I’m pushing back against the continuation of the idea that abortion is morally wrong, which the Pope is saying in this statement. As long as the Pope continues pushing the idea that abortion is morally wrong, I will argue against it. I will not be silent in the face of the proliferation of toxic ideas.

What is your point? That because they have one bad opinion we should just excuse all of their bad opinions?

Please. The Pope doesn’t run a government, but religious morals are hugely influential in government affairs. Do you think abortion would be nearly as controversial as it is if it weren’t for religion.

Former Catholic here... 12 years of Catholic school, taught RCIA for three years and led teen retreats, so yeah. I was legit.

No, in Catholic terms this is saying “You have committed a grave sin and must ask for forgiveness.” That is not the same as saying it’s okay. You could ALWAYS seek forgiveness for abortion, it was just a matter of who you seek forgiveness from.

Saying abortion is a sin is a bad thing. They don’t get a pass for doing bad things because they are a church. The fact that they have other stupid rules also doesn’t give them a pass.

I know plenty about Catholicism. My wife is Catholic and my in-laws are very conservative Catholics.

You didn’t But you did say this is “pretty much like him saying he has no problem with women getting abortions if they feel that it is necessary.” This is NOTHING like him saying that. You’re an idiot if you think that.

It’s not something you need forgiveness for.

He didn’t say that. He said abortion is a grave sin that women need to seek forgiveness for.

I am a college English instructor in the South (but I’m from California where the internment camps were taught and visited). One of our lit classes has a text with a collection of haiku written by those in the Japanese internment camps. They are heartbreaking, yet hopeful pieces. And every semester I am heartbroken…

Those people voted for an openly racist, sexist, xenophobic ticket. Those things are literally key pieces of their platform/plans. Those people can claim to not be those things but they cannot claim that they do not support them and in my eyes there’s not a whole lot of difference between the two.

Yeah, thinking an entire group of people deserve less rights for something they have no control over, as well as supporting scientifically disproven and harmful gay conversion therapy and wanting to force women to attend “funerals” for their fetuses if they get an abortion sure doesn’t sound hateful to me.

I’m sorry, this is a fucking stupid thing to say/think in this case:

Man, people sure have a strange way of expressing their economic insecurity.

Then again, he also pulled this shit:

“Bush doesn’t care about black people.” -Kanye West, 2005.

This shirt never happened. It’s photoshopped it originally said “stop being desperate”

Despite the overwhelming narrative, Trump voters skewed rich, not poor. And the biggest demographic that voted for him wasn’t poor people or people in stagnating areas, it was white people.

Weisman, who quit Twitter at one point during the campaign after being subjected to a flood of anti-Semitic abuse, thinks that the answer to Trumpism is to build an opposition that accommodates the concerns of racists and anti-Semites.