NAMBLA wrote:

Horrible Gelatinous Blob wrote:

NAMBLA wrote:

If you think these aren't the views and values of your average Catholic churchgoer, you haven't been to church lately.

Holy shit, do you EVEN know any Catholics under the age of 45?

Practicing ones who go to church or people who are simply Catholic by birth?

The latter is meaningless. The former? Yes the majority of them still cling to the belief that birth control and homosexuality are evil. More evil than war and murder.

I'm not talking about your yuppie friends who identify themselves as Catholic but are really just agnostic in practice. I'm talking Catholics who actively attend church and support the institution.

Here's some events I've witnessed in various Catholic masses across various states, over the course of ten years occasionally humoring an aging religious relative:


- Homosexuals are subhuman aberrations. Yes the priest used that exact phrase. In 2008.

- Huge letter mailing campaigns to representatives to criminalize abortion and the recent push to exempt employer health coverage from covering abortions and birth control. Priests actually using the word "tyranny" to describe being forced to do so along with their tax dollars supporting planned parenthood.

- Not one single fucking protest or effort to speak out against the war in Iraq. Not during the buildup not during the war and not during the occupation. Just sermons that the troops were "doing what must be needed" and to pray that they made it home safe. This is especially galling when compared to the political effort made over the previous point and the sudden vanishing of any protest over tax dollar use for non-fetus murder.


When was the last time you went to church?