An Open Letter To Hans Küng

From George Weigel.

We should ban Hans Küng from this country. His disparagement of the late Pope John Paul II’s Polishness made and make them the authentic voice of the age-old Teutonic racism against the Slavs; Küng only gets away with it because he is Swiss.

Just as we should ban various Islamists. Just as we should ban Avigdor Lieberman and the members of his revolting party, since we banned Meir Kahane when he was alive. Just as we should ban those American and other ecclesiastics who have expressed racist views about Africans and others who do not share their liberal sexual morality. Just as we should ban, as is currently being proposed, the Ugandan politician behind the law providing for the execution of men who engage in homosexual acts. Just as we should ban Geert Wilders. Just as we already do ban David Duke, who has never really mattered but whom it is still right to keep out

And just as we should ban the signatories to the Project for the New American Century, and the Patrons of the Henry Jackson Society. Alas, one of the former is George Weigel. There has been a certain amount of recanting in recent years. Does it extend to him? If not, then there is no way around the fact that his presence here would most certainly not be, and periodically is not, conducive to the public good.