But a dispassionate observer--even one who rejects Catholic teachings--should recognize Mr. Kerry's posture for what it is: an assault on the faith he claims to revere.
I used to belong to a church where I ended up not sharing the same faith, so I quit and went somewhere else. No big deal and no grandstanding. Why won't Kerry and other Roman Catholics who don't agree with official Catholic teachings leave? It just doesn't make sense to me and seems very offensive to Roman Catholics who take the teachings of the church to heart.
Posted by Tim at April 30, 2004 05:34 AMActually, my old D&D DM had a comment on "Pro-Choice Catholics" years ago. It went something like this:
"I don't agree at all with the Catholic Church on birth control & abortion. But then, I've never claimed to be Catholic. If they claim the name, they should at least follow the rules that go along with the name. If they can't, why don't they leave and set up somewhere else?"
And in close to 30 years in various sub-genres of SF fandom, I've seen a similar pattern over and over:
The pathological X haters who go to every X convention they can, hang out on the X boards, Yahoo Groups for X, Usenet alt.fan.X newsgroups, & blogs continously projectile-vomiting their hatred of X. Either they are total drooling fanboys of X who have done a 180 flip from total blind adoration to total blind hatred while keeping their obsession intact or they're letting their enemy define their entire being.
Posted by: Ken at April 30, 2004 09:40 AM
