A reader pushes the envelope:
Perhaps Benedict saw the success Rove and Co. had using gays as a divisive power-play issue and seeks to do the same with the Catholic Church? Prey upon Latin American and African distaste for homosexuality to gain influence there, keep the conservative Euro and American Catholics close at hand (you know, the rich white people) and rule in a dissentless bubble.
If so, let’s hope he’s watching what’s happening to that barrel of monkeys these days. The Catholic Church may very well have its own Katrina moment. Time will tell.
According to Bob Novak, the rich, white people in Aspen have already abandoned the Bush ship.
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