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Catholic Priest: Gay Sex Is Like a Bagel in the Ear
Not The Onion. Or The Cream Cheese, for that matter! 
http://www.advocate.com/religion/2015/08/13/catholic-priest-gay-sex-bagel-ear
At a conference this week urging celibacy for Catholics with “same-sex attractions,” speakers described gay sex as risky and dangerous, and likened it to putting a piece of a bagel into one’s ear....
The Rev. John Riccardo, a priest at a Plymouth parish, made the bagel analogy, which he said is useful in talking to young people. He said junior high students sometimes ask him why God hates gays, and he responds that God doesn’t hate gays but that gay sex is unnatural.
He said he tells students, what if “I just rip open a bagel, I take it, and I cram it in my ear. What would you say?” When they respond, “That doesn’t go there,” he says, “Exactly,” and that doing so “will ruin your ear canal.”
Riccardo said he has a family member with a lesbian daughter. She welcomes the daughter and her partner into her home, he said, but she tells them, “When you are here, you will not sleep together … because I think that’s harmful, and here are the reasons why.”
The Rev. John Riccardo, a priest at a Plymouth parish, made the bagel analogy, which he said is useful in talking to young people. He said junior high students sometimes ask him why God hates gays, and he responds that God doesn’t hate gays but that gay sex is unnatural.
He said he tells students, what if “I just rip open a bagel, I take it, and I cram it in my ear. What would you say?” When they respond, “That doesn’t go there,” he says, “Exactly,” and that doing so “will ruin your ear canal.”
Riccardo said he has a family member with a lesbian daughter. She welcomes the daughter and her partner into her home, he said, but she tells them, “When you are here, you will not sleep together … because I think that’s harmful, and here are the reasons why.”
Well, that about lox up the crazy award for the week.
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it was a long time ago. 
