Double standard: illustration # 13,909
By Phil Lawler (bio - articles ) | August 30, 2004 8:50 AM
Suppose President Bush gave the sermon at St. Patrick's cathedral...
Can you imagine the howls of protest if a Catholic church heard a sermon from a Republican president? The anguished editorials about the separation of Church and state? The hand-wringing about fundamentalism and a looming theocracy?
So where are all the editorials about this?
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Sep. 01, 2004 7:59 AM ET USA
Sure, have a known rapist preach in church. We've already got child molesters and sodomites doing it.
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Aug. 31, 2004 11:15 AM ET USA
Gil if based on you case, then any priest can make the same comments during a homily since they are not running for office. But they don't because fo the "church-state" and IRS implications.
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Posted by: Gil125 -
Aug. 30, 2004 6:33 PM ET USA
Actually, since Clinton isn't running for anything there's nothing wrong with this from the IRS or the "church-state" business. What is wrong is that virtually any Democratic candidate you can name spends many if not most of his Sundays preaching in black churches with complete impunity.
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Aug. 30, 2004 4:19 PM ET USA
This is the perfect “church” for Clinton and his ilk. No faith structure or defined dogma, a moral code built on relativism, and no disciplinary rules. Do you suppose he spoke on the evils of tobacco—especially cigars? Nah. More likely, with his wife present in the congregation, he stayed away from that tawdry subject and, instead, opined on his talent (as former Democrat senator Bob Kerrey so wonderfully put it) as an uncommonly good liar. BTW: Clinton in St. Patrick’s? I don’t think so.
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Aug. 30, 2004 11:21 AM ET USA
DOUBLE STANDARD, as usual. Why didn't they just invite Satan in to give the harangue ? Such "churches" are spiritually, theologically, and morally, bankrupt. The RC Church USA is hastening down the same garden path.
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Aug. 30, 2004 10:27 AM ET USA
Okay, put together an article or tell me how to put in a complaint to the IRS on this and I will do it. If you can educate us how to do this publicly, maybe more people will also do it. Less talk more action!
