Border bullies
4 August 2007 - 21 אב 5767 by Huw
Mark your calendars! 4 August 2007, is the day I agree with Bill Donohue, president of the Catholic League - and agree I do, as will much of the left side of my personal blogosphere, on this issue:
Border bullies of San Diego / Minutemen, other groups spread anti-immigrant invective (via SFGate):
In a harshly worded statement, Catholic League President Bill Donohue insisted that there are legitimate ways to express an opinion, but that this wasn’t one of them. “By succumbing to anti-Catholic bigotry and harassment,” he said, “the San Diego Minutemen have discredited their cause and have no moral grounds upon which to make their appeal.” This group and their tactics, he said, should be opposed “not only by Latino Catholics, but by all Catholics.”
(Props to Fr Jim.)
Huw,
Go to the About Us section of the Catholic League website and you will find this statement, “Is the Catholic League Necessary?
Absolutely. Harvard professor Arthur Schlesinger, Sr. once observed that prejudice against the Catholic Church was ‘the deepest bias in the history of the American people.’ Yale professor Peter Viereck commented that ‘Catholic baiting is the anti-Semitism of the liberals.’”
I fondly hope that the left side of your blogosphere will now re-evaluate their stance towards Catholicism. Anti-Semitism is not pretty. Anti-Hispanophones is not pretty. And anti-Catholicism needs to fall as well.
I won’t even re-evaluate my attitude to the CL except to say even a stopped clock…