Katie Couric Pressing for Liberal Pope

Siting recent polling information showing that 60% of American Catholics want priests to be able to marry and 64% want women allowed to be priests KC does her best to cheerlead the appointment of a more "liberal" pope.

She is just one of scores in the MSM who began promoting this theme within 10 minutes of the pontiffs death. From John Pauls II stance on contraception to euthenasia they lament his legacy of tyrannical conservatism and sing a song of behavioral tolerance and moral relativism.

These people just don't get it.....again. They look at religious doctrine in much the same way as they look at the United States constitution. They believe it to be a "living thing" that should change and grow with the evolving morals of the people and their culture. Nothing is absolute, there are no black and whites only greys to be interpreted as they conveniently fit into an individuals lifestyle. The 10 commandments are carved into clay rather than stone.

Nothing could be further from the truth. Gods law is absolute, it was intended to be. That which was wrong 2000 years ago is indeed still wrong today. Indeed the black and white contrast of good and evil is a theme that runs throughout the bible. No greys, no qualifying subtext or innuendo, just devine law combined with empirical truths meant to spritually govern through the ages.

John Paul II was the Antonin Scalia of the Papacy. The bible like the constitution was meant to be used to derive absolute truth rather than be manipulated as a rationalization for ideologies and change. They are both specific doctrines giving us a strict framework to follow, one for governing our country one for governing our lives.

Being good and righteous and pious are not easy. Religion is anything but convenient. It is understood, the further a culture distances itself from Gods law the more difficult it is for religions to remain relevant. But to modify an interpretation of divine intent in order to make faith more palatible is beyond ludicrous. When a faith bases it's beliefs on public opinion and convenience, it ceases to be a religion and becomes nothing more than a theatrical social group.