You’ve got to love this: Bill Donohue has inexplicably unearthed an actual instance of anti-Catholic sentiment rather than merely parading his hyper-sensitivity (follow the second link).
Naturally, because he is an idiot, Donohue seeks an absurd remedy.
There is no legitimate place for someone like Jacob in public office. Anyone who would post anti-Catholic hate speech on social media is not fit to represent his Catholic constituency. Hopefully, you will read his bigoted posts and let him know of your disdain for his behavior.
Furthermore, I am requesting that Republican lawmakers, beginning with House Speaker Todd Huston, not to include Jacob in the Republican caucus. Had Jacob made these invidious remarks while in office, I would have asked that he be censured. At the very least, he should now be marginalized by his colleagues.
Jacob’s views were doubtless known to the voters of his district, and they chose him to represent them; he should not be summarily declared persona non grata by a party that surrendered the high ground a long time ago with cruel stereotypes of immigrants, Muslims, LGBTQ, on and on (about all of which Donohue has been curiously silent).
What makes this most interesting, of course, is that John Jacob is at least partly correct: Catholic teaching is embarrassing for its absurdity (Transubstantiation? Seriously? Grow up.). He appears to favor conservative Protestantism, however, though it is equally ridiculous.
It puts me in mind of a popular Kingston Trio song from the ’60s:
They’re rioting in Africa
They’re starving in Spain
There’s hurricanes in Florida
And Texas needs rain
The whole world is festering with unhappy souls
The french hate the Germans, the Germans hate the Poles
Italians hate Yugoslavs, South Africans hate the Dutch
And I don’t like anybody very much!!
I live in the Southern Baptist south, of course, and everybody hereabouts knows that the Pope is the Antichrist; it’s common knowledge, like Catholic girls are easy. I’m surprised my neighbors haven’t found a seminary professor just like Jacob to represent us.