Of Backwards Dancing, and Misconstruing the Pope?

You have to see this to believe it was even suggested:

https://twitter.com/arian290360/status/1315200483762397184?s=11

Ah, yes, inventive and enterprising, even, humorous, with a new meaning of ‘cheek to cheek’. But as I pondered this, I thought, how also very odd, and I could not help but be reminded of possessed people walking backwards, and this awkward, ape-like anomaly had some faint hint of that. Not able to look each other in the face, or the eyes, while engaging in the courtly ritual of dancing? And we have our own Dr. Theresa Tam advocating masks during the conjugal act – I presume she means for non-married couples, but one never knows with our new martial – and not so much marital – medical mandarins.

We had a note this morning on Pope Francis and the notion of civil unions for homosexuals, which the Church has condemned – the news about the Pope’s support for such seems to be a case of a mistranslation. So we will morph those words into some general thoughts on civil unions in general, rather than civil unions and the Pope. The truth always wins out in the end…