{"id":2431555,"date":"2019-01-20T18:32:01","date_gmt":"2019-01-21T01:32:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/news\/sister-helen-holy-needs-a-new-shtick\/"},"modified":"2019-01-20T18:32:01","modified_gmt":"2019-01-21T01:32:01","slug":"sister-helen-holy-needs-a-new-shtick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/local-news\/sister-helen-holy-needs-a-new-shtick\/","title":{"rendered":"Sister Helen Holy needs a new shtick"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">As recounted in <a id=\"N0x1f08a00N0x1ebc8f0:N0x1f08a00N0x1d6dc00\" href=\"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/news\/sister-helen-holy-a-staple-for-aspen-gay-ski-weeks-downhill-fun\/\">&#8220;Sister Helen Holy: A staple for Aspen Gay Ski Week&#8217;s downhill fun&#8221;<\/a> (Aspen Times online, Jan. 17), Paul J. Williams&#8217; comic routine is not merely tasteless but also is anachronistic, in that the church he ridicules for censoriousness now appears to have a greater number of actively gay men in its clergy than Aspen ever had during Gay Ski Week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Does he think he&#8217;s being &#8220;edgy&#8221; by fighting yesterday&#8217;s war?<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">And does he think that there is still humor to be found in the spectacle of a Tartuffe behaving like a lecher? Thanks to the rash of sex abuse cases cropping up in the Catholic Church, 80 percent of which are homosexual in nature, that train left the station some time ago.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">No, &#8220;Sister&#8221; Williams&#8217; &#8220;downhill fun&#8221; is more downhill than fun. It serves no one \u2014 least of all gay men \u2014 to attack Christians who actually pray for them.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND Letter Name\">Chad Klinger<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND Letter Title\">Basalt<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/opinion\/letters-to-the-editor\/sister-helen-holy-needs-a-new-shtick\/\" target=\"_blank\">via:: The Aspen Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As recounted in &#8220;Sister Helen Holy: A staple for Aspen Gay Ski Week&#8217;s downhill fun&#8221; (Aspen Times online, Jan. 17), Paul J. Williams&#8217; comic routine is not merely tasteless but also is anachronistic, in that the church he ridicules for censoriousness now appears to have a greater number of actively gay men in its clergy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2431555","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-12 13:16:35","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSPN The Valley&#039;s Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2431555","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2431555"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2431555\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2431555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2431555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2431555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}