What An Age To Live In.

I can't believe I lived to see a time when a majority of Catholics in the US (Catholics who describe themselves as, practicing) support gay marriage. I still remember in the 80's when people were having supposedly legitimate discussions about whether AIDS was the wrath of God. And people like Senator Jesse Helms thought funding HIV treatment would encourage promiscuity.

Actually, you know, on the angering God thing. Benjamin Franklin faced a similar criticism when he invented a type of lightning rod in 1752. People said lightning was the work of God, who like the god Zeus, hurled the bolts from his heavenly throne in the sky. Franklin just pointed out, if God created everything, he invented roofs. And by that same logic, maybe we should all stand in the rain and get wet when the weather is bad.