Frank, you are exhaustingly stupid.

You suggest I make a direct declaration about Catholic Dogma. Asked where I made such a statement, you are silent.

You keep accusing me of hating my catholic friends and family. Asked what you base such a statement on, you are silent.

Now, you accuse me of mocking Jesus by name. At no time have I ever done so, nor do I have any reason to. I would ask you where I did, except we both know you’ll have nothing to say at all, since you’re busy making your next unsupported accusation, most likely about me collecting the blood of newborn kittens to fuel my perpetual joy-killing machine.

…and in fact, at this point, I just realized I made the Jesus Herman Christ comment earlier, and you believe thats me making fun of Christ himself and not the middle initial H given to him for whatever reason, and the idea of well after all what does the H stand for anyway. Also, how is “Herman” a “mocking” middle name, I mean if I were poking fun I’d have said “Hellraiser” or something, whats so funny about Herman, plus since all I did was assign a name to the H, for me to be mocking anything, that would mean you’d actually have to believe Jesus middle initial actually was H, and… oy, I’m bored of this, me and my fiance gotta go to bed while I try and get your imbecility out of my head.

How does this prove I am an anti-Catholic bigot? Do you know what the term “bigot” means? Just because I don’t adhere to your code of reverence for Jesus does not mean I am a bigot. I am under no obligation to be reverential towards the name of Jesus Christ, and my lack of “proper respect” does not make me a bigot.

Try again, Frank.

Good luck.

It may be disrespectful of people to say ‘Fuck them all,’ but it’s no greater crime to curse religion than it is for religion to dupe and coerce people with centuries of falsehoods, bigotry and hatred of those only they have the power to deem as inferior or blasphemous.

This is not the 14th century, religion is no longer the supreme arbiter of morality, and has in fact all too often come to represent the very worst elements of the human condition.

Ask a victim of abuse at the hands of a Priest whether they have the right to say ‘Fuck the Bible,’ then see if you can muster the same outrage at their vitriol.

What the Hell are you talking about?

Check the calendar; it’s 2009 not 1809.

They have sheltered pedophiles for decades; they don’t have much of a moral stance from which to blackmail any government that dares contradict their archaic and discriminatory practices with anything as trivial as THE LAW.

Mask this however you want, it’s still wrong.

You were saying?

But, no you’re not bigots … You have levelled the charge of bigot and racist against myself , and any number of Republicans , with far less evidence in the past.

And CJ I have not read your biography, and if you ever told me you were female , I have forgotten that.

Zython , you don’t know any such thing about my attitude towards Islam. You are making that up to cover up your blatant error , made while trying to cover your original error. I am going to check another comment elsewhere , and go to bed. Zython, I suggest you do the same. You’re doing worse than usual.

Because they will refuse to feed the poor and homeless unless they get their way. That’s good enough excuse for me to pick on them.

Because it raped children and then tried to hide the fact that it raped children.

I assume it wouldn’t make any sense if you assumed everything you said is considered to be in a vacuum. Sadly, for you, this is not the case. We all know about your attitude towards the Muslim faith. It has been, shall we say, less than pleasant?

Also I am totally correct in saying that religion is a business now. Churches or religious institutions spend way to much money nowadays to get things their way, and I am not just talking about the Catholic Church.

I find it way too disturbing that religion institutions are trying to be in everyone’s affairs instead of letting the people come to them for their guidance.

As far as I am concerned , that makes you a bigot who denies he is a bigot.

Oh boo fucking hoo, Frank. Jesus tapdancing Christ. I asked you to quote me, and tell me how I am being an anti-Catholic bigot. I just wanted you to provide evidence that demonstrated my bigotry. And you reply with this garbage.

You are the one making an assertion about my bigotry. You are the one who is responsible for backing up your assertion. How am I supposed to defend myself from a charge that comes out of the ether?

For fuck’s sake.

These settlements and transfers are not necessarily signd of guilt. Or innocence . But I believe that there are ministers and rabbis molesting teens ; male and female non-clerical teachers molesting teens; and day care staff molesting pre teens .

Why pick on the Catholic Church?

so I will just continue to cling to my unsupported beliefs and insist that YOU are the one who is somehow deficient.
Of course , MY beliefs are unsupported. Your evidence is non-existent. “Despite what I have said , and the positions I have taken, I am not a bigot because I say so. Not because anything Frank said about me is incorrect, but because I deny it.”

As far as I am concerned , that makes you a bigot who denies he is a bigot.

Translation: I can’t back up my idiotic ramblings with facts, so I will just continue to cling to my unsupported beliefs and insist that YOU are the one who is somehow deficient.

Pathetic, Frank. Pathetic.

What? I mean what is that supposed to mean? Are you crazy?

And I don’t think you quite get the “Translation:” part of my post.
Actually, I did , before you even wrote it. when I said “Zython , No. You are wrong. As I pointed out above , none of you have the knowledge of the Law or of the Church, to decide who is right or wrong” That was in reference to a previous comment that contained the exact same verse that you cited , and I said back then it was being inappropriately applied.

Got it, now ?

Care to explain to me how I am an anti-Catholic bigot?
The reason why you have a “hunch I cannot” is because if I had a videotape of you nailing Jesus to the Cross, you would say it might not be a nail, it might not be a hammer, and I may have doctored the tape.

What the story explains very clearly is that there have been situations in the past where the District council made exemptions for religious institutions, but in this case they are digging in their heels. I suspected as much, because I know that as much as CJ is not totally correct when he says that all religions are all about money, it is nonetheless true all institutions require money, and Catholic Parishes, like all not for profits, are hurting for cash.
Of course this means that the Catholic Church is conscious about its image. I feel that because I am baptized Catholic that does not require me to pretend it never makes mistakes. However, the anti – Catholicism of people on the left has beem obvious to me since the 70′s. Yes, Obvious.
I was immediately suspicious of a headline that was worded as that one was. You did believe it, though, because most of you, believe terrible untruths about the Catholic Church and willingly repeat them (the Catholic Church approves of child – rape and “has no sensible views bout contraception”).
Such views come out of ignorance , and worse, you have a belief that the idea that such things might be lies is not even worthy of investigation). That is intolerance, willful ignorance, and negative stereotyping, and that spells B-I-G-O-T-R-Y.