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from a CNN News story
Feb. 7th, 2007 03:30 pmfrom http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/02/07/edwards.bloggers.ap/index.html
"The Catholic church is not about to let something like compassion for girls get in the way of using the state as an instrument to force women to bear more tithing Catholics," Marcotte wrote on the blog Pandagon on December 26, in an excerpt cited by Donohue.
Among the McEwan posts that Donohue listed was one she posted on February 21, 2006, on her site, Shakespeare's Sister. She questioned what religious conservatives don't understand about "keeping your noses out of our britches, our beds and our families?"
[...]
Bill Donohue, president of the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights, demanded that Edwards fire Amanda Marcotte and Melissa McEwan. "John Edwards is a decent man who has had his campaign tarnished by two anti-Catholic, vulgar, trash-talking bigots," Donohue wrote in a statement. "He has no choice but to fire them immediately."
from drewkitty:
I am proud to be an anti-Catholic. I stand by my past statement: "If Satan existed and wished to wreak the maximum amount of harm and pain on the people of the world, he could do no better than to create the Catholic Church."
I am vulgar when circumstances demand it.
I talk trash at appropriate times and in appropriate places.
I am not a bigot. Neither are the quotes above, bigoted.
from: http://www.m-w.com/dictionary/bigot
Main Entry: big·ot
Pronunciation: 'bi-g&t
Function: noun
Etymology: French, hypocrite, bigot
: a person obstinately or intolerantly devoted to his or her own opinions and prejudices; especially : one who regards or treats the members of a group (as a racial or ethnic group) with hatred and intolerance
Catholics are neither an ethnic nor a racial group. People choose to be Catholic. They choose a system of beliefs and life choices which I believe to be inherently wrong, short-sighted, and stupid. To the extent that they force these down the throat of helpless young people, I believe that Catholics are not merely wrong, but evil.
The remarks above merely call a spade a spade, or in this case, calling Catholics haters of women and in particular despoilers of women's rights.
When the Catholic Church stops calling my friends and peers sinners, half the species inherently sinful, and gets its paws off of helpless young minds; stops conspiring in turning sex to rape and counseling to abuse; ceases to inspire fanatics to murder and teenagers to suicide; allows scholars access to its archives and works; ceases to torture people through guilt and the confessional; comforts the dying without regard to creed or behavior, as simple charity and mercy calls upon any holy person to do; holds its management team (i.e. "priests and bishops") accountable for their abusive, corrupt and power-mongering behavior; and most important in terms of their own belief system, fervently prays for the forgiveness it has denied to many, many generations of God-fearing men and women . . .
Then and only then will I withdraw my remarks about the Catholic Church being an inherently evil organization.
"The Catholic church is not about to let something like compassion for girls get in the way of using the state as an instrument to force women to bear more tithing Catholics," Marcotte wrote on the blog Pandagon on December 26, in an excerpt cited by Donohue.
Among the McEwan posts that Donohue listed was one she posted on February 21, 2006, on her site, Shakespeare's Sister. She questioned what religious conservatives don't understand about "keeping your noses out of our britches, our beds and our families?"
[...]
Bill Donohue, president of the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights, demanded that Edwards fire Amanda Marcotte and Melissa McEwan. "John Edwards is a decent man who has had his campaign tarnished by two anti-Catholic, vulgar, trash-talking bigots," Donohue wrote in a statement. "He has no choice but to fire them immediately."
from drewkitty:
I am proud to be an anti-Catholic. I stand by my past statement: "If Satan existed and wished to wreak the maximum amount of harm and pain on the people of the world, he could do no better than to create the Catholic Church."
I am vulgar when circumstances demand it.
I talk trash at appropriate times and in appropriate places.
I am not a bigot. Neither are the quotes above, bigoted.
from: http://www.m-w.com/dictionary/bigot
Main Entry: big·ot
Pronunciation: 'bi-g&t
Function: noun
Etymology: French, hypocrite, bigot
: a person obstinately or intolerantly devoted to his or her own opinions and prejudices; especially : one who regards or treats the members of a group (as a racial or ethnic group) with hatred and intolerance
Catholics are neither an ethnic nor a racial group. People choose to be Catholic. They choose a system of beliefs and life choices which I believe to be inherently wrong, short-sighted, and stupid. To the extent that they force these down the throat of helpless young people, I believe that Catholics are not merely wrong, but evil.
The remarks above merely call a spade a spade, or in this case, calling Catholics haters of women and in particular despoilers of women's rights.
When the Catholic Church stops calling my friends and peers sinners, half the species inherently sinful, and gets its paws off of helpless young minds; stops conspiring in turning sex to rape and counseling to abuse; ceases to inspire fanatics to murder and teenagers to suicide; allows scholars access to its archives and works; ceases to torture people through guilt and the confessional; comforts the dying without regard to creed or behavior, as simple charity and mercy calls upon any holy person to do; holds its management team (i.e. "priests and bishops") accountable for their abusive, corrupt and power-mongering behavior; and most important in terms of their own belief system, fervently prays for the forgiveness it has denied to many, many generations of God-fearing men and women . . .
Then and only then will I withdraw my remarks about the Catholic Church being an inherently evil organization.
