How is this for an ugly comment?
"If you're really anti-gay, you become a Catholic now."
It belongs to MSNBC's Chris Matthews.
When asked if he cared to explain or clarify or apologize, he didn't take the opportunity. Instead, he reiterated his remark.
From Scott Whitlock, NewsBusters:
Chris Matthews appeared at Ford's Theater in Washington D.C., Monday, for a President's Day panel and sneered that Catholics are attracting bigots. While talking about Richard Nixon, the so-called Southern Strategy and racism, the Hardball host berated, "If you're really anti-gay, you become a Catholic now."
At a question and answer session after the event, I confronted him about the quote and asked him if he wished to "expand or apologize." He spat back, "I'm saying that some people who are bigoted against gay people have changed religions. Yes. You got it right."
...Matthews added, "I think there are people who have chosen to convert to the Catholic faith because they don't like the liberal positions taken by their sectarian groups. That's a fact. So, you can write that down. No, you can write that down."
Complete transcript of the exchange here.
Matthews is a disgrace.
The guy claims to be a practicing Catholic.
If his view of the Church is that it's a congregation of bigots, does he include himself to be a member of the "really anti-gay" flock?
Video here.
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