Bill Maher And The Democrats' Anti-Catholic Bigotry

Flopping Aces ^ | 05-22-19 | Daniel John Sobieski

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Catholics are the sole remaining group that it is politically correct to slander and denigrate and that was made clear by the recent cable rant of social commentator Bill Maher against the Catholicism of Attorney General William Barr and Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh:

HBO host Bill Maher went on a long diatribe in which he appeared to air his grievances with his childhood faith of Catholicism, suggesting that public officials like Attorney General William Barr and Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh sought power so they could regulate people's sex lives.

Barr's faith, Maher said, was the reason an apparently "smart, normal" Republican turned out to be so weird. "I'll tell you what happened -- In 1950, he was born into a strange cult and he's never been able to leave. It's called Catholicism." Maher started his criticism with Barr whom he said was "just the latest in a long lines of Republican, Catholic moralizers."…

"It's not about tyranny, it's about t**s," he said after quoting Barr lamenting the sexual revolution. Barr, he speculated, didn't care about President Trump allegedly wanting to be a "dictator" but just wanted to regulate sex.

Maher, like most liberals, are moral relativists who do not believe in moral absolutes such as the doctrine of the Catholic Church, the church founded by Jesus Christ. They support things like gay marriage, abortion until the moment of birth, and LGBTQ “rights” one if which is the alleged constitutional right of an anatomical male to put on a dress and use the little girl’s room. They believe in a “living Constitution” constantly bent out of shape to according to the passions of the moment.

They want to gut the First Amendment’s Freedom of Religion to a one-hour on Sunday thing where Catholics and other Christians can preach to the choir, no pun intended, but otherwise are not allowed to act on or speak about their faith in the public square. They fear strict constructionist judges like Kavanaugh will repeal the wrongly decided Roe V. Wade and that attorneys general like Bill Barr will put those who believe that liberal political agendas justify political coups in jail.

Nowhere is that clearer than in the consideration of nominees for court vacancies, particularly for the next Supreme Court vacancy, which, judging by Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s age and frailty, may come sooner than we think.

Democrats in the Senate, members of the so-called party of tolerance and diversity, are no longer hiding their anti-Catholic bigotry, putting it on display during the Christmas season confirmation hearing of Omaha lawyer Brian C. Buescher, nominated by President Trump to represent the District of Nebraska on the United States District Court:

In the true spirit of the holiday season, Senators Kamala Harris (D-CA) and Mazie Hirono (D-HI) showed their true colors of bigotry and bias against Catholicism in a recent judicial confirmation hearing on Capitol Hill….

Buescher is also a long-time member of the Knights of Columbus, an iconic service group of nearly two million Catholics, worldwide, that recruits members for volunteer work and fundraising for charitable causes….

Originally founded in 1882, the Knights of Columbus started as a society benefitting poverty-stricken Catholic immigrants; now, the organization donates nearly 200 million dollars per year from approximately 15,000 chapters across twelve countries….

“Sen. Harris described the Knights as “an all-male society and asked if Buescher was aware that the Knights of Columbus “opposed a woman’s right to choose” and were against “marriage equality” when he joined,” the Catholic News Agency reported.

Of course he is as is the Catholic Church the Knights of Columbus were formed to serve in its religious and charitable functions. It is ironic that as the nation observed the birth of Jesus Christ, Democrats in the Senate were busy attacking the tenets of the church He founded, that life begins at conception, as did the life of Jesus, and ends at natural death and that marriage is a union of one man and one woman. But then it is typical of Democrats to respect lifestyles and not religious liberty and not believe that personal religious beliefs, as Buescher testified, can be kept separate from court decisions:

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For example, if you said Lutherans "are a bunch of NAZIs, which is not surprised since their founder Martin Luther hated Jews and told his followers to burn their homes",

If Luther learned this he learned in through the Roman Catholic church.

From the Fourth Lateran Council 1215...a Roman Catholic council

68. Jews appearing in public

A difference of dress distinguishes Jews or Saracens from Christians in some provinces,but in others a certain confusion has developed so that they are indistinguishable. Whenceit sometimes happens that by mistake Christians join with Jewish or Saracen women, andJews or Saracens with Christian women. In order that the offence of such a damnable mixingmay not spread further, under the excuse of a mistake of this kind, we decree that suchpersons of either sex, in every Christian province and at all times, are to bedistinguished in public from other people by the character of their dress — seeingmoreover that this was enjoined upon them by Moses himself, as we read. They shall notappear in public at all on the days of lamentation and on passion Sunday; because some ofthem on such days, as we have heard, do not blush to parade in very ornate dress and arenot afraid to mock Christians who are presenting a memorial of the most sacred passion andare displaying signs of grief. What we most strictly forbid however, is that they dare inany way to break out in derision of the Redeemer. We order secular princes to restrainwith condign punishment those who do so presume, lest they dare to blaspheme in any wayhim who was crucified for us, since we ought not to ignore insults against him who blottedout our wrongdoings.

69. Jews not to hold public offices

It would be too absurd for a blasphemer of Christ to exercise power over Christians. Wetherefore renew in this canon, on account of the boldness of the offenders, what thecouncil of Toledo providently decreed in this matter : we forbid Jews to be appointed topublic offices, since under cover of them they are very hostile to Christians. If,however, anyone does commit such an office to them let him, after an admonition, be curbedby the provincial council, which we order to be held annually, by means of an appropriatesanction. Any official so appointed shall be denied commerce with Christians in businessand in other matters until he has converted to the use of poor Christians, in accordancewith the directions of the diocesan bishop, whatever he has obtained from Christians byreason of his office so acquired, and he shall surrender with shame the office which heirreverently assumed. We extend the same thing to pagans.

https://www.ewtn.com/library/COUNCILS/LATERAN4.HTM

This council has not been overturned. Roman Catholics are to adhere, or should be adhering to this to this day.

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I presume the attendees are Protestant.