TALK ABOUT HYPOCRISY!
YOU CANNOT BELIEVE WHAT LEADERS LIKE FLAWED 'CHIEF SACCO' OR THE CARDINAL SPELLMANS OF THE WORLD TELL YOU.
DO AS WE SAY, NOT AS WE DO, AS CHIEF SACCO'S SON GETS NO BREATHALYZER, NO FIELD SOBRIETY TEST, WHILE HIS DADDY, THE SICKO CHIEF SACCO, FIXATES AND IS OBSESSED WITH A HOOOOOMOSEXUAL MALE IN MEDFORD --- HARASSING AND ABUSING THE SENIOR CITIZEN MINORITY PERSON
The
archconservative Spellman was the epitome of the self-loathing,
closeted, evil queen, working with his good friend, the closeted gay
McCarthy henchman Roy Cohn, to undermine liberalism in America during
the 1950s' communist and homosexual witch hunts. The church has
squelched Spellman's not-so-secret gay life quite successfully, most
notably by pressuring The New York Times to don the drag of the censor
back in the 1980s. The Times today may be out front exposing every
little nasty detail in the Catholic Church's abuse scandal–a testament
to both the more open discussion of such issues today and the church's
waning power in New York–but not even 20 years ago the Times was
covering up Spellman's sexual secrets many years after his death,
clearly fearful of the church's revenge if the paper didn't fall in
line. (During Spellman's reign and long afterward, all of New York's
newspapers in fact cowered before the Catholic Church. On Spellman's
orders New York's department stores–owned largely by Catholics–pulled
ads from the then-liberal New York Post in the 1950s after publisher
Dorothy Schiff wrote commentary critical of his right-wing positions;
Schiff was forced to back down on her positions.)
In the original
bound galleys of former Wall Street Journal reporter John Cooney's
Spellman biography, The American Pope... Spellman's gay life was
recounted in four pages that included interviews with several notable
individuals who knew Spellman as a closeted homosexual. Among Cooney's
interview subjects was C.A. Tripp...
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