GOP chief counsel on Senate Judiciary Committee: Gay marriage=pedophilia

By GottaLaff

The Party of No, the Backward Party, the Party of Bigots, the Ignorant Party, the Party of Homophobes... need I go on? Because I'm angry enough to do that. Oh, I could go on all day:

Last week, Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) named William Smith as the chief counsel for the GOP on the Senate Judiciary Committee. David Ingram of Legal Times reports today that Smith recently compared support for same-sex marriage to support for pedophilia. In a blog post that has now been taken down, Smith responded to former McCain campaign manager Steve Schmidt’s speech to the Log Cabin Republicans by writing that he wondered “if next week Schmidt will take his close minded stump speech to a NAMBLA meeting. For those unfamiliar with NAMBLA, the acronym is for North American Man Boy Love Association.” Smith also compared same-sex marriage to bestiality.

Party of Bottom Feeders, the Sphincter Party....

Let us prey: Cardinal George harbors pedophile priest but balks at Obama Notre Dame speech

By GottaLaff

Remember the recent Notre Dame controversy? We posted about it here, here, here, and here. Someone over at BuzzFlash points out ju-u-ust a smidge of hypocrisy:

Cardinal George of Chicago has a soft spot for pedophile priests – and is not embarrassed by letting them stay in his mansion or on the job, but he is, in brazen hypocrisy, embarrassed that the President of the United States will be the Notre Dame commencement speaker.

Now that’s the kind of thing that not only gives religious self-righteousness a bad name, it is a frightening disregard for the impact of priests who sexually abuse children.

Is BuzzFlash exaggerating?

Hardly not.

Read this long excerpt from Beliefnet.com about objections to Cardinal George becoming the head of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops in 2007 [...]

[F]ast forward to 2009.

According to all the Chicago newspapers, "Cardinal George rips ND for inviting Obama" (as the Chicago Southtown Economist headlined) [...]

So, it is not an embarrassment to host and lodge pedophile priests and let others continue to have contact with children, but it is an embarrassment to have the President of the United States speak at the flagship Catholic University? These are warped priorities that are as destructive to victims of Priest sex abuse as they are an insult to the Presidency.

Fortunately, Notre Dame is not succumbing to Cardinal George’s tolerance for pedophiles and intolerance for such life-saving research as stem-cell research. [...]

Clearly, there are many fine priests committed to the teachings of Christ, but Cardinal George sullies them by – shall we say – being as chummy with pedophile priests as if they had just been guilty of unpaid parking tickets.

Many young people sexually abused by priests never fully recover, and their families experience the dreadful pain of betrayal and coping with the after effects.

Cardinal George should spend more time with dealing with these victims than dishonoring the President of the United States and the prestigious tradition of Notre Dame.

Please go read the entire post. These were only a few of the pertinent excerpts.