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Comic book writer, script writer and blogger, John Rogers, aka the Kung-Fu Monkey, has an excellent post today where he lays it all down regarding the recent flap involving a couple of bloggers hired by Senator Edwards' campaign.
I found myself nodding and adding an occassional "hell yeah" as I read Rogers' comments - particularly about Catholic League president Bill Donohue (making American Catholics look like flaming idiots since 1997). Donohue sees himself as a flaming sword of righteousness, defending embattled Catholics across the United States. As Rogers said, maybe if O'Donoghue works really hard a Catholic will one day be President of the United States...
Now maybe this is (yet another) Canadian thing but could someone explain to me how an institution that has lasted for 2,000 years and survived the assaults of (among other things) the Roman Empire, the Reformation and the Enlightenment (and seriously, you want Anti-Catholic propaganda, read Voltaire), should concern itself with the works of Kevin Smith?
(FTR, Canada's first Roman Catholic prime minister, Sir John Thompson, was elected in 1892 and Stephen Harper is the first Protestant elected Prime Minister of Canada in over a quarter of a century - and yet we still have gay marriage - the pope is rather consternated about the whole thing, too. But nobody tell Bill Donohue - he'd give himself a rupture trying to figure out who was oppressing who).
I found myself nodding and adding an occassional "hell yeah" as I read Rogers' comments - particularly about Catholic League president Bill Donohue (making American Catholics look like flaming idiots since 1997). Donohue sees himself as a flaming sword of righteousness, defending embattled Catholics across the United States. As Rogers said, maybe if O'Donoghue works really hard a Catholic will one day be President of the United States...
Now maybe this is (yet another) Canadian thing but could someone explain to me how an institution that has lasted for 2,000 years and survived the assaults of (among other things) the Roman Empire, the Reformation and the Enlightenment (and seriously, you want Anti-Catholic propaganda, read Voltaire), should concern itself with the works of Kevin Smith?
(FTR, Canada's first Roman Catholic prime minister, Sir John Thompson, was elected in 1892 and Stephen Harper is the first Protestant elected Prime Minister of Canada in over a quarter of a century - and yet we still have gay marriage - the pope is rather consternated about the whole thing, too. But nobody tell Bill Donohue - he'd give himself a rupture trying to figure out who was oppressing who).