Harry Knox, who serves on President Barack Obama’s Advisory Council on Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships, is standing by a statement he made last March that Pope Benedict XVI is “hurting people in the name of Jesus.”
Not exactly breaking news, but I missed the story the first time around. Knox’s unrepentant ignorance and hubris is simply astonishing.
(Via: St. Michael Society)
February 4th, 2010 | 2:12 pm
Who is the gentleman with the paper bag over his head?
February 4th, 2010 | 2:17 pm
What is it about this president that causes him to surround himself with the leavings from a low tide? His treasury secretary is a tax cheat, his “safe schools czar” a perverted choice who is lauded by Education Secretary Arne Duncan, the head of Homeland Security can’t differentiate between terrorist groups and, now, the head of his religious outreach office hates the Pope!
Good Grief! When will this national nightmare end?
February 4th, 2010 | 4:51 pm
The key problem with the advisor is a problem of world view, namely that people are victims of their emotions.
Unfortunately, it’s a common world view in the west.
According to this world view, it’s impossible for two people who are in love not to have sex. And love isn’t a choice, it just happens. So adultery, promiscuity, premarital sex, homosexuality, preteen sex, divorce are inevitable because you can’t do anything about it, and you shouldn’t try to “blame the victim” by even trying to encourage people to refrain from even things that are scientifically proven to harm you. So you have to support these lifestyles in the safest way possible. Teach children to have sex safely. Teach adults that adultery, promiscuity, premarital sex, homosexuality is valid if done safely. Make divorce easy because if two people disagree or fall out of love, there is no hope of renewal because love happens to you…it’s not your choice to love…and there is no other reason to get married. Christopher Reeve’s wife and Stephen Hawkin’s wife are aborations. No-one loves someone that can’t give you sex.
And since you have no choice, you can’t be faulted as doing something immortal any more than you can fault an insane person for his actions.
Very sad. Unfortunately, poll after poll indicate that Christians aren’t much different in action from the general population, IMO, largely because most Christians have bought into this attitude hook line and sinker. Christianity needs to get its house in order because the West needs us.
February 6th, 2010 | 4:20 pm
Eight years in NY publishing; three years in a NY law school; and thirteen years working for a book company and I can honestly say that barely a day went by that I did not hear some anti-Catholic comment in these notorously leftists environments. Catholics who give this administration the benefit of the doubt again and again and again and again and again and again simply leave me gobsmacked. There is a willful ignorance throughout the Church that enables Mr. Knox and his colleagues to slander and libel this Pope and those who preceded him without vigorous challenge. More significantly, these freelance Catholics do not want to hear or know what is going on. It is sentimental Catholicism at its most destructive. I would love to believe that Pres. Obama is on some road to Damascus. My great fear is that bigotry will become discrimination will become persecution. Will we benefit from the high church leftism of social justice? Experience and reason tell me no. Remember the central truth of postmodern political science and legal theory: facts do not matter, only the narrative.
February 7th, 2010 | 2:42 am
Obama has surrounded himself with eugenicists,abortion enthusiasts,homosexuals, environment extremists, in short, weirdos. One weirdo, okay. Two, time to complain. But after several incidents, it is time for Obama, not just the weirdos, to go.
February 7th, 2010 | 8:48 am
The guy with the bag over his head must be a New Orleans Saints fan having a little fun with irony.
I hope someone will address Knox’s contention that the Harvard professor was incorrect that condom use really does help spread HIV. Because it seems to me that the standard Catholic reasons to oppose condom use apply in any case, but this gentleman, who obviously does not accept them, may still be technically correct from his point of view that Benedict is causing harm.
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