Anti-Pope fashion parade in Australia
9 July 2008 by StardustThe Cat-o-lick folks in Australia are getting special treatment with laws made just for them against anyone causing “annoyance” to pilgrims attending Catholic World Youth day next week. These laws came just a day after Prime Minister Kevin Rudd called on all Australians to show the Pope “respect” during his visit.
Protesters plan an “annoying” anti-pope fashion show which violates the new laws and “could attract a penalty of up to 5,500 dollars, prompting one designer last week to come up with a T-shirt reading “$5,500, a small price to pay for annoying Catholics.”
Anti-Pope fashion parade held ahead of Australian visit
“They are not from Milan,” acknowledged Rachel Evans, spokeswoman of the NoToPope group, as T-shirts featuring slogans such as “The Pope is wrong, put a condom on” were displayed outside the New South Wales state parliament.
Other shirts, which are selling for 20 dollars (19 US), read “Pope go homo”, “There is no God” and “Does the history of your church annoy you?”
Among the most graphic was one featuring Benedict XVI standing with arms outstretched but with pointed, red devil ears and a tail superimposed on the image under the slogan “Chief homophobe”.
NoToPope, a coalition including Christians, atheists and gay groups, was protesting at new regulations giving police power to stop conduct that “causes annoyance or inconvenience to participants” in World Youth Day.
9 July 2008, on 12:08 pm
A term like “causes annoyance or inconvenience” is pretty goddam vague. I don’t see how this law can stand up to a formal challenge. But thay may not be the point of it, anyway. It’s just a way to kiss catholic asses.
Of course, I don’t know anything about Australian law but I would be pretty surprised if Australian citizens had the right not to be annoyed.
On the other hand, if I were Australian, I wonder if I could turn it around. As the father of three young boys, I would certainly be annoyed by a brainless spectical mounted by an organization whose policies protect child molesters from presecution.
9 July 2008, on 1:24 pm
http://www.stripcreator.com/comics/Hatrix/436289
sieg heil, heir pope is in town. Time for the ceremonial crushing of human rights.
9 July 2008, on 2:22 pm
World Youth Day 2008
9 July 2008, on 2:51 pm
World Youth Day should have been canned after the priest sex scandals broke. Now it’s in very poor taste. It sounds like a singles mixer for the priests. (I guess it’s cause for rejoicing for guys with a Catholic schoolgirl uniform fetish as well.)
I like the video, but the maker should learn to distinguish its from it’s and how to spell “Catholicism” correctly. It makes the point stronger.
9 July 2008, on 9:51 pm
So, how do the Aussie authorities go about arresting that annoying reality under these guidelines? It’s kind of like Republitards bellyaching about the so-called “liberal bias” of our mainstream media when they merely report what’s going on in the world. Sorry if reality is annoying, you fish-eating, pedophiliac horde.
9 July 2008, on 11:26 pm
I want a shirt that says “Are My Civil Rights ANNOYING You?”
10 July 2008, on 6:26 pm
Y’know, I knew someone who went to World (Catholic) Youth Day about 15 years ago, when it was in Colorado.
She - and others - almost died of dehydration partly because of delusions brought on by Captain Whatsizname’s presence, and partly because McDonald’s did a horrendous job of supplying the event with provisions, having underestimated the stupidity of the human race.
And the Moron Chocolate Crunch did a great indoctrination job on that one. She still insisted on being a theist…at least in front of her family.