Reply #40: I am a liberal Catholic that is turned off by my local church

[bleedingheart]

not by the priest so much as the virulent conservative catholics who inhabit the pews in the church.

I was at a rally for Kerry where a pro-Bush woman\disrupter was holding a sign that said.."Real Catholics vote for Bush"...

I questioned her and she told me that the pedophiles in the church were all liberals...and then she proceeded to tell me that I wasn't catholic because I was voting for Kerry....that experience made me ill.

Meanwhile my father used to take me to mass every sunday with my brother and we would go to the floral shop to buy mom flowers afterwards...Mom didn't go to church, years of catholic school and church nonsense (including a priest that had asked her to sleep with him after she was widowed the first time ...) it all turned her off.