To all the Catholics on my f-list - Non-Catholics, stay the Hell away or you WILL be offended

[fpb]

There is a priest in Boulder, Colorado, who is under vicious, systematic, directed attack because he is keeping the teachings of the Church and the orders of his Bishop. I have some experience of how it feels like to be at the wrong (or is it?) end of the kind of vile hatred that is being directed at this man. So I tell the Catholics and Christians on my f-list: follow this link and do what it says - http://wdtprs.com/blog/2010/03/to-arms-denver-priest-attacked-for-being-obedient-poll-alert/ - and then go to the priest's own blog and register a personal message of support. While a good man has enough in himself to stand up for the Church even to martyrdom - and to be fair, that does not yet seem to be the case here - anyone who is subjected to hundreds of direct sexually explicit threats can do with kind words from a distant country.

Comments

[fpb.livejournal.com]

If you start asking "questions" about church doctrine and church discipline, I cannot assume that you intend to be faithful to them.

And I am not the one who is using vituperative language and threats of flamewars.

[expectare.livejournal.com]

Answer all my questions, yes or no.

[fpb.livejournal.com]

You are both aggressive and rude, and I cannot imagine why. And no, why should I? I have supplied you with plenty of links - to the original story, which in turn leads to the priest's own blog, to my own post on a similar situation five years ago, to a post on the same matter by a learned canonist who certainly knows more than both of us - if you want to argue, you have plenty to argue against. And this is not a suitable place for you to try and impose your authority.

[expectare.livejournal.com]

I am responding in kind.

[fpb.livejournal.com]

Your very first question was in the exact tone and vocabulary I would have expected from either a Jack T.Chick or a Richard Dawkins fan; so I started nothing. And I was stunned to get the kind of reductio ad absurdum that could be argued against any act of discrimination whatever, from you of all people. Look at it. Read it again. It does not sound like the kind of question that expects a constructive answer.