David Duke opposed the Iraq War.

[trotsky]

Who wants to embrace him and support him for that position? We can just disregard and ignore the fact that he's a racist anti-Semitic fuckwad, right?

Surely we all see how absurd that sounds. Especially here on a liberal message board.

So why do others insist that we need to embrace and support a virulent homophobic misogynistic bigot like the pope when he says something we agree with?

[Warren Stupidity]

1. Special Pleading.

Pope Awesome Spankyourkids gets a pass 'cause he's awesome.

[mr blur]

2. Because he drives his own little car

He must be one of us!

[LiberalAndProud]

3. If I understand the argument, it goes something like this:

The pope is not a virulent homophobic misogynistic bigot, exactly. The institution and tradition compels him to act like one. If we embrace and support the somewhat less homophobic misogynistic bigoted pope, the institution will change. eventually. maybe. Be patient. These things take time.