tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8139328.post4090332528822956524..comments2023-06-28T07:58:56.909-04:00Comments on PERGE MODO: The New Darth Vader?Tony Adamshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10091330901996916966noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8139328.post-33189008780566695682010-03-04T12:40:01.591-05:002010-03-04T12:40:01.591-05:00Well, Father T, it's not like I said that you ...Well, Father T, it's not like I said that you NEVER made sense.<br />Even a stopped clock is right twice a day.<br />OTOH, if you ever said that I was making sense, then perhaps we would find that the Second Coming<br />is near at hand! :)thomas tuckerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11619726733721468479noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8139328.post-56156575486865813932010-03-04T12:01:27.260-05:002010-03-04T12:01:27.260-05:00OMG, Thomas Tucker has actually said I made some s...OMG, Thomas Tucker has actually said I made some sense! I'm cherishing the moment like the passage of Haley's Comet. Funny though, I hear that some of the commenters on that site have lifted this statement and seized upon it to mean that I "chose" to "turn gay" after ordination. Do they actually and truly believe that sort of nonsense? I don't need to combat them. Their own words make them more obviously foolish than anything I could cook up. I just gave them enough rope.Tony Adamshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10091330901996916966noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8139328.post-81846983410413841002010-03-04T11:34:51.299-05:002010-03-04T11:34:51.299-05:00well, that makes sense.
There are those who enter ...well, that makes sense.<br />There are those who enter the priesthood fully aware that they disagree with Church teaching, and actively planning to engage in immoral behavior (think Rudy Kos, for example) and I find that quite dishonorable.<br />You and I (of course) will disagree about the right understanding and role of "God-fearing" in our lives, but let's not argue.thomas tuckerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11619726733721468479noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8139328.post-28564922032972341262010-03-02T13:18:09.630-05:002010-03-02T13:18:09.630-05:00Dear Thomas Tucker,
Yup, I have had too much fun d...Dear Thomas Tucker,<br />Yup, I have had too much fun drawing them out from under their rocks. If that is a sin, I am guilty of it.<br />To your question, when I was ordained, I really wasn't thinking much about any of these things. I had a priestly identity honed over twelve years in the seminary but not much of a gay identity. A person's values grow and clarify over time. I never stopped admiring the message of Jesus but I eventually decided that some of the teachings of the church were simply wrong and were not what Jesus would have us believe. Unlike many other Catholics and priests, I am not God-fearing and I am convinced that if Jesus were listening to me or reading me, he'd say "You got it right, boy."Tony Adamshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10091330901996916966noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8139328.post-73136873619794790992010-03-02T12:43:26.659-05:002010-03-02T12:43:26.659-05:00Oh, Father T.
You really are being quite naughty.
...Oh, Father T.<br />You really are being quite naughty.<br />Reading thru the comments on that story, you were obviously baiting some of those folks, and really upped the ante by telling them that Jesus was gay. Shame on you- if one of them keels over from a hypertensive stroke, you will be to blame.<br />However, reading your comments leads me to ask you a question that I have always wondered about.<br />Why do you, and others, bother becoming priests when you so fervently disagree with the Church's teaching on various moral matters? If I disagreed with PETA's positions, and ate meat at every meal, why would I become a PETA spokesman?thomas tuckerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11619726733721468479noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8139328.post-27181676579656223382010-03-01T09:52:49.849-05:002010-03-01T09:52:49.849-05:00Damn, I'm impressed. Didn't know you were ...Damn, I'm impressed. Didn't know you were all powerful. Good show. Now can you do something about all this snow?Jeff Storkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06318119606244028346noreply@blogger.com