Fr. Albert Cutie taking the easy way once again, agreeing with everyone in the room for his show rather than facing a hard truth. And Ann Coulter, in her always kind manner, dropping the “Who’s the Christian here?” on him. Oof.
Fr. Cutie was a priest who had his own talk show and was kind of a big deal until he got caught on the beach with a woman (if you know what I mean). Then, he left the priesthood and joined the Episcopal Church, I believe, where he’s resumed his road to stardom and publicly criticized the Catholic Church for its rules about celibacy.
Ann is right in that children do better with mothers and fathers. That’s not an attack on single mothers. It’s a fact that our culture doesn’t want to accept but it’s a fact nonetheless.
HT Pewsitter
July 27, 2011 at 8:38 pm
This 'male person' has no shame. I don't consider him to be a priest in any church. I know a former Episcopal priest who is now a member of a non-protestant church and he's a very nice man, very conservative. I wish this particular "Fr Albert" would not call himself by that name. Why? There once was a priest by the name of Fr. Albert Braun from Phoenix, he was a prisoner of war in the Philippines for 40 months. His captors cut cut off his thumbs and index fingers so he couldn't say mass and give communion… Fr Albert Braun was a REAL and true priest. It is honorable that my husband was the priest who baptized him. Shame on this Mr. Cutie. http://www.hmdb.org/marker.asp?marker=26830
July 27, 2011 at 10:09 pm
Holy! How did Ann keep her cool under such insults? It's bad enough when you are insulted, but when you are insulted by idiots and idiots approve it's even worse. I doubt that chick will make more money than Ann. It's shame that stupid people have so much influence.
Daniel.
July 27, 2011 at 10:17 pm
Anonymous at 5:09:
I'm with you. That woman has real steal in her spine. Really, buy and read her book Demonic. She was proven right at every turn with this clip. Not that she needed it. Her book is so well researched, meticulously footnoted, and brilliantly insightful, she could send their heads spinning with a single sentence.
I wasn't a fan of Anne's until reading this book, but I sure am now.
P. S. Regarding the fake Father, I quote Edna Mode:
"My God you've gotten fat."
July 28, 2011 at 12:25 am
This is not a scene from C. S. L's THAT HIDEOUS STRENGTH, but it would fit in perfectly.
July 28, 2011 at 1:24 am
Jennifer Roback Morse's Love and Economics has more about the benefits to children to be raised by their biological parents.
Sharon
July 28, 2011 at 3:08 am
Statitistics 101! You can manipulate stats to reveal whatever outcome you desire. Example: The average single mom produces 3.8 children vs. married couples @ 2.6. Ann’s stats are skewed, there false. When she states 70% of prisoners are from single moms she's omitting so many variables in her calculations. To simplify; lets assume the child population in the U.S. is 100 and 80 of those children are from single moms and twenty are from two parent homes. Let's say our prison population consists 40 of these children of which 30 come from single moms and 10 from two parent homes. This scenario tells us that 75% of our prisoners come from the single mother environment……..However, and this is where the validity of Ann’s' stats begin to crumble, this scenario also reveals that 50% of children that come from a two parent environment end up in prison while only 37.5% are from the single mother environment. Again this is just one of many variables that are left out of her 70% figure. Ann although I find you very sexy and desirable I have to say that you are playing unfairly here.
July 30, 2011 at 4:20 am
Anonymous @ 10:08:
Not 'there' but They're. As far as your analogy about children of single parent children in prison, really? Do a poll. Dems are so good at that. As an audience member said, "I don't even know who you are!"
Fame equals credibility. Money equals power. You clearly didn't get the memo.
July 30, 2011 at 6:05 am
What these women were saying was "men are unnecessary."
I once was in a developmental psychology class in a community college in Baltimore; I was the only white woman in the class and there was one white guy. The rest were all black women. And they had the same opinion: men are for fun but don' t depend on them for anything, you don' t need them, I never knew my father, my mother did a great job of raising me etc etc. My protests that my husband was working hard to support me and my then six children fell on deaf ears. They pretty much told me he would run out on me as soon as he found a younger woman, that he probably already was, and I better get myself in a position to support myself and my children soon. It is true that a lot of these black women were hardworking, tough, and competent and managed to carry an incredible load by themselves. But their culture really left no place for the men. Their girls turn out like them…and their boys like their fathers, despite all their efforts. Generalizations, I know, but generally true.
Susan Peterson
August 2, 2011 at 5:00 am
The fact that a few of the mothers in the audience had never heard of Ann Culter prior to getting to the studio means little…Maybe it would suggest that they do not read anything other than comics. Culter not to say "bad single mother but to say that it is ideal for a child to have both a mother and a father and to share some very interesting statistics. For so called father Albert to state that her statistics were credible and then support the direction that his audience went which was demonize the truth, he deserved the question "who is the christian here father"?
August 2, 2011 at 5:24 am
eulogos:
I think it is great that your mother did a great job with raising you. I think that you are letting this fact cloud the issue. Lets stay focused here…The discussion is about what is ideal environment for a child to be raised. You have made this personal and this conversation is much bigger than just you. If you are a believer you would know that God has a plan for how he would like for us to live our lives. if we follow his plan we can look for success. If you continue to do things your way…your mothers ways, you are destined to do a whole lot of crying and wondering why. Your comment remind of the definition of insanity…continuing to do things the same way but expecting a different outcome. If you were to ask your mother, and she were to be completely honest with she would admit she was chasing a male that was not worthy of her, did not treat her like a queen and she should have never hitched her cart to that star. Best case scenario is a child would benefit from both a mother and father in the house working equally on raising those precious children.