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Monk Sex Scandal Proves Forced Celibacy Won't Work

Brian Fairbanks — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 14:46:00 GMT

A reader alerted us to a sex scandal we missed out on: a Thai monk who resigned from his monastery after getting caught having sex, after a wild teen sex and booze extravaganza at his place.

Even weirder: it's a gay Thai monk sex scandal... and you won't want to miss these comments in the Bangkok Post...

Our story starts with an unnamed abbot, the head father/monk in Nakhon Si Thammarat, whatever that is. One night, when his male lover is indisposed for an undisclosed reason, Father Anonymous hosts a large gang of unruly teens for booze and innuendos involving trying to "one-up the Catholic Church." The teens leave, but the next day, there is a large cum stain on the abbot's bed sheets. (We don't even want to get into how weird it is that someone would leave a cum stain lying around-- but then again, maybe they don't have Kleenex in Thailand.)

Assuming the worst-- that this stain wasn't the result of a masturbatory session run amok-- the abbot's lover took him to task, started a fight, got smacked around, and reported daddy-o to the police.

The abbot fled and quit the monkhood to avoid arrest and forced disrobement.

Yes, but he may have enjoyed a "forced disrobement."

By the way, some of the many comments on this story are priceless. Many of these people don't know what "a Buddhist monk" means or what the hell they are talking about.

Do realy anybody in Thailand follow buddist rules. Is it not like that,- if somebody close to you, or yourselves have benefit of it,- you may do what ever you want without breaking the rules?
Big deal. There are sexual affairs going on in monasteries.
[Columnist] Khun Sanitsuda is right. Thai Buddhism needs a major overhaul. However, moaning and groaning about it is not very useful. She should offer constructive idess as to how this can be achieved.
Stop making donations to the monks,they run to buy mobile phones, wigs and run for sex at night.
The human sex drive is as natural as eating food or breathing air. Sexual desire is the reason the world is over populated. The only way to make a man live a lifetime without sexual desire is to surgically his eyes and sex organs at birth
It is really unnatural to let men and women abstain from sex in the name of religion. If you see in Islam the Prophet Mohammad married 12 ladies in his life. Islam never allows religion to overpower basic human instints. This is the reason a Muslim man if can do justice can marry four ladies at a time.

It gets nuttier and more profound, sometimes simultaneously, from there. Read the rest via this link.

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Brian Fairbanks — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 14:04:00 GMT

Howard Dean and the DNC in the case of a gay man who is suing for wrongful termination will have to go to trial after mediation failed. Donald Hitchcock was fired after his boyfriend wrote a letter criticizing the DNC's policies on LGBT issues.

The wave of the future: about two-thirds of Americans under 35 are in favor of gay marriage.

As Scanner Emily told you yesterday, Lindsay Lohan and Samantha Ronson attacked Sarah Palin for being a media obsessed homophobe in dual blog postings...

I really cannot bite my tongue anymore when it comes to Sarah Palin.

I couldn't be more supportive of a woman in office, but let's face it, it comes down to the person, and their beliefs, male or female.

Is it a sin to be gay? Should it be a sin to be straight? Or to use birth control? Or to have sex before marriage? Or even to have a child out of wedlock?

I find it quite interesting that a woman who now is running to be second in command of the United States, only 4 years ago had aspirations to be a television anchor. Which is probably all she is qualified to be... Also interesting that she got her passport in 2006... [Read the full post here]

As if the Catholic Church doesn't have enough problems attracting new members, now they're sacking longtime followers who turn out to be gay.

Wearing matching white tuxedo jackets and marching down the aisle together to a song from A Chorus Line, Star Trek's Mr. Sulu, George Takei, married his boyfriend of 21 years in a lavish Buddhist ceremony in California. Can you believe this guy's 71? He sure doesn't look it...

And two guys made out on CNN... sort of...

Via Breitbart.

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Brian Fairbanks — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 13:18:00 GMT

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Led Zeppelin have returned to the studio! Oh, but there's a small catch...

Jimmy Page, John Paul Jones and Jason Bonham have been working on new material - without frontman Robert Plant.
Drummer Bonham... admits the new songs could be destined for a new Led Zeppelin album...

He says, "At the moment, all I know is I have the great pleasure to go and jam with the two guys and start work on some material. When I get there (in the studio) I never ask any questions..." [Starpulse]

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Yes, you read that headline right: Kate Moss' boyfriend is in a band called We Are (Not) Sex People, known for their terrible name. The lead singer says that Moss will appear, in the buff but filmed discreetly, in the middle of an orgy in a brothel:

Frontman Dan Summers commented: "Jamie [Hince, Moss's boyfriend] has nothing to worry about but there will be lots of nudity.

"Kate will play a sexy, young version of Cynthia [Payne, a famous London madam.] And we’d all give our right ears to be that bunny rabbit she fools around with."

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Married Writers Metaphorically Chain Themselves to Each Other

Nicole Pasulka — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 21:07:00 GMT

Ever hear the one about the Buddhist couple in the desert who vowed to never be more than 15 feet apart? Yep. As we type Michael Roach and Christie McNally are living in a yurt, eating off the same plate and following each other around sharing the same consciousness.

In this video from Slate's video blog married writers David Plotz and Hanna Rosin attempt to live like Roach and McNally for a day minus the yurt and all the sand. So how do they fare?

Despite some bickering over oatmeal and soccer the pair have a pretty good takeaway. It's nice for a change to know what your honey is up to constantly and what time they drink their first Fresca of the day.

We'd like to say we're so totally independent and isolated that we'd never be able to live 15 feet from another person, but it's 97 degrees outside and there's only one air conditioner in the apartment. The truth? We're elbow deep in someone else's consciousness right now and waiting until the sun goes down to claw our way out.