"These are personal issues of faith for me. I'm not going to indulge in this debate anymore. It's really for me about what my constituents are most interested in now, and that is getting a health care bill passed that helps improve their lives."
Kennedy: "I'm not going to indulge in this debate anymore"
Monday November 30, 2009
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Mr. Kennedy (and all the other liberals) want to have the cake and eat it too. They want to discent from Catholic Doctrine and yet continue to be "Catholics in good standing". Mr Kennedy (and all the other liberals) can vote any way they want, promote abortion, gay "marriage", embryonic stem cell research, cloning, euthanisia and any else in the political correct book, that is their right and prerogative as U.S. citizens; but they have no right to that and still have communion. The State has its laws, The Church has its own doctrines and laws too. In addition all abortion and gay marriage are against Natural Law and violate the fundamental dignity of the human being.
Time to treat Kennedy as you would a liberal or a progressive.
Er,
I mean a pagan or a tax collector.
The Church has done its job. Kennedy has made his "choice."
There are plenty of lefty Churches at which this guy can find a seat.
Kennedy wasn't elected by the RC...but by the people. His job is to support a law that has been in place for over 30 years...a woman's right to choose. (Roe V Wade). The RC has no place in politics. Also as pointed out very well by Cory, the subject last night at Brown wasn't to discuss abortion. The rude and obnoxious man got what he deserved, taken out of the meeting, and Kennedy did as he should have done...refusing to discuss it. I wasn't there, but the local news has run the tape of the situation often.
Roman Catholics also vote and elect politicians to office. We also have the right to voice our opinions in the public square, including politics. RCs have our place in politics, the same as anyone else. Politicians do not have to support laws that are injust (i.e., Jim Crow, slavery, Roe v. Wade), and if they are Catholic they have to choose which is more important to them: winning elections or their eternal soul.
"The RC has no place in politics. "
Spoken like a true know-nothing bigot, pagansister. That's the kind of exclusionary class we've come to expect.
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