Trope Hunting.

Mark Shea writes:

Seattle: Land of Tolerance

Where a Christian theatre group is denounced by fact free Know Nothings of the Left and columnists, writing “something something Catholic Church something something old men something something pedophilia something something girl scouts something something reproductive rights” is answered by combox remarks like, “1.5 billion catholics worldwide? need some more ammo”.

What caught my eye about the column was its intro paragraph:

The Little Rascals had the "He-Man Woman Haters Club." We've got The Catholic Church.

Is it part of the new news style manual to "infantilize" faithful Catholics. This makes the second time in recent memory that I've seen a left/lib columnist equate faithful Catholics with dyspeptic children. Again, it's hard to imagine left/libs describing Blacks or Jews as infants, but with Catholics it's all good.

This is just part of the subliminal, subsonic poisoning of the well approach by which the left undercuts public discourse. Rather than harboring the possibility that Catholics have good faith reasons, albeit reasons that leftists disagree with, for their positions, they prefer to look at those reasons as the pre-intellectual reactions of pre-rational infants.

I'm going to track this trope.