{"id":476,"date":"2003-08-01T11:58:53","date_gmt":"2003-08-01T16:58:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/476.html"},"modified":"2003-08-01T11:58:53","modified_gmt":"2003-08-01T16:58:53","slug":"ellen-goodman-on-the-gop-playing-the-catholic-card","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/ellen-goodman-on-the-gop-playing-the-catholic-card\/","title":{"rendered":"Ellen Goodman on the GOP playing the &#8216;Catholic card&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since I&#8217;m still angry about the Republicans accusing Senate Dems of anti-Catholic bigotry, I wanted to alert you to an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.miami.com\/mld\/miamiherald\/news\/opinion\/6431091.htm\">excellent op-ed on the issue by Ellen Goodman<\/a> (which was brought to my attention by a loyal Carpetbagger reader; let&#8217;s call her Madre.)<\/p>\n<p>Goodman summarized the Pryor attacks nicely: &#8220;So it takes an ecumenical group of zealots charging anti-Catholicism in an ad running in a state with a Greek Orthodox senator to make me fully understand the word <i>chutzpah<\/i>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Goodman also noted the irony of having non-Catholics on the Senate Judiciary Committee parse the difference between good Catholics and bad based on whether they agreed with the church&#8217;s positions on issues such as abortion and gay rights. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Ironically, the folks parsing good Catholics from bad Catholics seem to pick and choose their own papal line,&#8221; Goodman notes. &#8220;Consider, for example, the Vatican opposition to the death penalty. Not to mention the war in Iraq. Is a pro-war Catholic &#8216;bad&#8217;?&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since I&#8217;m still angry about the Republicans accusing Senate Dems of anti-Catholic bigotry, I wanted to alert you to an excellent op-ed on the issue by Ellen Goodman (which was brought to my attention by a loyal Carpetbagger reader; let&#8217;s call her Madre.) Goodman summarized the Pryor attacks nicely: &#8220;So it takes an ecumenical group [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=476"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}