Reply #165: It is not always the catholic church that gets blamed [View All]

[noamnety]

but they get more blame than some non (traditionally) western religions because as a founder of the christian coalition, they have had a huge influence on state-sponsored homophobia within the US.

I haven't read any posts, EVER, claiming the catholic church invented homophobia, so I have no clue where you are getting that from, although admittedly I haven't read every post here.

But there are a lot of posts acknowledging their role in perpetuating that. Pointing your finger and saying other churches do it to is not so different from Delay's supporters pointing their collective fingers at other random democrats saying they have ethics problems also, so Delay's lapses should be ignored.

If there are other ethics problems (other churches/other dems, this holds true for both scenarios), they should certainly be investigated. But that doesn't mean you should overlook or excuse the ethical problems of the most powerful organization in the country/world.

When buddhism rivals the vatican in terms of political influence and financial resources, then we should probably shift our main focus.