Andrew Sullivan Tagged for Rampant Falsehoods About Catholic Church, Pope
[HT: Thomas Peters, American Papist at CatholicVote.org ] Following a debate the other night with Maggie Gallagher on the topic of gay “marriage,” pundit Andrew Sullivan has been cited for airing a number of falsehoods and lies about the Catholic Church and Pope Benedict. 1. The most egregious and malicious falsehood in the debate from the openly gay Sullivan was his claim that Pope Benedict, when he was Cardinal Ratzinger, opined in 1986 that homosexuals “deserve violence” given their “desire to change society.” In fact, in his 1986 letter “On the Pastoral Care of Homosexual Persons,” then-Cardinal Ratzinger wrote the complete opposite of what Sullivan claims: read more
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Andrew Sullivan Tagged for Rampant Falsehoods About Catholic Church, Pope
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