That’s incorrect. Catholic priests frequently teach falsehoods about other churches, most likely through ignorance rather than malice. Among the most common are that Protestants deny the trinity (incorrectly equating all Protestant sects with Unitarian ones) and that the Protestant Bible is fundamentally different from the Catholic one (this lie is often repeated from the other side, each calling any other’s bibles apocryphal, but there aren’t really any major differences). This idea that all Protestants deny Immaculate Conception is probably another Catholic misconception.
But one raw truth is that the Catholic Church is a human organization known to have engaged in child sexual abuse for over a thousand years, continuing to the present day. Having beliefs congruent to the Catholic liturgy should not be a crime, but providing material assistance or financing to such an organization should be, by any standard of moral decency. To have the highest court in the land be a financially supportive member of a harmful cult that has failed utterly to control its own horrific and criminal tendencies should offend and outrage us all, and his opinions in cases that are directly driven by the views of the human Catholic Church organization are a travesty of jurisprudence.
On the other claw, Mr. 44, I have to respect your defense of Christian beliefs (even though I don’t agree with them) simply because I know lots of Christians for whom the faith is a source of strength and comfort that helps make them better people. I think they’d be better off with another faith, it’s true, but I don’t see a problem with anthropomorphism of evil if that helps a person act for the good. We’re all pretty crazy, but not all of us act to promote evil like Scalia does.
