Blue Truck, Red State: The Royal Navy Wants YOU

Thursday, December 27, 2018

The Royal Navy Wants YOU

This just in: Christmas greetings from the officers and crew of HMS Ocean, formerly the flagship of the Royal Navy.

Most amusing, to be sure. But more than that, I dare not say.

3 comments:

Sixpence Notthewiser said...: Well, hello there.; December 27, 2018 at 8:34 PM
Tim said...: It’s called a Sod’s Opera (sic) performed by a ship’d crew (all ranks) at Christmas time or any convenient event, such as the end of a patrol or cruise. Something akin to a theatrical pantomime. It’s all rather British, and keeps the men occupied rather than mutinous. Grin!; December 28, 2018 at 8:13 AM
Russ Manley said...: Hmmm. So this is a thing in Blighty? Well I declare. I suppose Nelson can go on resting in peace now.

(But I still think it's a boatload of poofters!); December 29, 2018 at 1:12 PM

Prayer for Peace

Lord, make me an instrument of your peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love; where there is injury, pardon; where there is discord, harmony; where there is doubt, faith; where there is despair, hope; where there is darkness, light; where there is sadness, joy. Grant that I may seek not so much to be consoled as to console; to be understood as to understand; to be loved as to love. For it is in giving that we receive; it is in pardoning that we are pardoned; and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life. Amen.

Churches say that the expression of love in a heterosexual monogamous relationship includes the physical, the touching, embracing, kissing, the genital act - the totality of our love makes each of us grow to become increasingly godlike and compassionate. If this is so for the heterosexual, what earthly reason have we to say that it is not the case with the homosexual?

It is a perversion if you say to me that a person chooses to be homosexual. You must be crazy to choose a way of life that exposes you to a kind of hatred. It's like saying you choose to be black in a race-infected society.

If God, as they say, is homophobic, I wouldn't worship that God.

--Archbishop Desmond Tutu