Diabolus and Fidelius – Act III
- Wed 27th May 2009, 11:36 pm
Diabolus: Knock Knock!
Fidelius: Oh no, not you again!
Diabolus: Ah but it is, it is.
Fidelius: Why do you keep coming around when you know as well as I do that we can’t talk?
Diabolus: And why is that?
Fidelius: BECAUSE OF WHO YOU ARE!!!! THE TEMPTOR! THE DEVIL! SATAN HIMSELF!
Diabolus: Temper temper….. you know that isn’t good for your blood pressure.
Fidelius: That’s bollocks and you know it. I feel fine.
Diabolus: If you feel fine, then why am I here?
Fidelius: You tell me.
Diabolus: It wouldn’t have anything to do with the State Supreme Court Decision yesterday, would it?
Fidelius: Absolutely not! It was a fine decision. The rule of law prevailed.
Diabolus: More like mob rule prevailed and with great cost to a specific minority – often where God is found.
Fidelius: Says who?!?!?!?!?
Diabolus: Our Lord and Savior himself: “Whatever you do to the least of my….”
Fidelius: These people are NOT Jesus’s family. Hell if they are living together and having sex they are specifically excommunicated and therefore condemned to the depths of Hell – anathema sint!(let them be cursed!)
Diabolus: Have you sunk so low that you have to cut me off before I finish quoting the man you claim as your Lord and Master?
Fidelius: There are no views nor teachings except for those of holy mother church and as we all know, extra ecclesiam nulla salus! (outside the church, no salvation)
Diabolus: Ahh, so is that the reason why you voted with your bishop instead of your conscience?
Fidelius: I had no choice! Further, I’m happy about the decision. What gay people do is wrong and should not have the sanction of society at all.
Diabolus: Then why is it still bothering you now that you voted to ban gay marriage? Is it that you got caught up in the mob mentality stirred up by your bishop and others?
Fidelius: Hardly! My salvation was riding on that vote!
Diabolus: True, it was…yet the way you voted is bothering you. Maybe you voted away your salvation and didn’t even know it?
Fidelius: I am quite confident that you will see me coming at the right side of the Father on judgment day.
Diabolus: All because you obeyed your bishop blindly – even though it meant sanctioning discrimination. Would you be feeling the same if you and Cynthia suddenly found yourself no longer married because the Supreme Court upheld the will of the mob?
Fidelius: I’ve said it once and I’ll say it again: what Cynthia and I have is natural! It is the God given order of things. Nobody can undo that.
Diabolus: Well according to the Supreme Court, the mob can undo that. Aren’t you happy now that you participated in that?
Fidelius: I did no such thing!
Diabolus: Yet some would consider what you and Cynthia do in bed to be an abomination, which if I remember my Hebrew correctly is applied not only to gay male sex, but also to lobster, shrimp and other shellfish.
Fidelius: So?
Diabolus: Don’t you two use them as aphrodisiacs?
Fidelius: Stay out of our bedroom!
Diabolus: Funny, you had no problem going into David Farnsworth’s bedroom and roundly condemning what he and Gary were doing there.
Fidelius: It’s not the same thing. They were committing abominations which lead to his death of AIDS – divine punishment for the gay community.
Diabolus: Now now, you don’t really believe that.
Fidelius: How do you know that?
Diabolus: Remember who you are talking to here.
Fidelius: You make me sick!
Diabolus: On the contrary, I’m making you think about all of your choices and about following your bishop so blindly, yet your own personal life doesn’t square up.
Fidelius: My personal life is not the issue. Besides, when it comes to those who practice gay sex, per the church it is an abomination and anathema sint! (let them be cursed!)
Diabolus: Wow, so Catholic you even speak Latin – very nice. Although didn’t you drink your way through that class too?
Fidelius: That’s not the point!
Diabolus: Oh but it is – remember, I know what you and Cynthia do behind closed doors. You do realize your bishop would have a problem with it – she’s had a hysterectomy.
Fidelius: It was to save her life! There was no way she could have another child without it killing her.
Diabolus: True, yet with that one act, what you do is no more open to procreation than what David and Gary were doing.
Fidelius: That’s not the point! Kids will get the wrong idea that it’s right and it’s not!
Diabolus: You never know. I’d wager that David and Gary, if they were given the chance to be publicly exclusive would have been great parents to any children they adopted.
Fidelius: That’s just wrong. It takes a Man AND a Woman to raise a child.
Diabolus: That’s the ideal, but you know as well as I do that life is hardly ideal.
Fidelius: The roles of the partners do not compliment each other in a same sex household! It will hurt the kids
Diabolus: That’s not definitively known and you know it. We’ve never really given them an opportunity to be exclusive, so why can’t you believe in the goodness of humanity for once?
Fidelius: As the psalmist says: Judge me oh God, and distinguish my cause from an unholy people, from unworthy and deceitful men!
Diabolus: *Sigh* Whatever man. Look, I gotta scram. More souls to disturb.
Fidelius: What about me?
Diabolus: Despite best efforts, you are still hopeless
Fidelius: HOPELESS???
Diabolus: Yep. You still fail to see the consequences of the church sanction lynching you participated it at the prompting of your bishop.
Fidelius: IT WAS FOR MY SALVATION!
Diabolus: Whatever Dude! Later!
