Media Bias Against Catholics Even When Not Part Of The Story

So the irritant of the day involves the last acceptable prejudice: anti-Catholicism. This is a minor case, but it shows the mindset of people who have it in for the clerics and people of faith.

A Kentucky church ordains a sex offender as a minister. The church is a Pentecostal one, not Catholic. Everybody there knows what this guy did and that he served a 5 year prison sentence for pedophilia -- and they're ok with that. (Not me, but they are and it's their church.)

So a former leader at the church is protesting this guy along with SNAP. The article, by Dylan Lovan, gratuitously inserts a quote slamming the Catholic Church (who is not involved here).

"He's still a threat" to children, said Cal Pfeiffer, who was abused by a Catholic priest as a young student in Louisville in the late 1950s and early 60s.

Really now, was it necessary to drag the Catholics into it in order to write an article on a tiny church who willingly ordained a pedophile as a Pentecostal minister (and hasn't been accused of doing anything since?) Sure, it displays either a courageous act of forgiveness and redemption or else a stupendous lack of good judgement. (I'm for the latter.)

But it ain't a Catholic story and keep us out of it.

Now if the guy were Roman Polanski, the media might be easier on him.