Posted on 04/23/2007 6:57:29 AM PDT by NYer
Philadelphia, PA (LifeNews.com) -- The Philadelphia Inquirer newspaper is coming under fire for a cartoon it ran following the Supreme Court's decision to uphold the federal partial-birth abortion ban. The cartoon entitled “Church and State” features the five Catholic members of the high court wearing bishop miters.
Joseph Cella, the head of Fidelis, a leading Catholic pro-life group, says the newspaper, "has breached the line of reasonable editorial commentary. This cartoon is venomous, terribly misleading and, blatantly anti-Catholic."
"We call on the Inquirer to repudiate the cartoon’s anti-Catholic sentiment," Cella told LifeNews.com in a statement.
Cella says the cartoon suggests that the Supreme Court decision to uphold the ban on partial birth abortion was a result of the Catholic Church influencing the votes of the five Catholic Justices on the Supreme Court, who are portrayed as Catholic Bishops.
"The Supreme Court did not ‘follow marching orders’ from the Vatican or the Bishops in the United States. Instead, the Court deferred to deliberative judgment of the people's elected representatives protected by the Constitution,” Cella said.
“By exposing this outrageously intolerant cartoon, we hope to contain future attacks on judges of faith, particularly during any future confirmation hearings which will likely prove to be the most contentious in history," he added.
Cella said the Inquirer's cartoon resembles the attack on Judge Bill Pryor, who was mocked for having “deeply-held” religious beliefs as a Catholic. Pryor faced sharply abusive rhetoric before he was finally confirmed to the federal bench in 2003.
"The Inquirer’s insinuation that a Catholic judge cannot act dispassionately and apply the law is an affront to all judges of faith, and smacks of anti-Catholic bigotry and elitism of the worst kind," he concluded.
And boy, did all those zeroes across the top of the sign make an impression!
The SCOTUS, in 1961, referred to secular humanism as a religion. The left doesn't want all religion out of the state, they want THEIR religion IN the state.
Notice how Ginsburg and her friends were not depicted with their tiaras for the actual and reigning state religion of the US - secular humanism.
When the left says they believe in the separation of church and state, what they mean is separation of the people from their faith. They are not opposed to a state religion, they just demand that it be theirs.
You truly nailed it!! That reminds me of the homily delivered by (then) Cardinal Ratzinger as the Cardinals prepared to gather in conclave to elect the next pope.
How many winds of doctrine have we known in recent decades, how many ideological currents, how many ways of thinking. The small boat of the thought of many Christians has often been tossed about by these waves - flung from one extreme to another: from Marxism to liberalism, even to libertinism; from collectivism to radical individualism; from atheism to a vague religious mysticism; from agnosticism to syncretism and so forth. Every day new sects spring up, and what St Paul says about human deception and the trickery that strives to entice people into error (cf. Eph 4: 14) comes true.
Study child sacrifice.
It would be good if local Catholics protested. And yes, I've been saying it all my life, the media and others get away with blatant slams against the Catholic church, that they wouldn't dare try with other religions.
Just like they attack Cuban Americans more than any other ethnic or racial group.
Catholics Protest outside every Planned parenthood in Delaware valley every day but SUNDAY the BUTCHERS rest!
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