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I absolutely agree with the totality of what he stated.
That said, this priest undoubtedly had a serious lack of situational awareness, certainly he must have known such opinions would never go well in this snowflake society of ours where 'freedom of speech' only applies to what groups like BLM state and never what those against them state.
A Roman Catholic priest in Indiana was suspended from public ministry on Wednesday after calling Black Lives Matter organizers “maggots and parasites” in a message to his parishioners.
The Rev. Theodore Rothrock, who was assigned to St. Elizabeth Seton Catholic Church in Carmel, Indiana, was suspended after he wrote a fiery bulletin post on Sunday that disparaged Black Lives Matters organizers for protesting what Rothrock called “alleged systemic racism.” Bishop Timothy L. Doherty of the Diocese of Lafayette-in-Indiana issued the suspension from public ministry in the diocese.
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I absolutely agree with the totality of what he stated.
That said, this priest undoubtedly had a serious lack of situational awareness, certainly he must have known such opinions would never go well in this snowflake society of ours where 'freedom of speech' only applies to what groups like BLM state and never what those against them state.
Excerpt: Black Lives Matter protesters are “serpents in the garden” whose “poison is more toxic than any pandemic we have endured,” Rothrock said. “They are wolves in wolves clothing, masked thieves and bandits, seeking only to devour the life of the poor and profit from the fear of others,” Rothrock said of Black Lives Matter protesters. “They are maggots and parasites at best, feeding off the isolation of addiction and broken families, and offering to replace any current frustration and anxiety with more misery and greater resentment.”
Response: Wow!........................The Lord speaks in mysterious ways.....Well done Padre....well done....
I absolutely agree with the totality of what he stated.
That said, this priest undoubtedly had a serious lack of situational awareness, certainly he must have known such opinions would never go well in this snowflake society of ours where 'freedom of speech' only applies to what groups like BLM state and never what those against them state.
He was not a godly, or good, Priest. Godly men don't call other people juvenile, disparaging, insulting names. (He wasn't fired for writing a piece that intelligently, yet sensitively, argued a particular position about BLM. He was fired for hate speech, and rightly so.)
Father Rothrock should be glad we have political correctness these days. In the old days somebody might have responded to him with a word that rhymes with "maggot".
Father Rothrock should be glad we have political correctness these days. In the old days somebody might have responded to him with a word that rhymes with "maggot".
Maybe he'll be known as Father Ben Dover when he's transferred to a Church in Nigeria!
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