In the Land of the Irrational

Remember James Loney? The Christian Peacemaker that was kidnapped in Iraq and eventually released unharmed.

Apparently, the Knights of Columbus have decided that anything he touched in the past now has cooties. The KofC have cancelled a summer camp that Loney once worked at.

In what I can only call one of the most idiotic maneuvers I've ever heard come out of any religious community, the KofC worry that having had Loney work at the camp somehow makes the camp itself a "promoter of the 'homosexual lifestyle'".

Besides doing nothing more than depriving children of what has been (in the past), an apparently positive camp experience, the KofC has done little more than demonstrate just how irrational they are when it comes to sexuality.

We aren't talking about a situation where Loney has been accused of pedophilia, nor are we talking about past campers coming forward with stories of abuse - no, Loney merely worked for the camp, so now it's suddenly "morally dangerous" to run it? Give me a break. They didn't know that Loney was gay when he worked for them, and it wasn't a problem then, so why is it a problem now?

And goodness knows, better burn the whole place down, he might have gay cooties around...