The New Anti-Catholic Bigotry
Townhall.com Chuck Colson April 27, 2007
The editorial cartoon appeared in the Philadelphia Inquirer in the wake of the Supreme Court decision upholding the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act. It featured the nine justices sitting on the bench. The five Catholic justices who voted to uphold the ban are depicted wearing bishops’ mitres. Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who is Jewish, is staring at them with a horrified look. So are the three Protestant justices.
The cartoon’s message was clear: The Catholics had voted, not to uphold the law, but to impose their personal religious views. It’s a graphic example of anti-Catholic bigotry.
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It’s interesting that criticism of non-religious people is fine, but if someone goes after Catholics or other religious people, well, that’s “bigotry.”
Colson seems not to understand that when you have five justices who are members of the same religion, and they happen to vote consistent with the teachings of their religion on a certain issue, that people will naturally suspect a religious influence on their voting.
Colson calls asking this kind of question the “new” anti-Catholic bigotry. But the old “bigotry” is alive and well, and still actively promoted by Colson’s co-religionists. The following piece is very typical:
Colson claims that he has found common ground with Roman Catholicism. This is not because Romanism has changed, but it is because he himself represents an apostate form of Christianity known as modern evangelicalism that is so nonchalant about the truth that it cannot resist error. Colson says orthodoxy is the thread which connects the present with the past and the future. Not so. In relation to the Pope, it is not orthodoxy which connects the past and the future, but heresy. John Paul II represents ancient heresies which were affirmed by the anathemas of Trent; at the same time he represents that final apostate Mother of Harlots foretold in Revelation 17. Those who yoke together with the Pope are yoked together with his blasphemies and heresies (Revelation 18:4).
Colson calls for a boycott of newspapers that contain “anti-Catholic bigotry,” but the real opposition to the Catholic Church is found in his own back yard, among his own co-religionists.
Ah yes, it brings to mind the dulcet tones of 1960’s songster, Tom Lehrer who intoned the following in his song National Brotherhood Week:
Oh, the white folks hate the black folks,
And the black folks hate the white folks;
To hate all but the right folks
Is an old established rule.
But during National Brotherhood Week,
National Brotherhood Week,
Lena Horne and Sheriff Clark are dancing cheek to cheek.
It’s fun to eulogize
The people you despise
As long as you don’t let ‘em in your school.
Oh, the poor folks hate the rich folks,
And the rich folks hate the poor folks.
All of my folks hate all of your folks,
It’s American as apple pie.
But during National Brotherhood Week,
National Brotherhood Week,
New Yorkers love the Puerto Ricans ’cause it’s very chic.
Step up and shake the hand
Of someone you can’t stand,
You can tolerate him if you try!
Oh, the Protestants hate the Catholics
And the Catholics hate the Protestants,
And the Hindus hate the Moslems,
And everybody hates the Jews.
But during National Brotherhood Week,
National Brotherhood Week,
It’s National Everyone-Smile-At-One-Another-Hood Week.
Be nice to people who
Are inferior to you.
It’s only for a week, so have no fear;
Be grateful that it doesn’t last all year!
It is difficult to imagine that even one of his songs would be tolerated today let alone three albums full.