“I believe there is an upper room feeling about the church in many parts of the world today. People cowering behind closed doors, afraid to express opinions, in case it will bring the wrath of the oppressors down on them, but if you focus on witnessing, you have a certain calm about outcomes. Most of the time.
“When I found myself, earlier this year, accused with other people of being a homophobe, for weeks on end, everywhere from our national parliament to our State broadcaster and it continued to the extent that my 15-year-old daughter turned to me and said, ‘Mammy are you safe? Is it safe for you to go out?’ – I had to hold on very tightly to witnessing, not winning.
And in a major irony, the article which sparked off the whole incident was about gay men in the priesthood. And I asked a rhetorical question which was that if every single priest were gay, if they were faithful to their vocation, and actively seeking to do the will of god, what would it matter?
It was a rhetorical question. And this article was what caused a very well-known drag queen to accuse me of homophobia.”
Iona Institute’s Irish Times columnist Breda O’Brien speaking at a Catholic conference in Madrid, Spain in September, 2014.
Rep writes:
“…31 mins. and 42 seconds in, Breda begins to talk about the Pantigate Affair…A very dishonest account of the whole affair….”
Previously: Pantigate on broadsheet
Scorchio!
Someone talking poo at a Catholic conference?
Musha god help her – she’s in an awful state
Oppressors? Catholics are oppressed in Ireland?
Gosh, what must catholic people in countries that AREN’T completely intertwined with the RCC be going through? It’s getting so you can only send your school to 92% of state schools if you value a sectarian education based on myth. WE WANT THOSE 8 PERCENT!
Vile harridan.
And let Breda’s hair serve as a warning to all the penalty of displeasing the gay ascendancy ;)
Ha!
Print it off and frame it jayz
I quite like her hair.
Homophobe!
people like you are ruining that slur for everyone else
No mientas. Que hija de una gran puta eres, me cago es tus muertos, cabrona.
Ah, I feel better now.
Language Timothy!
“Me cago en tus muertos”…
Me cago en Dios…
That comment you deleted was referring to her neck thing. Cos, you know, Mikeyfex always hits hard to the core of the issues. I don’t even know what else it could have been construed as.
We all know who the real oppressor is here Mickey
We all know who the real oppressor is here.
Mickey.
We all know Mickey
usual story of the oppressor coming over all victimised.
It’s the standard approach being used now by these right wing groups. They learned it at the knee of their paymasters here in the US.
Oh. No. She. Di’ent.
Bitch, hold ma weave!
when she said “oppressor” i thought she meant the Church. jay-sus.
Also, she reminds me of Dolores Umbridge: http://www.vixenvarsity.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/dolores_umbridge.jpg
Muggles!
So Breda pin points her being accused of homophobia to one article she wrote… that is untrue! :)
FIBBING …at a Catholic Conference… whatever next
Thanks BS :)
You’re a white catholic in Ireland Breda. The only thing holding you’re being oppressed for is your uterus and you’re one of the people cheerleading that oppression. Get down off your cross for a while.
+1
She is very easy on the eye. Attractive woman.
Aye she’s not bad in fairness. And speaks well. Far more coherent than in print. If you’re reading this now BoB I’d give ye one.
Aye she’s not bad in fairness. And speaks well. Far more coherent than in print. If you’re reading this now BoB I’d give ye one.
You went there, and went again!
LOL I thought the regulars would appreciate that
Forgive me Father for I have sinned
I committed the sin of coveting my neighbours wife.
Naughty Joe
“……Accused with other people of being a homophobic, for weeks on end, everywhere from our national parliament to our State broadcaster ….” If it looks like a duck, swims like a duck, and quacks like a duck, then it probably is a, homophobic, right wing religious nut form Iona inc.
…being a homophobic…
-Does nobody love this woman enough to take her aside and discourage her from public speaking?
BOO why’d my comment get deleted?
Lynn, your hair looks like a photograph of an explosion.
This is mental. Oppressed by the media? Like the Irish Times who give her a column every odd week? Like the Rte or news talk who call her organisation in to ‘balance’ debate on anything the church might want a say in? Christ on a bike.
Wonder what Mary Barney would look like if she went blonde
Stop wreckin’ me head.
I did a Google Image search for Mary Barney.
I got a lot of results. A lot of Marys and a lot of Barneys.
Nobody is called Mary Barney.
Don’t be stupid.
The only Barney I know is Bernie, and she answers her door with a stick in her hand so I haven’t seen her in a long, long time.
PS.
Bernie Barney is probably not her real name, just the name we gave her when we were kids.
Her husband, Beernie Barney…well that was a different story.
I’ve said too much already.
Oh mercy !!!
Swap the bloody B
For a feicin H
An’try again
‘Can’t believe I had ta’ do that
Google Iona institute and dominos pizza. Will blow your mind.
Hello Bock.
Fancy meeting you here!
-And don’t give me any of this poo about you not being Bock, that you’re just of his eh…
eh…
What’s the word?
-It begins with a ‘P’, ends with ‘sonas’, ..
er….
‘Friends”.
Yeah. that’;s it.
Thanks for that :)
[EDIT]
you’re ONE just of his eh…
*Just one.
This is my second week on the internet.
Go easy on me.
I’m 87.
Get to bed grandad!
I will, but only when my flatulence subsides.
This curry isn’t helping.
Or on the other hand you’re One Dub, drunk again.
Ah come on now lads, nobody expects the spanish inquisition. :D
“I am a woman. I enjoy a good, clean joke. My nether regions are spotless. God. Jesus. Church, church, church, Jesus.”
Are you single?
Brazilian or Hollywood?