Close your eyes for a moment and consider the following:
A deranged maniac sprays bullets into a Planned Parenthood. Or a mosque. Or a gay nightclub. The killer displays right-wing slogans all over his weaponry. This includes a bullet-holed target board with an image directly related to the target site: an aborted fetus, a crescent moon, a rainbow pride flag.
And then imagine turning on CNN and watching one analyst after the next scratch their head in confusion about the motive behind the spree.
“I almost find the conclusion that it‘s a hate crime against Catholics premature in that we are trying to attach rational motives to a completely irrational act,” said CNN’s Chief Law Enforcement Intelligence Analyst John Miller Wednesday afternoon.
Imagine that.
Meanwhile, the New York Times headlined its bafflement: “Minneapolis Suspect Knew Her Target, but Motive Is a Mystery.”
One wonders what the headline might have been if the target was the aforementioned gay nightclub or Planned Parenthood. It’s doubtful the Times would devote its bountiful resources to cover any other angle of the massacre in its pages.
Minneapolis mayor Jacob Frey did the legacy media rounds yesterday, doing everything he could to avoid discussing the obvious anti-Catholic sentiment behind the shooting, decrying “gun violence” instead and pointing our attention to the real victims: the trans community.
“I’ve heard a whole lot of hate directed at our trans community,” he said at a press conference yesterday. “Anybody that is using this as an opportunity to villainize our trans community — or any other community out there — has lost their sense of common humanity.”
Indeed, anti-Catholic bigotry is the nation’s most acceptable form of hatred. Even when killings are so obviously motivated by disdain for the Church and her people, the legacy media and Democrats avoid speaking of Mass-attending Catholics as victims, lest they be painted in a sympathetic light.
Yesterday’s mayhem was especially uncomfortable for purveyors of secular-liberal culture because Anti-Catholic bigotry is fashionable. It is mocked openly in movies and television shows. It was mocked at the Olympics’ opening ceremony. It was even mocked by President Donald Trump, who decided it was amusing to share a picture of himself in papal garb days after Pope Francis passed away.
BROKEN HEARTS IN A SHATTERED SANCTUARY
Catholics won’t cry about it, however. We expect it and wear it as a badge. And we forgive.
But we don’t and won’t forget.