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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Tom Clarke who wrote (13301)	3/1/2000 9:57:00 AM
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The irony of the past week is that there is tons of anti-Catholic bigotry in our culture. It's just that George W. is not its source. Fragment of a WSJ editorial today: Not that we can't find plenty of anti-Catholicism around. In the art world, a museum uses taxpayer money to feature an exhibit of a Madonna encrusted with pornographic images and splattered with dung. On TV a recent episode of NBC's "The West Wing" puts an anti-Catholic twist on the Matthew Shepard murder by having a White House press secretary refer to a murder of a gay man: "They made him say Hail Marys as they beat him to death." Around the country theaters play host to "Corpus Christi," a Terence McNally play about a gay Jesus who has sex with his disciples and is crucified as "King of the Queers." Today, the living and breathing anti-Catholicism doesn't come from the folks in the white hoods. It comes, as Daniel Patrick Moynihan has noted, from the intelligentsia -- "the one form of bigotry liberals curiously seem to tolerate." And encourage. There's an interesting McCain/McCarthy parallel here. There were plenty of Stalinist spies in Washington but he wasted his time and credibility pointing his finger at Ike.