New Drinking Game: one slug after every time Tatchell says "I" or "Me." Quick! To Channel 4+1!
P.S. Hans Kung?! As an reasonable interview subject? Puh-leez! Nice footage of Dachau, by the way. That will certainly create a reasonable response in viewers. And call me crazy, but is it really in the post-colonial spirit for atheist white guys to wring their hands over Filipinos and their crazy love of Catholicism?
Jeepers, I'm sure you could have found an even older Irish priest there if you tried. Why didn't you talk to a Filipino one? And why didn't you talk to the Filipino husband of the Filipina with eight kids? Do you think she spontaneously generated those kids or what? And which ones would you have preferred not to have been born?
By the way, Peter, if HIV was really really low all in the Catholic Philippines all through the 1980s, 1990s and 2000s, why suddenly has HIV jumped by 500% amongst the young in the past two years? I don't think the question is "Why not condoms?" I think the question is "What the hell happened?" Oh wait-- now you're talking to a doctor who blames promiscuity. Goodness me, where did that come from? And when you talk about seeing change in this very Catholic country, is that the change you're talking about? Because, frankly, I don't think that's a very good change, Peter.
Newsflash: you didn't have to go to the Da Vinci Codish vaults of the National Portrait Gallery to get those photos of Newman. They're widely available on the internet. And, incidentally, if Newman's sexuality is not relevant, why did you mention it in the first place? Huh?
Love the spooky scary minor chord music you trotted out for moments like your introduction of Humanae Vitae and slo-mo shots of Benedict XVI! That will really appeal to reason. Oh, and Paul VI? Head of the Second Vatican Council you think was so liberal.
Finally, Channel 4 telling viewers where they can go to comment or get in touch with groups working against child abuse is a low blow. Nice move banging the idea pope = child abuse into the heads of the British public. Somebody remind me where Tatchell is on record regarding sex with children being okay sometimes because I know he, unlike the pope, is on record saying that.
P.P.S. If any Catholic in Britain is fired or given a really bad time at work tomorrow morning for being Catholic, let me know, won't you? I'm writing Papal Visit updates for a Canadian paper all week.
Update: Can't believe I watched it twice. That's how much I love my readership. I kiss you guys! X! X! I'm a bit drunk. Can you tell?
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Haha I'd love to join in but tomorrow wouldn't be a good day for a hangover as I'm up early.
You will be drinking loads!
The other thing that struck me was the deep, deep suspicion etched on the faces of those he interviewed like the Manilla mayor, woman with 8 children, Cathoic Voices lady - it was like they could actually see a hatchet...
Unfortunately you missed BBC1 Panorama's attempt to throw mud at Pope Benedict which was on at 8.30 tonight. I wish these pope-bashers would co-ordinate their programme schedules better.
Good golly, it's an Old Orange bonanza, tweet tweet, drum drum, nae surrender, etc. Absolutely bonkers. I wonder who the next state visitor will be.
Nice one, Seraphic. I am fortunate in not being able to watch the C4 programme, as I don't have a TV.
I'm definitely not going to watch it on the internet, as it would make me too angry... and I feel ill enough having read Tatchell's justification of inter-generational sex (which, according to him, isn't the same thing as child sexual abuse... oh no, sometimes it's a positive experience...
*barfs into bag*
Damian T. did a good review of it, Mulier Fortis!
Tatchell's exploitation of interview subjects was depressing, but his show was freaking ridiculous for any well-informed Catholic. Unfortunately, well-informed Catholics are a minority in Britain, and I don't like to think what work is going to be like for people tomorrow.
Tatchell, incidentally, drew a line between Good Catholics (liberals) and Bad Catholics (conservatives). His sign off was "This is not a pope we should welcoming to Britain--nae surrender!"
Well, he didn't say "nae surrender", but if anyone asks why the police security bill for the pope is so high...
Is Tatchell the person who advocates lowering the age of consent to 14?
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