re: #219 CongoJack

I agree on your point of view of what Catholicism should be - speaking as a former Catholic and Catholic schooled (K-12) individual. But when the Catholic school made me protest abortion (if I didn’t I would have failed religion class - this was in mid 1990s - and they took us to Tillerson’s clinic in Wichita) and when the priest read a letter from the Bishop at the end of mass telling us to vote for McCain (not Obama) because of the evils of abortion I was completely done with it. I have no issues with Catholicism - I have issues with the RW Bishops of this country that do not follow the teaching of Jesus and do not follow the example of our current great Pope.

I’ve mentioned this before, but it still amazes me how liberal my theology class experience was, considering the last few years of it I had were taught by hippie (and I don’t use that word lightly) activist, someone who proudly displayed various photos of him protesting alongside Martin Sheen, and talked at length about his time protesting the School of the Americas.