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This is so embarrassing. No wonder people call us wing-nuts. Um, hey, Michael? Guess what America wasn\u2019t founded on? Catholic principles. Actually, the people who founded America were pretty much running from exactly the kind of \u201cbenevolent dictatorship\u201d you\u2019re talking about here so\u2026just no.<\/p>\n

You wanna know what really gets me about this whole thing, though? The assumption that only a \u201cfaithful\u201d Catholic, whatever that means, can be unselfish. That everyone else in the world is utterly self-absorbed. \u201cLooking in a mirror,\u201d Voris calls it.<\/p>\n

Well that\u2019s just a steaming crock of shit. Don\u2019t excuse my French, because I totally mean that word and no other word will do it justice. Two of the most unselfish people I know happened to raise me and they\u2019re not Catholic. But my parents believe in Christ, raised me with an objective sense of right and wrong, loved me enough to let me suffer the consequences of sin, and loved me enough to forgive me. They love me enough to handle the pain of my conversion to a different religion and the rift that is between us now with grace, love, and a true desire to understand. They are truly good people, who are deeply concerned about the common good of our country and absolutely do not vote based on what they can \u201cget out of it\u201d.<\/p>\n

Some of the most wonderful, least selfish people I\u2019ve met are professors at UD. They\u2019re not Catholic. One\u2019s a Buddhist<\/a>. Another\u2019s a mish-mash of Eastern Orthodoxy. And by God, these people are beautiful souls. Brilliant beyond belief, and getting paid pennies because they want to teach, to shape minds and souls, and the students at UD want to be shaped. They could be teaching at Cambridge or Oxford, but they chose UD because they wanted to impart knowledge, not accumulate glory and wealth. That\u2019s pretty damn unselfish. And they shouldn\u2019t vote, because they\u2019re not \u201cfaithful Catholics?\u201d<\/p>\n

Don\u2019t even get me started on the whole \u201cfaithful Catholics (emphasis on the faithful<\/em>)\u201d thing. I guess in Voris\u2019 imaginary Stepford Monarchy, us women would have to submit to blood tests to prove we\u2019re not on artificial birth control before voting. Or perhaps our bedroom activity should be recorded, to make sure no one slips a condom in there? He\u2019d definitely have to invest in lie-detector tests, just to make sure no one votes and<\/em> has those nasty \u201chomosexual inclinations\u201d at the same time. And I guess I\u2019m out, since I love the Novus Ordo, wouldn\u2019t know which side of a mantilla faces up, know how to do a wicked keg stand, and am a convert. I\u2019m given to understand that us converts \u201cdon\u2019t really count\u201d as faithful<\/em> Catholics. That we\u2019re muddying up the waters with our Muggle bloodlines. Especially Mark Shea, since he\u2019s a convert and<\/em> a scummy Commie Lib.<\/p>\n

This kind of crap gets my blood boiling. I love Catholicism, but I definitely love it in spite of self-proclaimed \u201cfaithful Catholics\u201d like this guy, not because of them. Thanks a lot, Michael Voris. The rest of us are now going to have to spend valuable time apologizing for your holier-than-thou bigotry and trying to convince people that this actually isn\u2019t<\/em> what Catholics should believe.<\/p>\n

Dear people of the internet: this isn\u2019t what Catholics should believe. Now you\u2019ll have to excuse me, because I have to<\/p>\n

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*I eventually posted an apology for this unseemly post, which you may find here<\/a>. I am leaving the post up because it\u2019s good for me to have a public reminder that I can be a real jerk. <\/em><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"