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To: Mrs. Don-o

Getting upset about my sarcastic comment makes you look like an apologist. Dragging out this conversation doesn’t help your cause. I don’t troll the zillion CC posts on FR, because what Catholics think about their religion is their business. When the officials of that corrupt organization start lecturing the rest of us on the morality or border walls or global warming bringing up the elephant in the room regarding their moral authority is fair game.


49 posted on 06/01/2017 3:40:32 PM PDT by Hugin (Conservatism without Nationalism is a fraud.)
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To: Hugin
People who have been active on these FR forums for years know where I stand on Pope Francis’ scandalous appointments and his general abuse of office via the politicization of the papacy.

NY point is that every artivke about the offensive Francis Agenda (Climate Change, Stop the Arms Race, Tear Down the Walls) doesn't need to be automatically flipped into a discussion of clerical homosex. It's a lazy reflex, it encourages vicious generalzation skiming priests-asd-a-ckass or ckergu-as-a-ckass and it actually detracts from the

83 posted on 06/01/2017 6:57:35 PM PDT by Mrs. Don-o (They said what's up is down, they said what isn't is, they put ideas in his head he thought were his)
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To: Hugin

I hate auto correct. What a mess.

I was trying to type -— before demons took possession of my Kindle keypad -— that these easy broad-brush sex slanders get slapped onto any and every Church topic almost by reflex, detracting from our ability to focus on whatever is the issue at hand: in this case, Trump vs Francis on the bogus Climate Change agenda.

Insinuating sex abuse into this context, this discussion, functions like “Look, a squirrel”: a most effective way to hijack a thread.


86 posted on 06/01/2017 7:10:06 PM PDT by Mrs. Don-o (They said what's up is down, they said what isn't is, they put ideas in his head he thought were his)
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To: Hugin

I hate auto correct. What a mess.

I was trying to type -— before demons took possession of my Kindle keypad -— that these easy broad-brush sex slanders get slapped onto any and every Church topic almost by reflex, detracting from our ability to focus on whatever is the issue at hand: in this case, Trump vs Francis on the bogus Climate Change agenda.

Insinuating sex abuse into this context, this discussion, functions like “Look, a squirrel”: a most effective way to hijack a thread.


87 posted on 06/01/2017 7:10:28 PM PDT by Mrs. Don-o (They said what's up is down, they said what isn't is, they put ideas in his head he thought were his)
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