One less Douchebag on the planet.

[trumad]

Notre Dame suicide: Activist shoots himself to protest same-sex marriage.

French far-right activist Dominique Venner kills himself at Notre Dame cathedral altar, after same-sex marriage law came into effect in France.

PARIS — A 78-year-old French far-right activist committed suicide at the altar of the Notre Dame cathedral on Tuesday by shooting himself in the mouth, three days after a law legalizing same-sex marriage came into effect.
Police evacuated the cathedral, one of Paris’ biggest tourist draws, after Dominique Venner — a historian known for his hard-right political essays and a fierce opponent of gay marriage — shot himself, sending tourists fleeing in panic.
Venner made no declaration as he shot himself around mid-afternoon, a police source said. He carried a letter on his person, but its contents were not released to the media.
A May 21 entry on his blog page appealed to readers to join a march planned for Sunday against the Socialist government’s gay-marriage law, which came into force at the weekend.
http://www.thestar.com/news/world/2013/05/21/notre_dame_cathedral_in_paris_evacuated_after_suicide_inside_landmark_church.html

[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. Wow.

Since he had no peace here on earth, I hope he has it now, wherever he is.



I agree with your assessment, BTW.

[RudynJack]

4. If his beliefs are true

he's in hell. Suicide is a mortal sin.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

7. That's right! I'd forgotten that little fact.

[hobbit709]

2. I believe suicide is even more against Catholic doctrine than gay marriage.

[morningfog]

15. Is there a scale of sin in Catholicism? Serious question.

[REP]

16. Yes. There is no remission for suicide.

[morningfog]

22. Well, that seems redundant. How many Hail Mary's can you give when you are dead?

[REP]

26. That word does not mean what you think it does

It is the most mortal of sins precisely because no Sacrament of Penance and Reconciliation can be performed.

Redundant means superfluous, btw. HTH, HAND

[WinkyDink]

23. Yes, there is. There are venial sins and there are mortal sins:

http://www.ewtn.com/expert/answers/mortal_versus_venial.htm

[MrSlayer]

3. Well that's productive.

Suicide as protest always came off as ridiculous to me.

[cherokeeprogressive]

17. It seems to depend on the method. Self-immolation always seems to send a heavy message. n/t

[WinkyDink]

24. Buddhist monks will disagree with you.

[MrSlayer]

33. I find them to be ridiculous as well.

What good ever came from that? Or from Bobby Sands or any suicider?

Ngo Dinh Diem wasn't killed on behalf of burning monks. Bobby Sands lost his battle and this French moron accomplished nothing.

I maintain my position that protest suicide is non-productive at best.

[lpbk2713]

5. I don't think he'll be protesting much any more.

Cest la mort.

[VOX]

6. If this surrender monkey had been a proud Amur'can, he'da taken out 20-30 bystanders...

before turning his precious weapon on himself.

[jpak]

8. He'll certainly go to heaven now!!!

What an idiot

[REP]

19. Not after committing a mortal sin and without Sacrament of Penance and Reconciliation

[hlthe2b]

9. Geebus... And in Notre Dame? (one can be totally non-religious and still find that place

remarkable).

What a waste of human potential to go out with that much hate...

[Blue Owl]

10. He'll be remembered as St. Inequality

n/t

[11 Bravo]

11. Rest in Pieces, shitstain.

[MineralMan]

12. Celebrating anyone's suicide sucks, Trumad.

He is dead. How is that anything to celebrate?

[trumad]

14. hall monitoring again?

Sticking up for the gay basher....

I thought you gave that shit up?

[Hassin Bin Sober]

18. Zing!!! Old habits die hard.

[MineralMan]

20. Nope. Posting my opinion again.

Yes, he was an ugly man with ugly ideas. Despite that, marriage equality is the law in France. It ts the law in Minnesota, too, thanks to the help of many. None of them would celebrate an opponent's suicide. None that I know, anyhow, Go look at the first link in my signature line.

I celebrate the suicide of no person. Anyone can change, as long as they live. That is my opinion.

[trumad]

25. your hypocrisy knows no bounds.

You are a true piece of work.

[JI7]

27. if not celebrating, how about just not caring ?

i find it hard to feel any kind of sympathy for this guy.

[MineralMan]

28. I do not know him.

I would not have known of his suicide. Suicide is not something to celebrate, imo.

[Bake]

29. I thought grave-dancing was against the TOS here ...

I wouldn't defend the decedent for an instant. But I agree, suicide is nothing to celebrate.

Bake

[MineralMan]

31. I would not defend him either.

I did not. I just do not think celebrating a suicide is a good thing, and said so.

[Bake]

32. And I agree.

An alert on the grave-dancers would do no good, however, for obvious reasons.



Bake

[Shrike47]

13. I won't celebrate his death but I won't care, either.

Your body, kill it if you want to.

[Brickbat]

21. I'm guessing he had more problems than simple bigotry.

[bluestate10]

30. From the looks of it, I think you're right. nt