Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence: Perpetually Juvenile

San Francisco Chronicle ^ | 10/24/7 | Cinnamon Stillwell

[SmithL]

While the famously liberal city of San Francisco is known for its anti-military shenanigans, it's the anti-Christian and, in particular, anti-Catholic sentiment emanating from activist elements of the city's gay population that's been getting all the attention as of late. Most notably, it's been coming from the Fox News Channel, where "The O'Reilly Factor" host Bill O'Reilly, a practicing Catholic, is sick and tired of those who target his religion not only for ridicule, but outright hostility.

The latest instance of such sentiment originated with an all too familiar source: San Francisco's notorious Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence. The "sisters" are a group of gay men who dress up as nuns — of the drag-queen variety — in an attempt to parody Catholicism and, in a larger sense, Christianity, for what they perceive as its intolerance towards homosexuality. Their motto is "go forth and sin some more" and members have adopted satirical names such as "Sister Chastity Boner" and "Sister Constance Craving of the Holey Desire."

The sisters can be seen every year at the Gay Pride Parade, strutting their stuff and giving the press a taste of San Francisco outrageousness at its finest. And it's not unusual to see them out and about on any given afternoon in full regalia, never subtle about the object of their scorn. Indeed, I walked past one of the sisters standing outside a bar on Polk Street last weekend, joking loudly, with beer in hand, about going to "receive communion" later that day.

Receiving Holy Communion is exactly what two members of the group set out to achieve earlier this month. The sisters attended Mass at San Francisco's Most Holy Redeemer Parish on Oct. 7 and, in effect, forced Archbishop George H. Niederauer to deliver the Eucharist to them as his rather stunned congregation...

[SmithL]

Attacking religions is a San Francisco value.

[SmithL]

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[maryz]

In fact, their publicity stunt was conveniently filmed and later disseminated to the media, although the sisters claim this was not their intention.

I'm confused -- who exactly did the filming? My impression was that it was conservative Catholics, though I grant it is only an impression. Conservative Catholics are certainly the ones spreading it around!

The article was too easy on Niederauer, I thought. But maybe that's just me.

[joebuck]

"However, the situation has put church leadership in something of a bind. Much like Archbishop Niederauer, it could not respond aggressively without appearing to overreact and, therefore, provide ammunition to its critics."

There's only one critic the Archbishop should be worried about. Seeking the acceptance of the world is not a Christian virtue.

[LetMarch]

This must be why many now call it San-Fran-sicko !!!! We
also know this the reason, “many that eat and drinketh unworthily eateth and drinketh damnation to himself, not discerning the Lord’s body. For this cause many are weak and sickly among you, and many sleep(Die). (1Cor. 11:26-34)

[Mad Dawg]

From the article:

If groups such as the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence spent half as much time criticizing Islam for its abuses against gay rights as they do Catholicism, then perhaps their attempts at activism might be seen as truly groundbreaking.

So, I'm asking myself why they don't make visible, voluble protests against Islam. Of course the two obvious answers are that they don't consider themselves to be experiencing Islamic oppression, so that fight's for another day; and they won't upset as many people if they join them in objecting to a truly and viciously oppressive group.

But as I see what is happening in the Episcopal Church and other denominations similarly afflicted, as I look at the devastating playing out of the clearly NOT pederastic but rather homosexual ephebephilia in the Catholic Church, and as I consider the considerable effort and money so many homosexuals have expended on opposing Christianity, I'm beginning to toy with the idea that this is frankly demonic in origin, in a way other sins and vices are not.