This release from the Catholic League:
February 28, 2007
GOOD RIDDANCE TO FRANCES KISSLING
Frances Kissling is retiring today as president of Catholics for a Free Choice. Catholic League president Bill Donohue offered a parting shot:
"Ex-Catholics for Abortion would be a more accurate name for Kissling's anti-Catholic front group, but we won't quibble now that she is quitting. For a quarter century, Kissling has misrepresented herself to the public, pretending to be the head of a bona-fide Catholic organization. Twice condemned as a fraud by the Catholic bishops' conference, Kissling would have had to have found another job long ago had it not been for her friends in the establishment. The Ford Foundation, the Warren Buffett Foundation, the MacArthur Foundation, the Packard Foundation, the Playboy Foundation — these are just some of Kissling's donors. Without them, she would have folded long ago as she has no members.
"I hope she takes her tapestries of Tibetan Buddhist deities with her when she exits her office, as well as any New Age paraphernalia she may have acquired over the years. It would also be a good idea to take her poster of Che Guevara with her. How fitting that a woman who spent most of her adult life promoting the killing of innocents in the womb would idolize a terrorist who killed innocent Latinos who made it to birth. In any event, I can't wait to meet her successor, Jon O'Brien, on TV. I promise him a memorable encounter.
"One final thought. Kissling recently said the Catholic Church 'abuses ... anyone who thinks.' It's reassuring to know she can't claim victim status."
aww, britney dreher (that other silly tart from Louisiana) is positively flirting with us by targeting the catholic league. ok brit, i'll give double for that post. if i can swing it.
ReplyDeletespeaking of clowns .... i seem to recall one with a long flowing beard, who was somewhat gandalfian. to quote brit, "i'm just sayin' "
wait! is britney being sarcastic, and actually defending donohue? the mind reels.
ReplyDeleteYeah, he's making fun of the idiots who make an equivalence of, say, the Catholic League doing a press release when Christianity is attacked and the Islamists who murder a bunch of people when Islam is defamed.
ReplyDeleteAlbeit he's doing it in kind of a clumsy, almost -- I dare say --clownish manner.
Here's the release.
it's almost like catholicism is some sort of insane clown posse.
ReplyDeleteIs there another member of CFFC?
ReplyDeleteI guess there is now -- Jon O'Brien? The "group" of one consists of the President. I would imagine it's kind of like Calvin & Hobbes's treehouse club in regards to the perceived multiple members but actual unitary membership.
ReplyDeleteone more clown thing: dreher cites approvingly the following quote from someone named diogenes:
ReplyDelete"After all, do we want to entice into the priesthood the kind of 22-year-old male that would be attracted by Stripes [the clown]?"
does this not sound *just like* the amiable psychiatrist in Miracle on 34th St (the one who got bopped on teh head with a cane by St. Nick)
by the way, i posted this as a comment on the rodblog and it was deleted asap. i'm THAT dangerous!