Intellectual Dishonesty or Plain Ignorance?

A Letter from this morning's Post Dispatch

Cafeteria morality
Archbishop's Raymond Burke's cafeteria morality is a new concept. Am I allowed to vote only for a president who is responsible for the deaths of tens of thousands in a war based on fraud and deceit, a president who has lifted the ban on assault weapons that may result in the deaths of thousands of police, a president who has forced thousands of senior citizens to choose between eating or paying for the high cost of drugs under a Medicare drug law that prohibits the federal government from negotiating prices with the drug companies?

I am not aware that the pope has placed his imprimatur on cafeteria morality.

Donald Lundgren
Osage Beach

Tens of thousands of deaths from a war based on fraud & deceit? This has been refuted several times already.

The President lifted the ban on assault weapons??? Does this man even know that the ban primarily affected cosmetic characteristics only, such as bayonet lugs and flash hiders???...or that Congress refused to take this up, or that statistics had already demonstrated that the AWB did nothing do reduce crime?

Bush is responsible for higher drug prices? Okay...The president is a convenient scapegoat.

And finally, is Archbishop Burke really engaged in a sort of "Cafeteria Morality"? I think we can safely assume that Mr. Lundgren has not read the Archbishop's Pastoral Letter. The Pastoral Letter gives us the principles we need, especially today, to confront the evil around us and to work as Christians, in promoting the common good.

I can only hope that someone would be kind enough to give a copy of the Archbishop's pastoral letter to Mr. Lundgren and that he would read it prayerfully.

Source.


I sometimes wonder if someone at the Post-Dispatch gets a special pleasure from printing letters of this nature. If it wasn't so sad, it would certainly be good for a laugh.