tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2174812066017196444.post5265415427867806782..comments2024-03-19T04:50:02.953-05:00Comments on WOUNDED BIRD: 40TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE UPSTAIRS LOUNGE FIRE - JUNE 24, 1973June Butlerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01723016934182800437noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2174812066017196444.post-70065537638188884842013-06-21T17:06:20.144-05:002013-06-21T17:06:20.144-05:00How silly. I knew you meant "exorcise",...How silly. I knew you meant "exorcise", but for a few seconds I had a picture in my mind of ladies exercising at St George. :-)June Butlerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01723016934182800437noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2174812066017196444.post-77846300008966353712013-06-21T16:07:55.938-05:002013-06-21T16:07:55.938-05:00Oops, I meant to say "exorcise"!Oops, I meant to say "exorcise"!Ormonde Platerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05145096672539029672noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2174812066017196444.post-33162603704922809332013-06-21T16:07:18.081-05:002013-06-21T16:07:18.081-05:00Someone told me recently that after the memorial s...Someone told me recently that after the memorial service at St. George's several ladies of the parish asked the curate to exercise the space where the service had been held. I am trying to remember the name of the curate in June 1973. (Most parishes today are too poor to have more than one priest, but curates, as they were called, were still common in the 1970s.)Ormonde Platerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05145096672539029672noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2174812066017196444.post-89207737701226712222013-06-21T02:11:25.655-05:002013-06-21T02:11:25.655-05:00Oh my you certainly have, I'm amazed to hear a...Oh my you certainly have, I'm amazed to hear all that. Kudos to the bishop for "doing such a Christian thing" - for real.Russ Manleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05722260145543178087noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2174812066017196444.post-84695549038825844422013-06-20T23:43:14.138-05:002013-06-20T23:43:14.138-05:00Amen.Amen.June Butlerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01723016934182800437noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2174812066017196444.post-77906651327841408712013-06-20T23:42:49.408-05:002013-06-20T23:42:49.408-05:00Russ, I can't quarrel with anything you say. ...Russ, I can't quarrel with anything you say. I will say that the announcement of this year's memorial came from the diocesan office, so here in the Diocese of Louisiana much has changed. Our bishop allows same sex blessings and ordains LGTB persons to the diaconate and the priesthood. We've come quite a way.June Butlerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01723016934182800437noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2174812066017196444.post-31626666943869131812013-06-20T23:26:38.740-05:002013-06-20T23:26:38.740-05:00Memory eternal. RIP/RIG, the dead of the Upstairs ...Memory eternal. RIP/RIG, the dead of the Upstairs Lounge, and Fr Richardson.JCFhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14516376500318551838noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2174812066017196444.post-33455496196721373652013-06-20T22:46:54.316-05:002013-06-20T22:46:54.316-05:00"Doing such a Christian thing . . ." Wh..."Doing such a Christian thing . . ." What a concept. Is it any wonder that most gay people have no use for church? They might as well have been burned at the stake, for all that the churches cared at that time, the vast majority of them.<br /><br />Which in fact is what church people did do with the gays for centuries. I can't get the Abp of Canterbury's recent remarks in the House of Lords out of my mind. What a stupid man he is, and how unfit for the office. There was no wisdom and no holiness in what he said - only ignorance, pretense, and politics.<br /><br />I hope someone sometime will film that musical, I would love to see it.Russ Manleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05722260145543178087noreply@blogger.com