The New York Times, in an article that was published on Monday, accused conservatives of trying to use the Vatican child sex abuse scandal to advance their own agenda.
According to the article, conservatives are using the letter and the scandal to push for a stronger condemnation of homosexuality from the Catholic Church.
The article said, “An ideologically motivated opposition has weaponized the church’s sex abuse crisis to threaten not only Francis’ agenda but his entire papacy.”
It went on to say, “At the Conference of Catholic Families, a rival, conservative event to the Vatican’s World Meeting of Families in Dublin this past weekend, organizers found the pope’s recent condemnation of abuse unsatisfactory because he did not call out homosexuality. That, they say, has turned seminaries into ‘cesspits.’”
In recent months, critics have been quick to claim “conservatives pounce” on a number of occasions — they “pounced” with regard to fact-checking rising Democratic Socialist star Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez:
That sound you hear is a bunch of left-wing activists masquerading as journalists feverishly writing a bunch of breathless “Conservatives pounce on NYT” stories to help distract from the paper’s racist new hire.
