Posted on 11/12/2009 8:20:48 PM PST by SeekAndFind
Allison Kilkenny, a self-styled “political humorist,” ripped the Catholic Church on the Huffington Post on Thursday for threatening to pull the plug in its social services in Washington, DC if same-sex “marriage” is legalized there. Kilkenny labeled the Church the “Inexplicably Evil Organization Most Disconnected From Real People,” and bashed Pope Benedict XVI as a “decrepit former Nazi youth.”
The “humorist” (pictured at right, courtesy of Wikimedia) began her screed, titled “Catholic Church Threatens to Stop Feeding Homeless Over Gay Marriage,” by comparing the Church to Goldman Sachs, and used her “evil” label only after three sentences (perhaps showing a bit of restraint on her part): “A few days ago, I wrote about Goldman Sachs’s transition from a bank holding company into a public relations disaster machine. I argued that Goldman’s CEO, Lloyd Blankfein, has been behaving like he wants to be attacked by a ferocious mob. Now, it appears the Catholic church is determined to unseat Blankfein in the ‘Inexplicably Evil Organization Most Disconnected From Real People’ category.”
Four paragraphs later, after spinning the content of the Archdiocese of Washington’s November 10 letter to the DC city council (which warned that the proposed legislation which would legalize same-sex “marriage” wouldn’t “permit Catholic Charities and other religious service organization to freely function as religious entities serving the needs of the District” and called for the expansion of “appropriate safeguards to protect religious freedom and to preserve the ability of...service providers to continue to serve the...unmet needs of the residents of the District”), Kilkenny used the tried-and-true priest sex abuse bludgeon against the Church (language warning):
So this “Please Stop Being An Asshole, You Guys” law is really the thing that has sent the Archdiocese flying off a cliff. The child molestations, and filing sticky-fingered priests from diocese to diocese is all part of God’s grand plan, but showing the slightest bit of consideration for gay couples is just too much [emphasis hers].
Beyond being simply mean and intolerant, this is just a stupid strategy for the Catholic church to employ. It may be a symbol of religion, but the church is also a business that needs to expand its customer base, or it will become extinct like Greek polytheism or New Coke.
The Huffington Post writer spent the rest of her tirade rehashing tired left-wing talking points against the Church’s teaching, dipping from time to time into plain anti-Catholic (and anti-Christian in general) bigotry. She also made sure to include a shot at Pope Benedict XVI, raising his forced conscription into the Hitler Youth in another predictable move:
And don’t give me that “It’s in the Bible so we can’t change our beliefs!” crap. Religions stray from the Bible’s teachings all the time the second people realize they’re being unspeakably cruel to a society’s sect. The Bible was used to legitimize slavery, and yet we don’t do that anymore, so surely Catholics can make the same jump when it comes to gay marriage....
The Catholic church got so desperate to expand its ranks that it recently offered Anglicans sanctuary under the Virgin Mary’s skirt, supposedly to hide from all of the icky gays and lesbians the Anglican church has embraced (in a Christ-like fashion, some might say)....
As the Catholic church continues its march toward antiquity, I won’t be shedding any tears. In addition to preying on the fears and prejudices of the unenlightened masses, I have no tolerance for tax-exempt pyramid schemes that take money from poor people to build golden houses in Italy for a decrepit former Nazi youth, who now wears a funny hat and occasionally blathers in a dead language about hating gay people, suppressing women, and always -- always -- refusing to wear condoms.
What’s so strange is that the Catholic church itself seems determined to perish. Attitudes toward gay people are dramatically changing in this country, and yet the church remains stuck in its corner, fingers in ears, eyes shut, refusing to accept that the tide is turning.
This sort of far-left hate speech isn’t strange (while we’re on the topic of “strange”) to HuffPost. The Media Research Center released a special report in September 2007 documenting the “flame-throwing, name-calling, and hate speech against conservatives” that was all too common during the Huffington Post’s first two years. Kilkenny’s screed is just the latest example of the site’s intolerance of right-of-center perspectives.
—Matthew Balan is a news analyst at the Media Research Center.
I would love to see this women use her poison pen on Muslims with the same gleeful vitriol.
However, being a cowardly lib, there is no way in hell she would.
Was struck by these two threads listed one after the other:
Huffington Post: Catholic Church ‘Inexplicably Evil Organization’
Thursday, November 12, 2009 9:20:48 PM · by SeekAndFind · 2+ views
Newsbusters ^ | 11/12/2009 | Matthew Balan
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NEA Website Promotes Communist Guide Books for the Violent Overthrow of the U.S. Government
Thursday, November 12, 2009 9:20:47 PM · by bogusname · 1+ views
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Of the two . . . there’s no doubt in my mind which is the more evil in the USA.
I think the NEA wins hands down.
Not suggesting I’d give the Vatican a free pass at all, however.
Hey, Huffpo...even if you were telling the truth...it takes one to know one.
Methinks she is the type who realizes (no doubt each morning as she performs her “toilette”) that she will never find a male interested in her, and so must justify her decision to seek solace in the burly arms of an equally hairy-legged and manless “woman”.
They are headed for the dust bin of history. I'll grant you it will be an ugly death...but the outcome is certain.....the commie-in-chief in the White House is their high water mark......they are too stupid to see the hand writing on the wall......2010 will be Check...2012 will be Mate!
The Bible is a lot like the Constitution....open to interpretation.
Just change a comma here or there, adjust for temporal language displacement...
Right, English is a living language, sort of like the Constitution.....
Round & Round we go.
Another case of a humanoid that is educated WAY beyond her intelligence. FAIL.
If I was a Catholic, I believe I would be seriously considering it. But I am not, yet... so I will leave it up to those who are to decide what action is appropriate.
Just how would they know that?
I have issues with the Catholic Church but they are the only major thing that has stood up against Islam for 1400 + years and have sucessfully beaten Islam. The church backed by armies of free Christians have beaten Islam at Lepanto, Vienna, etc etc.
This pathetic woman along with many lib politicians are on the Saudis payroll.
Woe to you that call evil good, and good evil: that put darkness for light, and light for darkness: that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter. — Isaiah 5:20
Oh. I forgot to mention - Huff Po I am quite sure is backed heavily with Saudi and middle eastern (Islamic) money. During the elections - Muslim groups ran lots of banner ads about how Islam is oppressed by racists etc. This woman is a good dhimini.
Oddly enough, I’ve long thought the same thing of the Huffington Post.
Let the gays go to the ELCA or Episcopalians for their services.
Huff Po with another hit piece on the Catholic Church.
“The gates of hell shall not prevail against it.”
Nope, sorry, I know most know me by my saying I cannot fix stupid - but - in this case I cannot fix stupid and ugly.
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