If Catholics stopped being welcome in the Democratic Party, rightst fundies would soon go unchecked.

[Tom Rinaldo]

43. It's not my religion, but that doesn't matter

I would never presume you are against Catholic people unless you said something that directly indicated that you were. Being adamently against policies of the Catholic Church, including elements of dogma, would not, for me anyway, by itself make me think you were antii-Catholics. I will say this though. The Catholic Church is not pedophelic though there clearly have been and most likely still are pedophiles within the Church. On top of that you will get no argument from me that major elements of the Church leadership, reaching up to the papacy, were complicit in enabling pedophiles to continue to victimize children.

Still I make that distinction because it was never the teaching of that Church to condone pedophilia as we now understand it anyway (lots of people used to marry as young teens in days of old - both of my grandmothers did in fact). Those leaders of the Church who enabled pedophiles or even were pedophiles themselves can only be viewed harshly, at the mildest end of the spectrum ,depending on their level of complicity. They subverted both the teachings and the responsibility of the Church to minister to its members and protect them from predators. Those elements must be uprooted from participation and influence within the Catholic Church, but it should be noted that ultimately they will only be uprooted by Catholics of good faith and morals who remain within the Church to confront them