Catholic Church spending big money fighting marijuana legalization

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

Back for just a moment to weigh in on this because it's really silly.

The idea that history has 'sides' in this way is a cheap tactic to avoid the moral responsibility of evaluating social developments on their merits. Having said that, it's definitely a waste of the Church's energy and money--especially in this state, where the Catholic hierarchy nosedived into a chasm of its own creation, morally speaking (and was enabled in doing so by elements within the psychiatric profession, another institution which I really wish was more worth defending than it is), and should probably be focusing on doing whatever's necessary to rebuild what moral capital it can rather than spending even more of what it has left.

Another reason why I'm not Catholic.

So you've decided a priori that marijuana should be legal and that you won't worship in a church that teaches against that? Seems like an ass backwards way of doing religion.

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Yes I'm certain that Wulfuric, BRTD and Enduro based their views their (fairly literal) interpretation of Genesis

The joke is presumably that this verse is the proof text used in Rastafarianism.

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

To be fair, it's better than spending money defending pedophiliac clergy.

Well, yeah--that was a massive moral failing and this is just an incredibly stupid prudential decision.

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

To be fair, it's better than spending money defending pedophiliac clergy.

Well, yeah--that was a massive moral failing and this is just an incredibly stupid prudential decision.

Both are just symptoms of the ultimate fundamental issue: Having such an influential and powerful hierarchy in a church to begin with. If they start doing things that are either foolish and that one disagrees with (like this) or are extremely morally repulsive (like that), then you're stuck in a very difficult position with the people who are in theory supposed to be your moral leadership.

This is a fair, and troubling, criticism.

Sounds like the church getting involved with the state.  Perhaps they need to be strictly regulated by the state.

This is just ridiculous.