Anal Sibation
Pope Benedict, in his first clear pronouncement on gay marriages since his election, on Monday condemned same-sex unions as fake and expressions of "anarchic freedom" that threatened the future of the family.
I was getting a little worried there: what was taking him so long! After all, he'd known for years that gay marriage was a pseudo-thing — he should have had the pronouncement written already.
The Pope, who as Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger headed the Vatican's doctrinal department for more than two decades, said "pseudo freedoms" such as gay marriages were based on what he called the "banalisation of the human body" and of man himself.
Which is it: "anarchic freedom" or "pseudo freedom"? And what would "pseudo freedom" be? Is it that Republican approach that says more laws that keep citizens under surveillance create more freedom?
I'm pretty interested in that "banalisation" remark, though. Any idea what that might mean?
At the moment, I'm fixated on the fact that it's an anagram of "anal sibation". Sure, I don't know yet what "anal sibation" is, but give me some time and I expect I can make up something good. For starters, it's no doubt part of that whole gay pseudo-thing, so it's got to be riproaring fun.
[Quotations from "Pope condemns gay marriages as 'anarchy' ", Reuters via Yahoo! News, 6 June 2005.]