There is quite a network of bishops who trace their origins to the Archdiocese of Detroit. Cardinal Dearden , who served as Archbishop of Detroit from 1958 to 1980, is widely acknowledged as the architect of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops, of which he was the first president in the early 1970s. Dearden groomed priests for ordination to the rank of bishop who were well-known as extremists before they were named bishop. And some of Dearden's men who formerly maintained a low profile have since come into their own.
The most well-known of Dearden's progeny in the hierarchy is Bishop Thomas Gumbleton, who for at least 30 years has been traveling on the fringe of many leftist movements. He gave much support to the Communist regime in Nicaragua, and most recently has been on the lecture circuit promoting homosexuality as an acceptable lifestyle.
Two additional Dearden descendants are worthy of note in their dissent from Catholic teaching and support of others who dissent. They are Bishop Joseph Imesch, of Joliet, Illinois and Kenneth Untener, of Saginaw, Michigan.
I highlight Gumbleton because as part of a group called Pax Christi he was Ramsey Clark's ally in the campaign against the Iraq oil embargo. I imagine his roots trace back to Berrigan's organization, and that he's linked to Moore.
I've always been a strong believer in "guilt by association!" I even taught it to my two sons... "You lie down with dogs... You come up with fleas!"
I learned it well from an inmate in the California Medical Facility (CA state prison) where I worked briefly in my early days in CA. He, like everyone else in there, claimed to be innocent of any crime and told me that some of his buddies came by and picked him up in what he thought was a new car one of them had purchased... of course it was stolen.
Then I went up to the prison records office and took a look at his "rap sheet" that if it had been printed on continuous form computer paper on single spaced format would have reached across the 50 foot room!!!
Guilt by association is not "fair," but it's deadly accurate much more often than not. Which proves that "fairness" is a fallacy of Liberalism, as in Hitlery Clinton's commencement speech... "Earth could be fair." The world of a "President Kerry" would be made of the same crappola.
I only worked in that CA correctional facility for a little over a year, but that's where I earned my PHD in human nature and became attuned to subtle flaws in human character. There are glaring flaws in Senator Kerry's character and in spite of the slavish media's efforts to conceal them... they come shining right through like a beacon!
The man is dangerous and exhibits many tendancies of the criminal mind, as does his side-kick. Damn... two crooked lawyers in the White House of America... I sure hope NOT!!!
The only thing worse, would be two crooked "Liberation Theology" clerics!!! Michael Moore is just a pathetic pissant with malicious mischief constantly on his leftist pea brain!!!