I noted yesterday that the story of how Rick Santorum and his wife Karen mourned the loss of a stillborn child is a story that is utterly familiar to practicing Catholics -- tens of millions of Americans. Some of the reaction of the mainstream media, including the clip below from Eugene Robinson, a columnist for the Washington Post, is unbelievably vulgar anti-Catholic bigotry, nothing else. To call the father of seven children, a man known to be a believing Catholic, "weird" for treating his infant child like... well, like a person, is as vile as calling a practicing Jew "weird" for keeping kosher in his home. (Say, like Joe Lieberman, for instance.... can you imagine what would happen if a right-leaning columnist said that about Lieberman?)
It is a sad commentary on the state of our culture that a mainstream Catholic like Santorum -- or a mainstream Mormon like Mitt Romney -- will be viewed as "weird," while a man like Obama who for twenty years frequented a church led by a certified American-hating communist revolutionary, Jeremiah Wright, gets a free pass. But, then, the difference is.... it's OK for Obama, because everyone knows he was a hypocrite who didn't really believe.
Here's the Eugene Robinson segment, which makes me want to puke:
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