What Is the priest doing at a swinger party? - The Ice Storm (1997) Discussion

[–] lubin-freddy 15 years ago

This was the early '70s, people still thinking it was the '60s. He was a hip anti-establishment priest. There were people like him, some of whom I knew from the anti-war movement.

He left when Elena embarrassed him by calling his bluff on his bullsh*t.

"Sometimes you have to take the bull by the tail, and face the truth" - G. Marx

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[–] poupartca 15 years ago

He's not a priest, he's a minister of a Unitarian Universalist type church. Still clergy, but without the expectation of celibacy the word "priest" perhaps implies.

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[–] IsoscelesKramer 12 years ago

He's not a priest, he's a minister of a Unitarian Universalist type church. Still clergy, but without the expectation of celibacy the word "priest" perhaps implies.

Celibacy isn't a synonym for abstinence. It means not getting married. So technically he could be celibate and be at that party anyway.

Sir, I'm going to crack your *beep* head open!

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[–] Druff 11 years ago

>Celibacy isn't a synonym for abstinence.

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/celibacy?s=t

cel·i·ba·cy [sel-uh-buh-see]
noun
1. abstention from sexual relations
2. abstention by vow from marriage: the celibacy of priests
3. the state of being unmarried

Someone should let them know their site is broken.

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[–] Galagatron 13 years ago

When you watch your local news, wonder what the priest or pastor was doing with a little boy or hanging out in a park.

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[–] poetcomic1 13 years ago

He was not a 'priest' he was some sort of Protestant 'minister'.

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[–] thbryn 12 years ago

For the record a priest would have made the scene look even more ridiculous than it was. If you remember the "Protestant Min." was very much out of place there and it wasn't working as planned.

Kisskiss, Bangbang

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[–] ShannonTriumphant 11 years ago

I never saw any priests dabbling in the counterculture, other than getting arrested while protesting the War, but it's possible. Later, in the 80's Alternative Lifestyle set, my grad mentor was a bisexual minister of some kind, though...but that was a very, very different lifestyle!

Still, I knew lots of people who tried "key parties", mostly professors and professionals about 10 or so yrs. older than me in the mid-late 70's. They were almost always bombs--maximum discomfort!

This films is supposed to show how ludicrous is was to make Free Love a social event at some matron's house, as if it was a garden party! I thought it was spot on. Hippie that I was and totally into the Sexual Rev., with my friends at college, we laughed our asses off at key parties and "swingers'! Sad, sad, sad!

She deserves her revenge, and we deserve to die.

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