My interest in following this story is to see what connection - if any - is found between a "Vatican gay lobby", and statements by John Zmirak and Philip Lawler that allege two-thirds of American bishops were complicit in covering up the abuse scandal here in the US.
I happen to think that there's a connection. What about you two?
John Zmirak is a friend who attended my wedding when he was a Yale undergraduate and Phil Lawler was a client before I retired.
Pope Francis does not appear to post here as a Freeper much less as one regularly devoted to Catholic bashing. I refrain almost entirely from re-fighting the Thirty Years' War here on FR which is probably intended to be a website to unify and focus conservative efforts regardless of the religious persuasion (if any) of individuals who post here.
I often post on such diverse matters as the evil of abortion, and the evil of homosexuality (including its practitioners who dishonor their priesthood and molest boys and young men), 2nd Amendment rights, race relations, crime, excess taxation, excessive spending, the despicability of the likes of Mitt Romney and his unprincipled ilk (nothing against his Mormonism which is entirely his business) and numerous other issues upon which you and I and most folks here may usually but not universally agree.
Yet all I see here from you is a steady drumbeat of anti-Catholic propaganda. It is entirely acceptable for you to be anti-Catholic or for me to have been less than pleased with the antics and likes of the Rev. Mr. Jimmy Swaggert. What I have a problem with is that whenever I see a post from you it is ALWAYS a post against Catholicism. Do you EVER post on any other subject? It is not that I dislike you but rather that I am disappointed in your obsession. I suspect that, if you were my next-door neighbor, you and I would enjoy a good-natured and spirited if somewhat combative relationship as friends.
God bless you and yours.