Don't Pick On Our Sisters

March 24, 1999

The raunchy Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence are planning their 20th Anniversary party in the gay Castro district on Easter, and the catholic church is mad - again.

The church seems to have forgotten that in San Francisco, kinky is a matter of public pride.

But can our local Sisters really be any kinkier than the catholic ones, who all claim to be brides of the same 2000-year dead guy? What's kinkier than necrophiliac polygamy?

The crazy catholics have fathers who aren't fathers, mothers who aren't mothers, brothers who aren't brothers, and sisters who aren't sisters. And they think it qualifies them to discuss "family values!"

As if that wasn't kooky enough, they swear off sex. Abstinence - the strangest sexual perversion of all.

Compared to the kooky catholics, the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence seem normal.

If the catholic church wants to make criticism of itself a crime, that's a clear sign that criticism is urgently needed.

Gentleman Jim Heldberg is National Affiliation Director for American Atheists, and lives in his favorite city, by the bay.

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