Butch it up, sister

Andrew Sullivan on jokes and gossip in Italy aimed at the Pope and aides, mostly around an ‘are they closeted’ theme.

When you’re a Pope who declares that even closeted, chaste gay men cannot be priests, it’s pushing your luck to clothe yourself in Prada, bedeck your Pope-mobile with luxurious Natuzzi Italian white leather, and surround yourself with assistants who look like they strayed from the pages of “L’Uomo Vogue.”

Butch it up, sister. Or the jokes will only get louder.

Sullivan is a conservative gay Christian who is trying to redeem the meaning of genuine conservatism by taking it back from the neocons and theocrats who have despoiled and warped it. He’s also one of the best writers in blogdom.

No Comments »

Trackback URI | Comments RSS

Leave a Reply



Comments subject to deletion at whim of capricious webmaster. Disagreements are ok. Flames, trolls, and right-wing attacks are not. If your comment doesn't appear immediately, then moderation is on, thus there's no need to re-send it.

(However sometimes the anti-spam programs here go awry. Email us if your comments seem to vanish into the void.)