About this whole Catholic-trashing thing--I offer the following,

[Demo_Chris]

23. The poster believes no "bigotry" is acceptable...

...and uses this call as a excuse to curb criticism of one of the most bigoted, depraved, and downright evil organizations on the planet.

I haven't started even a single thread on this Church, but I will damn sure respond to these threads defending it. I could spend the next five hours listing and providing links to the Catholic Church's recent modern human rights violations -- everything from mass torture, wholesale sexual abuse, forced castration, slavery, the abuse and murder of many tens-of-thousands -- so many that you would need a calculator to add the total. I could list the abhorrent positions they have staked out on the issues that are dear to many of us here as liberals. I could do all that...

And the defenders of this Church would ignore everything I wrote and cry that I was picking on them. As I discovered in another thread when I did something similar.

The problem in their minds is not that the Catholic Church kept women as slaves, or used boiling water to torture orphans, or castrated boys who reported their sexual abuse... no, the problem is that meanies like me keep pointing it out and asking why in the hell are they giving their money and support to these monsters. And that's what this entire sub-thread is about. It is an effort to silence this criticism by labeling it hateful and insensitive and bigotry.

I say that's BS. It's not bigotry to stand up to evil and call it what it is. I will stand proudly with the VICTIMS. They deserve to be heard.