Complicit in Bigotry

That is what Brent Bozell, founder and president of the Media Research Center, Brian Brown, president of the National Organization for Marriage, Brian Burch, president of Catholic Vote, Marjorie Dannenfelser, president of the pro-life Susan B. Anthony List, Richard Viguerie chairman of ConservativeHQ.com, and Tony Perkins, president of the Family Research Council are telling the Huffington Post. (FoxNews.com)


The Conservative leaders are saying that based on a "satirical" piece written by columnist Larry Doyle about Rick Santorum's Catholic faith.  "Larry Doyle's recent anti-Catholic screed in the Huffington Post, 'The Jesus-Eating Cult of Rick Santorum,' is bigoted and unacceptable" they claim.  They say it is a "perfect example of 'flame-throwing, name-calling, and simplistic attack dog rhetoric.'"


Let's consider flame-throwing... The American Family Association (AFA) is saying that President Obama has started an “all out war on Christians” making them choose between "Life and good … or death and evil.” This as a result of merely offering contraception coverages to women via insurance.  (TheNewCivilRightsMovement.com)


Or perhaps a little attack doggery... A priest at St. John Neumann Catholic Church in Gaithersburg, Maryland refused communion to a woman at HER MOTHER'S FUNERAL because she is a lesbian and "in the eyes of the church, that is a sin."  He also never finished the service, walking out during the daughter's eulogy and never returning.  Some, obviously don't see that as a dog attack.  In a letter of apology from Reverend Barry Knestout, he called it "a lack of pastoral sensitivity."  (Lez Get Real)


So, it is ok for the Church and the AFA to be complicit in bigotry... could certainly think of a few names to call on that one.