New York Times Columnists Support the Nuns, Tell Bishops to Back Off  A lot of Americans, Catholic or otherwise, were offended, even outraged when the Vatican presumed to lecture America's nuns about being too devoted to helping the poor and insufficiently obedient in spreading blatantly discriminatory Vatican doctrines against gays, contraception, and the whole question of women's place in the church.  Catholics were especially shocked at the overtly male attack on the respected nuns and appalled when the Vatican assigned an out-of-touch American Archbishop to start an inquisition attempting to force doctrinal uniformity and silence the organization representing 00 percent of American nuns.  As Lisa's Dad says in the Eddie Murphy comedy, "this is America, Jack," and folks here are not fond of foreign rulers, let alone religious potentates, telling us what to believe. It just struck a lot of folks as being not just out of touch but unAmerican.  It's more than a little hypocritical at a time when the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops and a prominent American Cardinal have been whining that rules requiring insurance companies to offer coverage for contraception violate their consciences and principles of religious freedom. But here's the Vatican's exclusively male hierarchy, led by the group assigned to impose doctrinal uniformity, ordered by the Vatican to start an Inquisition to tell America's respected symbols of the Catholic faith that they have no right to even discuss, let alone question, the male hierarchy's discriminatory dogma.  This weekend, two prominent New York columnists used their Sunday columns to send a united message to New York's Cardinal Timo