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Kentucky bishop condemns Obama effigy

posted by David Gibson | 6:36am Saturday November 1, 2008

Bishop Ronald W. Gainer of Lexington has joined with local community leaders in condemning the act of hanging in effigy the Democratic presidential nominee, Sen. Barack Obama, which occurred on the University of Kentucky campus Oct. 29.

“The reprehensible and cowardly action of the responsible individual or individuals went beyond the civilized limits of political speech or civil discourse to an offensive display of contempt for Sen. Obama as a candidate but more importantly as a human being,” said the bishop. “No level of political or personal disagreement justifies such a lack of respect for another person’s God-given human dignity.”

Police are still investigating. Story via CNS.



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Mark from PA

posted November 1, 2008 at 4:17 pm


How awful. I was on a Catholic site and I was upset at the vicious comments about Barack Obama. The hateful comments were horrible. One man even went on a rant about Joe Biden. It is hard to believe that some of these comments came from Catholic Christians. I had thought that we were past this.



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pagansister

posted November 1, 2008 at 8:14 pm


Unfortunately proves that this country is still full of racists. And Kentucky is a southern state.



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J R Dittbrenner

posted November 2, 2008 at 8:58 am


Those pesky little Torquemadas all over the place; they just keep coming through the woodwork like termites to undermine the whole structure. But that is all history, isn’t it, right…
Sincerely,J R Dittbrenner



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pagansister

posted November 5, 2008 at 7:48 pm


And Kentucky voted for Mac! That says something.



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Trinity

posted November 18, 2008 at 5:06 pm


Obama’s change alright.. all bad. Look homosexuals are running the streets all mad that we dont accept there sins, men are haveing babies ( gender roles are flipping) baby murder is a condom now,our economy is done, the amero is here, the new world order is in place, the camps and ovens are fired up, and the world is in a situation that sucks, so jesus.. if your gonna come back and make it all right, the riff is here, time is now, lets end this already and be done with it all.



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