by Datechguy | February 16th, 2012
You might wonder why people still fall for Nigerian E-mail scams, it’s because of a simple fact of human nature. There is no limit to what you can convince people of if they want to believe it.
This comes to mind when I saw the headline:
“Liberal Catholics challenge Bishops of contraception”
Yup those liberals who call themselves “Catholics” but aren’t big on Mass, the sacraments, the teachings of the church and all those things that make catholics “Catholic”. But I clicked over nevertheless to see what CNN was saying.
When I read the piece that accompanies it I had to laugh, it was not much more than a press release for “Catholic’s United” a fringe “Catholic” group that exists to provide press releases for democratic candidates who oppose Church teaching and to provide a group that says “Catholic” on it as a counterpoint to actual church teaching.
The really funny line is this one:
“The Catholic bishops and their allies in the Republican Party are increasingly isolated,” James Salt, executive director of a liberal group called Catholics United, said in a statement over the weekend supporting the White House’s contraception rule.
You’ve got to be kidding me.
The entire set of Bishops representing every diocese in the county speaks against something and a “Catholic” fringe group of dissenters that consists of a PR machine for the left says they are fringe?
Tell me what services does Catholics united provide, what soup kitchens do they run, what services for the poor do they provide, what prisoners in jail do they visit? How many millions of dollars and volunteers do they have providing these services?
The next sentence of the CNN bit is even funnier:
Another Washington-based Catholic operative, John Gehring, e-mailed reporters over the weekend to knock the bishops for criticizing President Barack Obama,
Note what we have here, not even a group or an organization a “Catholic operative” a single operative. That’s what CNN quoting to show how isolated the Orthodox Catholic position is?
Meanwhile against them what do we have lets take a peek:
Of the 183 dioceses (by my count) in the U.S. who have a bishop currently serving as its head, 178 of them have issued statements. I can only find 3 Roman Catholic bishops who have yet to issue statements. So almost 100% of bishops who head dioceses have spoken out against the Obama/HHS mandate.
(And one of those three bishops has commended the mandate in print).
Meanwhile there is a list of 28 Catholic organizations (so far) who have condemned the mandate (full disclosure, one of these groups is the Knights of Columbus of which I’m a member) and 9 protestant groups as well.
and that doesn’t even count the Assembly of Orthodox Bishops of North America (the Greek Orthodox church).
Yet here is the MSM trumpeting a group who’s only credibility is with Pro-Abortion democrats looking for cover.
Only those totally ignorant of the church or opposed to their teachings would fall for this….which explains why it’s on CNN
Update: A clarification, it isn’t CNN MSNBC, ABC, CBS etc etc etc who are falling for the scam, they know that Catholics United is basically a fax machine. It is their readers, those who hate the Church and it’s teachings, and those Catholics who want to convince themselves that their support for Abortion and other grave sins isn’t actually wrong are the targets. They are being sold the scam and are buying it readily because it is so much easier than dealing with actual reality.
Update 2: Now 100% of the Bishops and 30 lay organizations have spoken out, but what’s that compared to Catholic’s United!
