Monday, March 30, 2009

The Road to Serfdom

Father Thomas Berg and Michael Augros at NRO document the return of American Know-nothingism - and the incipient fascism - of recent legislative attacks on the Catholic church.
Posted by Peter Sean Bradley at 10:38 AM
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Mark Byron said...

I'm not sure if Know-Nothingism is a great analogy. In the original form, it had an anti-immigrant flavor, where newcomer Irish were being looked down upon by native Protestants.

In the current wave, it's secularists who are after the Catholics. They are both conservative and are centralized, so they are sued for their deep pockets and, in the CN case, a stab at forcing a congregational polity upon them was shot down.

These modern "know-nothings" would do the same with Baptist and Pentecostals, but they are generally have congregational polities that make them hard to sue for big bucks. Mormons got that gang's ire after Prop 8, since they are centralized and conservative like the Catholics; decentralized Baptists were lower on their hit list.

10:37 PM
John Kasaian said...

What concerns me is the Henry VIII style "Catholic Solution" where to be Catholic is to be a traitor to the State. The proposed legislation points that way. I cannot imagine Obama's posturing leading down any other road. His "Catholics" Biden and Pelosi are play acting thier roles (very poorly, IMHO) and Secretary of State Clinton has proved her utter lack of concern in Mexico when dealing with the Church. Obama's address at Notre Dame will surely pound yet another rivet into the infernal machine he's constructing.

1:35 AM

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