If I'm not mistaken, most of the wingnuts on the court are members of one religion - Catholic. Did I get that right? I have hope that when they do their massive unraveling of our Constitutional laws and rights, there will be a commensurate massive blowback. Certainly women will be first in…
If I'm not mistaken, most of the wingnuts on the court are members of one religion - Catholic. Did I get that right? I have hope that when they do their massive unraveling of our Constitutional laws and rights, there will be a commensurate massive blowback. Certainly women will be first in line - but the LGBTQ community, which has long suffered and only recently been given their legal freedoms, will be fierce contenders in elections to follow. I don't know what the Catholic church is "thinking" these days, but who on earth would want to affiliate with that religion, given its anti-human posture on just about everything?
Maybe their backup plan is to ensure that none of these "unenumerated" populations will ever have a vote in the future? That might have worked back in the day when you could simply round them up and burn them at a stake, but there were over 7 million more of us in 2020 as I recall. That's a lot of burning. A lot of trees being staked.
Catholic theology and social teaching have many good aspects. The problem is more that prominent Catholics (= rich) and bishops are acknowledged Republicans. That's the problem.
Once the Catholic Bishops honored Bill Barr at the National Catholic Prayer Breakfast, the church lost me. I agree with you that many Catholics and even Catholic groups do wonderful things, truly humanitarian work. But the hypocrisy stinks in the hierarchy. I can’t abide it. Bill Barr is part of the axis of evil from the last administration. To honor the devil is to sell your soul.
Shades of Salem witch trials...here we go again.
If I'm not mistaken, most of the wingnuts on the court are members of one religion - Catholic. Did I get that right? I have hope that when they do their massive unraveling of our Constitutional laws and rights, there will be a commensurate massive blowback. Certainly women will be first in line - but the LGBTQ community, which has long suffered and only recently been given their legal freedoms, will be fierce contenders in elections to follow. I don't know what the Catholic church is "thinking" these days, but who on earth would want to affiliate with that religion, given its anti-human posture on just about everything?
Maybe their backup plan is to ensure that none of these "unenumerated" populations will ever have a vote in the future? That might have worked back in the day when you could simply round them up and burn them at a stake, but there were over 7 million more of us in 2020 as I recall. That's a lot of burning. A lot of trees being staked.
Catholic theology and social teaching have many good aspects. The problem is more that prominent Catholics (= rich) and bishops are acknowledged Republicans. That's the problem.
Once the Catholic Bishops honored Bill Barr at the National Catholic Prayer Breakfast, the church lost me. I agree with you that many Catholics and even Catholic groups do wonderful things, truly humanitarian work. But the hypocrisy stinks in the hierarchy. I can’t abide it. Bill Barr is part of the axis of evil from the last administration. To honor the devil is to sell your soul.
I like the Catholics like Joe Biden much better. :-)
True!
The hierarchy is generally (but not uniformly) despicable. I see incompetence and arrogance from my own bishop, and he’s not alone.