Popes and Asses

New Pontiff Riles Some Folks

Xriq sums up the various reactions to the new pope very well:

The good news, if you’re Professor Bainbridge, is that we have a new Pope. The bad news, if you’re Andrew Sullivan, is that he’s Catholic.

And speaking of Professor Bainbridge. He has come to the belated conclusion that Andrew Sullivan is an ass:

So why is Sullivan so worked up? Here's his real gripe in his own words:

... the impermissibility of any sexual act that does not involve the depositing of semen in a fertile uterus ....

It's always about sex with Andrew, isn't it?

Yeah, thousands of years of beliefs should be thrown out to accommodate the Andy Sullivans of the world. Well, Andy and the rest of the rabid bereaved certainly have good reason to worry about this pope. He seems to have their number:

We are moving towards a dictatorship of relativism which does not recognize anything as for certain and which has as its highest goal one's own ego and one's own desires.

Well yeah, your holiness, but what's wrong with that?

Paul at Wizbang offers this:

BTW Look out for words like "lost opportunity." As in, "The Catholic church had a great opportunity to open itself up to a broader base. They could have supported premarital sex, adultery and abortion on demand but they lost that opportunity when they selected someone who actually believed in the teachings of their own religion."

Uh huh.
Isn't it unbelievable that some people actually have the gall to believe in their beliefs?

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