You may be sure, HA, that I shall never address you anywhere but here, ever again.

You are the most vicious, the most acidly contemptuous person I’ve ever met who dares to call himself a Catholic Christian. You need medication, or prayers, or both.

Until then, let me say it is nice to have you back by the way, after your having found this thread become so unedifying and un-educational. Speaking for myself, I’d rather return to setting the record straight regarding an admirable man who has been unjustly accused and maligned in order to score points, but if you want to keep the focus on yourself, and your transparent efforts to overshadow your bigotry with gratuitous referencces to gay-straight alliances and whatnot, then I suppose I should at least thank you for doing your part to discredit the other side. As far as I’m concerned, if there are any more gay-baiting hypocrites out there with an inflated sense of their own enlightenment, they are more than welcome to join you.

Not at all. But again, do be cautious. I am ill-equipped to determine whether your mysticism is more suited to a spiritual tome than an Oliver Sacks book, and if that is blindness on my part, I apologize, but I sincerely hope it all works out.

http://arturovasquez.wordpress.com/2009/06/08/on-the-relationship-between-church-and-power/#comments

It’s evidence in their marriage practices of the kind of neo-Calvinism you’re constantly alleging is the mainstay of American Catholicism–an opinion of yours with which I heartily concur!

I was once asked, in Los Alamos High School, in New Mexico, to help sponsor a “Gay-Straight Alliance.”

I agreed, with the proviso that the students who were searching for a sponsor should understand that I honestly believed that the “identity” they’d constructed for themselves had no reality, especially at their ages. A very bright young man listened closely and then responded by saying, “But that must mean, logically, that you don’t believe that heterosexuality exists, either, right?”

“That’s right,” I replied, “it’s a construct–totally artificial, but a virtuous one, which I’d urge you to reconsider.”

I don’t believe those categories reflect anything that is real; instead, I believe that they reflect the bogus categorizing of the hyper-rationalism of the “Viennese witch doctor,” as Nabokov called him.

If “HA” or any of the other obsessively homophobic right-wing Catholics who write here had as much experience of life and of many different cultures as some of us others have had, they’d realize that “effeminate mannerisms” are often a trait of some of the world’s most voracious womanizers. The upper-class boys I grew up with in the American South would probably have killed anybody who suggested they had “homosexual tendencies,” and they were also generally tossed unremittingly in the throes of heterosexual lust, God bless them!

(While I don’t how much credibility Pacepa deserves, I do believe it’s more than what is appropriate  for testimony from Soviet show trials – e.g., the kind that dupes like Goldhagen resorted to in their smear campaign.)