tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7470781729941761069.post5530707557919685426..comments2023-10-26T03:39:34.927-04:00Comments on USCCB Blog: From Rational Argument to Political PolarizationMatt Palmerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07831806518934060560noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7470781729941761069.post-18113670392283420402013-11-23T16:40:27.742-05:002013-11-23T16:40:27.742-05:00Jim Englert -- There was nothing fifty years ago t...Jim Englert -- There was nothing fifty years ago that I know of resembling the cultural marginalization of Catholic values, and of the freedom to live those values, that we see today. True, we have our differences with both the right and the left, but currently it is people on the left that are particularly hostile to us, and it is the left whose policies are troubling for our religious freedom.Paul Fitzpatrickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08204020430659799638noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7470781729941761069.post-38386594374149290142013-11-21T12:05:23.740-05:002013-11-21T12:05:23.740-05:00Piffle, John Kiley. Segregation was as clear a ma...Piffle, John Kiley. Segregation was as clear a manifestation of relativism as would be possible even to imagine. Those were also days of forced sterilization for those deemed of 'relatively' less human value. Nuclear brinkmanship involved calculating the relative value of the very survival of the human race. And, yes, there was the traditional definition of marriage as the union of Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00925770319945623451noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7470781729941761069.post-84462127754076779092013-11-21T05:47:56.980-05:002013-11-21T05:47:56.980-05:00Yes, and Kennedy and those other Catholic politici...Yes, and Kennedy and those other Catholic politicians did not have to face issues like abortion, tax funded contraception, re-definition of marriage, Sunday sales, etc. The old Protestant consensus still held in Kennedy's day. The 'dictatorship of relativism" was still in its infancy.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18349130684615339586noreply@blogger.com