Catholic Church is dangerous, outdated, and should dissolve<\/a>.\u00a0 Because things that have problems should, you know, dissolve?\u00a0 It\u2019s bigotry, plain and simple.\u00a0 <\/p>\nBut unlike the anti-Jewish bigots, racists, and other radicals on the right, Mr. Riggio has the platform of acceptable discourse at his disposal. If he said something similar about homosexuality, or blacks, or Jews, he would be marched out the door and told to go live in the foothills of Montana.\u00a0 As it is, he holds the same prejudice that is held by many in our media institutions, and thus is rewarded with a platform to speak.\u00a0 And what he says sounds like an awkward mock-up of the things one could have read on pamphlets in the back alleys of Central Europe in the 1920s.\u00a0 It\u2019s just aimed at the one thing that all hip, enlightened beautiful people hate nowadays.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Andrew Riggio, who sees sick children as worthwhile ammunition for advancing his religion of politics, comes out of the closet and finally declares that Jews are dangerous and must be eliminated.\u00a0 No, strike that.\u00a0 That\u2019s wrong. That\u2019s so \u2018early 20th century central Europe.\u2019\u00a0 This is the hip, post-modern age.\u00a0 Mr. Riggio would never\u00a0say that.\u00a0 He […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2805,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\n
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