Catholic Exchange<\/em>,<\/span> demonstrates more of the \u2018intolerance is a beautiful thing\u2019 meme beginning to sweep our country. This time, as is so often the case, it\u2019s a brand spanking new Supreme Court Justice. Again, I know there are those who are bigots, who want to discriminate, marginalize people, and punish non-conformists in every group. But those who appear to have the Catholic Church in the cross-hairs are not so much living in the caves of Afghanistan as they are teaching at Harvard, or now, sitting on the Supreme Court. <\/span><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Why, when it\u2019s aimed at the Catholic Church, of course. Even as a Protestant minister, I used to joke that I thanked God daily for the Catholic Church. After all, who else was it so acceptable to hate in today\u2019s society? The last acceptable prejudiced: Christianity in general, and the Catholic Church in particular. Dr. […]<\/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-4698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\n
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