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Father Martin McVeigh was giving a talk to 26 parents and one 8-year-old kid when computer disaster struck: he connected his USB drive into a PC to start his Powerpoint presentation. But instead of the word of God, a hardcore gay porn slideshow started, thanks to Windows’ autoplay.
Some parents—who were there to hear McVeigh talk about First Communion—were angry. Others were in shock. Just like McVeigh. He was so embarrassed that, according to witnesses, he unplugged the USB drive and walked out of the room without uttering a single word. Later he declared to the press:
I don’t know how it happened but I know what happened. There are people making innuendoes who weren’t even there but in this day and age these stories grow.
Well, Father, I think there’s little space for innuendo after showing gay porn in church. The Archdiocese of Armagh, where the parish belongs, called the police and gave them the USB stick for inspection. The police told them there was no crime in gay porn and the drive didn’t contain any pedophilia. It was just normal gay porn.
According to The Ulster Herald, “an emergency meeting was held in the parish last night.” You know, because gay priests are such a rare event that emergency meetings need to be held with the utmost urgency, so everyone can slam someone who mistakenly made his sexual preferences public. Embarrassment is not enough! To the fire with him. [Ulster Herald via Irish Central, Joe.ie]
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Hold on a second, there isn’t enough detail in this story to make the certain assumption that the Gay Porn was his. I’m no fan of the Catholic church, but I’m even less of a fan of condemning someone without evidence.
I think we can assume it was his. I was raised catholic and there wasn’t a priest I met that wasn’t a bit fruity. It’s a unfortunate mistake, but as long as it wasn’t kids on the flash drive he’s done nothing wrong. Just very careless and unlucky.
He’s done nothing wrong legally, but I don’t think the Catholic church will agree with doing nothing wrong in their (twisted) views
As mentioned on The Register version of this article, this could be malware -
“Before people rush to judge Father McVeigh, however, it’s not clear if the offending images were manually stored on the USB stick and appeared due to AutoRun, or if this was a pop-up window caused by malware. The latter is still very common, usually picked up at websites unrelated to those subjects it advertises, and often over-reacted to, as the tragic case of former US teacher Julie Amero demonstrates.”
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/04/02/priest_powerpoint_pr0n/
Like the vicar who was hauled into A&E the other week with a potato stuck up his arse, I’m sure there’s a perfectly reasonable explanantion for this.
Lol @ windows autoplay.. this reminded of an event from college when some person was going to show us an educational video however he auto played it from drive. When that educational video ended a hardcore spree of monkey porn started by it self. Not as worse as gay porn though.
That depends whether there was anything other than monkeys in it!
Naw just monkey vs monkey.. as u think of it that is sort of educational as well.
That’s what I’ve always said. It’s eduction. They never listen to me though.
Embarrassing, yes. But in my view, so is being religious. Having gay porn pop up on your computer is far less embarrassing than believing in a sky wizard.
I couldn’t care less what his sexual preference was, cheap writing.
Yeah, very embarrassing to find a vicar in a church (especially in Ireland). Who would have thought it?
There are plenty of people that are religious. Personally I think its better to be agnostic than atheist since there’s no way of fully knowing but enough of that no point in starting a religious debate. Anyway I’m sure most people would rather people know that they were religious than being fired from their job, and it being the church its gonna be much worse.