Hooters to receive blessing – from priest

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there is nothing at all wrong or immoral about hooters. a priest blessed one, so what? good for him. It’s not like they promote anything bad, there’s no openly perverse message about what we should be doing instead of going to church, it’s a decent restaurant that actually has managed to do well for itself in both quality and customer service.
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So what? It’s isn’t a topless bar. What is this, Iran?
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*"You have heard that it was said, ‘Do not commit adultery.’ But I tell you that anyone who looks at a woman lustfully has already committed adultery with her in his heart. - *Matthew 5:27-28

Hooters is a place where you can go and eat food while lusting after women who are dressed for the sole purpose of being lustful objects. It is as simple as that. I speak from experience. Hooters is nothing more than “strip-club lite.” It is a place to indulge the near occassion of sin which we as Catholics are advised to avoid. It is a place where a man willfully allows himself to be “lead into temptation.” There is a VERY openly preverse message being transmitted by Hooters. Even the name of the place makes that quite obvious.

“Flee also youthful lusts: but follow righteousness, faith, charity, peace, with them that call on the Lord out of a pure heart” - 2 Timothy 2:22

Ask yourself this: Would you want Our Blessed Mother seeing you sitting in there and mentally abusing the image of God that is in all women? Would you want your daughter working there to be an object of the lustfull fantasies of men and in doing so possibly putting them and herself on the road to Hell? Being a “decent restaurant that’s done well for itself” does not justify the enternal damnation of anyone’s soul.

If the world wants places like Hooters, that is the world’s decision. But that does not mean that a Catholic priest should be blessing the place and thereby sending a message that the church approves of the degrading of women’s bodies and men’s hearts.

Now I’m sure I’ll be blasted for being an “old-fashioned, medievel Catholic,” but so be it.

“If you were of the world, the world would love his own: but because you are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hates you” - John 15:19
 
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landstander:
there is nothing at all wrong or immoral about hooters. A priest blessed one, so what? good for him. It’s not like they promote anything bad, there’s no openly perverse message about what we should be doing instead of going to church, it’s a decent restaurant that actually has managed to do well for itself in both quality and customer service.

Yes…I go when i can, but the food is excellent and the people friendly. If there’s a problem with a priest blessing a place like that, then there’s a problem with priests blessing a lot of things.
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The name of the place alone should give a Christian pause to think why they would spend money there. It objectifies women and promotes lust as acceptable.
 
Moving this thread to Moral Theology. You all can debate the morality of attire there.
 
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Ask yourself this: Would you want Our Blessed Mother seeing you sitting in there and mentally abusing the image of God that is in all women? Would you want your daughter working there to be an object of the lustfull fantasies of men
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From the new encyclical:
Nowadays Christianity of the past is often criticized as having been opposed to the body; and it is quite true that tendencies of this sort have always existed. Yet the contemporary way of exalting the body is deceptive.* Eros*, reduced to pure “sex”, has become a commodity, a mere “thing” to be bought and sold, or rather, man himself becomes a commodity. This is hardly man’s great “yes” to the body. On the contrary, he now considers his body and his sexuality as the purely material part of himself, to be used and exploited at will. Nor does he see it as an arena for the exercise of his freedom, but as a mere object that he attempts, as he pleases, to make both enjoyable and harmless. Here we are actually dealing with a debasement of the human body: no longer is it integrated into our overall existential freedom; no longer is it a vital expression of our whole being, but it is more or less relegated to the purely biological sphere.
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vatican.va/holy_father/benedict_xvi/encyclicals/documents/hf_ben-xvi_enc_20051225_deus-caritas-est_en.html
 
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Not to mention the sinners and tax-collectors and others who may patronize Hooters…

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These were my thoughts exactly. Nobody knows what blessing the priest will impart on the building, nobody but the priest. What ever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven.

Fr. Corapi gave a radio talk one day about the a homeless shelter, where they would hide scapulars in the beds and pillows, and put holy water in the soup.

Whatever it takes to deliver the blessing of God.
 
From the article:
For the record, though, Rozycki said he doesn’t think Hooters deserves the bad rap it has gotten from some. He has eaten at a Dallas-area Hooters twice, he said, and enjoyed the experience.
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People who go to the restaurant with lust in their hearts are sure to find what they are looking for, Rozycki said. But that would be true no matter where they went, he said, adding that the waitresses’ uniforms are less revealing than what is on display at the beach or a public swimming pool.
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“I respect (the ministers’) opinion, but I think it’s the way and the attitude with which you approach it,” Rozycki said. “I look it as a very fun place. É It was a place of laughter. You forget about the tensions and stress of daily life and get an opportunity to laugh with friends. É And it’s great food.”
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Am I to believe this logic is the same logic Christ used to call sinners to conversion by eating with them?
 
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FrankR:
These were my thoughts exactly. Nobody knows what blessing the priest will impart on the building, nobody but the priest. What ever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven.

Fr. Corapi gave a radio talk one day about the a homeless shelter, where they would hide scapulars in the beds and pillows, and put holy water in the soup.

Whatever it takes to deliver the blessing of God.
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Seems a bit odd to me 😑
 
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The name of the place alone should give a Christian pause to think why they would spend money there. It objectifies women and promotes lust as acceptable.
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actually, if you read the menu, the name was supposed to do with the creators fascination with owls. weak excuse, i know, but hey…

hooters doesn’t force women to work there, it’s actually a fairly competitive job market for people who want to work at hooters. It might be a subtle undertone, but it’s not right out there though. Hooters has a very specific stance on the sexual outward appearance of their employees and does nto promote the opinion that their waitresses are simply there to be sexual objects of the patrons desire. It’s a fun place to hang out, there’s a lot more to it than people give it credit for.
 
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landstander:
actually, if you read the menu, the name was supposed to do with the creators fascination with owls. weak excuse, i know, but hey…

hooters doesn’t force women to work there, it’s actually a fairly competitive job market for people who want to work at hooters. It might be a subtle undertone, but it’s not right out there though. Hooters has a very specific stance on the sexual outward appearance of their employees and does nto promote the opinion that their waitresses are simply there to be sexual objects of the patrons desire. It’s a fun place to hang out, there’s a lot more to it than people give it credit for.
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You are kidding? The name, the dress code, the entire idea promotes an improper view of women, sexuality and entertainment.
 
Amazing rationalizing, from a priest, even.

Owls have nothing to do with it. Even the, um, pupils (yeah right) in the middle of the double O in the name are a double entendre.

I used to go there with a certain client (his choice, poor judgement on my part). Trust me. Men go there specifically to see sexy women in very tight, short shorts and very tight tank tops while drining beer, elbowing each other to make sure nothing is missed and laughing about it. The entire atmosphere is designed to encourage this.

Is it a strip club? no way. Do men go the the beach with the goal of seeing even more exposed flesh? Sure. Does the above negate the fact that the business model of Hooters is to exploit the sexuality of women to attract male customers? Nope. Face it: Hooters makes money by contributing to the base desire of many men to see women as objects of pleasure.

Jesus might indeed have gone to such a place. But I can assure that if he had, it would NOT be business as usual that night. He might even have blessed patrons. No way would he bless the operation. This priest doesn’t seem to notice that his actions don’t have the same effect that Jesus would have had. What he said would fully apply to blessing a Bennigans, Friday’s, Applebys, etc. But not a place that purposely degrades women as part of its business model.
 
I seem to remember Jesus visiting a place where immoral acts were occurring. I believe a “whip of cords” was involved; I don’t remember blessings being dispensed 😃

The correct analog here is not to Jesus eating with tax collectors; it would be if he had visited a whorehouse and blessed it.
 
The priest certainly needs our prayers.

The Hooter’s Restaurants are dangerous, especially for men since they may very likely place oneself in a state of temptation to sin. It would be objectively sinful to place oneself in an occasion of sin. Let us not be fooled by the wisdom of this world.

Larry B.
 
For all those who just can’t resist browsing through the Hooters employee handbook (I know you’re out there), it has been posted at the Smoking Gun, starting here.
 
I suggest everyone drop in at a Hooters for lunch. Good food, good service, good drinks. Reading these comments indicates that very few really know what they are talking about.
 
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Ortho:
I suggest everyone drop in at a Hooters for lunch. Good food, good service, good drinks. Reading these comments indicates that very few really know what they are talking about.
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The ends never justify the means. Is it like reading Playboy for the articles?
 
The priest is giving the impression that he’s blessing the business. Hooter’s demeans women and makes them sex objects. Just because they’re not topless or naked doesn’t make it okay. The intent is still there.

No one makes the women work there, but no one makes women work in strip clubs either. That has nothing to do with it.

Hooters just fills the bill for many because they can kind of wink about it and say they really like the food. Kind of like “I read the articles” excuse. It’s a place you can go and freely stare and ogle women in clothing that doesn’t leave a lot to the imagination.

Yes Jesus went and dwelt among the sinners…and blessed them…but He said…“go and sin no more!” That the key. He didn’t bless them and say keep on doing what you’re doing!!
 
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Ortho:
I suggest everyone drop in at a Hooters for lunch. Good food, good service, good drinks. Reading these comments indicates that very few really know what they are talking about.
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Speaking from personal experience? I recall reading this personal experience motto of yours from another thread:
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I think I’d rather use my own experience than someone else’s

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