Rules of the Game

A decade ago the bishops of the American Catholic Church urged congressmen to vote no on the health reform bill. These churchmen had offered the issue of publicly-funded abortion as the basis of their objection. The nuns in charge of the schools and hospitals broken ranks with their male counterparts to voice support of the Obama measure. This schism has been long coming as the nuns have witnessed the widening scandal of sexual abuse of minors by priests throughout the Americas and Europe. Rome has sheltered the offenders from legal prosecution, as if fucking young boys was a holy sacrament of birth control. The sacrament of pedastry. Earl Butz, the Nixon appointee as Secrertary of Agriculture, had pointed out the Church's hypocrisy at the 1974 World Hunger Congress, when the prime promoter of King Corn had refuted the pope's objection to birth control by saying, "He no playa the game, he no maka the rules." The GOP bureaucrat apologized to Catholics, but two years later was overheard responding to singer Pat Boone's question about why the Republicans had so few blacks in their ranks. Earl Butz was quick on his feet. "I'll tell you what the coloreds want. It's three things: first, a tight pussy; second, loose shoes; and third, a warm place to shit." "Loose shoes?" I liked tight pussy and a warm place to shit, but my affinity for tight shoes prevented my designation as 'colored'. That and my parents being white. The public outrage over this statement ended Butz's political career. One could only have hoped that the Catholic Church's comments on the Obama health reform will lead to the total ban on this criminal man/boy love organization. "He no playa the game, he no maka the rules." Earl was not always wrong.