Reply #44: Nope. Plausible deniability doesn't work here. [View All]

[AngryOldDem]

Unlike some in the Church, the buck always stops at the priest at the parish level. He should know and approve of what goes on under his church's name -- goes double if it's on his property.

An example, although not as blatant as this: Back in 2004 there was a lot of nastiness in my area over Bush/Kerry, car vandalism in particular. I had a Kerry sticker on my car. When I left Mass one day, someone had stuck a phamplet about why Catholics could not vote for Kerry under my windshield. The next day I contacted the church to let them know that this was not acceptable, and that incidences of vandalism were rampant, and that it would behoove the parish to stop this pronto. The very next Sunday there was a large item in the bulletin about how things were not to be left on cars in the lot, and that ushers would be watching. That pastor understood his responsibility in that case.

At the very least the thing was undeniably racist. If it were named "Alien Attack," then why not have a target of a little green blob from outer space or something?

ON EDIT: Nothing was left on my car -- or anybody else's -- through the rest of the election season.