God whips up surprise windstorm & knocks hat off of Pope's smarmy head during anti-gay speech

[Bluebear]

Benedict XVI remembered the Sabbath and kept it holy yesterday by giving a rousing homophobic speech to a crowd of one million in Madrid about the societal perils of gay marriage, or as we like to call it – marriage.

But the Lord was having none of it!

In a gesture that surely could only have been intended to say, “STFU,” God whipped up a surprise wind storm and knocked the hat right off of the pope’s smarmy head. The tumultuous weather shook the stage and knocked over a tent, literally forcing the pope to abandon his bigoted speech halfway through to seek shelter.

Though he was unable to complete the homily, Vatican officials said on Sunday that the content of his entire speech the previous evening was still valid and could be published.

http://unicornbooty.com/2011/08/pope-gives-anti-gay-speech-angry-god-blows-his-hat-stage-down/

[stevedeshazer]

1. Beautiful.

There is no one more deserving.

+1

[CreekDog]

64. and this means he's halfway to Sainthood!

having been present for one miracle! :rofl:

[Solly Mack]

2. and the color is red...very fitting

[AsahinaKimi]

3. Gotta love it...

In humor, Timing is everything!

[dynasaw]

6. Knock it off

you idiot.

[AsahinaKimi]

11. Oh! Haha!

Very funny!

[pennylane100]

4. Now we should have a caption contest.

Unfortunately,I can't think of one.

[RKP5637]

5. Captain Pope in his Red Crusader Cape to the rescue, out with gays. n/t

[underpants]

23. on it

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x1802047

[OwnedByFerrets]

59. Pope auditions for part in Hoodwinked 3

[pennylane100]

72. we have a winner

[OwnedByFerrets]

92. Tanka

[fascisthunter]

7. IT'S a SIGN!!!!!

gawd does not like the pope.

[Raster]

8. Ah, you mean "Pope obscure the child abuse evidence"

What a holy man!:sarcasm:

[amborin]

14. +1

[malaise]

9. You need to see the photo with the lightning strike

The irony was breath-taking.

[Control-Z]

10. Best pope photo ever.

The irony, I'm sure, went right over his "smarmy" uncapped head.

[muffin1]

12. !

:woohoo: and :rofl:

K&R

[Orsino]

13. Pope gets blown in public n/t

[DeSwiss]

28. Good one!

[florida08]

74. holey socks!

:spray:

[happyslug]

15. I have read the speech how is it anti-gay, the only part on marriages follows:

The Lord calls many people to marriage, in which a man and a woman, in becoming one flesh (cf. Gen 2:24), find fulfilment in a profound life of communion. It is a prospect that is both bright and demanding. It is a project for true love which is daily renewed and deepened by sharing joys and sorrows, one marked by complete self-giving. For this reason, to acknowledge the beauty and goodness of marriage is to realize that only a setting of fidelity and indissolubility, along with openness to God’s gift of life, is adequate to the grandeur and dignity of marital love.

The complete Homily:
http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/benedict_xvi/speeches/2011/august/documents/hf_ben-xvi_spe_20110820_veglia-madrid_en.html

Yes, the Pope repeats the Church's position that marriage is only between a Man and a Woman, but otherwise says NOTHING on the subject. Maybe it is me, but I can NOT see how that is Anti-homosexual.

[Hassin Bin Sober]

16. "Maybe it is me"

Yes it is.

[Jamastiene]

19. Either you haven't been paying attention

or it really is just you. When they say "between a man and a woman," there is your big huge hint.

[Fred Engels]

21. The pope is a vile hateful piece of Nazi excrement. Otherwise I'll say NOTHING

on the subject.

[Bluebear]

25. Yeah maybe it's you.

[DeSwiss]

30. Yeah it's you. n/t

[noamnety]

35. You sort of have a point.

It was anti-gay - he did throw in a gratuitous homophobic statement. But it was hardly a "speech ... about the societal perils of gay marriage."

[Warren DeMontague]

36. You're right. He left out the part about only fucking for procreative purposes, too.

And he totally forgot to blame all the criminal child abuse he helped cover up on gays and "60s values", like he has in the past.

Wow. What an eminently reasonable speech!


:eyes:

[_ed_]

41. You can't possibly be serious

People defending Catholic bigots around here is really getting infuriating.

You really don't think this old Nazi is bigoted toward gay people? Give me a break.

[Le Taz Hot]

45. So, that whole "man and woman"

thing didn't set off any alarm bells in your head? Nothin'? :shrug:

[Name removed]

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[Hosnon]

70. Defining marriage as between a man and a woman is by definition anti-gay marriage.

And therefore anti-homosexual.

That is crystal clear really.

[Muskypundit]

77. your right.

That one paragraph during an entire half hour speech about marriage, and it doesn't attack gay people, is hardly a rousing homophobic speech.

There is a lot of homophobia in the world, a lot of obvious hatred. This is far from it. While you can make the argument the pope is homophobic in his private life, or is a Nazi, whatever, this whole thread is based on a hysterical exxageration that is probably more of a dog whistle against Catholics than his speech was a dog whistle against gays.

He didn't even throw in anything about gays being evil. For a religious man, that's a big step.

[Bluebear]

78. Nice use of hysterical to highlight your description of gays.

And and about the dog whistle business, feh.

[Muskypundit]

81. I expected a ridiculous attack on my statement but...

It's disappointing you had to make a false statement in order to fight mine. Hysterical was my description of people on here taking literally, the pope not mentioning gay couples, and turning that into he is a evil homophobic Nazi who gave a speech centered on the perils of gay marriage. THAT is hysterical. There are more than enough evil homophobic nazis out there that you shouldn't have to be stretching your case to the point of non existence
Now, if the pope had brought napkins and paper towels during the speech, I would be inclined to side with you. Until then, the pope is no Rick santorum.

[Bluebear]

85. The Pope is a vile homophobic cretin. Good day.

[Muskypundit]

89. And maybe he is.

But nothing in that speech proves it.

[AlbertCat]

82. Well for one thing......

.... apparently only a "man & woman becoming one flesh" (whatever that means) are also the only ones who can:

1."" find fulfilment in a profound life of communion.

2. have "a prospect that is both bright and demanding."

3. or "a project for true love which is daily renewed and deepened by sharing joys and sorrows, one marked by complete self-giving."

Gay don't get that, see? Gays are simply unable to:

"acknowledge the beauty and goodness of marriage"

And besides:

"to realize that only a setting of fidelity and indissolubility, along with openness to God’s gift of life, is adequate to the grandeur and dignity of marital love."

is a bunch of crap.


BTW, why is anyone listening to an old man who has chosen to drop out of normal society to live with a bunch of other old men and wear clothes rom the 14th century? What does he know about it?

[patrice]

17. SWEET!

[Jamastiene]

18. Love it!

:rofl:

[OneGrassRoot]

20. A thing of beauty. n/t

[ceile]

22. Brilliant!!! K&R

[Saokymo]

24. There really is a God!

And he has a wicked sense of humor. :D

[ZombieHorde]

26. Ha! Stupid Pope. nt

[DeSwiss]

27. The perfect pose....

It captures the very essence of the man, describes his worldview, as well as demonstrating in one photograph the epitome of his entire tenure as Pope. The coverup.........



K&R

[glowing]

48. Perfect! Tag line for the picture subject!

[jpak]

29. OMFG LOLOLOL!!!111

:rofl:

[Rex]

31. Right click...save.

:hi:

I see the Pope is using the Vatican's new cloaking technology!

[sarcasmo]

32. Mother Nature whipped his anti gay ass and told him to

Shut his cake hole.

[jberryhill]

33. What's with the "Little Red Riding Hood" get-up?

[Hassin Bin Sober]

47. I still chuckle when I see this photo and caption:

[UnrepentantLiberal]

62. LOL

[Name removed]

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[lonestarnot]

37. ROFLMAO.

Snort :rofl:

[REP]

38. HA-HA!

Too bad it didn't blow him off the face of the earth.

[xchrom]

39. & now it's saved for posterity. Beautiful. Nt

[progressoid]

40. It's not nice to mess with Mother Nature.

[Iggo]

42. Strike Two. Go God! (n/t)

[hifiguy]

43. It appears that the cosmos has a sense of humor

and irony. :rofl:

[butterfly77]

44. Lol!

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[Le Taz Hot]

46. It's stuff like this that keeps me

an agnostic. The only thing it's missing is a choir in the background singing, "God Is Trying to Tell You Something." If there is a God, she has a great sense of timing!

[LanternWaste]

50. Wow! Wind... moving clothes around.

Wind... moving clothes around. Who'd ever think it would happen?

Next thing we know, it's going to rain on a some small Parish picnic. That'll show 'em...

:shrug:

[99th_Monkey]

51. Who says there's no God?? nt

[Jester Messiah]

53. I do. [nt]

[99th_Monkey]

71. Well just be that way then. nt

[Blue Owl]

52. Thank you lord

n/t

[dballance]

54. When former Hitler Youth Pretend to be God's

When former Hitler Youth Pretend to be God's messenger eventually God gets around to letting him know he'll have non of it.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

55. "My children, you must trust in the word of....fluburflegug.."

[AtheistCrusader]

56. No, it's only gawd's will when geese fly over.

[lunatica]

57. I wish God would do that at every homophobic speech

[Butch350]

58. PRICELESS! Spock is Impressed!!

[kwolf68]

60. Funny shit

How will the fundies explain this one?

I saw a post on Facebook that said God allowed the earthquake and the hurricane, because he's sending us a message (what exact message not sure)...

so...does the also natural occurrence of WIND have the same meaning that God is 'sending a message'...

If so, then the Pope better watch it...

[Enthusiast]

65. "How will the fundies explain this one?"

Easy. They'll just say that Catholics aren't really Christians anyway. I can tell you as a lapsed Catholic that is doesn't feel very good to be called a non-Christian by a fundy. But I'm so over all that now. :fistbump:

[Unvanguard]

61. There can be miracles, when you believe. n/t

[Enthusiast]

63. That's a God I can believe in.

:patriot:

[undeterred]

66. I think thats Little Red Riding Hood's Cape and boy is she gonna be pissed.

[burrowowl]

68. Go God!

[blkmusclmachine]

69. Fake.

n/t

[Bluebear]

75. Negative

[Politicalboi]

73. Yes us gays have been busy

These past few days. With earthquakes, windstorms, Hurricanes, and the rise of Libya. LOL! May as well take credit for that too.

[kwolf68]

84. Well look on the bright side

This Hurricane may possible move out and bypass us and there will be negligible damage...much like this recent earth quake.

So it seems to me God is saying you guys are A-OK with him...I will be watching the weather patterns very strongly this week so as I'll know exactly what God thinks about gay and lesbians.

[florida08]

76. hypocrisy should be silenced

:thumbsup:

[Pisces]

79. Too bad a pigeon didn't come along.

[AlbertCat]

80. Wardrobe Malfunction!!!!!

Best pic ever!!!

I LOLed til people looked at me sideways... then they saw it and LOLed...

[Ignis]

83. So we have the See-No-Evil Monkey, where are the other two?

:shrug:

[socialindependocrat]

86. Then does that mean it's better to be a pedophile

Then does that mean it's better to be a pedophile than to be in a gay marriage?

[KansDem]

87. Looks like the posture he took when reports started coming in about pedophile priests!

"See no evil"

[Scottybeamer70]

88. Infallible?

uh huh, yeah, right...........

[Stevenmarc]

90. Even God knows when someone has over accessorized.

[burrowowl]

91. God shut him up

for a bit but it doesn't seem like he got a hint. May his wire service get plagued when they release the speech.

[TK421]

93. This looks eerily familiar...why?