More symptoms of insanity on the American right

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In yesterday's American Thinker, a man with the Italian name of Bonelli wrote the following, extremely offensive statement:

The United States is different from most other countries in many ways. One unique aspect of our country is that our elected officials, officers of the court, and the military, all pledge their allegiance to the Constitution and not to an office, individual or party. This assures continuity of the ideals set forth by the founders.

As an Italian citizen, I have personally sworn to defend the Constitution of my country when I served in the Italian army. The presumption involved in this ignorant display of insular arrogance is an insult to every constitutional government in the world.

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I also forgot to mention that the priests in my cousin's diocese refuse to teach NFP in marriage counseling lest people be offended. They told her that since almost all the folks are living together and will not obey the church's teachings, they just don't want to get into it. I'm not blaming the Catholic church for having better schools, I'm blaming her priests for spinelessness in allowing the church to be used.

As far as I'm concerned, if a bishop or priest allows politics or political correctness to change the makeup of what they are teaching in catechesis, it doesn't matter how ritually sound they are, for they are morally and theologically bankrupt, and the church will start to die from within, looking very nice as it goes. To me, it is one and the same problem, lack of spine, lack of orthodoxy, lack of knowing that the liturgy and the doctrine of the church together because that unity is what keeps it strong. Priests who abuse the liturgy and priests who teach heresy are only different in semantics to me. How can you separate one from the other?