Storm Aborts Pope's Antigay Speech

[William769]

Pope Benedict XVI had to cut short a speech asserting the primacy of heterosexual marriage as a severe thunderstorm hit Madrid Saturday night, Agence France-Presse reports.

Strong winds and sheets of rain hit the air base where he was speaking, blowing off his skullcap, shaking the stage, and knocking over at least one tent.

About 1.5 million people had gathered to hear the speech, in which the pope proclaimed that marriage is solely a union between a man and a woman and cannot be dissolved. “The Lord calls many people to marriage, in which a man and a woman, in becoming one flesh, find fulfillment in a profound life of communion,” he said. Vatican officials said the full text of Benedict’s speech would be released in writing.

http://www.advocate.com/News/Daily_News/2011/08/21/Storm_Aborts_Popes_Antigay_Speech/

[malaise]

1. It was both ironic and hilarious

You should have seen the lightning across the sky.
That HY must have been terrified - you should have seen the surround him with the umbrellas.

[William769]

6. I like to think it was God telling him to STFU!

[malaise]

7. I'm an atheist so I'll settle for

Mother Nature :D

[William769]

8. That works also.

:hi:

[SpiralHawk]

2. The Pope and Bristol Palin as a pair have no right to say anything about

stuff they know nothing about

Pretty sorry ass day when the Pope is at the same bottomed-out level of cred as the Palin spawn

[Warren DeMontague]

3. Classic.

Fucker's lucky he wasn't wearing the giant hat; he might have blown away entirely.

[formercia]

9. Mary Popens? n/t

[BillStein]

13. The Flying Nit? nt

[demmiblue]

4. K&R for the title alone! n/t

[Rex]

5. God trying to tell them something?

You know, indirectly?

[madrchsod]

10. mother earth is pissed off at the pope...

[madrchsod]

11. mother earth is pissed off at the pope...

[_ed_]

12. I can't believe anyone gives a shit

what that old, decrepit, disgusting man thinks about any topic.