Paul Melanson: Bogus Charlatan
February 18, 2012 in Atheism, Catholic Church, Education, Ethics, Law, Morality, Philosophy, Reason, Religion, Religious Freedom, Religious Persons, World Issues
Readers of my blog may recall that back in December of 2011, Paul Anthony Melanson, owner of La Salette Journey, who very clearly did not bother to do any research whatsoever with respect to who I am or the actual extent of my writing. In his post dated December 5, 2011, Melanson accuses me of misrepresenting both my identity and the nature of my personal position on such issues as religion. I tried leaving numerous comments on Melanson’s site in response to his post, but Melanson’s cowardly ways kept him from allowing the comments to be posted and also kept him from responding in any manner to these comments or the post that I wrote in response to his comments. I had given up on ever hearing from Melanson, then wouldn’t you know it: earlier today I realized that Melanson has written yet another post about me.
Paul Anthony Melanson
The purpose of this post is to portray me as someone who believes roman catholics should not be entitled to a voice in the public realm. He then adds, “Maybe he would like to stick Catholics in concentration camps?“ But where Melanson gets these notions is beyond me. As we shall see, my simply never having said something or advocated something in no way restricts Melanson’s ability to claim that I said or did x. I would now like to address the issues that Melanson raises within the body of his post. Read the rest of this entry →
