Comments on: Catholics, s-x and other major events

By: JohnJames

JohnJames — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000

I can understand why Honi Soit rejected it Bernard. The Marxists had some standards. It always amazes me how the Left-liberals lament child molestation why loudly proclaiming the artistic virtues of nude 6 year olds and happily proclaiming the “right ” to butcher unborn children.

By: Stephen Williams

Stephen Williams — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000

It’s good to see anti-Catholic prejudice alive and well in Canberra. Does your correspondent also produce the Jesus-related material in the cartoons? Does he also so vehemently mock Buddhism, Shinto, Marxism, global-warming and other faith-related absurd systems of belief that have no rational basis like what his belief system has? What a happy little correspondent he must be! Venom is GOOD for all of us, obviously. On no account should anybody do anything that they might enjoy or make a living from unless they clear it with him.

By: Darren

Darren — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000

Bernard, just write the article without the prejudice. The true thrust of your article - the stupidty of chasing “major events” - is worth reading.

By: MPA Moran

MPA Moran — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000

I don’t know how old Bernard Keane is but he writes like someone who learned his trade on Sydney University student magazine Honi Soit in the 1960s. He has lots to offer - why spoil it with juvenile remarks about Catholicism and sex?

By: Bernard Keane

Bernard Keane — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000

MPA Moran, everything I ever sent to Honi Soit was rejected…

By: Venise Alstergren

Venise Alstergren — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000

Bernard, Bernard: Have you gone soft on Catholicism? Calling them medieval. If you had said stone-aged I could have agreed with you.
I wondered if they would allow the sale of condoms at this Catholic Gymkhana? I can almost see the dead moths fluttering in all those cassocks as the good padres feverishly cross themselves before hiking up their nighties and dreaming of *oys with b*ttoms like peaches. I think a suitable logo for these condoms would be "God is coming". The Catholic masses are so stupid they would probably believe it.
As a tax-payer I'll bet no one was asked if they wanted their money to be spent on this huge Catholic jamboree. As for Stephen Williams, good salt-of-the-earth Catholic that he is; I don't mind the holy romans, or indeed any religion (this includes footy, Formula One, the quaint and dated concept of the Commonwealth Games, drag-racing for dragsters, any other religion at all, making a profit. However, as the tax-payer funded it , the same tax-payer should get first cut of the cloth. First take of the takers?
Don't forget the poor bl*ody tax-payer will be the ones supporting all the single mums and squalling babies in ten months time.
BTW I see that his obscene holiness, the pope, wants a sort of religious forum to deal with world poverty. The next bit is for you Stephen. Instead of once again wanting to soak the world's tax-payers to throw our good money after bad money. His holiness would be advised to sell off some gold chausibles and Caraveggios and distribute the obscene wealth of the Church to the needy. London-to-a-brick on, they'll nearly all be Catholics who need the help.
Another BTW: If Stephen thinks all of Australia's Catholics support this Roman Circus, he is very misinformed.

By: mike smith

mike smith — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000

Bread and circuses. Easier for the inept state governments to organise than a functional infrastructure.

By: Dave Liberts

Dave Liberts — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000

This article makes no mention of the old Adelaide F1 event, dating back to 1985, which I’m pretty sure was on the receiving end of similar largesse. Personally, if Governments want to throw a bit of cash at an event which generates a substantial amount of economic activity, I don’t regard that as disastrous. What offended me so greatly about this case wasn’t the use of public land or sponsorship of the event, it was the ‘Thou shalt not offend’ laws. Arrest the Pope, I say.