http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/29/opinion/sunday/dowd-bishops-play-church-queens-as-pawns.html?_r=3
“How can the church hierarchy be more offended by the nuns’ impassioned advocacy for the poor than by priests’ sordid pedophilia? How do you take spiritual direction from a church that seems to be losing its soul?”
Citing King’s line that he dreamed that one day his children would “live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character,” Fischer argued that discrimination based on behavior is justified and absolutely appropriate … and, as such, “you begin to see the implications when it comes to homosexuality because you’re dealing there with issues of content of character and you are dealing with issues of behavior and conduct and it’s perfectly appropriate to discriminate against immoral conduct.”
http://www.thinkatheist.com/m/blogpost?id=1982180%3ABlogPost%3A44493
I swear humanity is regressing to a new dark age.
What would Jesus do with the U.S. economy? That’s a matter of fierce debate among Christians — with conservatives promoting a small-government Jesus and liberals seeing Jesus as an advocate for the poor.
Read More »Remember that article I posted a little while ago about a priest who was giving a PowerPoint presentation when SUDDENLY Satan intervened and displayed some gay porn images, and the priest didn’t know where in the world they could have come from and disavowed any knowledge of it, got flustered, ran out, then came back and asked kids to give money to the church? Well, looks like a miracle happened. The laptop seems to have conveniently disappeared.
Sanal Edamaruku, an Indian skeptic, went to Mumbai and revealed that a “miraculous” weeping cross was really just a bit of statuary located near a leaky drain whose liquid reached it by way of capillary action. The local Catholic Church demanded that he retract his statements, and when he refused, they had him arrested for blasphemy. [via boingboing]
“World News Daily” claims that tomorrow, a “national uprising” against Obama will take place. My facile prediction: they’ll be Photoshopping in the crowds from PRO-Obama rallies.
Read More »“The right wing Republican politicians who have been denouncing the requirement that female employees have access to birth control as part of their health benefits as an attack on religious freedom completely ignore the church teachings they don’t agree with. Rick Santorum and Newt Gingrich are both Catholics, and wear their faith on their sleeves, but they are hypocritical in picking and choosing when they wish to listen to the bishops.”
Read More »“You can’t do that! That’s tyranny!” Take a look at some of the swift reactions to yesterday’s Prop 8 ruling, from the usual suspects.
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