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I have great respect for your opinion and have been wondering what you think of the Kim Davis\/Pope Francis meeting. The meeting itself doesn\u2019t bother me, but the secrecy of it does. If I were on the other side of the marriage issue, I think I\u2019d feel like the Pope was trying to pull one over on me.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
I think the pope was being a shepherd. It\u2019s what popes are supposed to do. I also, by the way, think that the Lefties who are grabbing themselves by both legs and tearing themselves in two over Francis\u2019 \u201cbetrayal\u201d are hilarious and provide the perfect bookend to the beginning of the week when Righties were doing the same. I\u2019m particularly amused by one Charles Pierce, who thinks he has smoked out an entire Benedictine Conspiracy at work<\/a>.<\/p>\n
As to keeping the meeting private and this somehow being scandalous to the Left, my response to them would be \u201cMind your own business.\u201d If a shepherd wants to meet with one of the sheep in private (and the sheep presumably wants that as well) who cares how it affect your precious feelings? I certainly wouldn\u2019t want paparazzi following me into a meeting with my spiritual director or confessor.<\/p>\n
What\u2019s really ticking the Left off is that Francis showed that he meant business when he spoke of religious liberty. The Left is ticked because the goal had been to make an example of Davis pour encourager l\u2019autres<\/em> and the whole thing backfired. The judge who threw her in the pokey made a martyr of her instead of an example and the attempt to crush her conscience was thrwarted, first by the Religious Freedom Restoration Act (which demanded that reasonable accomodation be made to her conscience) and second by this pope, who said \u201cAmen\u201d to that and blessed acts of conscience<\/a>. The subculture that somehow had managed to convince itself that the Pope was going to back down on conscience and genuflect to gay marriage was as outraged to discover the Pope was Catholic as the subculture of lunatics over in the comboxes <\/a>at First Things<\/em> having hysterics about \u201cChe Guevara\u2019s Pope\u201d.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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