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Charles Pierce: Free to Be, You and JC
You may have missed it with everything else that's been going on, but we're in the middle of the Fortnight for Freedom, the Clan of the Red Beanie's, which extends from St. John Fisher and St. Thomas More back on June 21 until July 4, when we all celebrate the day when Jesus and time-travelling Pope John Paul II helped Thomas Jefferson and St. Paul write the Declaration of Independence From Ladyparts. Needless to say, this is an embarrassing exercise in authoritarian propaganda that has as much to do with actual Christianity as Mitt Romney has with zoroastrianism:
Our liturgical calendar celebrates a series of great martyrs who remained faithful in the face of persecution by political power — St. John Fisher and St. Thomas More, St. John the Baptist, SS. Peter and Paul, and the First Martyrs of the Church of Rome.
Holy Mother of God, what a bunch of drama queens. They'd cut off their own heads if it weren't two-for-one night in the Vatican wursthaus.
Some people are having themselves a real hootenanny with it, though. Over at NRO Online, Kathryn Jean Lopez, who makes Bernadette Soubirous look like Lady Gaga, is finding herself transported to something that seems very much like the kind of religious ecstasy that you can pick up at Manger, Bath, and Beyond. Seems old K-Lo got herself over to a panel that had been called in anticipation of the Supreme Court's health-care decision to discuss what the upshot of everything will be as regards the continuing beheading of bishops by Barack Obama for the crime of not letting their insurance companies give free birth control to the Presbyterian charwomen in their employ. She also had a chat with this Tom Farr guy, who has not yet been beheaded, probably because he has a really fine priest-hole dug out in the backyard, next to the bird bath.
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http://www.esquire.com/blogs/politics/Happy_Fortnight_Of_Freedom
Our liturgical calendar celebrates a series of great martyrs who remained faithful in the face of persecution by political power — St. John Fisher and St. Thomas More, St. John the Baptist, SS. Peter and Paul, and the First Martyrs of the Church of Rome.
Holy Mother of God, what a bunch of drama queens. They'd cut off their own heads if it weren't two-for-one night in the Vatican wursthaus.
Some people are having themselves a real hootenanny with it, though. Over at NRO Online, Kathryn Jean Lopez, who makes Bernadette Soubirous look like Lady Gaga, is finding herself transported to something that seems very much like the kind of religious ecstasy that you can pick up at Manger, Bath, and Beyond. Seems old K-Lo got herself over to a panel that had been called in anticipation of the Supreme Court's health-care decision to discuss what the upshot of everything will be as regards the continuing beheading of bishops by Barack Obama for the crime of not letting their insurance companies give free birth control to the Presbyterian charwomen in their employ. She also had a chat with this Tom Farr guy, who has not yet been beheaded, probably because he has a really fine priest-hole dug out in the backyard, next to the bird bath.
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http://www.esquire.com/blogs/politics/Happy_Fortnight_Of_Freedom
