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unhappycamper

(60,364 posts) Wed Jan 29, 2014, 06:54 AM Jan 2014

Illinois bishop: ‘Punish’ LGBT people like children if they get married

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/01/28/illinois-bishop-punish-lgbt-people-like-children-if-they-get-married/

Illinois bishop: ‘Punish’ LGBT people like children if they get married
By David Edwards
Tuesday, January 28, 2014 13:54 EST

A Catholic bishop who performed an exorcism after the state of Illinois legalized same-sex marriage said last week that he did it because he loved LGBT people and they needed to be punished like children.

Just minutes after Gov. Pat Quinn (D) signed a bill legalizing same-sex marriage last November, Roman Catholic Bishop Thomas John Paprocki performed an exorcism on the entire state of Illinois.

Paprocki told Life Site News during last week’s March for Life in Washington D.C. that he went through with the exorcism because the church was “under persecution.”

“Certainly the redefinition of marriage is an opposition to God’s plan for married life,” he explained. “So I thought that would be a fitting time to have that prayer, really for praying for God and his power to drive out the Devil from his influence that seems to be pervading our culture.”

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Illinois bishop: ‘Punish’ LGBT people like children if they get married (Original Post) unhappycamper Jan 2014 OP

So at the end of every ceremony you slap their hands with a ruler. Kablooie Jan 2014 #1

Why can't we re-open the asylums and get these people the help they desperately need? LeftofObama Jan 2014 #2

These people are CRAZY! CoffeeCat Jan 2014 #3

I guess we're the children of darkness who need to exorcised theHandpuppet Jan 2014 #4

Exactly right. Laughable, point blank. The jokes closeupready Feb 2014 #8

Looks like that exorcism didn't take. n/t Joe Magarac Feb 2014 #5

I think we should treat Catholic Bishops like children. William769 Feb 2014 #6

Mental illness, in the guise of religion, seems very clear to me. closeupready Feb 2014 #7

Nutjobs appear in all walks of life, apparently Aerows Feb 2014 #9

Punish Roman Catholic Bishops like murderous psychopaths. MNBrewer Feb 2014 #10

Kablooie

(18,641 posts)

1. So at the end of every ceremony you slap their hands with a ruler.

Reply to unhappycamper (Original post)

Wed Jan 29, 2014, 07:11 AM

Jan 2014

Problem solved.

LeftofObama

(4,243 posts)

2. Why can't we re-open the asylums and get these people the help they desperately need?

Reply to unhappycamper (Original post)

Wed Jan 29, 2014, 07:21 AM

Jan 2014

CoffeeCat

(24,411 posts)

3. These people are CRAZY!

Reply to unhappycamper (Original post)

Wed Jan 29, 2014, 07:35 AM

Jan 2014

He performed an "exorcism" on the whole state, huh?

You know…crazy like this is rarely seen. But we see it now. And it's ok, because he's doing it in the name of God.

...Uhhhhhhh, NO. It's not ok. It's batshit crazy.

And everyone wonders why the new Pope Francis was chosen. It's because he's the perfect lipstick on this pig of an organization. Look at the kind, gracious Popey figurehead while this rotting organization continues to molest children, cover it up--and also stock up a whole lot of crazy in every other echelon of our leadership.

I lose faith in humanity when I read things like this--because anyone who would actually believe that this man is somehow superior and inspired by a Higher Power--is just as crazy as he is.

theHandpuppet

(19,964 posts)

4. I guess we're the children of darkness who need to exorcised

Reply to CoffeeCat (Reply #3)

Wed Jan 29, 2014, 09:32 AM

Jan 2014

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/politics/clout/chi-illinois-gay-marriage-law-draws-exorcism-in-springfield-20131120,0,2874258.story
Bishop: Lawmakers 'morally complicit' in sins of same-sex couples

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A Catholic bishop offered prayers of exorcism Wednesday in response to Gov. Pat Quinn's approval of an Illinois gay marriage law, and he suggested politicians are "morally complicit" in assisting the sins of same-sex couples.

Bishop Thomas Paprocki spoke Latin to send the message, "Be gone, Satan, father of lies, enemy of human salvation. Give way to Christ."

The head of the Springfield Diocese delivered his remarks to a large crowd of worshippers in the cavernous Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception only blocks from the Capitol, where lawmakers approved the same-sex marriage legislation two weeks ago.

"I exorcise you, every unclean sprit, every power of darkness, every incursion of the infernal enemy, every diabolical legion, cohort and faction, in the name and power of our Lord Jesus Christ," Paprocki said during the hourlong ceremony 200 miles from the bill-signing celebration in Chicago....