Catholics Play the “Discrimination” Card

(Updated)

Bill Maher told a tasteless joke.

He does this frequently…I don’t watch his show, because I don’t enjoy tasteless jokes, especially when they are obviously meant to further a political ideology I disagree with. In fact, the only time I hear his stupid jokes is when he “outrages” some group of people enough to get an enormous amount of free publicity from the main-stream media.

See, this is how America works - people like Bill Maher and Kathy Griffin go on T.V. and say whatever they want. Then, people like me normally choose to watch something else. If one of us gets real upset, we might even blog about it, or take out an ad in Newsweek.

Freedom of religion, and freedom of speech - perhaps there’s a reason they are addressed in the same amendment to the U.S. Constitution, no?

There is a problem, however, in the United States when folks try to use their “freedom of religion” to promote the agenda of one government (i.e., the Vatican) over the laws of our own government. Immigration and Emigration laws are determined by individual governments, and those individual governments have sovereign right to enforce their own laws.

The Roman Catholic Church, headquartered at the Vatican, the members of which represent about 15% of the world’s population, does not have a right to override the sovereignty of the United States. And if a representive of that “church” (a.k.a. foreign government) attempts to subvert those those laws to come more in line with its own agenda, there should be the same type of resistance as there would be to Islamists trying to promote Sharia Law here, or Communists trying to subvert our country through the public education system. (I said, there should be resistance.)

I appreciate the fact that this can put Catholics living in the United States in an uncomfortable position - caught between their church and their country. But I do not appreciate the reaction by far too many in recent days, who have insisted on taking the victim stance and pronouncing any sort of disagreement with Catholic policy to be “Catholic bashing.”

Give me a break. You’re in America. Either address the issues on an intelligent level, or change the channel. You have a choice.

Also see: Michelle Malkin - Open Borders and the Catholic Elite