Priests, like all of us, are affected by culture. When the culture is sick, every element in it becomes infected. While it is no excuse for this scandal, it is no surprise that Boston, a seat of academic, political, and cultural liberalism in America, lies at the center of the storm.
–- Rick Santorum, on the Church’s sex abuse scandals being liberal hippie dippie Boston’s fault, not the Church’s.
The guy’s like the lovechild of Pats Boone and Robertson in the body of a roundly disliked high school guidance counselor.
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Posted on Friday January 6th
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oh my mother freaking god. going to go vom up my lunch now.
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dear Rick, please crawl under a rock and stay there.
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Is he shitting me? Even my extremely Catholic family doesn’t say stupid shit like this.
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I don’t suppose it dawned on him before he uttered these words, that Boston was also
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shorterexcerpts said:
What’s worse is that alleged “sensible conservative” Russ Douthat made almost this same argument in the NYT last year.
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Also moon-faced!
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