Posted on 10/16/2015 10:12:19 AM PDT by marshmallow
Kim Davis is an innocent victim both of cowardice of churchmen and the smug eagerness of certain priests to put her in her place.
First, a few largely uncontested facts: it was Vatican personnel who invited Davis to meet the pope in Washington DC. Neither Kim Davis nor anyone connected to her requested the meeting.
What’s more, Kim Davis met privately with the pope. Whether you call it an audience or an encounter or any other thing, it took place in private. To put an even finer point on it, she was not on a rope line to shake his passing hand, neither was she in a line of people to meet him one by one.
Lastly, while Vatican personnel wanted the meeting to be private, Davis was told at the meeting, the secrecy of the meeting was to last only until the pope left the country.
After the news of the meeting broke the gay mafia inside and outside the Church went berserk. It was remarkable to them that the pope would meet with someone so unclean as Kim Davis, her of the countrified hair, clothes and accent: Davis of the bigoted views. Certainly, they thought, our who-am-I-to-judge pontiff would never support someone so odiferous. Impossible!
Within hours Vatican spokesman Federico Lombardi S.J. issued a highly nuanced do-se-do. He said the pope did not discuss the particulars of her case. Fine, Davis never claimed that he did. Lombardi said the pope did not necessarily support her position in all its particulars and complexities. Fine, no one would expect him to. Lombardi said there were dozens of people in the Nunciature at that time waiting to bid the pope farewell. Sort of fine. While he did not put her among them, the press dutifully inferred she was not alone but......
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This pope is little more than just another untrustworthy politician.
no need to be redundant
Stand with Kim and religious freedom.
GOOD one.
The Vatican’s treatment of Mrs Davis was shameful. They allowed it to be turned into a PC circus.
It was remarkable to them that the pope would meet with someone so unclean as Kim Davis, her of the countrified hair, clothes and accent
‘her of the countrified hair’...? This author is every bit as bad with personal pronouns as El Rushbo...
Kim Davis doesn’t need the Pope’s endorsement to be recognized for her moral couage. Would that he and his cassocked lackeys had her faith.
I am thinking more and more that the pope is just a silly old man who can’t speak the English and muddles his thoughts and words and is “helped” along by his gay parade puppetiers.
All evidence thus far points to the opposite.
I stand with Kim.
Fr. Martin - ‘nuff said. I have no respect for that man.
Illiterate medieval/Third World peasants are heroes of "child-like faith" but simple Americans are inbred morons.[/sarcasm]
Who cares.
You are mixing theology with politics.
The Catholic Church teaches theology — not politics.
The issue here is that more than a few individuals having high level positions within the RCC were practicing politics, using (and in end results, rather abusing) Kim Davis in the process.
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