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To: sinkspur
sinkspur:  To disagree with an opinion is to be neither anti-Catholic (since I am one)...

  That defense won't flush sinkspur... think of the Judiciary Committee.

sinkspur:  I thought of it, and I don't get the connection.

C'mon now, get some coffee in you... with the likes of Leahy and Kennedy who've blackballed Catholic judicial nominees, you're not seeing how claiming to be Catholic does *not* exempt one from anti-Catholic bias, if not outright bigotry?

Judicial Chambers
CATHOLICS
NEED NOT APPLY.
"In modern American history," he writes, "no mainstream denomination has ever been treated so consistently, so publicly, with such venom."  Today, he argues, an unholy alliance of feminists, homosexual activists, and radical secularists -- together with a fifth column of people who call themselves Catholics but who hate the church deeply....
Philip Jenkins, The New Anti-Catholicism: The Last Acceptable Prejudice

15 posted on 10/21/2003 7:34:09 AM PDT by GirlShortstop
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To: GirlShortstop
Has Ted Kennedy ever expressed himself on mandatory celibacy?

You're stretching. Stay on topic here. I am Catholic, and my disagreement with a Church discipline does not mean that I am anti-Catholic. That's all that I meant.

16 posted on 10/21/2003 7:40:57 AM PDT by sinkspur (Adopt a dog or a cat from a shelter! Save a life, and maybe you'll save your own, too!)
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To: Loyalist; american colleen; Hermann the Cherusker
Ping post #15.
17 posted on 10/21/2003 7:42:10 AM PDT by Pyro7480 (“We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid" - Benjamin Franklin)
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22 posted on 10/21/2003 8:28:00 AM PDT by Loyalist
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