As red put it correctly -- there is no active bashing.
more importantly: the lib writer who brought this up doesn't really care what the WELS thinks about Catholics or vice-versa.
I doubt he even really cares what either Church teaches at all -- he just wants to disrupt Michele's candidacy.
As a Catholic I would be distressed if we even discussed this aspect wrt Michele's candidacy. It is a non-issue about Michele.
We can discuss this separately on a separate context, but to discuss this in ANY context with Michele is succumbing to the left's dividing tactics.
I agree wholeheartedly. We who love the Lord, whether Catholic or Protestant, are not the target here. This is another attempt to use our differences against ourselves, and each other to sink one of the better-floating campaigns we’ve thus far seen for 2012. I haven’t yet seen or heard much that disappoints me about Michele, although I am nowhere near making up my mind on who I’ll support. She does impress, with reason. And thus, the left is a cowering pile of jello in the corner yet again. Since they’ve nothing of substance, one of their usual tactics is displayed for us: divide. If it cannot be reduced by fact, use innuendo and lies. Nothing new. Versus the left, I’ll side with every one of you, always.
I am with you 100 percent.