Would an editorial cartoon such as this one be generally regarded as an example of religious bigotry if the exaggerated clerical headgear denoting the religion of certain judges was a Jew’s Kippah (Yarmulke) or a Moslem’s Ulema instead of a Catholic bishop’s mitre? I believe it would.The occasion of the cartoon, of course, is last week's Supreme Court ruling upholding the "Partial Birth Abortion Act". In the pre-Roe period during the late 1960s and early 1970s, when abortion law changes were being considered in many state legislatures, opposition to relaxation of then-existing abortion law was sometimes dismissed as a view that was held "only by some Catholics". Forty years later, do people still believe that?
If not, they why is this cartoon anything other than a gratuitous swipe at the Catholic faith?
Hat tip to Mark Shea who observes that “the death toll from rioting Catholics regarding this insulting cartoon currently stands at zero and is doubling hourly”.
5 comments:
Partial Birth Abortion is a loophole to get away with murder. They take a nearly full term baby and pull it half the way out of the mother's womb and scramble its brains with a needle to kill it. Then place it back in the womb. Since the baby was not born (fully) it is not considered murder. Google Partial Birth abortion and you can easily find drawings and actual pictures of the procedure. After you see what it is that they do, you can not with a conscience tell me that it is not murder. Who cares what the Globe thinks, they are a bunch of godless idiots anyway.
They are indeed. And anything bad that happens to that newspaper and the people who work for it, I applaud. In the irony to end all ironies, the Boston Globe started going downhill at about the time AlGore invented the Internet.
FYI: This Tony Auth cartoon is sourced from the Philadelphia Inquirer, not the Boston Globe (click the image to see where it is from).
I don't know what other newspapers have carried the cartoon, but I find it indicitive of MSM attitudes toward the Catholic faith, especially within editorial departments.
Chrisp...
We godless idiots agree with you regarding 99.99%of gods that have people have worshipped. We all just disagree with you about one particular god. Hmmmm I wonder what makes your god so special that it is credible to thinks it exists. I wonder though I doubt you ever have. Why are your fairy tales so special that I am an idiot if I don't believe them to be true? There is no more grotesque perversion of human reason than religious belief and no sight more pathetic than a person justifying his own over others.
http://www.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/story/0,,21595208-5001028,00.html
This story provides quite an insight into utterly preposterous nature of religious belier. Apparently the Pope and his cronies have "discovered" limbo doesn't exist. So fear ye' not, as unbaptized infants can access heaven. I can't believe that grown, educated men, in the 21st century actually spent time thinking about a mideval spiritual middle world. What a waste of time money and mental energy. How utterly absurd to think they have to power to summon in and out of existence realms of the afterlife. But we godless are the idots. I really would like someone to try and justify this kind of inanity to me.
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