Buckley v. Mahoney, cont'd

Thanks to Rob and Michael for passing on Grant Gallicho's post about William Buckley and Cardinal Mahoney.  My own views -- like, I gather, Michael's, Grant's, and Rob's -- are closer to those expressed in Cardinal Mahoney's op-ed than to those expressed by Buckley here.  (Which is not necessarily to endorse -- on the merits -- the positions on immigration-reform and immigration-related matters that are often proposed by the USCCB, etc.)

That said, and not to be snarky, it really is a bit much -- isn't it? -- to read the condescendingly approving kudos being handed out to Cardinal Mahoney by the same editorial-writers (see, e.g., March 3's "The Gospel v. HR 4437" in the New York Times) who find dangerous, Catholic-inspired breaches in the wall of separation under every bed and who are driven to frothing rage every time a Christian leader suggests that Christians really ought to, say, try to change our abortion laws, or end the government's dysfunctional monopoly in education, or refuse to comply with a state's contraception-coverage mandate.