money, and do with something less than you had.

But its really hard to replace the minds of the children who are raped by their priests sworn to protect them. At least it appears this priest rose well above many others in keeping his dick out of little boys and little girls body openings.

By: gordon

gordon — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 13:25:29 +0000

Adolf and Eva would be acceptable? He was RC too, I think.

By: flapjack

flapjack — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 08:15:36 +0000

Adam and Steve? That joke’s so old it’s got whiskers. It’s a ropey myth, allegorical at best about 2 people who didn’t know they were naked until they ate an apple and spawned the rest of humanity via two SONS (later revisionist versions of the tale crowbarred in a daughter, but mo-fo or not they’re still a pretty incestuous bunch). And this is the family that we’re supposed to base our understanding of relationships on?
Well it’s great we’ve been provided with these role models.
I can go to the local zoo now and talk to snakes, only to realise I drove all the way there in the nude (thanks to that talking snake I heard in my head for pointing that out, that could’ve been embarassing), then when I get home after hastily grabbing something to protect my modesty I should probably attempt to start a family with my own Mum after killing my brother.
And these preachers are more concerned about whether Adam fancied a guy called Steve as that would send out all the wrong messages, right? Dumbasses!

By: barry

barry — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 16:56:48 +0000

Ridiculous man – no, not even ridiculous, but BORING. The Adam and Steve jibe is so old and corny and quite honestly, most offensive coming from someone who is endevouring to solicit public reaction. If you are in a position to influence, at least come up with something worthwhile, you silly little man, you.

By: Chris

Chris — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 09:47:19 +0000

“Adam and Yves!” qvide— March 9, 2010 @ 22:35

I like it! Must remember that next time some preacherman comes out with the old Eve-not-Steve trope.

By: Dave North

Dave North — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 19:56:00 +0000

#37

“What makes me laugh is the old Adam & Eve joke, talking snake, lying God and all. ”

You forgot to add the wee bit of incest thrown in.

Who did their kids sleep with in order to begat the the rest of humanity.

By: P Gibbs

P Gibbs — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 10:47:44 +0000

All the more reason to press ahead for same sex secular marriage rather than settle for the title civil union.
Then when willing chuches exercise their freedom of religion to marry same sex couples in their churches it will put the lie to everything this homophobic bigot said and the retarded attitude he clings to.
What makes me laugh is the old Adam & Eve joke, talking snake, lying God and all.

By: Jane

Jane — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 10:37:37 +0000

“I didn’t mean it, honest”,
“I have gay friends,
“I’ve nothing against gay people….but….”

Any guesses for his next line?

By: dtnorth

dtnorth — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 10:25:31 +0000

# 24 – Rehan

“BTW, who exactly officiated at Adam and Eve’s wedding?”

My guess it was Christian registrar Lillian Ladele…..

By: Rose

Rose — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 09:22:30 +0000

Grown adults DO accept that Adam and Eve is fictional – it is an allegory, to be precise, of the evolution of the human race.

Incidentally, that joke would never be told in my church where the sermon would be closely followed by communion served by a gay man whose other half will be getting the tea urn hot for everyone’s cuppa after Mass. Not all churches, even Catholic ones, are like that. I stay with it in hope that there will be more like ours in time to come.

By: Will

Will — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 07:03:22 +0000

Adam and Steve? Perhaps he was referring to Adam being Fr. Adam, and Steve is an innocent 5 year old being assaulted by him… surely such a pack of disgusting paedophiles wouldn’t be daring to make jokes at OUR expense given what they’ve done and tried to cover up?

By: jay

jay — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 23:18:10 +0000

Yes in the bible’s universe, marriage was for adam and eve – and snakes talked, and adam and eve didn’t know they had genitals until the snake pointed it out by making eve eat an apple, and so they made clothes out of leaves and lived in a garden, which their father then chucked them out of because they’d eaten some fruit. They sound like retarded, homeless drug addicts high on hallucogens to me.
Its unbelievable that grown adults cant accept the bible is a fictional story. And these people tell others how to live their lives.

By: Dave

Dave — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 22:07:27 +0000

What a cheek he had. Him a consecrated virgin too. I am glad some folk complained about it. He should now put himself up for examination by a doctor, or Anne Widdecombe to confirm he really is a virgin before he continues with his ministry.

By: Lizzie

Lizzie — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 22:02:27 +0000

Eddy,i find the news items and comments on Pinknews informative, sometimes entertaining, sometimes sad and often challenging. Yes you do sometimes call a spade a spade, and i’m sure sometimes my comments are ill informed, naive and shallow, but i’m learning fast!! although not gay myself, i’m proud of my gay son and want to find out about the issues that affect the gay community. and i love the “realness” of some of the comments on these threads.

By: Mihangel apYrs

Mihangel apYrs — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 22:01:33 +0000

let’s hope at least some of his gay friends bitch-slap him a little bit

By: qvide

qvide — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 21:35:55 +0000

Adam and Yves!

By: Chester

Chester — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 21:05:56 +0000

so if it was a joke based on race and it was offensive would that be Ok or funny? what about sex?
he’s using the bigots fave of having friends and being a bigot

By: SimonM

SimonM — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 21:02:54 +0000

Bottom line is that celibate people who have been celibate their entire lives are utterly unqualified to comment on the complexities of relationships.

Secondly considering that the catholic church acted as a house of protection for countless child rapists (who abused THOUSANDS of children in every country they operated in, over generations) then I would think their priority would be in sorting out their own house.

They are too pig-headedly stupid to do so.
Take the Archbishop of Ferns in Ireland. The Ryan Report on clerical sexual abuse in Ireland was released before Christmas. It showed that the catholic hierarchy cared nothing about the safety of vulnerable children in their care. Without fail they protected the paedophile priests. In the process they destroyed thousands of lives.

The Archbishop of Ferns last week asked his congregants to donate money so the church could settle the civil cases pending against them. Rather than sell their extremely valuable property portfolio they want their congrergants to bail them out.

They are evil, shameless scum.

By: Eddy

Eddy — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 20:08:21 +0000

Hi, Lizzie. I forget that there are some people reading these pages who are not gay but who have gay sons or daughters and who read in order to understand “the situation”. It must be fascinating for you to see so many points of view, and also to see the homophobic nutters who wade in here occasionally. Sometimes I call a spade a spade and am deliberately blunt in order to make some people step outside their usual patterns and/or their comfort zones and THINK. You will have noticed, I am sure. One thing we aren’t, I am sure you will agree, is an ever-so-naice bunch of polite goody-goodies! But I hope you enjoy the realness.

By: Rehan

Rehan — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 20:05:18 +0000

Funny how these priests never seem to talk about Jacob and the 4 mothers of his 12 children as exemplars of Adam-and-Eve-type marriage, isn’t it?

BTW, who exactly officiated at Adam and Eve’s wedding?