Nooooo! Really? Duhhhhhhhhh

This is a about an article that came out in The New Paper on the 1st of February this year. I only just saw it today, so forgive the slowness. It's the article entitled wear them for play, not for prayers. It's about how some Catholic churches have imposed a dress code on their parishioners. *Gasp* "How draconian!" I hear some say. Well, before we get into righteous indignation, this is what the dress code is about.
Essentially, it forbids "clothing promoting vices like drugs, alcohol , violence, clothing made of spandex(skin-tight) and translucent(see-through) materials, clothing exposing entire shoulder, chest, back or things, sportswear and flip-flops."
Mein Goit. How dare they forbid all that. What am I going to wear now I cannot wear my Cradle of Filth album art or Porn Star t-shirts? How are people gonna appreciate how hilarious I am now that I cannot show of my Marijuana t-shirts, the one where the M is like the golden arches of McDonalds. No flip flops?! Blasphemy! And what are my poor eyes going to look at, what am I going to have to focus my attention on, if the girls aren't allowed to wear skin tight or revealing clothing? Heaven forbid that I must actually have class and decorum in a place of worship, and pay attention to the mass!
So anyway, the article is talking about how the restrictions were raised on the Jan 16 issue of Catholic News, and how it was brought to TNP's attention by CN Aloysius Goh. Here is what our alert citizen said.
"It...confounds me that the Church of St Anthony can come up with its own rules regarding dress code that forbids certain dressing."
"If the Catholic Church wanted to come up with such rules, it would have done so long ago."
"...at the Church of Our Lady Star of the Sea, posters have been put up to show what it deems as 'inappropriate dressing'. This is fine if it was just a guideline or advisory. But no. Church wardens actively police this advisory and parishioners who do not comply are told off."
"This is where the problem starts. For we have now a 'morality police' in certain parishes. It this what we want?"
This is directly lifted from TNP, separation of paragraphs and all.
Thank you Aloysius, for being ever so vigilant on this infringement of our right to dress however we want in whatever circumstance, regardless of how inappropriate it may be. Soon, we will be able to wear board shorts to a funeral and sit down for a board meeting in gym attire! (Actually, the last part sounds pretty good.) How dare individual churches come up with guidelines that ensure the solemnity of church is kept intact, and that the sacredness of the rites is respected. Hell, people should be allowed to make out in the church, just like in the cinemas. And the gall of actually having the wardens tell people who flaunt the rules off. That is not appropriate behaviour what-so-ever. Jesus did not die on the cross so that people who flaunt the rules of a place could be reprimanded! Why, next thing you know, school rules will be enforced too! And to think they would put up these rules now, by themselves, when the Catholic Church would have done it themselves a long time ago if there really was a need. Never mind that the wearing of such clothing is pretty recent, and the increasing relaxed attitudes of people towards where and when such things even more so. The Catholic Church would sure have foreseen that people would lose common sense at some point about appropriate dressing to church and taken appropriate measures. I mean, if John could foresee the end of the world, and Joan of Arc could hear God, surely the Catholic Church could read fashion trends before they even exist!
So now we have moral police in certain parishes. Outrageous. Who would have imagined that a place of worship, a place dedicated to a religion, would have moral police? I mean, the whole point of being religious and going to church is to be part of a giant social club where I can ogle and pick up girls. How dare they infringe on my freedoms by doing something such as enforcing a purported "code of morality". Astounding! It confounds me! ZOUNDS!



Aloysius Goh, the year has only just begun. But already, you are a strong contender for the Dumbass of the Year award. Congratulations!