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   Friday, April 01, 2005

   WHAT JUDY SAID

I wish I could share in the worldwide swell of emotion for the imminent passing of Pope John Paul II but...no. He's been on the wrong side of issues too close to my heart for too long. The Pope's rabid opposition to birth control while millions of children go starving is morally indefensible in my book and, when he announced last month that gay marriage is "part of a new ideology of evil," well he went and made it personal.

I like comedienne Judy Tenuta, who once said [though I'm paraphrasing the first bit from memory], "The Pope says that women can't be priests, the Pope says that gays are evil, the Pope says that birth control is wrong, the Pope says that he's infallible, and I say...fuck off, Pope!"

Harsh? Maybe. But, unlike far too many people, I didn't suddenly sing the praises of Nixon when he was dying, either. John Paul will go to heaven and happily sit at the right hand of the Lord or something but the rest of us will have to muddle along with the next fascist ideologue the church replaces him with.