The Daily Advertiser, a Gannett-owned paper serving central Louisiana, is standing by its decision to run an advertisement today in which a far-right extremist group suggests that President Obama and Democrats are conspiring to murder Catholics and Christians.Publisher Karen J. Lincoln and the other deciders at the newspaper judged the ad shown below not to include "blatantly false, overly offensive or otherwise inappropriate content" for its market.
For shame! As a citizen of the State of Louisiana, I am offended, ashamed, mortified beyond description that a newspaper would permit such an ad, no matter the market.
Oh this is too funny. Not only is it abominably written; not only does the writer have no clue whatsoever how to read Latin; not only does Fr. Vera's execution have no trace of a connection with modern-day America; but as all my fellow small-town Baptist Texans know full well, it's them "devil-worshipping Catholics" who are responsible for all the evil in the world today! (Actual quote - I'm not making this up.)
ReplyDeleteOh my. I guess there's just not a lot to do back up in them swamps and bayous but sit around and make up stories, is there?
Yesterday, when I was sent the link to Think Progress, I was shamed, but thanks for letting me see the humor. According to the sign maker, Catholics are not Christians. Whoever thought we'd see Southern Baptists align themselves with the Whore of Babylon?
ReplyDeleteCentral and north Louisiana are another country from south Louisiana; we have our own style of bigotry.
I googled the name and here is a short excerpt from an article that I found:
ReplyDelete"During the persecution of Catholics in Mexico by President Plutarco Elias Calles, the Knights of Columbus stood in solidarity with Catholics in Mexico raising funds for humanitarian relief of those displaced and for the education of the American public regarding the horrific facts of the persecution. A delegation of the Knights of Columbus met with President Calvin Coolidge in 1926 to discuss ways in which the U.S. government could influence the Mexican government to end the persecution.
Despite the support of the Calles regime and its anti-Catholic policies by the a number of American groups -- including the Ku Klux Klan -- the pressure brought by the Knights of Columbus and others had an effect and, in 1929, the U.S. government helped broker an agreement between the Mexican government and the Catholic Church, ending the worst of the persecution."
I think it is interesting for several reasons not the least of which is the fact that part of this anti-Catholic faction included the support here in American of the Ku Klux Klan. The Catholic faction support included the Knights of Columbus of which my father and grandfather were members. And while I didn't know my grandfather, my father was the biggest biggot on this planet.
I think we would all agree that our President Obama is not a biggot in any way, shape or form. But he will get blamed for anything and everything. Here is just another stunning example. I traded in my Prius for a diesel engine car and while I was in the dealership some man (total stranger) walked up to me and said: "Who has the Obama car?" I asked him what that had to do with our President as I had purchased the car in 2006. He turned and walked off. ????
Bonnie, thanks for the added information. Yesterday, I was in such a state of shame, that I didn't bother to learn more of the situation surrounding Fr Vera, although I did know of the persecution of Roman Catholics in Mexico at the time.
ReplyDeleteBelieve it or not, Grandpère was a member of the KofC in the 1970s under great duress from our children and me. If memory serves, the municipal swimming pool was "closed for repairs", but probably something to do with integration, and we could not afford the country club, so the kids had no place to swim. The Knights had a pool that was open to members only. GP hated every minute of what he had to go through to join, including the silly initiation ceremony, which was top secret, and which he has never revealed to this day. He paid his dues but never went to meetings. His time in the Knights was all about the swimming pool.
I hope you've contacted the paper, Mimi.
ReplyDeleteEvery review of "For Greater Glory" I've seen mentions that it mainly exists as rightwing agit-prop. [My only question: what is Eva Longoria---an official Obama surrogate---doing in it???]
I haven't written yet, JCF. You have to register, but I will try. The post is getting a lot of visitors, which should count for something. Embarrassment, I hope.
ReplyDeleteAh, yes, the swimming pools. That could consume a post or two. I'm glad your children had the benefit of a pool in Southern summertime. And kudos to you and your Grandpere for finding a way for your children to enjoy.
ReplyDeleteThose familiar with the novels of Graham Greene will recall that one his his best, "The Power and the Glory," was set during the Cristero War. I think it was even made into a movie, though I've never seen it.
ReplyDeleteBonnie, the story of public swimming pools in the South during the decades following the Brown decision, as integration made creepingly slow progress, would be fertile ground for research. I thought I had responded to your comment earlier, but apparently not.
ReplyDeleteRick, Greene's novel is fine, indeed. If there is a movie, I haven't seen it.
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