Mike – You know more about all of these issues than I do, and I know you have a particular gripe with judgmentalism, but I think I’m missing something. Isn’t the Catholic Church’s position on contraceptives sort of like settled law? Or at least a settled “rule” (I don’t want to walk into legalisms here). So, when a priest says Hannity’s breaking the rules, it’s not really just an ill-formed “personal opinion” or snap judgment. It’s the guy’s professional opinion and, in the Catholic tradition doesn’t that stand for a lot? Protestants as I understand it, eschew such middlemen. But Catholics are big on the whole hierarchy thing.

Or putting all that aside, look at it this way: if a licensed accountant tells me that expenditures on porn and ice cream aren’t deductible business expenses it seems to me that I’d be sort of silly for saying, “Oh yeah, who are you to judge?” What am I missing? Because it seems to me the next time you correct my grammar when editing one of my pieces, the standard you lay out here leaves me free to say “Judge not lest ye be judged.”