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Naturally, this elementary moral observation brought out every kook on the internet and they all appeared in poor Simcha\u2019s comboxes to demonstrate the truth of every word she said, culminating in the edifying spectacle of a vicious kook telling a mother of nine that she was a \u201cpro-abort kike\u201d. Class with a capital KKK. Simcha was her usual sensible self and it all died down.<\/p>\n

But the other day, Simcha managed to make another absolutely non-controversial-for-non-insane-people comment<\/a>\u2013namely that it is idiotic, crazy, and evil for the lunatic head of the Episcopal communion to characterize demon possession as a gift of God. Result: the Wrath of the Crazies in her comboxes.<\/p>\n

This time, however, the lunatics were not from the uber-Trad \u201cHitler was more sinned against than sinning\u201d crowd but instead from the uber-Progressive \u201cYou are a meanie for making fun of crazy Episcopalians like Katharine Jefforts-Schori\u201d crowd. Interestingly, most of these people were not Episcopalian (that battle-weary demographic was feeling very supported and affirmed by Simcha). Nope. It was dissenting \u201cprogressive\u201d ex-Catholics and their ilk.<\/p>\n

There were a lot of highlights from the \u201cYou are Intolerant of Our Separated Demonic Brethren and Judgmental of These Spirits Merely Because They are Damned for All Eternity\u2013and Beside Ms. Jefferts-Schori Looks Quite Fetching in Rainbow Colors\u201d Brigade, but I think the winning post had to go to the woman who issued a plea for tolerance from mean Catholics and then added \u201cin spite of the Catholic abhorrence of sex, they breed like cockroaches.\u201d<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t care who you are. That right there is textbook irony. Progressives using the language of vermin to describe Catholics that Julius Streicher used to describe Jews<\/a>! And in a plea for tolerance and an implied boast about one\u2019s own progressive open-mindedness and love! Nothing like some good-old \u201cYou Catholics are filthy breeders\u201d rhetoric from fatuously un-self-aware Progressives to remind you of the fact that when you run off to one political extreme you wind up meeting your enemies coming at you from the other direction. These guys have more in common with the Holocaust Deniers than they imagine. Catholic-hatred is the anti-semitism of the Left \u201cLiberal\u201d. Only there\u2019s nothing liberal about it.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"