MORFORD: The anti-pedophile coloring book

San Francisco Chronicle ^ | 12/12/7 | Mark Morford

[SmithL]

Remember kids: Be good, say your prayers and, uh, never be alone with a priest. Praise!

This is how you know. This is one more of the beautiful bizarre myriad ways the Great Shift signals its imminent arrival, in fits and spurts and wayward sidelong slaps, weird cultural burps and from unexpected places that make you go, wow.

Take the Archdiocese of New York. It has apparently just released new coloring book for kids, all about how to be safe in an age of fear and predation. It is full of nice pictures of kids being sweet and virginal and right, engaging in happy activities that praise Almighty God while protecting themselves from, say, online predators and vegans and atheists. It is about awareness, about listening to your parents and saying your prayers and never, ever being alone with a priest and being nice to animals and never hitting your sister and ...

[SmithL]

Morfordite Alert

You've been warned

[digger48]

Whats that matter Mark, did your priest rebuff your advances? Feel left out?

[metmom]

What’s he not happy that people are warning kids to stay away from the likes of him?

[avacado]

I get the feeling there is a little bit of Bernie Ward in ol’Morford... It’s just a matter of time...

[MrEdd]

What’s he not happy that people are warning kids to stay away from the likes of him?

Not that that's a surprise.

[Neoliberalnot]

This guy passes as a columnist for the San Fran Chronicle. He considers it humor to make light of a far too common practice in the gay area while also attacking the Catholic Church and attempting to paint the whole church with the brush used to out the 1% of homosexual priests that infiltrated. Go to the site and view the comments, mostly from homosexuals in the bay area.