"It profits me but little that a vigilant authority always protects the tranquillity of my pleasures and constantly averts all dangers from my path, without my care or concern, if this same authority is the absolute master of my liberty and my life."

--Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America

Thursday, January 5, 2012

Santorum and Anti-Catholic Bigotry

I noted yesterday that the story of how Rick Santorum and his wife Karen mourned the loss of a stillborn child is a story that is utterly familiar to practicing Catholics -- tens of millions of Americans.   Some of the reaction of the mainstream media, including the clip below from Eugene Robinson, a columnist for the Washington Post, is unbelievably vulgar anti-Catholic bigotry, nothing else.   To call the father of seven children, a man known to be a believing Catholic, "weird" for treating his infant child like... well, like a person, is as vile as calling a practicing Jew "weird" for keeping kosher in his home.   (Say, like Joe Lieberman, for instance.... can you imagine what would happen if a right-leaning columnist said that about Lieberman?)  

It is a sad commentary on the state of our culture that a mainstream Catholic like Santorum -- or a mainstream Mormon like Mitt Romney -- will be viewed as "weird," while a man like Obama who for twenty years frequented a church led by a certified American-hating communist revolutionary, Jeremiah Wright, gets a free pass.   But, then, the difference is.... it's OK for Obama, because everyone knows he was a hypocrite who didn't really believe.

Here's the Eugene Robinson segment, which makes me want to puke:


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