Auralia wrote:Sierra Lyricalia wrote:There are plenty of Catholics who not only do not "adhere to Catholic teaching on sexuality" but actively oppose it. Are they "anti-Catholic"?
Yes -- obviously! How can a person oppose the core moral teachings of the Catholic Church without thereby setting themselves in opposition to it? Baptism does not categorically protect them from heresy or apostasy.
Their opposition may be completely irrational, or it may be based on what they believe to be legitimate reasons. Either way, it's still anti-Catholicism.
Sierra Lyricalia wrote:You're conflating opposition to individual acts and beliefs with anti-religious intolerance, when they are two fundamentally different things.
We're not talking about "anti-religious intolerance"
Your rhetoric on this thread has suggested otherwise.
... -- a concept that you and I probably understand very differently, incidentally -- we're talking about anti-Catholicism.
If "anti-Catholicism" is defined simply by disagreement with some subset of Church teachings, as you seem to be saying above, then the label is essentially useless. Literally the entire universe of people who are not 100%-doctrinaire, devout Catholics are "anti-Catholic" in this sense, and you railing against people for acting accordingly is farcical.
If, on the other hand, you are willing to accept the nuances of reality here - that people can disagree with a doctrine ("set themselves in opposition" if you insist on that phrasing) without desiring anything more destructive than that the institution issuing that doctrine should alter or abolish it - then language like "anti-Catholic" is counterproductive (as well as false).
Sierra Lyricalia wrote:...that he wrote them because of his Catholicism does not mean those people are trying to tear down churches or stop others from exercising their freedom of religion or conscience.
Your position is that anything short of literally tearing down churches does not constitute anti-Catholicism?
No, but your position has seemed to be that anything more confrontational than politely asking what people should believe, constitutes an illegitimate attack against the Church and everyone in it. As I have tried to indicate, there are multiple more reasonable positions to take.
To bring this back around to the topic, it's not an attack against Catholic faith to disagree with or be offended by CD's statements and vote accordingly.