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Teddy Kennedy: Christianity Demands Higher Minimum Wage(Ted Demands "Fundamentals" of Jesus)
FindArticles ^ | Nov 05 | Amanda Carpenter

Posted on 7/10/2006, 1:24:21 AM by xzins

Teddy Kennedy: Christianity Demands Higher Minimum Wage

Religious Left Promotes Agenda That Would Foster Unemployment

Sen. Teddy Kennedy (D.-Mass.), spouting the Beatitudes, headlined a press conference last week at which a religious-left coalition argued that Judéo-Christian morality calls for an increase in the minimum wage.

Calling itself "Let Justice Roll," the coalition hopes to leverage what it describes as "moral outrage" over low wages to gain support for legislative action.

Raising the minimum wage, said Kennedy, "is a moral issue of enormous importance and consequence. It's a defining issue about what our society is really about. Whether we reward work, whether we have respect for individuals that work hard and play by the rules, whether we are going to follow the great teachings of the Beatitudes, which inspire so many of us in terms of our responsibilities to our fellow human beings, and if we believe in those fundamental tenets of the Judeo-Christian ethic we cannot fail but to believe that the minimum wage must be a livable wage for all our fellow citizen."

The group's rhetoric is larded with biblical references. Even its name refers to Amos 5:24: "Let justice roll down like waters and righteousness like an overflowing stream." In a report produced for Let Justice Roll, Holly Sklar and Rev. Dr. Paul H. Sherry write, "The Golden Rule-the Ethic of Reciprocity-is the most universal moral value, religious and secular. Economics can be immoral: Those with the gold, rule. Do to others anything you can get away with. Or economics can be moral, in keeping with the Golden Rule."

Rev. Robert Edgar, general secretary of the National Council of Churches of Christ, predicted that traditional Evangelical Christian Republicans will also join the cause.

"The Evangelicals really understand the breadth of the moral issues and one of the key issues that there is no disagreement on is care for the poor," he said, "and my guess is that many of those who are not part of the National Council of Churches, or part of some of the churches who are here, many of those recognize people coming to their churches, living on minimum wage are living below the poverty level and Jesus would be calling us to a justice issue there."

The Let Justice Roll campaign is hoping "every church, every synagogue, every mosque and every temple" will hold "living-wage worship events" on Martin Luther King's birthday.

"This is an issue of morality that cries out for justice ..." said Kennedy. "It just so happens the Republican leadership doesn't understand it."

But what Republicans understand and have tried to explain to Kennedy is that when government arbitrarily raises the minimum wage it does not help lift up workers on the bottom rungs of the employment ladder, it simply throws them off the ladder.

acarpenter@eaglepub.com


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Raising the minimum wage, said Kennedy, "is a moral issue of enormous importance and consequence. It's a defining issue about what our society is really about. Whether we reward work, whether we have respect for individuals that work hard and play by the rules, whether we are going to follow the great teachings of the Beatitudes, which inspire so many of us in terms of our responsibilities to our fellow human beings, and if we believe in those fundamental tenets of the Judeo-Christian ethic we cannot fail but to believe that the minimum wage must be a livable wage for all our fellow citizen."

I guess this makes Kennedy a fundamentalist???

IN any case, the minimum wage is a states issue...if at all.

New Yorkers have a FAR FAR different cost of living than do rural Ohioans, for example. (Military pay scale cost of living payments prove this....I can't imagine anyone arguing with it.)

1 posted on 7/10/2006, 1:24:24 AM by xzins
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To: xzins

The Democratic leadership ARE evil. Users, users, users.


2 posted on 7/10/2006, 1:25:42 AM by GOP Poet
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To: xzins
Hey Teddy, what does Christianity say about leaving a girl behind to drown in your car?

What an unmitigated POS. Any time he talks about a "moral issue" I want to barf.
3 posted on 7/10/2006, 1:26:29 AM by GodBlessRonaldReagan (Count Petofi will not be denied!)
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To: xzins
Who said "Render unto Caesar what is Caesar's?"
4 posted on 7/10/2006, 1:27:02 AM by TSchmereL ("Rust but terrify.")
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To: GOP Poet

ARE=IS.


5 posted on 7/10/2006, 1:27:18 AM by GOP Poet
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To: xzins

Shameless.


6 posted on 7/10/2006, 1:29:08 AM by Mr. Mojo
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To: xzins
Teddy Kennedy: Christianity Demands Higher Minimum Wage

Who is Christianity and why does he think he's worth a higher wage? Is he the guy in charge of dispensing Ted's liquor?

Inquiring minds and all that...

7 posted on 7/10/2006, 1:29:09 AM by DumpsterDiver
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To: GodBlessRonaldReagan
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8 posted on 7/10/2006, 1:29:24 AM by digger48
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To: xzins; All

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TED KENNEDY & Cardinal MAHONEY =

"Invaders, first"

"America, last"

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9 posted on 7/10/2006, 1:29:34 AM by ALOHA RONNIE ("ALOHA RONNIE" Guyer/Veteran-"WE WERE SOLDIERS" Battle of IA DRANG-1965 http://www.lzxray.com)
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To: xzins

Throw em off the ladder Ted! Throw em in the water Ted! See Ted swim! See Ted swim! Poetry in motion? No, porno in motion!!!


10 posted on 7/10/2006, 1:29:55 AM by Waco
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To: blue-duncan; P-Marlowe; Corin Stormhands; Revelation 911; jude24; Frumanchu; ...

Ping to Ted Kennedy FUNDAMENTALIST quote at #1.


11 posted on 7/10/2006, 1:33:03 AM by xzins (Retired Army Chaplain and Proud of It. Supporting our Troops Means Praying for them to Win!)
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SEPARATION OF CHURCH AND STATE say it again. Where is People for the Separation of Church and State press conference lamenting this breach of our Constitution. Where are they when you need them............Why this is those fundamentalist left wing Christians trying to push their idea of Christianity down all of our throats.. Really the NERVE of such people. I want to see where Jesus preached about a minimum wage. Show me TEDDY where is it. Leave religion out of our secular government. How dare you.
12 posted on 7/10/2006, 1:34:59 AM by therut
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Luke 18:18-23
And a certain ruler asked him, saying, Good Master, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?
And Jesus said unto him, Why callest thou me good? none is good, save one, that is, God.
Thou knowest the commandments, Do not commit adultery, Do not kill, Do not steal, Do not bear false witness, Honour thy father and thy mother.
And he said, All these have I kept from my youth up. Now when Jesus heard these things, he said unto him, Yet lackest thou one thing: sell all that thou hast, and distribute unto the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven: and come, follow me.
And when he heard this, he was very sorrowful: for he was very rich.

You first Ted.

13 posted on 7/10/2006, 1:38:04 AM by Corin Stormhands (HHD: Join the Hobbit Hole Troop Support - http://freeper.the-hobbit-hole.net/)
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To: therut; P-Marlowe; blue-duncan
I want to see where Jesus preached about a minimum wage.

It's in Hesitations 7:25 - "Verily I say unto thee, thou shalt set the lowest of thy daily bread at no less than a tithe of thy highest daily bread."

Which translated means: We all get a tenth of what Bill Gates is worth.....that's about 3 bil to each of us.

Pretty cool, huh?

I just solved poverty.

14 posted on 7/10/2006, 1:40:12 AM by xzins (Retired Army Chaplain and Proud of It. Supporting our Troops Means Praying for them to Win!)
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"This is an issue of morality that cries out for justice ..." said Kennedy.

An issue of morality that cries out for justice is Ted doing time for MAry Joe's untimely demise.


15 posted on 7/10/2006, 1:40:35 AM by roaddog727 (Bullsh## doesn't get bridges built.)
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To: therut
Where is People for the Separation of Church and State press conference lamenting this breach of our Constitution. Where are they when you need them

The same place there were when Clinton showed up for the cameras with a 12 pound bible.

No where.

The reason is obvious, isn't it? The Left does really "mean it" when they speak of Christ.

Jesus was (and remains) the most polarizing figure in history.

You are are with Him, or against Him.

16 posted on 7/10/2006, 1:40:55 AM by SkyPilot
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To: Corin Stormhands

Ted is so authorative about Christianity, I didn't know that he knew any Christians.


17 posted on 7/10/2006, 1:41:11 AM by scannell
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To: Corin Stormhands
You first Ted.

Rotflmao!

That was truly worthy of Ward Smythe!

18 posted on 7/10/2006, 1:41:27 AM by xzins (Retired Army Chaplain and Proud of It. Supporting our Troops Means Praying for them to Win!)
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To: xzins

Uh, the state minimum wage in New York is already $7.00/hr


19 posted on 7/10/2006, 1:42:12 AM by Ouderkirk (Don't you think it's interesting how death and destruction seems to happen wherever Muslims gather?)
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To: xzins

This is what happens when people who don't understand Christianity try to talk about it.


20 posted on 7/10/2006, 1:42:33 AM by Irish Rose (Will work for chocolate.)
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