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[theweaselking]

Catholic Church argues that priest shouldn't have to pay child support on the grounds that the mother didn't use birth control, and thus it's not the priest's fault AT ALL that the woman got pregnant.

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[eididdy.livejournal.com]

Waitwaitwaitwoahwoahwoah.... Isn't the Catholic Church against birth control?!?

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

Well, yes. It's "intrinsically evil".

[eididdy.livejournal.com]

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I'm at a complete loss.

[unnamed525.livejournal.com]

Why should we expect consistency out of people who spend their post-high-school educations learning how to spew bullshit which makes a literally inconsistent text look vaguely consistent?

[scifantasy.livejournal.com]

My jaw has unhinged.

[takhisis.livejournal.com]

GubbuhWHATNOW?!

Must gank!

[desdenova.livejournal.com]

What? Hypocrisy from the Catholic Church? I am shocked! SHOCKED! And AMAZED!

Oh, wait, no, I'm not.

[waterspyder.livejournal.com]

That's ridiculous

[corruptedjasper.livejournal.com]

In 1994, then-Archbishop of Portland William Levada offered a simple answer for why the archdiocese shouldn't have been ordered to pay the costs of raising a child fathered by a church worker at a Portland, Ore., parish.

I can think of a much easier answer, though. Personal Fucking Responsibility, already. The church worker should damn well pay his own child support.

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

The church doesn't pay him and everything he "owns" belongs to the church.

This is, basically, the religious equivalent of garnishing his wages to make him pay child support.

[corruptedjasper.livejournal.com]

I thought only scary cults did the not paying their priests and allowing them personal property thing.

Oh.

Wait.