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I've not read one word from these self-righteous critics addressing the content of the post that contained the offensive caption of a picture. (Did any of you know that the language was completely tangential to the thrust of her post? Or are you just dittoheads at the beck and call of William Donohue?)
To wit: it seems utterly inane to accuse Amanda of not doing research and only talking about herself when the very post that caused the uproar was not about herself at all, but was about the fact that the Catholic Church spreads misinformation when advising young couples about sexual matters.
Shouldn't that be a focus of concern? From my standpoint, if the Catholic Church is going to take up an anti-science and anti-truth position, then the only pro-science, pro-truth position is going to be interpreted as anti-Catholic.
Why did Bill Donohue criticize Amanda Marcotte and not, say, Rev. R. Albert Mohler, Jr., president of the Southern Baptist theological seminary? Mohler is on record as saying "As an evangelical, I believe the Roman church is a false church and it teaches a false gospel. I believe the pope himself holds a false and unbiblical office."
Donohue is indeed happy to ally himself with Mohler, who is publically and unapologetically anti-Catholic, because they both support the Republican agenda. So critics who say that this noise has nothing to do with Marcotte's politics and is only because her language is over-the-top are deluding themselves.
And as for the "Catholicism" of Donohue and his ilk: any "Catholic" who can stand by a President who practices kidnapping, preventive war and torture has wandering so far from the teachings of Jesus to an area that has almost nothing to do with the original theology. Where Jesus said "He who is without sin cast the first stone", Donohue says "Give me a rock, I wanna kick some ass!" Where Jesus says "Turn the other cheek!" Donohue says "I'm looking for payback - big time!"
