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[quote=Anonymous]I think there are a few reasons the church is often the subject of vitriol on DCUM and I don't think it's as simple as some of the Catholics on here would like to posit. It isn't just bigotry.

1. The church often inserts itself into modern politics. Not saying it shouldn't (not saying it should either). I'm saying that draws the attention of many people who would otherwise be uninvolved or unaware of/in the beliefs of Catholics.

2. The church has taken positions on topics that are controversial and has lots of members in influential positions of government. How many Muslims are on the Supreme Court? Or for that matter Mormons or Baptists? Catholics are the majority on the court right now. Muslims/Jews in Congress? Far fewer than there are Catholics. Are Muslims opposed to birth control? Do they actively lobby in opposition to gay marriage? Maybe they do oppose gay marriage (I don't know) but they aren't as vocal about it.

3. The Catholic church has a much more centralized and vocal leadership than Jews or Muslims. They can "rally the have troops" so to speak and get their message out much more effectively than those other religious groups. Mormons do too (and there is lots of periodic Mormon bashing on here) but there aren't as many Mormons in leadership positions in the government.

4. The sex abuse scandal. No one can possibly excuse the church's handling of this and it shocked many people with the level of institutional harm done to children on part of the church. It brought a lot of non-Catholics into a conversation about an institution they may otherwise have largely ignored. Read this article...the sex abuse scandal is not over and man some of the Cardinals and archbishops (like Bevilaqua of Philadelphia) behaved in truly repugnant and reprehensible ways during all this. http://www.phillymag.com/scripts/print/article.php?asset_idx=299437

I know Catholics have been subjected to suspicion about their motives and beliefs for a long time. But I honestly think the church, not individual Catholics, have drawn a lot of negative attention to themselves over the past decade. Some of it intentional, some of it not. But those are the reasons I think people have more to say about the church than Jews or Muslims on here, and I think they are about more than simple bigotry.[/quote]

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