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“So the Catholic Church in Italy now faces a difficult choice.”
If that’s true, then they’re really in trouble.
Let’s think about this apparently difficult choice. According to Longley, it’s a choice between racial persecution and liberal values.
If the Catholic Church side with the right wing then they get political support for conservative family values, presumably via policies which favour the traditional family unit and the institution of marriage. On the downside some Roma and Sinti folk get vilified and terrorised. The lucky ones just generally get treated like subhuman scum.
But if they oppose this then they side with the left wing, who are all for individual freedoms and personal liberty and all that crazy talk. Before you know it people will start thinking it’s acceptable to live their lives how they choose.
Yeah. A real toughie. It’d definitely stump the folk on The Moral Maze.
The Pope (himself!) has, indirectly and tentatively, spoken out about this. So perhaps we can just barely give him a tiny smidgen of credit for not finding that particular choice so very difficult. Because it isn’t. It’s what Americans aptly refer to as a ‘no brainer’ (the philosophy behind all Bush administration policy). Not a moment’s thought should be put into that choice. It’s the difference between persecution and not persecution. It should be a difficult choice for no one, not even the Pope (himself!).
“So the Catholic Church in Italy now faces a difficult choice.”
If that is true, they really are in trouble. And so are a hell of a lot of innocent people.