Reply #12: his attack on social justice is an attack on liberal Catholicism

[RainDog]

you don't ever hear right wing protestant leaders talk about social justice.

on the other hand, social justice was behind the ideas that spurred Romero, for instance to use his position as a bishop to support liberation theology - and this is also what got him assassinated by the forces in El Salavador that Reagan and Carter, before him, supported.

Beckkkerhead's call out aligns him with support for the right wingers that Reagan supported who also raped and murdered nuns, as well.

Beginning with the Carter Administration and continued by the Reagan and Bush administrations, the U.S. sent seven billion dollars of foreign and military aid to El Salvador in ten years. The silent-partner-role of the United States in the Salvadoran Civil War became public when a National Guard death squad raped and murdered four American nuns and a laywoman on December 2, 1980; Maryknoll missionary nuns Maura Clarke, Ita Ford, and Ursuline nun Dorothy Kazel, and laywoman Jean Donovan were on a Catholic relief mission providing food, shelter, transport, medical care, and burial to death squad victims. After the murders of the churchwomen, President Carter suspended all aid to El Salvador, but domestic U.S. right-wing political pressure forced him to reinstate it.

Unlike President Carter, President Reagan favoured the Salvadoran military régime, and increased military aid and sent more U.S. military advisors. In El Salvador's Decade of Terror: Human Rights Since the Assassination of Archbishop Romero, Human Rights Watch reported: "During the Reagan years, in particular, not only did the United States fail to press for improvements . . . but, in an effort to maintain backing for U.S. policy, it misrepresented the record of the Salvadoran government, and smeared critics who challenged that record. In so doing, the Administration needlessly polarized the debate in the United States, and did a grave injustice to the thousands of civilian victims of Government terror in El Salvador." <25> Despite the El Mozote Massacre that year, Reagan continued certifying (per the 1974 amendment to the Foreign Assistance Act) that the Salvadoran government was progressing in respecting and guaranteeing the human rights of its people, and in reducing National Guard abuses against them.


In other words, Beck's statement indicates he is aligned with those who would torture, rape and murder people who think they have the right to expect reasonable governance.

He has demonstrated repeatedly that he is nothing but a fucking fascist - so this is not anything surprising.

Anyone that he might draw to him with his religious arguments are people who are already willing to accept fascist arguments themselves.