tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8383701632927065467.post1408675597087963791..comments2023-08-21T03:51:17.425-06:00Comments on Enlightened Catholicism: How Outright Lies Were Used To Defeat Prop 1 In Mainecolkochhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03432916690101599393noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8383701632927065467.post-88968817608449719282009-11-06T09:42:48.178-07:002009-11-06T09:42:48.178-07:00Thanks for this exposure of hypocrisy. The hierarc...Thanks for this exposure of hypocrisy. The hierarchy and papacy will just have to shut up about all these issues. They are covering themselves in disgrace.Joe O'Lhttp://josephsoleary.typepad.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8383701632927065467.post-24782995211120075522009-11-04T19:43:20.766-07:002009-11-04T19:43:20.766-07:00I am not surprised at all the prevarications, but ...I am not surprised at all the prevarications, but I am sorry to see people fell for them. If I had been a Maine parishioner, I would have dropped a note into the collection basket for the Yes on 1 campaign explaining why I refused to contribute.khughes1963https://www.blogger.com/profile/16118365554189078448noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8383701632927065467.post-28065174011103079542009-11-04T16:10:47.181-07:002009-11-04T16:10:47.181-07:00The expectation that the Catholic lowerarchy will ...The expectation that the Catholic lowerarchy will be anything other than duplicitous in their political efforts is a fool's expectation.<br /><br />"Blessed are those from whom you expect nothing: you shall not be disappointed."<br /><br />"Never ascribe to malice what can be sufficiently explained by stupidity." Mark Twain<br /><br />"People reach conclusions when they are tired of thinking." Mark Twain.<br /><br />Once a fixed idea of duty gets inside a narrow mind, it can never get out.<br /><br />"You can safely assume you have created God in your own image if God hates the same people you do." Anne Lamott<br /><br />On to the next battle ----<br /><br />Jim McCreaAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8383701632927065467.post-91398804173225879612009-11-04T14:29:31.072-07:002009-11-04T14:29:31.072-07:00I wonder sometimes if "church leaders" ...I wonder sometimes if "church leaders" (boy... you have to put that in quotes now, doncha?) pause at all to consider how this whole issue strikes the <b>children of gay people</b> - because talk about <i>visiting the sins of one generation onto another!</i>. And mind you, I do not consider homosexuality a sin either!<br /><br />But <b>think of the children!</b><br /><br />Too many children are unable to call their parents "married" - and why should any child be denied having married parents? I'm not limiting marriage to parenthood here. But it's another angle on this that the church arch-conservatives and so many right wing bigots fail to consider at all here.<br /><br />Think of these children, exposed to the nonsense (sorry, but it IS nonsense!) that their parents have an "objective disorder" and that they have "sinful people" for parents.<br /><br />Honestly, the lack of compassion, the outright abuse that is being inflicted particularly on the "least among us" is heartrending and outrageous.<br /><br /><b>Think the children! And for God's sake let their parents (or would be parents) and their godparents or parents' friends marry.</b>TheraPhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17684120043427738135noreply@blogger.com