Vatican Sides With Obama on Gun Control

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5. Speaking of logical bullshit

I didn't bring up the pedophilia "mess" in this thread, now did I? And I suppose if it had been you or your child who had been ass-raped multiple times by a priest whose superiors knew he was doing it and did nothing to stop him, you might think it was something other than a "mess".

And despite your cute little link and others, the so-called "red herring" is not a logical fallacy. It is not an argument in which the conclusion does not follow from the premises or, in fact, an argument in any form. If you want to consider it an unfair rhetorical tactic, you might have a shaky case, but in this instance, pointing out the Catholic Church's lack of right or competence to dictate morality, based on past egregious failures in that area, is hardly irrelevant.