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OK, fair enough. \u00a0Christians should shoot higher. \u00a0Got it. \u00a0But then, having drawn the line in the sand between disgraces to the Catholic Faith and us awesome examples of Catholic purity, it is doubly unseemly to go a step further and not cheer the death of someone, but instead exploit that death to ramrod your agendas and build on your contempt for others. Thus:<\/p>\n

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The link to Mark\u2019s Facebook page is here<\/a>. \u00a0The article from the always credible RawStory is here<\/a>. \u00a0Again, if you throw around \u2018not authentically pro-life\u2019 like so many nickles and dimes in order to beat down anyone who disagrees with you, at least have the common decency to live by the same standards.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"