>On Behalf Of John Halle
>
> Right, and to tie this to another thread, are the domestic far right
> organizations (religious and otherwise) which liberals routinely get
> hysterical about really any worse than the more repressive and activist
> sectors of organized Catholicism. Can we expect a report from Berlet and
> his pals on Opus Dei, and if not, why not?
Because for all its faults, the Catholic Church in the US has been an active extremely loud opponent of anti-immigrant, anti-welfare and anti-affirmative action legislation and initiatives. The Catholic Archbishops and Cardinals out in California were some of the earliest opponents of Prop 187 and 209, coming out against them often long before most politicians and many other "progressive" organizations that often hedged their positions early on.
Opes Dei promotes quite conservative politics in many areas, especially sexual, but they don't promote active hate like a large number of evangelical Protestant groups, the extreme being groups like "God Hates Fags" but only slightly less hatefilled groups.
There is a lot to criticize about the Catholic Church, but to compare them to the far right hate groups strikes me as the kind of hateful anti-Catholicism that varies little in character to the antisemetism, homophobia and racism of those far right groups.
-- Nathan Newman