{"id":50412,"date":"2021-06-21T18:04:14","date_gmt":"2021-06-21T22:04:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sidebarforplaintiffs.naomifein.net\/?p=50412"},"modified":"2021-06-22T11:09:49","modified_gmt":"2021-06-22T15:09:49","slug":"how-not-to-sell-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sidebarforplaintiffs.naomifein.net\/?p=50412","title":{"rendered":"How not to sell god"},"content":{"rendered":"

There is so much wrong with fundamentalist religious sectors.<\/p>\n

And what we’re now seeing out of conservative Catholicism is wrong…but from a fundamentalist<\/em> point of view. How else to describe the perverse disincentives the Catholic Church is demonstrating by their move to block Joe Biden from communion?<\/p>\n

I mean, if this were a travel brochure, it’d be selling scorpion-invested resort cabins bordering a stone-covered beach, on a sea teeming with stinging jellyfish.<\/p>\n

OK, but I, a godless Jew, enemy of all gods everywhere, have no business writing this. (Except for the stinging jellyfish mention. As a kid, I was stung by one. It was not pleasant.) But Kathy Lollock does, and — as she often does as a regular New York Times reader-commenter — she wrote coherently and powerfully today:<\/p>\n

To the Catholic Bishops of My Church:<\/em><\/p>\n

I am a 76-year-old woman born and raised Catholic as well as Catholic-educated through college. It is with a saddened heart that I find it necessary to part ways with my church.<\/em><\/p>\n

As a registered nurse, I have witnessed the consequences of denying women birth control or medically necessary abortions. I have witnessed the pain of my cousin\u2019s family upon learning that her son was molested by a priest. And now you are considering denying communion to President Biden, who is at his core a good, decent, moral individual, because of his support for abortion rights.<\/em><\/p>\n

No matter his personal religious beliefs, Mr. Biden represents all women\u2019s rights to their own individuality and dignity. Most of all, he stands for the constitutional separation of church and state.<\/em><\/p>\n

I choose to follow my president and not the man-made dogmas of the Catholic Church.<\/em><\/p>\n

Kathy Lollock<\/em>
\nSanta Rosa, Calif.<\/em><\/p>\n

P.S. Two nights ago, I re-watched Spotlight.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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