"If anything were to qualify as a hate crime, to us this seems like this might be it."

"It is hurtful," said Father Migeul Gonzalez with the Diocese. "Imagine if they kidnapped somebody and you make a plea for that individual to please return that loved one to the family."

Gonzalez said the Diocese is willing to meet with Cook and help him understand the importance of the Eucharist in hopes of him returning it. The Diocese is dispatching a nun to UCF's campus to oversee the next mass, protect the Eucharist and in hopes Cook will return it.

funny, there's a local angle to this story:

http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2008/07/its_a_goddamned_cracker.php
http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2008/07/now_ive_got_bill_donohues_atte.php
http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2008/07/fight_back_against_bill_donohu.php

If this guy wants to "teach" his friend about taking communion he kind of whiffed

http://www.vanriet.com/mt/archives/images/january_img/nuns_with_guns_big.jpg
Jokers.

Though if he wanted to illustrate how the Catholic church often operates, SLAM DUNK

lololol at "its_a_goddamned_cracker.php"

"I put your Koran down my pants so I could bring it back to my friend and teach him about Islam"

lotta crackers up in morris, i bet!

"I mean what's the Koran, it's just paper and ink!! Jeez you people are touchy"

this story makes more sense if you replace every mention of "Webster Cook" with "George Costanza"

id really love to sympathize with this guy but something tells me hes an insufferable douchebag

(ftr the dude who runs that phyrangula blog is the one who got kicked out of the showing of ben stein's creationist movie)

webster cook and i have 1 mutual friend on facebook

max is otm-- seems like the don't taze me bro dude

id really love to sympathize with this guy but something tells me hes an insufferable douchebag

-- max, Friday, 11 July 2008 17:04 (1 minute ago) Bookmark Link

Yes. Pretty much exactly what I thought.

lol the jacobins burned churches and put nuns to the sword but at least they didn't pull any dick moves at mass

funny, it doesn't taste like a cracker, though

First they came for the insufferable douchebags....

(not really joking.)

catholicism is funny

http://www.chick.com/reading/tracts/0074/0074_01.asp

every religion is funny

let's try that again

jack chick, noted authority on religion

are catholics the ones who wear the beanies?

no, wait, they're the pederasts aren't they.

but first wanted to show it to a fellow student senator he brought to Mass who was curious about the Catholic faith why because it look intersting

http://www.chick.com/tractimages63640/0074/0074_06.gif

A.) It's not a cookie.
B.) Like Gargamel gives a damn about the Church.

hey look jonah goldberg wants to talk about it

The left understands the value of creating a social cost for violating their taboos. A professor who advocated desecrating the image of, say, Martin Luther King Jr. in a similar way (which would be idiotic and offensive, for the record) would lose his job and his career. But such repugnant disrespect for more traditional icons is routinely considered clever and insightful in our intellectual culture. And that, quite simply, is a very bad thing which should be resisted.

Does anyone really consider this kid "clever and insightful"?

Apparently Jonah Goldberg does!

finally someone has the balls to stand up to our intellectual culture!

Gonzalez said intentionally abusing the Eucharist is classified as a mortal sin in the Catholic church, the most severe possible. If it's not returned, the community of faith will have to ask for forgiveness.

It's been easily over 20 years since I last did anything Catholic but I'm fairly sure that last bit is total bollocks. The community committed the mortal sin, the guy with the Eucharist has. And I would have thought he was the one who would have to ask for forgiveness and do the penance to avoid going straight to hell...

He does sound like he went in there with the sole intent of doing something he knew would be regarded as a desecration. Which is something of a cunt's trick really.

jonah goldberg is a performance artist right?

So he goes in there with relatively benign intentions and ends up on a soapbox with, like, statistics and dollar amounts and shit?

jon stewart changes his name to sound less jewish but jonah goldberg doesn't. FUCK.

"the Diocese says its main concern is to get the Eucharist back so it can be taken care of properly and with respect. Cook has been keeping the Eucharist stored in a plastic bag since last Sunday."

^ this is just gold

i'm pretty sure most people know jon stewart is jewish

That should read "The community hasn't..."

Cook claims he planned to consume it, but first wanted to show it to a fellow student senator he brought to Mass who was curious about the Catholic faith.

"When I received the Eucharist, my intention was to bring it back to my seat to show him," Cook said. "I took about three steps from the woman distributing the Eucharist and someone grabbed the inside of my elbow and blocked the path in front of me. At that point I put it in my mouth so they'd leave me alone and I went back to my seat and I removed it from my mouth."

A church leader was watching, confronted Cook and tried to recover the sacred bread. Cook said she crossed the line and that's why he brought it home with him.

"She came up behind me, grabbed my wrist with her right hand, with her left hand grabbed my fingers and was trying to pry them open to get the Eucharist out of my hand," Cook said, adding she wouldn't immediately take her hands off him despite several requests.

This smells like bullshit. Maybe this church is real strict or something but lots and lots of people wait until they sit down before they consume.

who's going to write the script for this? a young idiot with a chip on his shoulder eventually comes to respect people of faith while also showing the local priest how to let loose and live a little. the priest brings his new attitude to his congregation, who are similarly joyfully transformed, but is excommunicated anyway. and then they fuck.

fucken crackers

shit, sorry goole

I see Chris O'Donnell

a young idiot with a chip on his shoulder eventually comes to respect people of faith while also showing the local priest how to let loose and live a little. the priest brings his new attitude to his congregation, who are similarly joyfully transformed, but is excommunicated anyway. and then they fuck.

Footloose, the first script.

crackers is biters

-- kl0pper, Thursday, August 30, 2007 2:20 PM (10 months ago) Bookmark Link

He doesn't have a very safe argument about student services money funding religious activity, unless he's prepared to go on objecting to that money funding other activities that someone might deem objectionable, race-based, political, etc. -- there aren't very good clear-line rules about that sort of money going to religious activities, are there? It's a pool of funds that gets allotted by a democratically accountable council to whatever groups and activities are deemed worthwhile and wanted.

I will admit to being faintly amused that a non-crime is being described as a "hate crime," though, or the way he's accused via theology of having kidnapped Jesus. (P.S. Jesus's on-record solution to this problem would be to offer the kid some wine.)

John Waters' Footloose