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To: GladesGuru

Criticism is not always prejudice.

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Indeed it is not. Criticism can be helpful, but what caused me to call bigotry is your painting of all priests as perverts in your comments, most notably:

Oliphant got it right in his cartoon titled The Annual
Running Of The Alter Boys At St. Paedophilia’s Roman
Catholic Church.

Yes, there have been a lot of cases of poor management of the sex scandals, but the vast majority of priests are good, decent men.

Rapists among the general public are almost always men, as are most murderers. Should I, therefore, say that some man-hating feminist was right to say that all men are rapists and murderers?


17 posted on 07/06/2010 2:27:21 PM PDT by Bigg Red (Palin/Hunter 2012 -- Bolton their Secretary of State)
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To: Bigg Red

Your comment is accepted as the considered critique of my less than precise wording.

In no way did I mean to imply that all priests are queer, pedophiles, etc.

I would feel better about the judgments if there were not the whiff of “Let’s bring down the Church!” about the whole thing. If nothing else, the Church does charity rather better than does the government.

Here in Miami, the Church leaders told the parishes accepting government money that if that parish came out on the short end of the financial deal with Da Gooberment, that that parish would have to deal with the cost overruns.

Gooberment money costs.


18 posted on 07/06/2010 3:24:15 PM PDT by GladesGuru (In a society predicated upon freedom, it is essential to examine principles,)
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