Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2000 05:47:52 -0700 (PDT) From: Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.org> To: chat@freebsd.org Subject: Vatican porn (fwd) Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0009220547160.89948-100000@freefall.freebsd.org>
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Salon.com - Sept. 20, 2000
Mixing sound
A Vatican festival is mistakenly broadcast over Italian TV with porn-movie
soundtracks.
By Jack Boulware
Sept. 20, 2000 | Each year in mid-September the Roman Catholic Church
celebrates the feast of the Exaltation of the Venerable Cross, which honors
the fourth century finding of the Lord's Cross and its recovery from
Persian captivity in the seventh century. Thanks to modern technology, this
year's Vatican festival was televised live to millions of viewers across
Italy, Spain and Latin America. Also thanks to modern technology, the
broadcast of 20 cardinals celebrating Mass and leading prayers was
accidentally accompanied by the soundtracks of hardcore-porn films.
According to news reports, Italian broadcasting company RAI had intended to
send audio and video from the festival to its satellite, to be bounced to
Catholic audiences around the world. But a satellite TV company in
Luxembourg managed to mix up the audio portions of the broadcasts of the
Vatican festival and the Fantasy Channel -- playing the soundtracks of
"Stacey and the Hunt" and "Babes Illustrated" during the festival
broadcast. For two hours, millions of Roman Catholics watched video of
cardinals singing hymns and praying, set to the orgasmic moaning and
caterwauling of porn stars like Shyla Foxxx, Kaitlyn Ashley and Caressa
Savage. Conversely, male viewers of the Fantasy Channel, sitting on sofas
with their pants to their ankles, were treated to porn that featured holy
incantations.
"The film soundtrack was transmitted, and it was really hardcore stuff,"
said Deric Botham, managing editor of Television X, which produces the
Fantasy Channel. "It could not have been worse."
Reaction from the Vatican was uncharacteristically subdued, considering its
views on pornography. "It sounded like a very unfortunate mistake," said a
spokesman for the Roman Catholic Church.
Perhaps God does exist.
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About the writer
Jack Boulware is a writer in San Francisco and author of "San Francisco
Bizarro" and "Sex American Style.
--
In God we Trust -- all others must submit an X.509 certificate.
-- Charles Forsythe <forsythe@alum.mit.edu>
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