February 28, 2012
Catholic League president Bill Donohue comments as follows:
Some of the critics of Rick Santorum and Newt Gingrich have gone beyond Catholic bashing. Garry Wills is so excited he sees Santorum as a modern-day Torquemada, a man who “equates contraception with the guillotine.” That this lunacy appeared on the blog site of the New York Review of Books speaks volumes. On examiner.com, Michael Hughes compares Santorum to the Taliban, arguing he wants “a Christian form of Sharia law.” Mark Morford at sfgate.com says Santorum reminds him of a molester, someone who is trying to save “the dying Catholic church.” Larry Doyle at Huffington Post went beyond the candidate to slam all Catholics for participating “in a barbaric ritual…a ‘mass’ in which a black-robed cleric casts a spell over some bread and wine…[resulting] in a cannibalistic reverie.” Sexpert Dan Savage said that when Newt Gingrich was married to his second wife, he was “still f***ing the consecrated host out of his ‘devout Catholic’ mistress.” The Catholicism of these candidates only explains some of the hatred. John Cassidy in The New Yorker says that Santorum “with his seven kids” (which he notes first and foremost) is radically different from the magazine’s readership. He is right: those for whom abortion is the most precious right can’t figure Santorum out. Neither can Ivan Strenski at religiondispatches.com. While he says photos of Santorum and his daughter who suffers from Trisomy 18 “touched his heart,” he also wonders, “Why would one choose, in effect, to take the risk of bringing a doomed child into the world?” These people may be threatened by Catholicism, but what gives them the chills are babies. And they really flip over couples like the Santorums and the Palins who don’t abort their disabled children. Contact our director of communications about Donohue’s remarks:Jeff Field
Phone: 212-371-3191
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CHARLIE BORG (@CHARLIEBORG1)
IN ANSWERING THIS KIND OF HATRED,I DON’T KNOW HOW HE COMPARED SANTORUM AND THE CATHOLIC CHURCH(besides the blasphemis wards he used against the Sacret Host)I WOULD LIKE TO REMIND THIS PERSON THE ALMIGHTY GOD DOES NOT PAY IN WEEKLY WAGES,BUT HIS TIME WILL COME TO REGRET ALL HE SAID,BUT IT WOULD BE TO LATE.HE COMPARED THEM WITH THE TELIBAN.YOU KNOW WHAT,THE HATRED OF THE TELIBAN IS IN HIS FILTHY MOUTH.THE TELIBAN USES THEIR WAYS NOT MUCH DIFFERENT FROM HIS OWN HATRED.NO WONDER THERE IS THIS HATRED IN THIS WORLD.WITH PEOPLE LIKE HIM.
CHARLIE BORG (@CHARLIEBORG1)
I.M AFRAID THAT THERE WERE MORE THAN ONE MAN IN THE COLLOM OR ARTICLE PUBLISHED.SO WHAT I WROTE GOES ACCORDING TO THE WAY THEY ATTACKED.I WOULD NEVER HAVE BELIEVED THAT THERE ARE PEOPLE THAT CAN VOMIT SUCH HATRED.MAY GOD FORGIVE THEM.