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Is under discussion at Mark Shea\u2019s Facebook page<\/a>.\u00a0 I dared to point out that the disproportionate number of positive, celebratory posts centered around giving high fives and kudos to Bernie Sanders was problematic, and he might want to look again at just what Sanders represents.\u00a0 Sanders is one of the most tirelessly zealous advocates for expanding abortion rights and culture of death issues in government<\/a>.\u00a0 <\/p>\n

What follows could only be described as the unraveling of the last shreds of credibility of a once great Catholic apologist.\u00a0 I know it was getting bad in later years.\u00a0 But I can\u2019t imagine going to Jack Chick\u2019s website<\/a> to espouse Catholicism and getting worse than this.\u00a0 It was just \u2013 childish.\u00a0He continued leveling the same false accusation over and over and over again, saying I was accusing him of supporting abortion.\u00a0 Try as I might to be civil, to be polite, to be direct, it didn\u2019t matter.\u00a0 It was false accusation and slander, contempt and derision, mocking and insulting.\u00a0 And this is one of the stars of modern Catholic apologetics.\u00a0 I guess you can\u2019t argue with success.\u00a0 But I have done my arguing, and won\u2019t be going back.\u00a0 Bushy tail this time.\u00a0 <\/p>\n

BTW, one of Mark\u2019s main reasons for abandoning conservatism and traditional values and beliefs was, according to him, the constant false accusations made against him by conservatives; accusations that he was pro-choice, or pro-gay rights, or a socialist, or whatnot.\u00a0 Given that I didn\u2019t, in fact that I had no intention of it, and was simply trying to tell him to back off the Sanders-love, and he insisted on saying that I was\u00a0\u2018accusing him\u2019, I wonder how accurate his take on those other accusations actually was. <\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"