Basically, Catholicism teaches you that the thing you should hate most about yourself is your ability to doubt the divine infallibility of the Catholic Church, regardless of how truly fallible the Catholic Church repeatedly demonatrates itself to be. (That Church also wants you to believe that you can only be good enough to be loved by God if you first believe you murdered God, and will be cast into hell if you refuse to "believe" you did.) In fact, never before in the history of the world has one institution amassed such power by hypnotizing its followers with claims of "infallibility" when it preaches on faith and morals, while being so fallible in putting the morals it preaches into practice. Indeed, by far the most infallible statement that can be said to be true of the Catholic Church is that it stands as a shining example of just how profitable it can be to convince the world to "do what we say, not what we do" (because if you don't, God is gonna roast you alive forever - becasue he 'loves you' exactly that much).
Most people don't realize that the Supreme Court has been in the hands of the Republican party since at least 1970! In fact, even in the landmark case of Roe v Wade that legalized abortion, SCOTUS was inhabited by 6 Republicans and 3 Democrats, and the vote was 7 to 2. One of the reasons is that the Republican Party has absolutely ZERO desire to win on the abortion issue. And that's because abortion gives the GOP a clear focal point with potentially unlimited organizing power. And it's an even simpler message to sell than religion, since we are "pro-life." (if that was true, however, they wouldn't be actively trying to repeal healthcare for up to 30 million Americans, nor would they be so pro-gun, pro-war, pro-death penalty, pro welfare cuts, pro- social security cuts, pro- drone strikes, etc). The Republican party officially became "pro-life" in 1976, thanks to Jesse Helms (R-NC). The only reason no serious challenge was brought within the pa...
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