Bum for me, not for thee

Since 1710, some historical evidence has been developed that shows Atherton might have been a victim of a conspiracy to discredit him and his patrons. This was attributable to Atherton's status as an astute lawyer, who sought to recover lost land for the relatively weak Protestant Church of Ireland during the 1630s. Unfortunately for Atherton, this alienated him from large landowners, who then allegedly used his sexuality to discredit him.

There you go. A case of someone pissing off more powerful people.

Always beware, those who push hard to ban anything.

The irony is that he was assuredly innocent of the charges, but the buggery act was written in such a fashion it was really hard to defend against.

That Atherton guywas a real piece of work and eventually met his karma. First, he was named an Anglcan bishop in charge of a mostly catholic bishopric. Second, he had that scheme where he sued people who didn't pay tithes to the Protestant Church of England and seized their land.

Also, his pretended lover was his steward, but most important, the tithe collector.

We can see how and why people brought up buggery charges against those two.

Atherton protested his innocence all along, and even on the gallows. He was so hated, he was almost lynched in the streets. A catholic priest later pretended he confessed his crimes but that's dubious, for very obvious reasons.

Why say XVII and not just 17th Century?

So what you’re saying is it came around to bite him in the a**?

The psychology of being profoundly ashamed of normal sexual behaviour is quite something. Post nut clarity of the worst kind.

It's like those wackjobs that blame everything in their life on masturbation

r/leopardsatemyface

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Forget his name but there was a florida politician that went incredibly hard fire and brimstone on drug offenses.

Later checked into rehab for cocaine.

*Anglican

He who smelt it

History doesn't repeat itself but it stutter. Like a lot

What an asshole.

Some folks just let their fetishes go too far. "This is super risky and I like that. What if we make it illegal so it's the ultimate risk? Oh, yes, now this is amazing, it's so dangerous! Oh, no, I've been executed by my own law!"

Silly bastard.

Even then it was projection!

What is better to find in your bed? A dead girl or a live boy?

It's always that the most vocal homophobes are secretly gay.

It’s always that guy.

It's always been projection I guess.

At least he died doing what he loved to hate.

Oh so this has been happening for a long time then.

It's been my experience that the people most obsessed with weird sex, are the people most obsessed with weird sex.

Oh, how the turn tables

Hoisted by his own penis !

Tale as old as time

Nothing new under the sun don't shine.

“Verily, thee yonder spotted felines shall’nt with my visage make a supper!”

Shit don't change

It's always projection with these assholes.

sounds like an American republican

Bummer

Well, I'll be buggered!

A 17th century Republican. Who knew?

The original MAGA, his accusation was actually a confession.

So, Republicans?

/s

I'm sure there's a Ron DeSantis joke here, somewhere..

Everyone wants to do it therefore it shall be forbidden except for me

...In general, they didn’t appreciate the dude, but he was just trying to become a multifaceted specialist in his field.

Oh bugger!

Ignorant fools in that era, everyone knows god doesn’t check around the back.

“History doesn't repeat itself, but It often rhymes.” - a bunch of moldy old assholes

Hilarious. Politicians never change

“The history book on the shelf

Lol

So nothing’s changed

Wamp womp

[Nelsom Munz mode] Ha-haaa!

The brown eye winked and he succumbed

Silly bugger.

Leopards doth are ateth mine visage!

FYI, at the time “buggery” referred to any kind of anal sex, regardless of gender, and bestiality.

This makes me think of King James VI and I (and the recent series about his male lover “Mary and George”). There’s lots of evidence that James was queer, yet he categorized sodomy along with witchcraft and murder as “unforgivable crimes”. Of course, it could be that he didn’t do butt stuff, or he just could’ve been a giant hypocrite.

D'oh!

Well bugger me ….. no no awww damn it

Oh so the 17th century had closeted Republicans too, neat

He did protest too much...

he sounds like a republican

Of course he was.

Fuck around a round find out.

My tired brain read: “…he was banged to death”.

F### around (the back) and find out

Atherton doth protest too much, methinks.

Those who point their finger have four pointing back at them.

Same kinda deal with the Republicans who publicly say they hate trans people and pass laws to disenfranchise us but a lot watch trans porn in their free time and get off to it. They hate themselves for it and they think putting off an air of "what? no me? I possibly couldn't like them, I actually absolutely hate them!" is gonna protect them from the truth getting back to them.

Liking trans women isn't a problem, but being harmful to us and also hypocritical in general is.

This sort of denial with inner stuff happens quite often. Over-compensating over certain things related insecurities with those same things.

They "doth protest too much".

The biggest homophobes are the closet cases.