The Cardinal’s Gasbag: Catholic League Leader Rushes To Defend Dolan From AU Criticism

[Panich52]

Americans United

There is a thing called Godwin’s Law on the internet. It holds that if an online argument goes on long enough, someone will drag in a reference to Adolf Hitler and the Nazis. At that point, that person has lost.

Today I’d like to propose a corollary to Godwin’s Law: Anyone who compares a non-racist organization to the Ku Klux Klan has lost as well.

I got to thinking about this because last week, Cardinal Timothy Dolan of New York City wrote a column for the New York Daily News attacking Donald Trump’s views on immigration. For some reason, Dolan decided to add a gratuitous mention of Americans United to his column, comparing AU to the KKK!

This was curious because Americans United has never taken, and does not today take, a stand on the issue of immigration. We work strictly on issues related to separation of church and state.

I don’t want to take this down to the level of a fourth-grade schoolyard brawl, but Dolan started this, and we decided to finish it. The Daily News ran our response on Friday. In it, AU Executive Director Barry W. Lynn opined that Dolan is just sore because Americans United has been so effective in foiling schemes by the Catholic bishops to force us all to live under their theology.

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[MisterP]

1. thought interestingly AU was a group to keep America Protestant until 1980