Well, I guess he is.. This is so outrageous it is hard to believe, and keep in mind.. this guy is serious in the speech he gave. A republican's dream come true!
The name is Ben Kessler. He is a priest wannabe, graduate, and commencement speaker at St.Thomas college. His speech caused so much controversy it's all over the net. You have to read this, and keep in mind.. this guy is serious!
First read the article that discusses the aftermath of his speech. Then I'll post the actual speech. I think it's more dramatic, more in getting the point across, to post the speech 2nd, so bare with me:
Read this story on the controversy-
St. Thomas honor student apologizes for grad speech
The commencement speech, with reprimands for birth-control use and a recent food fight, sparked boos and walkouts. Read the controversy here
(I really enjoy the comments by one guy in that article who said that Kessler spoke of being selfish, and when he went up to get is diploma afterwards, he let Kessler know how selfish he was to make that speech !)
Now here's the actual speech
but only a rough transcript that may leave out bits and pieces and the comments posted below apparently are not meant to be in any particular order:
Ben Kessler's sanctimonious speech to graduating students at St. Thomas University:
"Good morning, friends, Catholics, fellow students, sexual deviants and chronic masturbators.
"The three things I have learned here at St. Thomas University are how to play football, that the priesthood is a good racket for those of us trying to suppress homosexual urges, and that college is filled with disgusting, evil degenerate hedonists.
"Most college commencement speakers want to fill your head with trite phrases and sunshine visions of your future. I won't waste your time with such things. Instead, I will use this opportunity to demonstrate how far superior to you I am, in so many ways.
"Jesus loves you all unconditionally-- and that is why he has condemned some of you to eternal torment in the fires of Hell. Jesus loves you all-- but I don't. I think most of you are shameful.
"For those of you who use contraception, shame on you! You are murdering the billions of innocent babies that live inside your sperm!
"For those of you who participated in the food-fight the other day, that is childish and immature, and a terrible waste of food when children are starving in Iran. Even though, thanks to American intervention, and by the grace of Christ, the children of Iraq are now happy, healthy, and free from hunger, that wouldn't give the Iraqis the right to throw food at our troops, would it? But they can still throw flowers and chocolates.
"For those of you who stole my underwear and ran it up the flagpole, shame on you!
"For those of you who called me "Kessler the Messler" after I had diarrhea in my pants during Freshman year final exams, shame on you!
"For those of you who race-mix with the negroes, shame on you!
"For those of you who put pictures of naked women on the wall outside my door about a dozen times this year, shame on you!
"Many of our female students have blossomed into womanhood here at St. Thomas University. And too many of them run around with their "dirty pillows" showing. They are nasty, foul little sluts. As my mother always used to say, 'First the blood, and then the boys.' Women, who incessantly nag about things like 'Global Warming' and 'Environmental Pollution' and 'Poverty' and 'The Homeless' and 'The Hungry' are a terrible distraction to those of us concerned with serious issues, like spreading the Catholic Church's message of not letting gays get married.
"Women have no place on a college campus, unless it is serving us in the cafeteria. There are hungry people right here on campus, especially around final exams, if you know what I mean.
"If God meant for us to take care of the poor, he wouldn't have made so many of them, now would he? But homosexuals... there aren't that many homosexuals. We can take care of them, the same way we took care of the witches.
"And shame on the person who sat down in front of my computer in the library when I left to use the bathroom, and inserted passages from 'The Story of O' into my essay on why Harry Potter novels are a pathway to damnation.
"Finally, remember: Graduation is a time to look forward to the future with hope. I hope all you masturbating, condom-using, bedding out of wedlock bastards burn in Hell!
"You'll never laugh at me again! You won't! You won't! I'm going to be a PRIEST and you'll have to respect me and listen to me because I speak for GOD ALMIGHTY!
"You don't give God's messenger a wedgie! You don't leave dirty caricatures of God's Messenger in bathroom stalls! You don't put Ben Gay in the jock strap of God's Messenger! Shame on you! Shame on you all, you filthy sodomites!
"May The Lord bless you and keep you. We ask this in Jesus' name. Amen."
Here's another good article on the chaos
This apparently is a short home video of (part) of his speech, I get the impression someone thought his speech was so outrageous they decided to start taping it half way thru (more than half way thru since his speech was supposedly 15 mins long).. it seems youtube.com's site is down at the moment so it may come up blank.. you can check back later and try the video again.. (I haven't seen it yet either)
Now let me ask you, would they really allow a hate monger like this in the priesthood? I don't know, afterall I'm an atheist, but I would assume , or I thought, "compassion" was the word of the day for those who choose to serve their god in a life long career..
One positive thing I can think of if this guy does somehow become a priest, no reproducing! geeshe ..
You can check in on the posts and arguing over here at Huffington Post, as the posts indicate.. he's not the only nutcase out there, unfortunately :(
