Stung By Criticism, ASHA Suddenly Discovers Religion: Claims They're "Practicing Catholics"

Due to the holy season and my church activities, I won't be able to post for a few more weeks. When I am finally able to sit down and give this blog more attention, I have some financial information that will be of great interest to this blog's readers. Any post having to do with ASHA's finances (and the exorbitant salaries that ASHA's bosses make) gets a huge number of hits and it won't be any different this time. If anything, the outrage is certain to increase exponentially.
Some quick notes so I can clear some of the clutter off my desk:
- Is the number of Ph.D's who are planning to resign from ASHA due to "conscientious objections" now up to two?
- Stung by criticism of its liberal progressive agenda, ASHA has apparently suddenly discovered religion. ASHA is now telling private correspondents complaining of ASHA's controversial record on ethical and moral issues (see here, here, here, here, and here to start) that board members are "practicing Catholics," something that will come as quite a surprise to anyone who has corresponded with ASHA in the last few years about these serious issues.
They're practicing Catholics.
And I'm a liberal progressive.
Okay, Arlene Pietranton and company - prove it.
Agree to the following statement, one that no sincere and faithful Catholic would hesitate for an instant to agree with:

I (sign here) do affirm my agreement with the Holy Roman Catholic Church in its moral teachings, including the following:

1) Abortion, being the taking of innocent human life, is a mortal sin.

2) Homosexual acts are intrinsically disordered and sinful. "Basing itself on sacred Scripture, which presents homosexual acts as acts of grave depravity, tradition has always declared that homosexual acts are intrinsically disordered. They are contrary to the natural law. They close the sexual act to the gift of life. They do not proceed from a genuine affective and sexual complementarity. Under no circumstances can they be approved" (Catechism of the Catholic Church 2357).

If you and the board members can't sign that statement without any hesitation, there's no reason for anyone to take your claim of being a "practicing Catholic" seriously. As for me, I regard this very timely claim of ASHA's to be nothing but blasphemous opportunism.

Dear Lord, should we faithfully serve you and follow your teachings or go for the big bucks by running a morally questionable professional organization that alienates and offends Christians?

- In response to inquiries, here's my therapy rule on dealing with gay clients: if the gay client doesn't bring up their sexuality in therapy, I won't bring up my faith. Deal?

-In response to claims that male-to-female transgenders are really women: cutting off your penis no more makes you a woman than cutting off one of your legs makes you a pogo stick. Any man who voluntarily gets himself castrated and injected with female hormones is profoundly dysfunctional - insane. And no amount of shoplifted cosmetics and evening gowns will make you a woman - it only makes you a very, very screwed-up man - and ASHA's idea of an excellent candidate for its board of directors!

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