Merry Christmas! Have a face palm!

[hedgehog]

Cardinal under fire for comparing gay rights movement to Klan

"The comments came during an interview Wednesday with Fox Chicago. When the cardinal was asked his views of a local pastor complaining that the annual gay pride parade would force the church to cancel its morning mass, George said he supported the pastor.

"You don't want the gay liberation movement to morph into something like the Ku Klux Klan, demonstrating in the streets against Catholicism." George said.

Pressed by the interviewer, George acknowledged that it was a strong analogy, but reiterated his sentiment.

“The rhetoric of the KKK and the rhetoric of some of the gay liberation people -- Who is the enemy? The Catholic Church,” George said."

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/chi-cardinal-under-fire-for-comparing-gay-rights-movement-to-klan-20111222,0,3319987.story

[CBHagman]

1. I just wrote a reply...

...to the parish action alert urging me to oppose the new health care law's mandate that contraceptive coverage be included in health insurance plans -- something the church obviously doesn't want to have to do with its employees and is invoking freedom of conscience over.

I live in a diocese where Catholic Charities stopped offering spousal health care coverage for married employees, gay or straight, when same-sex marriage became legal. The church, with some exceptions (Thank you, nuns and hospital groups), has been worse than useless in reform of health care laws in this country, so I'm none too impressed that they find contraceptive coverage an urgent matter but not, say, the death of a child due to inadequate dental care (It happened in our area) or bankruptcy of families due to medical bills.

Rant over. I am facepalming along with the rest of you over the cardinal's comments.

[47of74]

2. Yeah, saw that in the local paper

My reaction was closer to, "Sigh."

And to wonder what the hell is being smoked over in the Vatican these days?