A Catholic in name only

The Village Voice carried a well-detailed piece about Rudy G's Catholicism, or rather, lackethereof.

It is ironic that the most visible Catholic politicians are also those who consistently take firmly anti-Catholic stances on just about every moral issue in the book. Of course, there is a historical basis for their left-leaning tendencies; until only recently (1973) Catholics voted Democrat by default, without fail.

In fact, just the specter of the once-real, historical Catholic-Democrat tie is binding enough that, even today, Democratic candidates have the audacity to proclaim their Catholicism as essential to their identity or informative upon their conscience. The tragedy is that immigrants and minorities, the closest thing to real life pawns in political chess, continue to vote Democratic, even though they themselves are firmly pro-life and pro-family. Ignorance is not bliss.

Whatever. I'm just sick of people who have no business calling themselves Catholic doing so, and doing so for political gain.

Like I say, though, good write up on ol' Rudy.