These People Slay Me!

In an editorial today, the Winston Salem Urinal columnist John Railey (requires free registration) had this to say:

"There's a chance that the coming white smoke in Rome will rise for the first black pope in modern times.

Francis Arinze, a cardinal from Nigeria with ties to Winston-Salem, could be that pope. It wouldn't be his race alone that's controversial, although there are too many racists left in the world who still make pigment an issue. More than anything else, the controversy if Arinze is elected pope would be over the fact that he's black and rigidly conservative.

Not that there's anything wrong with that."

He then goes on to say just what exactly IS wrong with that. In a speech that Arinze made at Georgetown University a couple of years ago, he said, "In many parts of the world, the family is under siege, opposed by an anti-life mentality as seen in contraception, abortion, infanticide and euthanasia," he said in a speech that sparked sharp outcry. "It is scorned and banalized by pornography, desecrated by fornication and adultery, mocked by homosexuality, sabotaged by irregular unions and cut in two by divorce."

Pity the Rich White Liberal here in America!! Why, they'd be hamstrung because any criticism of the Black Pope could smack of (Shudder) RACISM! Can you imagine the number of WASP Catholics in the U.S. who wouldn't know whether to shit or go blind!

I'd love to see it, but at best it's a real long shot. But the Cardinals are going to get locked up shortly, and they have a habit of doing whatever they feel like.

Wait and see.