{"id":786,"date":"2007-07-28T22:17:45","date_gmt":"2007-07-28T12:17:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/?p=786"},"modified":"2007-07-31T21:32:04","modified_gmt":"2007-07-31T11:32:04","slug":"church-state-thats-entertainment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/?p=786","title":{"rendered":"Church & State & That’s Entertainment!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Update<\/strong> (July 31) : YouTube, presumably bowing to pressure from the Church, has removed the offending video. The Good News (so to speak) is that it’s still available via<\/em> Live Leak<\/a><\/strong>; you can even download the video if you want…<\/p>\n

Update<\/strong> : After initially defending Reverend Geoffrey Baron’s behaviour, it now appears that, perhaps after some further prayer and reflection (and perhaps even some further consultation with the Church’s PR department), local Church authorities now believe it wiser to apologise for the Reverend’s racially abusive, sexually explicit, and profanity-laden diatribe as captured on video last year. Or so says Sky News<\/strong> (Church apologises<\/a>). Baron, whose behaviour has been characterised by me as being the real life embodiment and Antipodean Catholic equivalent of Viz<\/a><\/em> magazine character Paul Whicker The Tall Vicar<\/strong>, has also apparently prompted a children’s rights group to recommend anger management classes… well, according to the Herald Sun<\/em> \/ AAP<\/a> anyway (Priest vs skateboarders shocker<\/a>).<\/p>\n

Mark Russell in The Age<\/em> reports that Red-faced church sorry for blue dean<\/a>, and a slightly more formal apology — carefully describing Baron’s references to sore arseholes, sperm, and boys fucking, by way of stating that the Right Reverend “used obscene language and suggested in vulgar terms that the youths were homosexual” — is also provided by a further article in the Herald Sun<\/em> (Apology for priest’s tirade<\/a>).<\/p>\n

Priests these days eh?<\/p>\n