As I said, if the bishop had merely said he does not consider Daschle Catholic, and that his claim that he is, is false, that would be OK with me. What is not OK is demanding that Daschle retract the claim. That is beyond his pay grade. Ah, his pay grade. Who, then, can tell Daschle to stop calling himself Catholic if not his bishop????
Apparently you think that Tom Daschle and the Catholic Church have an equal claim on saying what is Catholic and what isn't!!!
This is really a bizarre argument, worthy of Church-bashers like Gary Wills and NARAL.
Yeah, somebody please ping the rest of the Catholic hater crowd.
Bottom line: The Bishop is 100% right and more bishops need to follow suit. Now!