[american colleen]

Suggesting that the reason Cardinals over 80 should vote in the next conclave is because we allow Senators over 80 to vote in the United States is seriously dumb.

I'm probably out of my league here and this is going over my head -- BUT I took it to be a refutation of the senility over age 80 reason for eliminating men from making important decisions - in the secular or religious worlds. Nothing more and nothing less.

[dsc]

"I'm probably out of my league here"

I don't think so; but I think CTID must be, given his failure to understand the argument.

"BUT I took it to be a refutation of the senility over age 80 reason for eliminating men from making important decisions - in the secular or religious worlds. Nothing more and nothing less."

Yes, of course.

The mystery is why CTID would twist it around the way he did.

[Conservative til I die]

That may be what loyalist was getting at, but to me it seems he was using it as some sort of legal precedent, like a lawyer before the Supreme Court would. Mostly because he brought up the word "justice." I could be wrong, could be right. No one seems to be clarifying what they meant.