Open Letter
To Most Rev. George H. Niederauer
Archbishop
of San Francisco
Public Action and Public Reparation
Demanded for
Folsom Fair 2007 Caged Male Stripper Blasphemy
Against
Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ
November 5, 2007
Your Excellency,
The Folsom Street “Leather”
Fair, which celebrates a sado/masochist and domination/bondage “lifestyle” was held on Sunday, September 29, 2007
in San Francisco. The Fair is sponsored and funded, in part, with tax payers’ monies from the Grants for the Arts (GFTA)
and the San Francisco Department of the Environment.
The public spotlight has heretofore focused on “The Last
Supper” advertisement for the Fair resulting in the withdrawal of support from the Miller Brewing Company.
But there was another sacrilegious event that took place at the Folsom Street
Fair that went unnoticed and which I want to bring to your attention.
Since
2002, the Fair has featured caged go-go dancers in various states of undress lifted high above street level.
This year, one of the go-go male
dancers, dressed as Jesus Christ, was
hoisted up in an iron cage. Amid sexual gyrations he proceeded to perform a striptease that left him dressed in nothing but a leather brief. In the background of this caged setting is, what
was once, St. Joseph’s Catholic Church. While the church has closed down, I believe that the Archdiocese still owns the land on
which the church building rests.
On
Wednesday, November 14, 2007, the SF Commission on the Environment which directs the affairs of the SF Department of the Environment
will meet at 5 p.m. at the Women’s Building, Audre Lorde Room 3543 – 18th Street, 2nd Floor, San Francisco. After
roll call and the adoption of the minutes, there is an opportunity for members of the public to address the Commission on
matters that are within the Commission’s jurisdiction and are not on the evenings’ agenda.
The organizers of the Folsom Street Fair have already announced the date for
their next annual fete. It will be held on Sunday, September 28, 2008.
They
have, no doubt, already applied for next year’s grant from the Department of the Environment and they will undoubtedly
get the grant unless San Francisco’s moral leaders and taxpayers speak out.
This is
where you, Archbishop Niederauer, come in.
As the
Shepherd of Souls of more than 425,000 Catholics in the Archdiocese of San Francisco’s you have the duty to set an example
for them to follow.
I am asking that you be present at the November 14 meeting of the San Francisco Commission on the Environment, dressed
in full bishop’s attire, to address the Commission members on the subject of the de-funding of the Folsom Street Fair.
There are 90 parishes and 11 missions within the Archdiocese, and I presume, without much difficulty on your part, a representative
of each of the parishes and missions, lay, religious, and priests, can be present to back up your request that any and all
financial support for the Folsom Street Fair by the Department of the Environment be withheld or if already approved, withdrawn.
I am enclosing a series of photographs of the performance of
caged male stripper in question at the Folsom Street Fair taken on September 29, 2007. *
After viewing these photos mocking our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, I trust
that you will take the necessary steps to draw the attention of your flock to the sacrilegious nature of this “attraction”
and inform them of your plans to de-fund the Folsom Street Fair, and the role that they can play in assisting you with this task.
I think 48 hours from 9 a.m. (PST) on Monday, November 5, will afford you sufficient time to decide on what course of action you plan to take on this grave matter.
If I do
not hear from your office by November
7, I shall issue this private letter as an Open Letter
to Catholics around the world.
You made a “mistake”
in giving communion to two of the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence at Most Holy Redeemer Church last month. Here is an opportunity
to right that wrong. I pray that you will take advantage of it.
Sincerely
in Christ,
Randy Engel, author, The Rite of Sodomy
Box 356
Export, PA 15632
724-327-7379
Randy.Engel@riteofsodomy.com
* Note: The graphic photographs sent to Archbishop Niederauer
may be viewed at: http://www.richtrove.com/Archives/Street%20Fairs/2007%2009%2030%2009%20Folsom%20Cage%20Dance/Welcome.htm WARNING: GRAPHIC AND OFFENSIVE
CONTENT
You can access the Folsom Street Fair 2007 caged stripper in action approximately 30 seconds into
the following graphic street video; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fWmpcf31ZCM. WARNING:
GRAPHIC AND OFFENSIVE CONTENT.
Express Your Outrage in Action and Reparation
benedictxvi@vatican.va and the Papal Nuncio, Archbishop Pietro Sambi : nuntiususa@nuntiususa.org.
Most importantly, every Catholic is asked to make an act of reparation that
includes the prayer given by the Angel to the children of Fatima, which they received on their knees, with their foreheads
touching the ground:
MOST
Holy Trinity, Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, I adore Thee profoundly. I offer Thee the Most Precious Body, Soul, and Divinity
of Jesus Christ, present in all the tabernacles of the world in reparation for the outrages, sacrileges, and indifferences
by which He is offended. And through the infinite merit of His Most Sacred Heart, and of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, I beg
of Thee for the conversion of poor sinners. (three times) |