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trotsky

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Tue Jun 2, 2015, 09:12 AM Jun 2015

WATCH: John Oliver Eviscerates Vatican's Hypocrisy on Irish Marriage Equality

https://www.advocate.com/comedy/2015/06/01/watch-john-oliver-eviscerates-vaticans-hypocrisy-irish-marriage-equality

In a short segment on Sunday’s episode of Last Week Tonight on HBO, the snarky late-night host hilariously highlighted the hypocrisy within the church lamenting the fact that Ireland became the first country in the world to legalize same-sex marriage by popular vote.

“I think that you cannot just talk of a defeat for Christian principles, but of a defeat for humanity,” said the Vatican's secretary of state (and second-in-command to the Pope), Pietro Parolin last week in a statement.

“Settle down a little, Catholic Church,” said Oliver in response. “Remember, your organization’s victories for humanity include crusades, forced adoptions, and running a wildly successful international pedophile exchange program.”

“Let’s save the defeat for humanity accusation for things that truly deserve it,” Oliver concluded.


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