The Rev. Thomas Williams, a moral theologian and prominent American author, lecturer and television personality, said in a statement he was “deeply sorry for this grave transgression” against his vows of celibacy.

Williams, the author of such books as 2008’s “Knowing Right From Wrong: A Christian Guide to Conscience,” was the superior of the Legion’s general directorate in Rome in the late 1990s and early 2000s. More recently, he taught theology, promoted his books and lectured widely.

I don’t know why its so complicated for these men! If they simply described the pregnancy using ownership words like ‘I fathered a child’ then we could stop pretending like we don’t know what the hell their saying.

I’m not surprised by this and I think its safe to say the public stopped being shocked and awed years ago but for a few very gullible people that prefer to deny this pattern or those with an interest in keeping their secrets in tact.

The Legion has been beset by scandal following revelations that its late founder, the Rev. Marciel Maciel, fathered three children with two women and sexually abused his seminarians. Maciel died in 2008, and in 2009 the Legion admitted to his crimes.

The Maciel scandal has been particularly sensational given that the Mexican-born priest was held up by Pope John Paul II as a model for the faithful, with his priests admired for their orthodoxy and ability to bring in money and attract new seminarians.

Just last week, the Legion admitted that seven of its priests were under investigation by the Vatican for allegedly sexually abusing minors — suggesting that the same culture of secrecy and silence that Maciel used to cover his crimes enabled other priests to abuse children.

THE LEGION OF CHRIST *blank stare* are the latest culprit in this week’s headlines. As usual, there is no direct admission of guilt by the hypocritical upper echelon gaggle of man sandals and the organization as a whole shows evidence that it is willing to cover up discrepancies for the sake of revenue and power.  How typical.

Honestly, if this is the type of behavior religious followers prescribe to then I say its high time to disassemble these bastards sect by sect for the betterment of civilized society. If a group of guys want to live together in harmony then they should support gay marriage rights. If a group of men want to live in the hills and have wild outlandish sex with their apprentices then they should present themselves as such, because I know of plenty of people that are into that sort of thing, they’re called ‘subs’ in the kink circle.

And while others would spin their wheels discussing nuances of faith and salvation, I would rather get to the heart of the matter, which seems to be that religious organizations do women and children more harm than good for the sake of money and power.

Secret sex, lies, bastard children, unwed mothers, questions of financial support, abuse of power, and money.

Women, babies, church resources, questions of financial obligations, and YOU ARE THE FATHER..exactly the reason why the Vatican restricted marriage among members, who is going to take care of all these dam babies!?

The church is very rich, and its resources should be protected, like any other tool of exploitation. This isn’t rocket science.

Either way, all the drama sounds like the makings of a Good Book to me, though I’m eager to find out how this ends, I worry about what the masses will do once their ‘moral’ yardstick is taken away. What would Jesus Do…? My guess is…he’d run screaming away from these ‘religious leaders’ but I”m an atheist so what do I know?

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Sometimes I want to just speak the way I do naturally about the things I feel about passionately!

And I really feel some way about myself and all things related to my vagina. I love my coochie, it does amazing things for me and others. My vagina and others contributes to your life in ways that you have not often considered.

I often wonder why other people aren’t more concerned with her safety and health, at least concerned enough to want what’s right for her and other vagina?

Sometimes there are no need for fancy ass words and comparisons when I see outlandish shit like this recent article on Aljazeera about the statistics surrounding Cervical Cancer and why the women in certain US states are more likely to die if they are unfortunate enough to develop this disease.

But every year 4,000 American women die from the disease, most of them in the South. For instance, a woman in Mississippi is nearly twice as likely to die from cervical cancer as an average American woman.

The issue is not that states like Mississippi are poorer and therefore have less capital available to provide for such services as cancer screenings.

No, that would be the easy answer. That’s the answer a simple person would come up with, A+B=C, however, things are not as simple as some people need them to be in order to understand the bigger picture.

The seemingly obvious answer is that Mississippi is the poorest state in the US, and therefore must have a lot of residents without health insurance. But when Mississippi is compared to a state like California, which has a similar rate of uninsured people, Mississippi’s death rate from cervical cancer remains extraordinary: 75 per cent higher than that in California.

The issue is not with the population and some dysfunctional underestimation of the severity of cervical cancer, rather the debate is about ideology and some babbling bullshit that has nothing to do with the realities of disease and medicine.

Cervical cancer is a hotly-debated political topic in the United States right now – a debate fuelled largely by Republican presidential contenders. The cancer is caused by strains of the human papillomavirus (HPV), which is sexually transmitted. As a result, discourse on cervical cancer centres around whether or not newly available vaccines to prevent the disease encourage promiscuity.

So why does Mississippi have a 75% higher death rate for cervical cancer then a place just as big and just as wide?

I’m sure the people in Mississippi would love to know. Well the answer is quite simple…

Mississippi politicians believe that unborn and not yet conceived babies have a right to life so in order to protect these babies (that have not yet been conceived or born) the state refuses to provide funding to Planned Parenthood through the Title X program because Planned Parenthood supports a women’s right to terminate a pregnancy, among other service they provide to the uninsured community.

Title X DOES NOT provide funds to Planned Parenthood FOR termination of pregnancy but Pro-Life Advi-holes still somehow confuse you into thinking that Planned Parenthood=Abortion. And it doesn’t, but even if it did. So the fuck what?

Title X is a Federal Program that grants money to states which in turn disperse the money to counties in order for them to provide medical services to those that do not have health insurance.

Some states allow Planned Parenthood to provide the majority of health services to the uninsured and funds them sufficiently which enables the facility to charge reasonable fees for treatment costs such as cancer screening.

Planned Parenthood is also clean, efficient, compassionate and easily accessible to the low income and excluded demographic (read: inner city/poor and/or immigrant population). I don’t even need to get into the validity of having respectable, responsible, and clean facilities; many a state agency could take a que from the quality of service of Planned Parenthood.

What makes Mississippi fail is their decision to keep their Title X money within the state offices and burn it up within the Department of Health and Human Services. California grants their money to the private non-profit Planned Parenthood.

Because of this difference in the allocation of funds California cancer patients have a chance at survival; Mississippi cancer patients not so much.

In Mississippi, a woman you love may be allowed to die because her health care is treated like an administrative nuance.

When you live in a state that runs public clinics that are not accessible and where the staff are ignorant of their own practice policies you will catch cancer or any other reproductive disease and you will more than likely die.

You will die because the decision on whether or not you can or cannot have the medicine that will save your life (before or after your life is in jeopardy) is being made by people that disrespect the vagina for stupid reasons that you silently consent to.

You or a woman you love may die of cervical cancer whether she fucked or not.

The argument is that the vaccine may save your life or the life of a woman you love but may also somehow allow you or her to feel free/able/brave/confident (what’s the word I’m looking for?) enough to one day go out and have sex. The vaccine may cause fucking….you can’t have it because you might have sex. I wonder how that works if you are married? Or not religious?

I wonder why more people aren’t concerned by these phantom moral police that jeopardize the survival of the vagina. Religious fear of the potential future fuck of some random woman is not a good enough reason ONE SINGLE WOMAN TO DIE.

On the other hand, Planned Parenthood’s primary focus is women’s health care. In fact, it is the US’ largest provider of women’s healthcare. It provides birth control, emergency contraception, pregnancy testing, sexually-transmitted infection treatment, breast exams and cervical cancer screening. One in five American women use Planned Parenthood at some point during their lifetime.

Planned Parenthood is the sole provider of care and services to nearly 17 million uninsured women in the United States. 

In February 2011, the US House of Representatives successfully passed a bill introduced by Congressman Mike Pence (R-Indiana) to completely eliminate Title X – and offered nothing in its place. Early next year, when the president releases his proposed budget for 2013, the same is expected to happen again – except that this time, in this campaign season of cost-cutting one-upmanship, the Senate might go along and really end the programme.

People have allowed the ideology of the Right to Life advocates to strangle Planned Parenthood’s existence into near extinction and with that the lives of many women will be lost. I hope not to be one of them.

Why this isn’t an issue for you I do not know. Maybe you don’t like pussy or you hate your Mother for shitting you out. I don’t know.

But if so, FUCK YOU then!

I don’t need an audience to scream and I don’t need back up to know when I’m right and shit is wrong. And that shit is wrong.

I’m not the only woman out here with a vagina.

My daughter has one.

Your Mamma has one.

And I’ll bet my last Newport cigarette on the fact that your Grandmother had one too.

So why don’t you find it counter productive that ideology pretends to be Pro-Life for imaginary unborn babies yet they are willing to jeopardize the women that give babies the lives in which they hold so precious?

Riddle me that, Batman?

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I was presented with the picture below and asked to take a stab at making some type of social commentary from it. A group of young black girls with their pregnant bellies distended, smart phones in hand, in a bathroom somewhere rocking khaki’s and button downs.

Are these girls part of a Pregnancy Pact, which I hear is some nonsense when chicks in high school (it is still high school, isn’t it?) allegedly make a promise to their besties that they will all intentionally get pregnant. Back when I was in school that was called ‘just a matter of time’ but we I guess we evolve.

These girls could be students of a public school somewhere who all happen to have been occupying the bathroom at the same time and decided to snap a ‘Awe…look at us’ precious moment photo.

The answer is that I don’t know.

Don’t care.

And I don’t know because I didn’t look close enough to discover details nor did I blow up the picture or try to play detective to determine who these girls are and what circumstances may have caused them to now appear here, in digital form, on my dusty laptop.

The answer is that I don’t care about their circumstances. By that I don’t mean that I don’t care about these young Black girls, because I do.

My lack of concern has to do with the details that led them to be here with their individual stomach’s swollen with new life.

I don’t need to know the details of their circumstances when I know young women are more celebrated for the functions their vagina than for the women that they will become/are.

These girls are here smiling in this picture because they have been taught that what goes in and/or what comes out of their pussy is of much more importance than they are.

The evidence is everywhere; in media, in society, in religion, and in lack of education…they all say ‘fuck, ladies…….and have us some babies’.

Of course, there is a preferred order of events but the outcome is pretty much the same.

We do not encouraging young women to be responsible with their bodies and their ability to give birth.

We tell young women that children are a ‘blessing’ without letting THEM know that THEY are not BLESSINGS and their parents work tooth and nail to support them..and will have to work equally hard to support another mouth. Or maybe they’re just the fertile children of dead beat parents who welcome the swollen stomach as another much needed state check.

Or maybe the smiling girls in this picture may have been raised by the type of parents who think it productive to make more trips to church to admonish God to provide for this ‘blessing’ no one can afford. Money is placed in the collection plate in hopes of purchasing a successful life plan via God’s good graces.

Children are not a blessing.

Children having children are even less of a blessing.

Maybe, sometimes but…maybe not.

We throw these babies baby showers.

We celebrate tween’s becoming mothers by showering them with gifts of miniature corporate brands so that they may grow up to be properly indoctrinated into a world of self destructive materialism.

We encourage the father’s to get in real close to the baby faced mother we snap the ‘family photo’ for Facebook.

We perpetuate symbolic traditions saved especially for the celebration of additional life when it was introduced to families of means; or families in need of an extra pair of productive hands back when we ate what we killed and live on the fat o’the land.

We still practice celebration without taking into consideration that the ‘gift of life’ is an expensive one to maintain these days.

There is not much assistance, nothing is guaranteed, and a young woman’s partner may be unwilling or unable to participate in responsibility.

We have sex education that only goes has far as discussing the basic biology of humans but not the outcome of using those same body parts.

Do kids even know what Fallopian tubes are? Do they have no idea that when a woman becomes pregnant she becomes a matter of legal debate and political discourse instead of a person? Shouldn’t someone tell them that?

We insist that denial, shaming by magical ghosts and hope are forms of birth control in the face of a society of young people that are actively engaging in sex.

Contrary to the picture above, it is my personal opinion, that young people are more open and responsible then this photo implies.

Many young people are more responsible then we give them credit in light of our refusal to accept sex as a basic social health issue.

We’re ashamed and hiding but luckily there is Google, books, condoms and personal responsibility; some teenagers do take advantage.

We shame some young women into ignorance and silence about their sexuality and value.

We turn our heads as some young women are courted by grown men in inappropriate relationships.

Some young people are allowed to have over night guests.

Some young people are left with boredom and hormones while parents work around the clock for the man to scratch out a survival.

These girls are in the pictures smiling because we encourage our young people to be in ‘committed’ relationships; we discourage them from dating or have options and choices.

We push our young people (along with the rest of Western civilization)  into the servitude that is parenting by promoting reproduction as some form of a contribution to society at large when in reality it’s not.

At all. Society could give a fuck about a black teenage mother; the baby does not make them special. Someone should tell these girls that.

These girls are here smiling in this picture because sometimes there is no future to lose when there was no future to begin with. So you instead revel in the lack of direction and focus, you look forward to a big change, you take pictures in the mirror with peace sign fingers because being pregnant is cool.

The celebrated self sacrificial perception of motherhood satisfies a need to be needed in some Black females place in society.

These girls are smiling in this picture because they accomplished the pleasure of having their bodies consumed by public demand.

These girl are here pregnant because we don’t discuss that sometimes abortion, which is phrased as the killing of an unborn child, is an option for a woman when she and her partner decide that a child is not conducive to her/their life plans without fear of condemnation when she chooses herself.

If a baby isn’t convenient or conducive, affordable or doable, possible or wanted. Why is it here?

These girls are here smiling because we don’t allow some girls to have life plans or to realize there is a such a thing as a life plan.

There is such a thing as decisive, logical, assessed days of options and choices and prices and regrets to be had by all.

Does it really matter if this was a Pregnancy Pact or a group of young, anonymous random black girls?

Does it matter if they are students at an alternative school working on furthering their education in spite of being pregnant (you go girl!)?

These girls are here smiling because short sighted moralistic cocoons protect young women from realizing that the crowd leaves after the newborn baby pictures OR the abortion procedure.

They are here smiling now before they will be left alone to deal with the consequences of their actions; but there will be no group picture of that.

I promise you.

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Dam, no wonder those Republicans are having such a turn out at their election rallies. The LGBT community is legendary for their amazing parties so should I be surprised at the amount of fags falling out of the Republican party closet?

* Que Another One Bites the Dust*

It was unclear Friday whether state Rep. Phil Hinkle, R-Indianapolis, would resign after reports indicated he offered a man as much as $130 “for a really good time.”

Exactly!! I love having a real good time and apparently Phil Hinkle does too!

Who is Phil Hinkle? He’s only a Republican that voted for a constitutional ban on gay marriage. But maybe he fought against gay marriage rights because he didn’t want his boy toy pressuring him into becoming a ‘honest wo/man’.

I’m just saying. Does the fact that he implemented Indiana’s “In God We Trust” license plates make you giggle?

Doesn’t it seem like the uber Christian are always working out some freaky Freudian issue with the genuflecting alter boys of the days gone by?

Ah, and with drama comes scandal. The news reports reveal that the Hinkle family tried to make amends the old fashion way; they offer the victim $10, 000 for his silence (but ten G’s, son! That’s such an insult!).

And with a name like Kamreyn Gibson I’m wondering if Hinkle wanted to play with a chocolate winkle.

I kid..I kid..I couldn’t resist.

Stay tuned folks. This is only your government because you allow it to be your government. Difference of policy has nothing to do with the lying, hypocritical, law skirting white men of privilege who would be happy to deny the rest of us the joys of the country club life that they live.

No, Sir. The least we deserve are cool James Grisham type politicians that have affairs with super models while our economy is strong and robust and not these sniveling, sneaky, overindulgent hypocrites who live one way in the day and another at night.

Unlike them. I could

give a dam about who you fuck.

When you think Republican….think Craigslist back alley, anonymous frat boys who are happy to exploit gay male tricks for a few bucks while reminding you to love Jesus while they love ‘Jesus. 

Had enough yet?

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MOBILE COUNTY, Alabama — A minister of music at a church in the St. Elmo community Tased the pastor who had just fired him Sunday, touching off a fight and various knife slashings, according to the Sheriff’s Office.

Mobile County deputies were called just after 1 p.m. to New Welcome Baptist Church in the 8600 block of Boe Road.

The mayhem erupted when the Rev. Darryl Riley told minister of music Simone Moore that he was no longer needed and gave him a final paycheck, the Sheriff’s Office reported.

Moore disagreed with the amount of the check and an argument broke out, in which Moore wielded a Taser gun, according to the account given to deputies.

Several church members became involved, including Agolia Moore, the music minister’s mother, who suffered a stab wound at the hands of a deacon, according to the Sheriff’s Office. The deacon was identified as Harvey Hunt.

People hurt in the fight were treated at a hospital and released to go home, officials said.

A warrant for second-degree assault was signed on Moore, while Hunt was the subject of a warrant alleging third-degree assault.

Moore and Riley told dueling versions of the events to a Press-Register reporter who spoke with them Monday.

Moore, with bandages on his forehead and right hand, acknowledged that he had a Taser, but denied using it on Riley.

When asked why he was carrying a Taser on Sunday, Moore said, “I didn’t trust the situation.”

Moore said he was ready to leave as minister of music, but wanted to give two weeks notice and get paid for that time. He maintained that the chairman of the deacon board agreed to that arrangement.

On the real? I wish I was there to see this shit…

 Moore’s description of the Sunday events was as follows: He was asked to meet with the pastor and deacons after services and was told he was being let go. His mother went with him into the meeting. The deacons told her to leave, but Moore told her to stay put. A deacon wrote Moore a check for $300 and handed it to him. Moore said the amount was incorrect.

Moore said that two deacons told him that they would not pay another $600 that he believed was due him.

He claimed that the men grabbed him and he struggled with them, and that Hunt pulled out a knife with a black handle,

He said that his mother, Agolia, ran for help, bringing back his 53-year-old brother.

Moore said that he received cuts to his forehead and little finger on his right hand that required a combined nine stitches. He said that his mother received 19 stitches for a stab wound to her hand.

Moore said that he had served as the minister of music for six years. A Mobile County public school special education teacher, Moore ran for the Democratic nomination for the U.S. Senate in 2010.

OK, so am I wrong, or did this dude really expect to get an extra $600 or the equivalent of two weeks service? Sorry pal; but giving a two weeks notice doesn’t make a company (or a church for that matter) obligated to keep your ass. But obviously I’m sure he knew this hence the reason for packing a taser. I mean really? Why else would you feel the need to “protect” yourself at church?

But of course their’s always two sides to a story…

Riley, New Welcome’s pastor, has a different recollection of Sunday’s events: The meeting with Moore was held in the conference room in the church’s all-purpose building. Riley said that Moore became angry and demanded another $600.

“The deacons and myself said we were not going to pay him because this Sunday was supposed to be his last. Once you are terminated, we are no longer under any obligation for any other funds to be paid to an employee,” Riley said.

“At that point, he pointed the Taser at me.”

Riley said he was Tased twice on his left arm. He said that Moore also struck Hunt in the head with a money box. Hunt received two cuts that required 32 stitches, he said.

Riley said that Agolia Moore would not have been injured if she had left the meeting. He said he believes she was cut by a knife that Simone Moore’s brother was carrying.

“He had a long, 18-inch knife. I believe it was her son that cut her because he was swinging erratically,” Riley said.

When asked whether it might have been more prudent to send Moore a termination letter with the check inside, Riley answered, “I would have taken that approach, but the deacons wanted to meet with him privately and in person, and I yielded to their suggestion.”

Oh well, God fearinf or not, the participants in this latest display of fuckery are indeed human. And as hard as times are right now with the economy, and as long as God gotta have his ten percent. I’m sure even small churches are having to have cutbacks. So don’t be ashamed by the actions of these people, my Christian readers. Remember, even Jesus got gangsta by kicking folks out of his daddy’s house. That said, I suppose this was justified in his eyes. They don’t call this church “New Welcome” for nothing, I suppose; yep, come as you are indeed; just leave the pistols at home.

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