The Catholic Church's moral authority...

[struggle4progress]

20. Well, of course. You dislike the Catholic church, so are pleased whenever possible

to portray them as hypocrites, which in this case you would do by a somewhat circuitous chain involving a contradiction you see between Catholic social teaching and the argument of lawyers defending a Catholic hospital from a lawsuit; this pleases you, because you imagine it undermines the claims of the Catholic church to possess a moral authority you do not believe it possesses

I am entirely unimpressed by this: first, because I already expect just about everyone to be sometimes guilty of hypocrisy, so shrieks of "hypocrisy!" will often elicit from me a shrugging tu quoque; second, because I have never been committed to the view that anyone possesses an inerrant moral authority, whether or not they sit in the Catholic church; third, because my impression is that the lawyers here are behaving professionally as lawyers, by arguing based on the existing laws, and I expect that lawyers arguments are often inconsistent with their clients' actual behaviors and/or stated views

If you were interested in genuine conversation, I think you would avoid silly putdowns (such as "Do you know what the point here is?&quot ; these suggest your actual motive is simply to establish your own superiority