The Catholic Church is now associated with four "mass graves" in Ireland

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37. I look at it this way:

There is a group that people choose to belong to and support. It has a homophobic, misogynistic outlook and a terrible history of oppression. Women are shut out of power in this organization. It lobbies against progressive policies, such as birth control funding. This is a political group. On DU, you can criticize this group until the cows come home. You can say the people who buy into the beliefs of this group are supporting a terrible agenda -- no one will blink an eye.

There is another group that people choose to belong to and support. It has a homophobic, misogynistic outlook and a terrible history of oppression. Women are shut out of power in this organization. It lobbies against progressive policies, such as birth control funding. This is a religious group -- the Catholic Church. On DU, you can't say jack without getting pushback or alerted on. Why? Because it's "faith." So, if you attach magical thinking and supernatural beliefs to your group, you give yourself a protective bubble, even here on a presumptively liberal website.