For those not familiar with Mark Shea he’s an Übercatholic writer whose highly popular blog would, I am convinced, not exist without the existence of a gay rights movement. Imagine Julius Streicher without the finesse or Joey Goebbels without the winning smile when it comes to his writings on gay marriage, gay priests, or gay anything else, and as scary as some of his views are, those of his readers are even more terrifying.
I do not in any way challenge his right to hold his views or to free speech, but in terms of common decency I believe his work this week has officially crossed a line. He has long been in the habit of calling activist gays and feminists
brownshirts (evidently seeing a connection others fail to grasp between Gay Pride marches and slamming the heads of Jewish infants against brick walls while setting their great-grandpa’s beard ablaze), but when called to task by other bloggers and even some of his own hypercatholic readers for comparing gay activists placing stickers"Honor Diversity" rainbow stickers (an unarguable act of vandalism for which they should receive punishment appropriate to the defense) over the post-Robinson (read Shea’s jokes about his sex life for a great chuckle by googling “robinson member site:markshea.blogspot.com” ) to Krystallnacht (never mind that Roehm notwithstanding there were one helluva lot more practicing Catholics than practicing queers in the SA), his response has been to show himself as an asshole big enough to eliminate Tokyo from the alimentary canal of Godzilla. Even worse are the “keep up the good work” comments from his readers, among them at least two priests. (I nominate Fr. Brian and Mark Shea jointly for the Abp. Alois Hudal Catholic Humanitarian Award.
If you don’t like fags (I’m gay, I can use the word) then don’t suck dick. It’s that simple. If you feel like voting for homophobic candidates or against gay marriage initiatives, I disagree with you but have at, it’s your right as an American, and I don’t object to your right to equate gays with the people who once slapped pink triangles on them, raped them with rifles and sticks, starved and beat them and worked them to death and then really went to work on the Jews.
BUT WHAT THE FUCK IS MISSING IN YOUR LIFE WHEN YOU COMPARE SLAPPING STICKERS ON A SIGN WITH THE SINGLE GREATEST CRIME IN HISTORY!? THE MURDER OF UNBORN CHILDREN AND CENTENARIANS, THE SHIPPING OF JEWISH VIRGINS TO SERVE AS UNPAID WHORES ON THE FRONTLINES FOR THE SEXUAL PLEASURE OF THOSE WHO HAD SLAUGHTERED THEIR FAMILIES, THE DEATHS OF TENS OF THOUSANDS OF HOMOSEXUALS AND MILLIONS OF POLES, RUSSIANS, JEHOVAH’S WITNESSES, RETARDED PEOPLE, MORMONS, MENTALLY ILL, SLAVS, ETC AD NAUSEUM- To paraphrase Mr. Welch, “Have you at last no decency?”
Yes, it’s your right, but it’s my right to say that YOU ARE A TWISTED PIECE OF FILTH and to the priests who praise you I say that the slimiest piece of dog shit contains more of the body of Christ than any wafer soiled in your filthy hands. That you can spew your vile in the name of the Nazarene is an abomination far worse than anything I’ll accomplish with my prick and you make me say again the oxymoronical cry “Thank God I’m an atheist!”
And, might I add, “You benighted slopebrowed troglodyte fucks!” (Sometimes you just get tired of trying to argue logically and politely.)