Hypocrite du Jour

I'll be perfectly frank: Archbishop Timothy Dolan of New York is a pretty disgusting person, and like most of the Catholic hierarchy, has now proven himself a) anti-American, and b) morally bankrupt. He wrote a letter to the President threatening religious war if Obama doesn't stop supporting The Gays.

Lance Mannion has a come-back that strikes me as the best possible retort. It's impossible to excerpt -- go read the whole thing.

Father Tony has an observation about this escapade that I could have written:

At the end of its legal analysis, the USCCB finally makes clear that its overriding concern about the repeal of DOMA, about the repeal of DADT, and about the Administration's support for gay adoption rights is a diminished revenue stream. "We will face an additional layer of government punishments, such as the cessation of long-standing and successful contracts for the provision of social services, and other forms of withdrawn government cooperation."

In the context of this letter, the suddenly thunderous saber-rattling of the US Catholic bishops appears to be rooted in the prospect of lost funding rather than in the imaginary moral outrage of its flock.