Pope's visit to America (Kim Davis edition)

[left-of-center2012]

It's like having friends over for dinner and an enjoyable evening,
only to find out after they left that they stole your silverware.

[TeeYiYi]

1. ...and your favorite CDs. ..nt

TYY

[left-of-center2012]

3. ...

I'm going to doubt he likes 'country oldies' from the 50s and 60s.

[pnwmom]

2. No, not at all. It's like being a famous person invited to your friend's house for the weekend.

And you meet lots of people and you're nice to everyone you meet. And your friend introduces you to this lady named Kim Davis, and you're nice to her, too.

After you leave, you find yourself being criticized in all the papers because of that single meeting with Kim Davis. And you're wishing your friend never did that to you.

[left-of-center2012]

4. Da Pope knew

That's why it was hushed up until he got out of the country.

[pnwmom]

5. No, the logical conclusion is that it was "hushed up" because the Vatican

never considered it an important part of the itinerary or anything that was intended to have public ramifications.

It was just a private meeting with someone the Bishop of Kentucky, the head of the Bishop's Conference, asked him to meet.

If he wanted it to have a large impact, why would he have not made that publicly known while he was here? Why didn't he bring up anything about LGBT people while he was here?

[left-of-center2012]

6. "If he wanted it to have a large impact"

He didn't want it to have a large impact.
He didn't want the public at large to know.
It was a secret kiss thrown to the right wingers.

[pnwmom]

7. And as such it would have been pretty worthless.

The Pope probably consented to meet with someone who the Head of the Bishop's council, who happened to be the Bishop in Davis's state of Kentucky, wanted him to meet with.

The conservatives are out to undermine him. You could see this just listening to Philly's Chaput, whose introductions to the Pope were so different from any of the Pope's speeches.

So someone succeeded in undermining him. We shouldn't be rejoicing about this because we need him as an ally in the fight for the environment and against the excesses of capitalism.

[Bluenorthwest]

9. Read this article and explain how he got tricked into this 3 day conference at the Vatican with FRC

and Tony Perkins invited, Tony who gave an award to Kim just hours before she met the Pope, same day and same city.
So read it, tell us how he got bamboozled into this one...

Vatican Strengthens Ties with Evangelicals and Mormons Against Gay Marriage
http://time.com/3597245/vatican-evangelicals-mormons-gay-marriage/

Really, read it. Tony had a great time at the Vatican, calls it 'almost euphoric' all that anti gay plotting. You will love this article, I promise!

[left-of-center2012]

10. OK - I have to agree

But it did piss me off.
So, do I truly disagree, or do I think I should?
My evangelical born again siblings pissed me off so much I converted to Buddhism.