Right, this is called NEWS.
When a person's BUSINESS is going on TV every Sunday and preaching, they are called a TELEVANGELIST. If you can think of a more appropriate term, by all means tell us.
I don't know if this preacher owns a jet or not, but plenty do. And don't make some flimsy excuse about how the jet is owned by the ministry and it's needed for the ministry, corporate CEOs use jets owned by their companies and the same reasons are given for needing it.
So, when a person commits some offense in the course of their business, it's NEWS.
The REALITY is the Dutchboy brought up Catholicism in the SECOND POST and tried to change the discussion.
but I'm pretty sure Dutchboy may have noticed who posted the OP and questioned the motive.
As I said yesterday, I was a FReeper for several years, had participated in many threads with Pissant and had no clue that he was Catholic.
I've been involved in hundreds of debates with the anti-Catholic bigots on FR and don't recall ever seeing Pissant on ANY of them.
So, if you or Dutchboy want to make this claim, you are going to need to back it up. Otherwise, the TRUTH is that Long's problems have been pretty prominent in the news the last week or so.
Personally, I would like to never see another clergy sex scandal article posted on Free Republic.
Why? The anti-Catholic bigots are going to operate under the assumption that every priest is a predator whether they have anything to back it up or not.
The MSM does a crummy enough job of their own trying to smear Christianity as a whole, we certainly don't need to help them.
Funny you should say that, as far as the anti-Catholic bigots are concerned, the MSM is to be fully trusted when they are bashing Catholics. If you don't believe me, go to some of the Catholic bashing threads that are based MSM articles.
Many of the anti-Catholic bigots on FR do not consider Catholics to be Christians, which is fine because many of them aren't Christians either (they are practitioners of satanic gnosticism belonging to cults that devote themselves to St. Paul's epistles all while denying the Gospel). Face it, there is a cadre of anti-Catholic bigots on FR whose only apparent reason for being here is to promote their own bigotry -- I know of several anti-Catholics who make well over 90% of their posts on Catholic-bashing threads in the Religion forum.
Like I said, I would be happy to not see ANY postings about clergy sex scandals on Free Republic regardless of what religion is being slammed. They are usually always posted to cause dissension and result in flame wars which I find unproductive. I don't like it whoever it attacks and would like to see us rise above all that. Catholics hate it when they are judged by what a few have done and non-Catholics don't like it either. The OP sounded like a tit-for-tat kind of post and after the responses showered down, its motive became obvious. I saw it and so did Dutchboy who called attention to it first and he was condemned for it.