Bishop a “Pedophile Pimp”

It’s telling that some self-described practicing Catholic conservative legislators in New Hampshire began trashing their bishop with gutter language only after he made public statements about how their proposed budget would harm the poor.  When Bishop John McCormack suggested that the proposed New Hampshire budget “[neglected] the poor and vulnerable,” Rep. D.J. Bettencourt, the House majority leader, immediately deflected his Bishop’s statement by making ad hominem attacks against McCormack for his prior service as an aide to Cardinal Law.  It makes me think that being a “Catholic conservative” is not at all the same thing as being a “conservative Catholic.”