Sister Sarah Lays It All Out For Ya

I love Sarah Posner's contributions to Religious Dispatches and particularly enjoyed a recent one examining the disconnect between the Catholic hierarchy and the average churchgoer.  I did not point out the obvious hypocrisy except as follows:

Fine analysis, Ms. Posner, of the disconnect between the U. S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, which ought to be named a "hate" group, and the rank and file congregant. We are not -- yet -- in a Taliban type society where religious impiety will get you snuffed by the state. What I always wonder is why these hypocrite congregants go on putting their hard-earned shekels in the plates on Sunday knowing that some of the money is being used to protect pedophile priests, while other funds are going to defeat rights you take for granted. Duh! Contraception for example. Pardon the joke, but it's redolent of robbing Peter to pay Paul.