As we watched two recent Charter rulings play our during yesterday's TV broadcast of the SARS-stock concert - public weed puffin' and happy nudies - the Pope was planning a statement on another Charter Right, as rightly pointed out and rejected by the Flea. Butt out, JPII. Nunya.
As a UCC PK (United Church of Canada Preacher's Kid) I was very proud of the recent statement of a representative in response to the Roman Catholic position - I see that shellfish are banned under the Bible, I do not see you protesting "Red Lobster" restarurants. For more on JPII's logical next step, see this webpage.
See Metafilter on this. As well as Bush Junior who moderated his statement within his faith:
Even as he made it clear that he did not support the idea of gay marriage, Bush appeared to issue a call for tolerance. "Yes, I am mindful that we're all sinners," the president said Wednesday when asked for his views on homosexuality. "And I caution those who may try to take the speck out of the neighbor's eye when they've got a log in their own."For a right-wing evangelical protestant, that is a pretty good line to throw out on the topic.
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abuIskander Macdonald - July 31, 2003 9:54 pm
It was only very top quality superstructures on display. At first I was surprised to see them at all on CBC, then I wondered where the average and less than average were - there was no shortage of less than average male torsos on display. Do women exercise self-censorship at such events or is the CBC doing it for them? If so, isn't that deeply deeply sexist? Izzie Asner would be horrified, esecially if it turned out some of the sagging, undisplayed torsos were, er, Jewish. In the South of France, normally only the girls who pass the "Quelle belle poitrine" test display, but there are always determined women of a certain age who also want to exercise their rights.