> From: Reggie Bautista <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Jan Coffey wrote: > > > >Evil, pure evil. Catholics everywhere should be ashamed. > > I replied: > > > As at least a nominal Catholic, I can tell you that ashamed does not > >even > > > begin to cover the reaction felt my most of the other Catholics I've > >talked > > > to. Furious comes a lot closer. YMMV, of course. > > Jan responded: > >Then why do you stick to that denomination? The leaders of that particular > >group have done this sort of thing for centuries, when is enough enough? > > To boil it down to one sentence, it's because I'm not from California. :-) > (No > offense is intended to list members who live there.) > > Seriously, I don't jump from group to group just because I disagree with > something > someone in the group does. I doubt many people do. Just because some > Republicans in leadership positions do things that are dishonest, does that > make > the Republican Party dishonest? Just because some Democrats in leadership > positions do things that are unethical, does that make the entire Democratic > Party > unethical? > > If I belong to an organization in which I believe strongly, or with which I > agree > strongly, when I see problems in that organization I don't turn coward and > jump > ship. I make my opinion of the problem known and try to fix it from within.
In other words: when a ship you are on slams into an iceberg you drown with the crew. _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
