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In reply to the discussion: I am a Catholic, Baptized, First Communion, Confirmed, Altar-Boy... [View all]RainDog
(28,784 posts)The reference to Barbara Bush had to do with her statement that she didn't want her beautiful mind to be made unhappy by others pointing out issues that would interfere with the fantasy in which she enveloped herself.
Here's the exact quote:
"But why should we hear about body bags and deaths, and how many, what day it's gonna happen, and how many this or that or what do you suppose? Or, I mean, it's not relevant. So, why should I waste my beautiful mind on something like that, and watch him suffer." (him being her son on the eve of the war crime that was the invasion of Iraq.)
So, what I was saying is that you don't want others to say things that you think will offend those who identify strongly as Catholic while others look at the organization and hierarchy that is the RCC and find no reason to defend its continued sexism and homophobia.
You use Biden as a way to tell people you want them to shut up.
People can have all sorts of religious beliefs. If Biden's religion includes acceptance of homophobia as doctrine - that's his problem, not mine. But as an institution that is also its own state - the Catholic church works to undermine the legal rights of a lot of people and, even when it upsets the beautiful mind of someone who doesn't care - others do.