Mitt Romney was asked to weigh in on Chick-fil-A and on the McCarthyite campaign against Hillary Clinton aide Huma Abedin, and he refused, telling reporters, “Those are not things that are part of my campaign.” However, I see he’s hanging out with some folks who aren’t quite as shy about expressing opinions on these issues: …
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They’re Really Handling This Gracefully
The mother of all Hoekstroika’s: House Republicans called the Obama administration’s birth-control mandate “religious bigotry” and compared it to the events of Pearl Harbor and Sept. 11, 2001. The heated remarks came at a press conference marking the mandate’s first day. “I know in your mind you can think of the times America was attacked,” …
I’m not surprised
I remember when “Passion of the Christ” came out, I had friends who went to see it. I said I wouldn’t give my money to such an anti-Semitic project. They said “oh, people say everything’s anti-Semitic these days”. I told them to read the Gary Wills piece about it. So when Gibson and got arrested …
Very Creepy
I already think the pro-life fanatics are creepy, but stuff like this just takes it to the next level: A socially conservative majority dominating the Michigan House hopes to impose new regulations on abortion providers and mostly prohibit the practice after 20 weeks of pregnancy. A House committee on Thursday advanced a three-bill package to …
People Got a Lotta Nerve
Remember the Fortnight of Freedom that the Catholic Bishops ginned up so that their flock would take to the streets to protest the indignity of contraception? Here’s how that’s playing in my local diocese (click to embiggen). See that little red square? It’s the amount of front page space devoted to the protest. See that …
Onward Christian Soldiers
Looks like one diocese is getting ready to wage holy war: In an April 14 sermon at St. Mary’s Cathedral in Peoria, Jenky said the Catholic Church is under attack by the U.S. government, and he wants to recruit a “fearless army of Catholic men ready to give everything we have for the Lord.” Thundered …
Who would Jesus pay to keep quiet about sex crimes?
Another day, another lie from a right-wing Catholic higher-up: Cardinal Timothy M. Dolan of New York authorized payments of as much as $20,000 to sexually abusive priests as an incentive for them to agree to dismissal from the priesthood when he was the archbishop of Milwaukee. Questioned at the time about the news that one …
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