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10.08.2008 11:13am EDT
(London) A Church of England priest has issued a public apology for writing in Web postings that gays should be forcibly tattooed with a sodomy warning.
“I did not intend to cause any upset but I realize that the remarks were injudicious and I have caused offence. I want to issue an apology,” the Rev Peter Mullen said Tuesday.“I did not intend to cause offence when I made some joking remarks about homosexuals,” the statement said.
“I was not actually meaning to criticize individual homosexual persons, but the promoters of gay culture. However, my remarks have caused offence and for this I am sorry and make a full and complete apology.”
Mullen, who is chaplain to the London Stock Exchange, came under fire Monday when the comments on his internet blog became public.
In the posting Mullen said the forced tattoos would be similar to warning placed on packages of cigarettes.
“Let us make it obligatory for homosexuals to have their backsides tattooed with the slogan ‘Sodomy can seriously damage your health’ their chins with ‘Fellatio kills.’
In another posting the 66-year old Mullen calls for gay pride parades – which he called “obscene” – to be outlawed.
In yet another he blasted poetically another Church of England priest, the Rev Martin Dudley, for blessing the civil partnership of two fellow clerics.
“The Bishop of London is in a high huff, Because Dr Dudley has married a puff; And not just one puff – he’s married another: Two priests, two puffs and either to other.”
Bishop of London the Rt Rev Richard Chartres has criticized Dudley for conducting the ceremony, but chastised Mullen for the blog postings.
Following a meeting with officials from Chartres office late Monday the blog postings were removed.
It’s really nice that instead of an apology we get an elaborate play on words.
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He might as well stand in the church and say “Seig Heil, Mein Fuhrer”.
His comment is called “poisoning the well”, and then he goes on to say he is sorry.
The canadians have the right idea – a big fine, and even jail time for people like him.
Eventually the people will wake up. And the right wing priests will find themselves preaching to the dust in the pews and the dust of their departed. While the rest of us wait for these priests to return “to the dust from whence they came, unwept, unhonnored, and unsung.” (from a poem about non-patriots in theUS long ago).
To H… with those who believe in superstition and use hatred for power.
This is repugnant. A priest joking about homosexuals in such a manner should be removed from the Church entirely.
Since priests no longer wear clerical clothing, it might be a good idea that they come with a warning label as well. How about the tattoo of an asshole in the middle every priest’s forehead?
Rev. Peter Mullen, the UK Anglican priest who first said that UK Gays should be branded with tatoos, should himself be branded on his forehead with the word “IDIOT.”
This is exactly the type of remark that cause violence, and God forbid that the church (any church) what to cause violence against any homosexual. What is it “love the sinner, not the sin.” This priest should be excommunicated from his comfy throne and be forced to live amongst the rest of us as lowly humans. Apology not accept by the Proud Sodomite.