Doyle Wesley Walls

When your cowardice is self-serving, it’s OK.  Is that it, Santorum?  I remember well when a similar comment was made before McCain in the last election cycle.  I wasn’t for McCain in any fashion; I didn’t appreciate several comments he made during the campaign; but at least he was man enough, statesman enough, to get this issue right by speaking directly to the person in the crowd.  He did it live; he did it immediately, with clarity and class.  Santorum saw his opening and did the cowardly thing to court he votes of the stupid.  You’re a man of high principle, eh?

How ‘bout we go back to your foot-draggin’ on the issue of your fellow “celibates” who raped young children?  (The CNN program What the Pope Knew is available online.)  And don’t let the past tense of the verb raped above fool anyone into thinking this kind of heinous—dare I say ungodly?—behavior is over and done with.  Did you listen then?  Has your “church” done the right thing?  (Don’t anyone get in the way of our delusion with information about criminal acts committed against innocents.  We got ourselves a bureaucracy here; some of us have mighty sweet positions within it.  We don’t want any Christ-like concerns messing up the established order.)  Such justifications lead to tragedies in higher education, too; for example, Penn State’s holy, holy, holy football program.  It’s hard to question something, hard to be critical of it, when the word is out that the bureaucracy is necessary and just and there will be no discussion, so just get in line because to question or even to pose a counterbalancing truth would be sinful or disloyal or disrespectful.  They run a tight game, don’t they?  The Pope represents (supports, defends, promotes) a long history of bullies who did everything, including murder, to retard progress via our best vehicle for it, the written word, even when the written word was a Bible that could be read by the people.  Control freaks!  Enemies of freedom!  Enemies of reason!  Christianity, of course, hasn’t been the only religion to practice and praise such shameful, destructive behavior.  But, by all means, please, from your exalted perch, tell me all about language and the inner self.  That people in 2012 turn to this bureaucrat expecting something wise or helpful or holy still stuns me.  That they shake in their boots, get down on their knees, bow their heads, that they “confess” to such men…makes me want to throw up.  That they’re impressed by such drivel depresses me.  Why not unplug yourself from that machine and stand up?