{"id":282,"date":"2006-03-16T10:34:18","date_gmt":"2006-03-16T14:34:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/snarl\/2006\/03\/16\/how-do-i-loathe-catholicism\/"},"modified":"2006-03-16T10:34:18","modified_gmt":"2006-03-16T14:34:18","slug":"how-do-i-loathe-catholicism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/2006\/03\/16\/how-do-i-loathe-catholicism\/","title":{"rendered":"How Do I Loathe Catholicism?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Let me count the ways.<\/P>
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Actually, I don’t have the energy, nor the time, to list the ways. Hell, I don’t think my server could accommodate the length of my rant. So today I shall focus on their most recent annoyance.<\/P>
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It’s well established that the catholic church believes in following its traditional teachings and  they don’t want to sway from them. Well, good for them for holding on to their convictions. <\/P>
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Same-sex marriage? Of course they’ll fight it because their traditional teachings forbid man laying down with man (despite the fact that civil marriage has nothing to do with their religion and the laws wouldn’t require them to perform same-sex marriage).<\/P>
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Gay and lesbian adoptions? Well, if gays shouldn’t be cohabitating then they most certainly shouldn’t be raising children. So, instead of following their “values” of protecting children, they’d rather abandon ALL adoptions leaving more children in the system. Personally, I’m fine if their religion doesn’t allow them to adopt to gays and lesbians. But they shouldn’t be receiving state money (MY tax money) if they do so. There’s a Jewish* organization that does adoption services without state-funding and the Catholics could do the same thing (instead of stopping all adoptions). But the catholic leadership would rather have their cake and eat it, too. Or, they’d rather be the spoiled brat at the party crying unless he can have all the cake.<\/P>
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Women in the priesthood? How offensive! Heaven forbid women be considered equals.<\/P>
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See? There’s a pattern here of keeping with tradition.<\/P>
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But wait – now I”m perplexed. It seems that catholic church IS willing to break with tradition when it’s convenient for them. You see, St. Patrick’s Day falls on a Friday (during Lent) this year. Traditionally, that means no meat. So, despite centuries of tradition and significance, bishops have decided that Catholics can be exempted from not being allowed to eat meat this year. Why? Presumably, because the corned beef is going to be necessary to absorb all of the alcohol they’ll be consuming.<\/P>
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What a hypocritical organization. If they can’t budge on the other issues, why can they budge on this one? Isn’t the whole Friday meat fasting thing all about paying respect to that god or jesus person their worship? Oh yes, we’ll follow your teachings unless it conflicts with our partying. We have to draw the line somewhere.<\/P>
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*This Jewish adoption agency, despite not being funded by the state in any way, happily allows gays and lesbians to adopt.<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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