Licia Corbella is making a habit of taking the words out of my mouth.
That’s OK, I have more.
In her Calgary Sun column today she’s onto the state-run media’s (and faithful indictrinated state-run citizens’—my words) dour take anything that’s not “progressive”. And the new Pope is decidedly not “progressive”, thank God.
Yesterday, watching television news shortly after the announcement “Habemus Papum,” I was struck by the clip our national broadcaster chose for its “person on the street” interview. It was a young woman who said something like: “I don’t know anything about the Catholic religion but I hear this new pope is quite conservative and I think they should have chosen someone who is more progressive.”
Huh? So there’s a Square full of hundreds of thousands of cheering Catholics on hand and instead the ONLY person they choose to quote in that particular news clip doesn’t have a clue and doesn’t like the choice. Sheesh.
And she points out to the liberals (who by the way are trying extremely hard to drop the name “liberal” now the truth is being revealed about them, choosing instead the moniker “progressive”) that…
These “progressives” are clearly not very deep thinkers. They actually try to make the illogical argument that the reason for the AIDS epidemic in Africa is because Pope John Paul II didn’t sanction the use of condoms.
In case they didn’t notice, he also didn’t sanction sex outside of marriage and having more than one sexual partner, which if adhered to would make the use of condoms unnecessary and the spread of AIDs impossible. Yet few appear to be following those edicts, so what makes anyone think they’d follow the condom edict?
I’m liking Licia Corbella more with each column. Here’s a welcome mat, Licia.
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