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This video,<\/a><\/strong> posted over a week ago\u2014showing what happened to a Catholic priest who prayed outside a Chick-fil-\u2014has generated a lot of heat.\u00a0 And now Elizabeth Scalia sheds some light:<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

It is difficult to feel sympathy for Father O\u2019Reilly; his actions toward the gay activists were intentionally provocative, which rendered his mumbles about \u201ctolerance\u201d insupportable.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s one thing to stand away from a protest, praying, and have the protesters come after you; there, you might legitimately ask, \u201cWhere\u2019s the tolerance\u201d? It\u2019s quite another\u2014and a patently disingenuous thing\u2014to invade a protest circle with your vocal prayers and then wonder that you are unwelcome there. Whatever his motives might have been, the Gospels suggest that Jesus would not have endorsed the priest\u2019s methods. Jesus lived among the people he wished to evangelize. He met with them as people, and he ate with them, or he served them. He attracted converts with his love and his stability. Jesus did not burst in where he was not welcome and start praying at people (or for them) in a way that could be regarded as both separatist and condescending by the very people he wished to engage. He pointedly urged sympathy for the publican, not the Pharisee.<\/p>\n

As this video hits my email again, and again, I can\u2019t help but wonder if the offended senders would be writing, \u201cso much for \u2018tolerance\u2019\u201d in their subject lines if their own peaceful gatherings, at church or at a kid\u2019s soccer game, were intruded upon by a gay person or an atheist with a clear intent to showboat and provoke. I don\u2019t think they\u2019d appreciate it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Check out the rest of her column over at First Things. <\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This video, posted over a week ago\u2014showing what happened to a Catholic priest who prayed outside a Chick-fil-\u2014has generated a lot of heat.\u00a0 And now Elizabeth Scalia sheds some light: It is difficult to feel sympathy for Father O\u2019Reilly; his actions toward the gay activists were intentionally provocative, which rendered his mumbles about \u201ctolerance\u201d insupportable. 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