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In reply to the discussion: What will happen if this man becomes Pope? [View all]Walk away
(9,494 posts)36. I grew up and live in an area repleat with Catholics and they are almost all racists.
I have never met a Catholic who was not a racist and a bigot. I often get attacked by Catholics for being an Atheist or for being an Obama supporter. My Italian clients think the "N" word describes everyone they think is shiftless or lazy. These are college educated, rich and 3rd generation Americans. They have no excuse except this is what they learned in their predominantly white catholic schools.
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He'd be a hardliner on abortion, birth control, and gays. Critics would be branded as racists.
JVS
Feb 2013
#8
I was, typically, about to write hundreds of words on what is said here in under 20
dmallind
Feb 2013
#9
I grew up and live in an area repleat with Catholics and they are almost all racists.
Walk away
Feb 2013
#36
I can already see a lot of heads spinning. First a black President in the USA and then
Cleita
Feb 2013
#26
Nothing important, if he has the same backward perspectives as the current pope
bhikkhu
Feb 2013
#29
I agree that it is unimportant what race a person is, but we all know that racist who will go nuts.
liberal N proud
Feb 2013
#34
European Catholics are a minority within the church; American Catholics an even smaller one
Posteritatis
Feb 2013
#30