Pope to Open Abortion Clinic and Bless Gay Marriage?
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The British Foreign Office (State Department) has apologized for a “foolish” document which suggested the Pope’s UK visit could be marked by the launch of “Benedict-branded” condoms.
Called “The ideal visit would see…”, the paper suggested the Pope be invited to open an abortion clinic and bless a gay marriage during September’s visit.
The Foreign Office stressed the paper, which resulted from a “brainstorm” on the visit, did not reflect its views. The junior official responsible had been put on other duties, it said.
An investigation was launched after some recipients of the memo, said to have been circulated to a restricted list, objected to its tone.
A Foreign Office spokesman said the department was “deeply sorry” for any offense the document had caused.
“This is clearly a foolish document that does not in any way reflect UK government or Foreign Office policy or views. Many of the ideas in the document are clearly ill-judged, naive and disrespectful,” he said.
“The text was not cleared or shown to ministers or senior officials before circulation. As soon as senior officials became aware of the document, it was withdrawn from circulation.
“The individual responsible has been transferred to other duties. He has been told orally and in writing that this was a serious error of judgment and has accepted this view.”
The Foreign Office said the memo had resulted from discussions by a group of three or four junior staff in a team working on early planning for the papal visit.
A source told the BBC News website the individual who has since been moved to other duties had called the group together for “some blue-skies creative thinking about how to make the visit a success”, but their discussions had become “a joke that has gone too far”.
Earlier this year the Pope announced 2010 would see the first papal visit to the UK since John Paul II’s visit in 1982.
Pope Benedict XVI’s visit will take place from September 16th thru 19th, during which time he is expected to visit Birmingham, as part of the planned beatification of Cardinal John Newman, and Scotland.
The visit will come in the autumn of what is proving to be a difficult year for the Pope with a wave of allegations that Church authorities in Europe and North and South America failed to deal properly with priests accused of pedophilia.
The Pope himself has been accused of being part of a culture of secrecy and of not taking strong enough steps against pedophiles when he had that responsibility as a cardinal in Rome.
However, his supporters say he has been the most pro-active pope yet in confronting abuse.
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Hmm, what I want to know is will Pope pull my finger be performing gay abortions too while he is there? Inquiring minds and all.
They are so very polite aren’t they? Dude has been told basically, you stupid bastard why did you do this and they turn it into such eloquence with the forrin English wurds. I bet the guy wanted to tell them to go ahead, go forth and multiply, a polite way of saying go “eff” yourself right?
“The individual responsible has been transferred to other duties. He has been told orally and in writing that this was a serious error of judgment and has accepted this view”
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@ Holty : They don’t. Just foreplay conversation such as ‘fancy one?’ or ‘you take the bra off I can’t fathom the catches’ or afterplay conversations such as ‘you are on the pill aren’t you?’ or ‘I usually last a lot longer, it’s your fault for being so sexy’.
Memories are made of these…..;-)
I read somewhere that the Pope would not be visiting the Tower of London.
Rubbers with the Popes head on???? Good grief! You can imagine the foreplay conversation between British teenagers…
“Hey look at this! I’ve got the Pope on my dick! Isn’t that sexy?”
Sex would be extinct in weeks……er….looking at some of the kids around here maybe it’s not a bad idea after all…
Didn’t think teenagers bothered with foreplay.
The individual responsible has been transferred to other duties.
The people currently running Comedy Central should be fired and replaced with this guy. He’s got what it takes!
Let’s hope that private individuals implement the suggestions to the best of their ability. A condom company wouldn’t need anyone’s permission to bring out a new line of condoms with a snappy name, for example.
However, his supporters say he has been the most pro-active pope yet in confronting abuse.
The sad thing is, this is probably true. Which mainly says volumes about his predecessors.
I did read that a line of toilet paper is being produced to celebrate the Papal visit.
That junior official at the BFO deserves a promotion. He is obviously a brilliant idea man.
The naughty Junior will probably end up being PM.
Holte ROFL, I had to click the link to be sure you weren’t putting us on!
Seriously though, isn’t it kind of disrespectful to a former Hitlerjugend member? I would think a luger or an SS knife would have been more in keeping with a Papal visit.
Sometimes I’ll post some made up (lies) junk, other times I’ll post something true. It’s hard to tell the difference.