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• Saturday, February 17, 2007 02:37 PM

  To Tex Field

  Yes, it was satire, and guess what? Satire is meant to hurt, in the interest of serving a larger point.

  If the Church's position on birth control is so popular with Catholics, how come the great majority of American Catholics, in poll after poll, ignore it? Why is artificial birth control disallowed? Because, uh, well, I really have no idea. Because it gives freedom to women? Because it would be a much better idea for the world, with the population explosion being what it is, to limit the growth of populations before we hit 10 billion, and not by any 1984-like government decrees, but just through the normal exercise of a woman's will? Because, if you don't have to be worried about conception every single time you have sex, you might enjoy sex as an expression of love a little more?

  I grew up Catholic, and am not anymore, in large part because of attitudes like yours. It's not "bigotry against Catholics" you can't stand, you just hate being contradicted, and even made fun of.

  There's a sizable portion of Catholics that want to join with the fundamentalist right and allow religion to dominate politics. Thunder condemnation all you want, but there's more Catholics who don't want anything to do with Falwell or the right-wing Christians in general. You're in the minority, even among Catholics.

  If you don't like Catholcs ever being made fun of, go back to Franco's Spain.

  —Jim H Read Jim H's other letters
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