Posted on 07/10/2008 7:28:58 AM PDT by Pyro7480
Paul Zachary Myers, a professor at the University of Minnesota Morris, has pledged to desecrate the Eucharist. He is responding to what happened recently at the University of Central Florida when a student walked out of Mass with the Host, holding it hostage for several days. Myers was angry at the Catholic League for criticizing the student. His post can be accessed from his faculty page on the university’s website.
Here is an excerpt of his July 8 post, “It’s a Frackin’ Cracker!”:
“Can anyone out there score me some consecrated communion wafers?” Myers continued by saying, “if any of you would be willing to do what it takes to get me some, or even one, and mail it to me, I’ll show you sacrilege, gladly, and with much fanfare. I won’t be tempted to hold it hostage (no, not even if I have a choice between returning the Eucharist and watching Bill Donohue kick the pope in the balls, which would apparently be a more humane act than desecrating a go*****ed cracker), but will instead treat it with profound disrespect and heinous cracker abuse, all photographed and presented here on the web.”
Catholic League president Bill Donohue responded as follows:
“The Myers blog can be accessed from the university’s website. The university has a policy statement on this issue which says that the ‘Contents of all electronic pages must be consistent with University of Minnesota policies, local, state and federal laws.’ One of the school’s policies, ‘Code of Conduct,’ says that ‘When dealing with others,’ faculty et al. must be ‘respectful, fair and civil.’ Accordingly, we are contacting the President and the Board of Regents to see what they are going to do about this matter. Because the university is a state institution, we are also contacting the Minnesota legislature.
“It is hard to think of anything more vile than to intentionally desecrate the Body of Christ. We look to those who have oversight responsibility to act quickly and decisively.”
You claim to "believe in God," but you're actually a naturalist, a Deist at best.
The hate drips from your words.
The hate drips from your words.
Not at all. I was just quoting another poster in my reply. Read it a little closer.
I don't hate Catholics, my father was an altar boy. I just don't believe in transubstatiation at all.
Actually, Centurion was merely quoting the term I first used, though he said basically the same thing, in so many words.
Which is my point.
“There also wouldn’t be a conservative movement if there weren’t people to defend the Constitution, even when it sometimes flies in the face of what “cracker worshippers” want to do to impose their morality / standards on others.”
Since you’ve made this statement, what do us “cracker worshippers” want to impose on you?
I don’t ask you to believe our faith. I’m just asking that the Eucharist not be desecrated.
I don’t think you would be happy if he threatened to desecrate a Jewish temple. Show some class.
It's a lot different. One is misappropriation of what most people are going to call a piece of bread. The other is destruction / vandalization of private property.
If you give someone the host, it becomes their personal property; THEY get to decide what to do with it.
“Which basically means that you are trying to restrict someone else’s freedoms.”
Really. The freedom to come into a Catholic church, take the Eucharist surreptitiously, and then hold it and Catholics up to public scorn, sacrilege and ridicule.
No, real conservatives will not defend someone threatening to desecrate the Eucharist as free speech. Maybe an ACLU member would, but not a conservative. I might disagree with the Baptist faith (for example), but I would never defend someone invading their house of worship and desecrating it, especially as an act of "free speech".
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Remind me not to let you put your hands on The Torah.
Yep. It's unpleasant / morally wrong but it's their freedom. The road you propose leads to theocracy. I'll pass on being temporally ruled by any religious figure.
If Catholics want to make this large of a deal about this then why not take measures to stop someone from doing it? Like having the priest place the host in the petitioner's mouth?
“The road you propose leads to theocracy. I’ll pass on being temporally ruled by any religious figure.”
That’s really stretching it. Common courtesy and civility has nothing to do with establishing a theocracy.
You speak from Robespierre and Danton, not from The Constitution of the United States of America.
Ping.
Morally what the guy is doing is wrong. That doesn't make it illegal. And there are a social conservatives and fiscal conservatives.
Remember this line? "I may not agree with what you say but I will defend your right to say it to the death."
It has to end.
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