Allred is a political hack. The Washington Post is a biased rag. But they aren\u2019t the ones making these allegations. I have considered the allegations, read into the sources provided to corroborate, and I can\u2019t in good conscience claim neutrality on this anymore, especially if I did not and will not claim it on Clinton or Weinstein or whoever else. This is beyond politics.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n
At this moment, the *only* people I still hear defending Moore are the Greatest Christians of All Time: Men like Franklin Graham, Jerry Falwell, Jr. and (to the burning shame of Catholics) Deacon Keith Fournier.\u00a0 And, of course, the Christianist Right is using the Holy Family as human shields<\/a> for this perv, as well as comparing him to Jesus<\/a>.\u00a0 These people compare themselves to Jesus a lot.<\/p>\n
And then there are the Evangelicals who declare they\u00a0are more likely to vote for him even if he is a pedophile<\/a>.<\/p>\n
And, of course, there is the reliably dishonest Liesite News<\/em>, which rejoiced over the destruction of Rebecca Bratten Weiss\u2019 career for the crime of teaching Lolita<\/em> to her Lit students, going to bat for the old perv<\/a>.\u00a0 And there is, naturally, conservative Catholic Folk Hero Austin Ruse of the mysteriously well-funded C-FAM, who claims to care about the family, also sneering at Jonah Goldberg <\/a>in defense of Moore<\/a>\u00a0and placing himself solidly in the rolls of history along with the defenders of Maciel, Euteneuer, and Corapi for his considerably more than 30 pieces of silver.<\/p>\n
If you had told me 20 years ago that conservative Christians\u2013outraged over feminists who said they would fellate Bill Clinton themselves because of his support for abortion\u2013 would now constitute the *backbone* of a party ready to vote for Roy Moore even if he *is* a pedophile and defending him by using the Holy Family as human shields for it, I would have called you a liberal propagandist of the lowest order. If you had said, \u201cThat\u2019s nothing. That will come *after* their passionate support of a confessed sex predator with 16 credible victims and his mockery of POWs, Gold Star families, and the disabled.\u201d I would have said you were a disgusting liar ready to do *anything* to discredit conservative Christians, just to win. You would have lost all my respect. If you had told me that *Hollywood* would be demonstrating more integrity in facing the sex predators and pervs in their midst than conservative Christians I would have simply started laughing at you.<\/p>\n
And now, here we are. I remain as staunch a Catholic as ever, because I know the freak show of conservative Christian Trumpians, in fact, hates the Magisterium (except for the politically useful prolife stuff) and that the Church\u2019s teaching, in fact, stands dead against that freak show. I know that freak show now dominates the GOP and the bulk of conservative media readership and viewership\u2013especially FOX. I know how much these adorers of Trump and Moore hate good Pope Francis. And I know how little they know of the Bible (hint: the incarnation is not the result of old Joseph and teenage Mary having relations). So my faith in the Church\u2019s teaching hasn\u2019t changed bit. But my naive folly in thinking the freak show of post-Christian Christianist Nihilist Misogynous White Spite that is the Party of Trump has anything to do with the Faith is deader than a doornail.<\/p>\n
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Same-sex marriage gets legalized
\nGOP: \u201cThis is so bad, it could lead to pedophilia!\u201d<\/p>\n
A Republican gets outed as a pedophile
\nGOP: \u201cThat\u2019s not so bad. Hey, at least he\u2019s not gay, right?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u2014 Craig Rozniecki (@CraigRozniecki) November 13, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n