The Stupid.......... it BURNS!!!!!!

[RedRonin]

This weekend, Bob Costas is hosting a fundraiser here to support our excellent childrens hospital, Cardinal Glennon.  He will do the MC duties, Billy Crystal will be doing some standup and Cheryl Crow is the musical talent.  Everyone involved is doing so free of charge to provide the best possible benefit to the hospital.

 Can't get much better than that, right?

So along comes the archbishop of the St. Louis Diocese.  He's already established himself as an insufferable dickhead to his own flock.  Those of us outside the Catholic Church (I'm a recovering Catholic) consider him just this side of certifiable.

This "man of god" has resigned today as chairman of the fundraising arm of the hospital and is on the TV calling the event an abomination and scandal and telling Catholics to not attend.

Why, you ask?  Because Cheryl Crow is pro-choice.

I question why he waited until three days before the event to get so bent over her participation.  It's been advertised with her name for months.  He's known about it for months.  Why would someone professing to be "pro life" want to scuttle an event to raise money for a hospital that has saved the lives of tens of thousands of childrens lives?  You really can't get much more pro-life than that.  But then I forget...... he's a dickhead.

Reminds me again why I fled their mentally arthritic attitudes at the first opportunity.

[TheBriarRose]

I would think that Billy Crystal, being a devout Jewish man (last I checked) was more offensive than Cheryl Crow...but then again, I remember the local catholic church's crusade against Abortion in the early 70's...

Thing is, and I'm not trying to be rude, but I spent a week with a whole bunch of catholics last year, and the majority of them, when asked confidentially, thought birth control and abortion were necessary in today's world....but they said they wouldn't ever stand up in public as saying that....

It's sad that he cannot see beyond the pettiness into what the fund raiser is for....

We do a joint fundraiser with the local Jewish Temple every year for our food bank.  It is one of the best Gala's I've ever seen.

Just remember, although the squeeky wheel is loud, it doesn't speak for the other three....



good luck with the fund raiser, sounds like a GREAT event!!

[RedRonin]

Oh, I fully understand what you're saying.  All three of my adult kids are still devout Catholics, yet still do such un-Catholic things as practicing birth control, etc.  Last poll I saw had something like 50% of them doing this.  I just couldn't reconcile myself with professing to believe one thing for the sake of pacifying the "officials" and living a completely different life.  I chose to bail.

This guy, though, is a whack job.  He has excommunicated an entire parish and their priest because they refused to turn their property over to the archdiocese.  They had a contract with the church that was well over a century old that gave them control over their building and land, as well as their own finances.  Burke showed up and started that fight less than three months after arriving.  

This guy's wheel doesn't squeak........ it friggin screams.

[TheBriarRose]

I understand, in the Episcopal church, we're going through our own squeaky wheel thing.......

with some whackjobs of our own...

but yeah, and can understand the hypocracy taboos too.

We take what we need, and discard the rest....

[Anonymous]

You've got to be kidding me! I am open minded about religions, and I don't discrimate against religions, but some of the so-called Christian ideals that people follow really piss me off.

I disagree with abortion myself, but if Sheryl Crow was willing to help me with a cause like this, I'd take her help.

[mermdotcom]

You've got to be kidding me! I am open minded about religions, and I don't discrimate against religions, but some of the so-called Christian ideals that people follow really piss me off.

And this is why Christian-bashing happens, because these "squeaky wheels" get on their high-horses and try to speak for an entire group that, for the most part, wants nothing to with them!  But, then again, you can find nutcases and media hounds in pretty much any faith, our own included.

I disagree with abortion myself, but if Sheryl Crow was willing to help me with a cause like this, I'd take her help.

Seriously.  This guy's not looking at the big picture.  Rather than teaming up with someone of a different opinion to do some good and save some lives, he'd rather throw a hissy fit about one political stance of one participant.

Who knows, though.  Maybe this guy's tantrum will bring more attention to the benefit and bring in more cash.  Idiots like this guy are good for something sometimes!

[Zenon]

I find that Catholicism's ideas about science come from religious dogma, not reason.  So they are totally unreasonable when it comes to using science to help humans.  I consider Catholic priests to be very dangerous and crazy people.  I'm sorry.