Bill O’Reilly Defends Us(?); Catholic Church Still Sucks
So last week, I highlighted a number of news stories that show just how rotten the Catholic Church can be when they use their beliefs to defend their discrimination. One of those stories was about a preschooler kicked out of a Catholic-run school for having lesbian parents.
The archdiocese defends these actions with the same old syllogism: 1) No sex outside marriage, 2) Marriage = man + woman, therefore 3) We hate gays. It’s not that they blatantly hate gays, they just inherently hate gays because of these other beliefs they have. Otherwise, they’re so loving!
It’s beyond me how you can use logic to defend beliefs; it doesn’t get much more oxymoronic than that. Then again, I learned how to think logically, so it’s pretty tough for me to sink back into that circular reasoning that keeps beliefs going.
At any rate, Bill O’Reilly recently had Father Jonathan Morris from West Palm Beach on to reiterate this same old bigoted nonsense. The amazing thing? O’Reilly, a Catholic himself, defended the lesbian couple! Has O’Reilly gone round the bend? Did Glenn Beck push FOX News so far right that O’Reilly popped out back on the other side? I doubt it. I’m certainly in no rush to praise O’Reilly, but I’ll give credit due when it’s due. He actually makes a pretty good argument. I’m sure his audience benefited from hearing him offer such a fresh perspective, especially when addressing such a smarmy priest. Check it out:
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This actually made me tear up a little. Thank you for sharing.
I’ve never before watched Bill-O without getting angry at him. But I was cheering him on this time. Funny to see his points were the first things I thought too: divorced heteros are fine?
Fr. Jonathan was actually visiting my parish for a mission during the same time he interviewed with Bill. He talked very briefly about about this at St. Peter in Jupiter (about an hour after they taped it). He’s not a smarmy guy…at least from what I learned when I met and talked with him. As far as the issue at hand, its tough and I can see it from both sides, but legally speaking, its a private institution and it can do what it wants as far as admitting/denying students.