in the spirit of my "rag on the vatican day", let me just add how hypocritical the vatican's campaign to keep turkey out of the EU is.
for the last decade, turkey has been enacting all kinds of democratic reforms in the hopes of convincing europe that it meets european human rights and democracy standards so that it can be admitted to the EU. meanwhile, the continent's only authoritarian theocracy campaigns behind the scenes to keep the secular nation out because it's too muslim.
