"I used her, she used me, but neither one cared," Bob Seger sang in Night Moves. His lyric could also describe the awkward convergence of Catholicism and Ted Kennedy on display this weekend. Once synonymous with the Church, the Kennedys--through personal scandal and the embrace of political issues such as abortion--have transformed themselves into the first family of the Church of Liberalism. Read my article @ the American Spectator on why the Church's role in Ted Kennedy's funeral has liberal and conservative Catholics crying foul for very different reasons.

Check yourself before you wreck yourself.

Your views are scary man!!!

Kennedy was a seditious scumbag. There are multiple facts to support this. His own brothers would have indicted him.

Sir mixalot sounds like the truth is scary to you. There are some people who haven't been drinking the kennedy cool aid all these years.

Can you imagine, at the funeral Mass for a Catholic Republican politician, if the congregation were prompted by an invocation to say “Lord, hear our prayer” as a response to oh, I don’t know, cutting the deficit or taxes or some other pet political issue dear to the departed?

I can’t. And, as a Catholic, it sickens me that the crowd at Kennedy’s funeral “Mass” would be enabled and in a position to respond to a prayer for such a politically charged issue as rationed government healthcare.

It just reminds me of how much the folks on the left will try to kill and demonize all forms of organized religion but use it when it suits their cause. And that the Church was complicit in this ruse is unconscionable.

Disgusting for them; disgusting for the Church that allows for it.