Execrable campaign ad, Catholic anti-Choice, fetus [View all]

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It aired on NBC during Today - first a black screen "warning/disclaimer," saying (paraphrase), The U.S. government requires this warning about some images that might be disturbing...". Then there was a morbidly obese Cardinal seated at a desk, looking menacingly scary and disturbing himself, introducing the anti-Choice topic, followed by stills of a non-surgical abortion, blood all over the screen, bloody fetus feet sticking out, more.  At closing the scary Cardinal was back, threatening, "If you are a Catholic, ACT LIKE ONE."

As a lapsed Catholic, I have maintained a bit of nostalgia for (the rituals?) of "the Olde Religion" (as Henry VIII's subjects said for a couple of generations after their forced split), but the olde intimidation, brainwashing, guilt, manipulation doesn't work. The real atrocity is the Middle Ages, Mel GIBSON, Leonard LEO, Inquisition version bearing no resemblance to "christianity" - with the truly horrific issue being theocracy as one facet of the overall authoritarianism threatening to replace democracy.

A YouTube search didn't result in the specific video here, but there are plenty others there, featuring a "priest" putting a fetus on an altar and such.  At a Hillary rally, as we attendees were walking from the parking lot to the venue, there was a Catholic protester, scowling at us, holding a poster. Some of my better selves attendees said good-morning pleasantly to her, to which she remained stoney as a statue. I said within her earshot, "Well, *I'm* not saying good-morning."  Authoritarian, intolerant of me? - oh, just ACTING LIKE A CATHOLIC.

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The Inquisition, what a show
The Inquisition, here we go
We know you're wishing
That we'd go away
But the Inquisition's here and it's here to stay

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