E.J. Dionne pulls a Boehner over Catholic Doctrine

Timothy Birdnow

E.J. Dionne wades into the issue involving John Boehner and the Catholic academics who slammed him over the budget.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/lessons-for-the-media-the-bishops-and-john-boehner/2011/05/22/AFQx5L9G_story.html

I send him the following e-mail:

Dear Mr. Dionne,

I fear your colleagues understood this situation better than you; they were wise not to make an issue of the attack by these academics.

First off, being a teacher at a Catholic University does not even require that you be Catholic, much less well versed in Church doctrine.

Second, these liberal academics chose to make this public, meaning they intended this to be a political attack, not an attempt to seek Mr. Boehner's repentence (they would have been duty bound to approach him privately first if that were the case).

It should be pointed out that Democrat Catholics Nancy Pelosi, John Kerry, the late Ted Kennedy, and others did not seem to bother these loyal defenders of the faith despite opposing the Church on a fundamental matter of Faith and Morals - abortion. Abortion is clear cut. HOW we perform acts of charity is a matter of private conscience, and it can be argued that government forcibly taking money from one citizen to give to another is not Christian in any way, shape, or form. They simply cannot claim the mantle of Catholic dogma here, and I suspect your media friends understood that fact.

Perhaps you should read my article in The American Thinker about this topic.
http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2011/05/the_cruelty_of_caesars_charity.html

Best regards,

Timothy Birdnow

I'm curious if he'll respond.

This is vintage for liberals, who seem at a complete loss over Christianity in general and Catholicism in particular, but are quick to use it as a tool for political advancement. Not bothering to see what the Catholic position on these matters really are, many rush headlong into the fray because they believe what self-styled "experts" say. There really is nothing better than to think for yourself, to do your own homework, yet too many in the establishment media think proof-reading for typos is the biggest challenge to writing. It always annoys me, because they make their living by churning out mindless, effortless works while many excellent and dilligent conservative writers scribble away in their homes for no money.

A man of Mr. Dionne's stature should have understood that there wasn't a whole lot of media fanfare because this was too easy to refute.

But, then, it's always easy to live in the liberal micro-verse, the black hole cut off from the universe at large.