Did you bother to look at the source for the 'report' that those objects were confiscated from the monasteries?  It's from "The New Light of Myanmar", a state run propaganda paper that is forced down the throat of the civil service. It's highly unlikely that there is any substance to this report, and it was clearly an attempt to smear the image of the highly revered, and now imprisoned or martyred, monks in the eyes of the public.  That Scanner would pass this off as a cute and flippant 'naughty sex news' bit, given the reality of what is happening in Burma, is reprehensible.

Regards,

Deborah A. Dixon

"In other parts of the world, this has not been the best news week for men of the cloth."

What, because this has been the best news week ever for Burmese men of the cloth?!  I second Deborah's disgust.  

The source for your post, the New Light of Myanmar, is a state-controlled newspaper.  If you don't recall, this is the same state that is currently murdering thousands of monks for daring to march for democracy and has attempted to shut out any reports on the atrocities.  Please take down this ridiculous post that regurgitates the propaganda of one of the most repressive countries on earth.  

Yeah, I'm going to have to join the politically-correct brigade here. Doing a "funny" post about Burmese monks at this particular time is beyond tasteless. Reading the post, it seems possible that you weren't even aware of the recent crackdown in Burma... were you?

When you added the "update", you couldn't have tossed something in about the thousands of monks being held in detention right now, the unknown numbers who were murdered in the last couple weeks? Just for a bit of context before you got back to the importance business of the cat video?

I know, I know. We don't come to Scanner for political news. But honestly, this is like making a "Jewish sausage" joke at the Holocaust museum.