Every now and again, they blurt out the truth. Here’s Tom McClusky, a Catholic who is acting vice president for government affairs at the Family Research Counci:
"While other issues are important — such as helping the poor, the death penalty, views on war — these are things that aren’t tenets of the Catholic Church."
It is not a tenet of the Catholic faith that we should help the poor? Or that we should only support a just war? Or oppose the conscious killing of human beings when other options are available that protect society just as well? Catholicism is now solely determined by the most extreme position on the abortion issue? I’ve been reading Oakeshott again for my book, and he is worth quoting on this version of the moral life:
"Too often, the excessive pursuit of one ideal leads to the exclusion of others, perhaps all others; in our eagerness to realize justice we come to forget charity, and a passion for righteousness has made many a man hard and merciless."
These theocons are indeed hard and merciless; and it’s time take back our Church from them.
The Dish 