Response: Connecticut Seeks to Regulate the Catholic Church

[ladychi]

I don't talk very often about being Catholic -- well, I mention it a lot, but I try not to be very in-your-face about it, but recent events demand a response from me and my limited sphere of influence.

Comments

[starlight976]

I'm so horrified right now. I'm not Catholic, and I don't pretend to understand the way the Catholic Church works, but it's still absolutely horrible for the state to do something like this. I mean, just, URGH! I'm so sorry, I really don't know what to say, I'm just so *horrified* that someone would even *think * of something like that.

[arclevel]

See, I have/had lots of old friends/acquaintances who genuinely don't "believe" in the idea of the separation of church and state, or else they don't *think* there should be separation between the two -- because they genuinely do think that the country should be making its laws based on their personal religious beliefs. I've tried to convince them that the separation needs to work both ways, because you wouldn't want the government running the church, and they never quite understood that. I'd be tempted to send them this, but frankly, most of them are also the sort who are constantly trying to convince themselves and others that (Evangelical) Christians are a persecuted minority, and I wouldn't want to give them any ammunition on that front.

I'm not really a supporter of the RCC, but I agree that the bill is incredibly stupid and out-of-line. Hopefully it's a case of a couple legislators not thinking before they act, and it'll get shot down pretty much immediately.