Good news: Cardinal Mahony calls Trumps pardon of Sheriff Arpaio disgusting

[guillaumeb]

From the article:

In a statement on Monday, the retired Cardinal Archbishop of Los Angeles became the first member of the Church hierarchy to speak out against President Donald Trump's pardon of Sheriff Joe Arpaio. In a strongly worded statement, he called the decision "disgusting" and said it undermined the rule of law.

To read more:

https://cruxnow.com/church-in-the-usa/2017/08/28/cardinal-mahony-calls-trumps-pardon-sheriff-arpaio-disgusting/

[trotsky]

1. All moral and thinking people find the pardon disgusting.

It is insulting to everyone else to highlight one particular church official for simply being a decent human being.

[guillaumeb]

4. If all thinking people found the pardon to be disgusting,

Arpaio would not have been pardoned. And this is the religion group. If a prominent non-theist denounces the pardon I suggest you post that in the Atheist group.

[trotsky]

6. Which is why I said "all MORAL AND thinking people"

FFS, you lecture everyone else about not properly repeating your claims, and you go and do shit like this. No wonder nobody takes you seriously.

[guillaumeb]

7. Are you the arbiter of who is moral?

Is this an appointed or elected office?

[trotsky]

8. Nope, not taking the bait.

You blatantly twisted what I said. Admit you were wrong, and apologize.

[guillaumeb]

9. Read your initial response.

I twisted nothing. I simply asked a question about your own words.

[trotsky]

10. Admit you were wrong and apologize, and I'll be happy to answer your question. n/t

[guillaumeb]

11. Back to that? Understood. eom

[trotsky]

12. Yep, until you show that you are sincere in wanting discussion...

you will receive nothing but contempt.

[AtheistCrusader]

14. Ask any religious organization. They all have a variety of answers.

[AtheistCrusader]

15. Also are you fucking serious with this shit? I've spent my LIFE being told by religious people that

as an Atheist I cannot possibly have a basis for morality.

You gonna sit there and say something like that to an atheist with a straight face like nobody is going to get pissed off about it?

[guillaumeb]

16. If it is a tactic that should not be allowed, it is a tactic that should not

be used, correct?

[Sneederbunk]

2. And Arpaio is a Catholic.

[trotsky]

3. And no doubt certain of himself that he did the lord's work. n/t

[guillaumeb]

5. As is presumably the Cardinal.

Which shows that people have different opinions.

[trotsky]

13. But they're both equally Christian. n/t

[Cuthbert Allgood]

17. Even a broken clock...

Doesn't excuse his horrible positions on most other issues.

[Act_of_Reparation]

18. The same Cardinal Mahony who personally transferred pedophile priests instead of turning them in?

Neat.

[trotsky]

20. Wow, nice catch.

Cardinal Mahony barred from public ministry in Los Angeles

Los Angeles Archbishop Jose Gomez has barred his predecessor, Cardinal Roger Mahony, from any public ministry in Los Angeles.

"Effective immediately, I have informed Cardinal Mahony that he will no longer have any administrative or public duties," Gomez said in a letter Thursday.

He cited Mahony's alleged failures to protect young people from sexually abusive priests -- documented in court filings in recent years -- as grounds for the decision, in church terms, to bar the cardinal from any future public activities in the Los Angeles archdiocese.

Clearly an expert on morality.

[MineralMan]

19. I've said the same thing.

Am I supposed to now congratulate the Cardinal? I think not. I have seen other things that the Cardinal has done, which I also find disgusting.

I'm glad he feels that way, but it's a matter of no serious importance to me, nor does it obviate his other disgusting behavior.