[St.Chuck]

It shows the same reverence that my opposition to his position on the death penalty and the war on Iraq shows.

Again, you are mixing fruit. Church discipline is the pope's domain. Civil responsibilities such as waging war and applying the death penalty are not. It's the same irreverance.

P.S. The pope is right about the DP too.

[sinkspur]

Church discipline is the pope's domain. Civil responsibilities such as waging war and applying the death penalty are not. It's the same irreverance.

Now it makes sense.

Opposition to the Pope's view on celibacy is as serious as disagreeing with the teaching on Transubstantiation, but opposition to the Pope's view on killing somebody is something I can take or leave.

Got it.