Yeah. Seriously, I'm not even a Catholic but I think it's really rude to trivialize something as important to this religion as baptism. What's the point of making a comment like that? Now I can kinda see why people don't like this writer.

So the real story here was that he baptized the daughter of a couple married in a civil ceremony and not the church and the child of a single mother after she reached out to him through a letter. He also invited the mothers to feed their children if they were hungry. Many viewed these baptisms as part of his…

I was thinking that, but couldn't quite word my response efficiently.

Current sacramental theology teaches that baptism in the Catholic Church is far more about welcoming a child into the Body of Christ and far less about that child going to hell. I'm no longer a practicing Catholic and I haven't jumped on the Pope Frank the Great bandwagon, but I think when you write about something…

Wow, nice slap in the face to the Catholics that read your stuff Doug. Betcha you wouldn't try to be so disrespectful to 'cooler' religions, like Wicca or Druidism.

It would be pretty cool to have been baptised by the Pope. I think the priest who did me was just a drinker.

And so the point has been made.

Here's a quick reference guide for opinions on Jezebel:
Do they disagree with the author? If yes, they're probably wrong.

We may differ there a bit. I think Lindy has by far the most variability: some of her stuff is head n'shoulders above average Jez fare, and some reads like it was written by an indifferently programmed Lindy-bot ("hella BLAH BLAH cheetos dust OHMYGOD rage /dies").

I'm all for progressive thinking, but it's a little hard to take any article on the current state of the economy and male/female relations seriously that basically slots the "haves" into being internet-savvy Hipster folks with Instagram accounts (who implicitly voted for President Obama, given that their counterparts…

I think she's probably in the upper half on Jez, as a general rule. (Though this piece seems poorly considered.)

Remember the Jezebel motto everybody: Men do things. Women have things done to them.

The high-skilled trades jobs have not been outsourced because customers still need a plumber or electrician or mechanic to physically be on site to complete the task. The jobs that have been outsourced or eliminated by technology are primarily low-skilled ones.

Not everyone who favors the rough'n'tough male is a poor white supremacist...

Men made the US a place where the spoken word would rule. We killed/curtailed everything that made the US a physical place to survive. It is to the credit of men that they created a space where women could thrive. Might didn't make right.

The line of reasoning that men are responsible for the economy changing because they've traditionally dominated the working world is akin to blaming feminists for the invention of the internet. Their decisions to outsource has nothing to do with them being men, and everything to do with them being competent employees.…

Sounds like womansplaining to me.

"Because otherwise they'll get their wall-punching asses fired. You can't golf your way up the corporate ladder anymore."

Hmmm.. men invented all the stuff that matters to the 21st century economy, so all the negative consequences in the domestic labor market belong to them as well?