Chicago Cardinal Tries to Walk Back Crazy Comment About Gay Rights Advocates "Morphing" into the KKK

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from Lawyers, Guns & Money, via AlterNet:



Chicago Cardinal Tries to Walk Back Crazy Comment About Gay Rights Advocates "Morphing" into the KKK


Cardinal Francis George of Chicago makes a very serious argument in defense of traditional Catholic doctrine on marriage:

CARDINAL GEORGE: Well, I go with the pastor. I mean, he’s telling us that they won’t be able to have Church services on Sunday, if that’s the case. You don’t want the gay liberation movement to morph into something like the Ku Klux Klan, demonstrating in the streets against Catholicism. So, I think if that’s what’s happening, and I don’t know that it is, but I would respect the local pastor’s, you know, position on that. Then I think that’s a matter of concern for all of us.

This somewhat reminds me of the argument that Democrats are the party of racism because Robert Byrd was a KKK member in 1947. The Klan threatened Catholics with its intolerance and hate in 1923. Therefore, anyone who the Catholic Church opposes must also be a purveyor of hate, even though the Catholic Church is the institution attempting to repress the rights of others. ............(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.alternet.org/newsandviews/article/753857/chicago_cardinal_tries_to_walk_back_crazy_comment_about_gay_rights_advocates_%22morphing%22_into_the_kkk/

[DURHAM D]

1. The Vatican needs to retire his ass.

[Occulus]

4. The Vatican needs to retire.

Or BE retired.

[sarcasmo]

2. Charlatans in robes

[Bluenorthwest]

3. The RCC is prehaps the entity that has committed the most atrocities in history

genocides, pogroms, wars, inquisition, you name a people, they killed them, locked them up, indentured their youth, destroyed their culture and raped their kids. A real moral authority.