I want to start by saying I am a young woman who is proud to be Catholic. I love my faith, I love Jesus, I love traditional mass services. What I do not love is when people tarnish the Catholic faith by being obnoxious. There was a video posted on Twitter that seems so sweet until the 45-second mark when it turns political and into support of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh.

In this video, that has gone viral, it shows Kavanaugh claiming he is innocent of a sexual assault charge and then goes on to put "If it can happen to him..." and fills in "to our sons, brother, and fathers." In reading the conversation strand following the video it states that "Catholic moms created an ad in support of Kavanaugh in tribute to their sons who they fear can be attacked one day by slutty wicked liar women claiming sexual harassment."

This very literally makes me sick.

While I understand the teaching of the Catholic faith can be complicated and the Bible can be confusing to interpret, shaming women in such a manner goes against everything Jesus died for. Whether Kavanaugh actually sexually assaulted anyone or who you believe in this unprovable, decade-old debate does not matter. What matters here is that God tells us so many time in the Bible to love everyone and not harm each other, yet in this Twitter video these #MomsForKavanaugh are making the Catholic Church, capital C because this refers to the entire human population of the church, look disrespectful.

With all of this being said I am not stating that the accusations will always be valid. There are some people who will falsely accuse, there are people that will claim they are innocent when they are guilty, there is no good answer to fixing the sexual harassment and assault issue in this country. I urge everyone in these terrible situations to pray. Pray for forgiveness and clarity, for understanding and the help that you need, and for people who are guilty to come forward and for people who are not guilty to find justice.

I type this knowing there are other Catholics who agree with me, this video is disgraceful and I promise if you are a victim of sexual assault and tell someone that is Catholic the majority will not shame you. We will pray for you and help you as much as we can. I beg people not to take this faction of mother's in the Catholic church as what the majority of people who are Catholic believe.

Please take a moment out of your day to pray over sexual assault victims and people falsely accused of sexual assault.