Having been raised Catholic, I well remember when the church was a lot more concerned with the least of its brothers and not so much with the sex lives of the rest of the world (uh, other than its own, sadly). I don't know if it was the Reagan revolution, the success of the evalengelical movement, or the vastly overrated reign of John Paul II, but somewhere the Church lost its way and became a lot more concerned with the womb than with those already living.
I don't think the Church will ever be the same, but it's good to see that some of its leadership still stands up for the least of its brothers like Georgetown University scholars did when telling Rep. Paul Ryan that justifying his 2012 Budget with his version of Catholic doctrine was well, a wee bit fucked up. All too often faux Catholics like to pretend the Church is in line with republican teaching when in reality, outside of the right to choose and homophobia, it isn't even close.
Nice of the officials at Georgetown to hold on to Rep. Ryan's testicles for him, too. For all the media's glorifying of Ryan, he's a very little man who has done nothing but make the world a worse place.
Peace,
emaycee
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