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The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.

H.L. Mencken

Thursday, June 6, 2019

Casting Stones

During Pride Day, there were a handful of conservative Catholic clergy who were denouncing Pride activities and homosexuality in general.  But at this point, it's hard to see the Catholic hierarchy as anything but an on-going criminal conspiracy.

I know that it's important for a working polity for each side to acknowledge that the "other side" is working in good faith from their own firmly held beliefs. I think the Laffer Curve and Supply Side economics has been proven to be fundamentally bullshit, but I guess I can acknowledge that people might still believe in it.  The anti-gay bigotry is so often tied to hypocritical sexual behavior, though, that it's tough to see in them anything but the worst motives.

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