‘We’re not anti-Catholic. We’re just anti-THOSE-Catholics’
By
Timothy P. Carney
May 23, 2024 3:35 pm
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Left-leaning journalists in 2024 are on a crusade against religious institutions in America, especially Catholic institutions.
Some, motivated by zealous secularism, are trying to drive religion out of the public square. Lying beneath this, though, is a totalizing and flattening mindset combined with social liberalism. They see that the government and the media have broadly rejected traditional morality — especially as it regards marriage, sex, sexuality, and family — and they are upset that some of us holdouts are not getting on board.
But, of course, it is bigoted to attack people for being Catholic, or Jewish, or Protestant, or Muslim, and so the journalists and activists on this crusade come up with excuses, dodges, and cover stories.
One excuse is, “Oh, we don’t object to their existence. It’s that they get public funding.” That excuse deserves its own treatment, but for now, let’s just say if you make that argument while also arguing for expanding government into all aspects of our lives, then you are simply arguing for the abolition of religious institutions.
Perhaps the most popular deployed by anti-religious crusaders is that they aren’t against religions or their adherents but only against the extremists.
These journalists’ definition of “extremists,” though, includes anyone who follows the central teachings of the faith.
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