Wow. Imagine, St. Bernard, patron saint of homophobes, having sex with
a chihuahua. Beats altar boys, I suppose (or did he?).


On Wed, 07 May 2003 14:25:22 -0700,
(paghat) wrote:

|In article , Philip
|Edward Lewis wrote:
|
| "Sunflower" writes:
| If your Chihuahua has sex with a St. Bernard, does that mean that the St.
|
| I sure hope that this hypothetical chihuahua was male.....
|
|You're so smart! Not that many people know Saint Bernard of Clairvaux was
|a faggot. He writes bitter diatribes against beautiful youth in the
|monasteries & the ease of acquiring homosexual partners in his ranting &
|raving "De contemptu mundi," really quite obsessed about it, with a
|clearly conflicted personal horror. He believes sodomy is an enormous
|temptation to monastics, to which vast numbers fall pray. He could
|certainly speak for himself!. The only creatures he seems to hate more
|than his fellow faggots are -- women -- he suggests in "De octo vitiis"
|that the very laughter of women fills him with disgust, & elsewhere
|insisted that when any woman is speaking -- ANY woman -- vipers' poison is
|sprewing. And all women in his view being inherent sluts.
|
| So maybe he wasn't so much struggling against his innate homoexuality as
|against his rutting nature that would do ANYthing, male, female, or even a
|chihuahua. Though one analysis of his misogyny, & his fixation on monastic
|faggotry, would look closest at his idea that monks who are homosexuals
|are like women and for THAT reason horrid. Bernard might have been more
|accepting of others' or his own lust for his fellow monks if he didn't
|hate women & consider queer desire to be womanish. He states categorically
|that the only way for a monk to not act upon inevitable desires is to whip
|himself with whips & chain himself in chains. Well, maybe Bernard should
|patron saint of self-flagelating B&D masochists while he's at it!
|
|Gay catholics are trying to get the patron saint of homosexuals, Saint
|Sebastian, officially so-designated. But they should also be trying to get
|St Bernard of Clairvaux officially recognized as the patron saint of
|hopelessly self-hating closet cases.
|
|-paghat the ratgirl