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House Democrat: Investigate Catholic exemption
Baltimore Sun ^ | 11/10/09 | Matthew Hay Brown

Posted on 11/10/2009 10:58:44 AM PST by Nachum

Rep. Lynn Woolsey, a California Democrat dismayed by the House vote over the weekend to prohibit taxpayer subsidies for insurance policies that cover abortion in the healthcare overhaul, is saying maybe the IRS should investigate the tax-exempt status of the Catholic Church following its lobbying effort for the restriction.

“I expect political hardball on any legislation as important as the health care bill,” Woolsey writes in Politico. “I just didn’t expect it from the United States Council of Catholic Bishops … Who elected them to Congress?

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1 posted on 11/10/2009 10:58:45 AM PST by Nachum
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To: Nachum

bring it on

Catholics first

Rahmbo’s homebased Jewish charity second

Black churches 3rd


2 posted on 11/10/2009 11:00:14 AM PST by silverleaf (Ours is the only country on earth with a ventriloquist dummy for President)
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To: Nachum

Woolsey is one of the worst of the worst.


3 posted on 11/10/2009 11:00:21 AM PST by clintonh8r (Jumping to conclusions...it's what I do.)
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To: Nachum

Catholics, regardless of any position within the church that they may have, retain the right to freedom of speech whether that speech is conveyed individually or under any group banner.


4 posted on 11/10/2009 11:00:44 AM PST by Z in Washington
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To: Nachum

Watch out Woolsley.
You may get what you wish for.
Every church that spouts your leftist Commie vomit will get the same treatment.


5 posted on 11/10/2009 11:00:57 AM PST by Marty62 (former Marty60)
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To: silverleaf

Flak, target and all that.....

Don’t forget Benny Hinn and the rest of the televanglists !~


6 posted on 11/10/2009 11:01:27 AM PST by wombtotomb
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To: wombtotomb

not to mention the REVrund Sharpton and the REVrund Jackson

amen brother, pass the plate


7 posted on 11/10/2009 11:02:36 AM PST by silverleaf (Ours is the only country on earth with a ventriloquist dummy for President)
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To: Nachum
Will he include the black churches where obama and clinton speak and campaign????
8 posted on 11/10/2009 11:02:59 AM PST by 2banana (My common ground with terrorists - they want to die for islam and we want to kill them)
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To: Nachum

Who made congress exempt from following the constitution, Woolsey is scummy bit**.?


9 posted on 11/10/2009 11:03:25 AM PST by boomop1
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To: Nachum
Who elected them to Congress?

FU, you POS. Who made you and other congressmen our rulers rather than public servants? Who elected ACORN? Who elected all the lobbyists that the "most transparent administration EV-ah" was going to do away with? I am steaming at the arrogance of this POS and her arrogant statement.
10 posted on 11/10/2009 11:03:28 AM PST by mrsmel
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To: Nachum

Wonder if someone wrote Woolsey’s opinion. Had the unfortunate pleasure of meeting her more than once. She is not the sharpest pencil in the pencil-box. Not even sure she can qualify as being a pencil.


11 posted on 11/10/2009 11:04:52 AM PST by Son-Joshua (son-joshua)
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To: Marty62
Every church that spouts your leftist Commie vomit will get the same treatment.

Should, but probably won't.

12 posted on 11/10/2009 11:05:04 AM PST by Teacher317
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To: 2banana
Will he include the black churches where obama and clinton speak and campaign????

Excellent point, and I presume rhetorical.
13 posted on 11/10/2009 11:06:01 AM PST by mrsmel
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To: Nachum

Hey Ugly woman who used to be on WELFARE.....PRETTY sure that Bishops are a LITTLE higher on the ladder than a Congresscritter.


14 posted on 11/10/2009 11:06:14 AM PST by Ann Archy (Abortion,,,,,,the Human Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: Nachum
Now we know who got the 0bama Chicagoland Contract to hit the Catholic Church.

Next, coming to any church that disagrees with the messiah.

15 posted on 11/10/2009 11:07:05 AM PST by TYVets (Let's Roll!!! The leadership of the GOP has no spine and no guts, but we conservatives do)
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To: Nachum

Nothing more than a reprisal move by the whining candyass libtards.


16 posted on 11/10/2009 11:08:00 AM PST by cranked
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“I just didn’t expect it from the United States Council(sic) of Catholic Bishops …

That's the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, Representative Scheisskopf.

17 posted on 11/10/2009 11:08:49 AM PST by A.A. Cunningham (Barry Soetoro is a Kenyan communist)
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To: Nachum

Yet another proof that the Dims have sold their souls to the Devil, annd are damned. God hating, soulless creatures of Satan.


18 posted on 11/10/2009 11:09:16 AM PST by DGHoodini (Iran Azadi!)
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To: Nachum

Hmm, so maybe they’ll investigate the tax exempt status of the Black Baptist Churches? media matters? Jesse Jackson and Al Sharptons groups? I can go on.


19 posted on 11/10/2009 11:09:28 AM PST by Ballygrl
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To: Nachum
Who elected them to Congress?

Who elected you to God?

20 posted on 11/10/2009 11:10:04 AM PST by SamuraiScot
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To: Marty62

> Watch out Woolsley.
> You may get what you wish for.
> Every church that spouts your leftist Commie vomit will get the same treatment.

Nope, they won’t.

They are “on the right side of history”.

They are the “progressives”, the “politically correct”.

As long as they toe the PC line, they will remain unmolested.

As Exhibit A, I offer the IRS aggression against conservative churches during the Klintoon years. The IRS threatened loss of 501-3c status for churches that passed out voter guides, which did NOT support one candidate over the other, mind you, but just showed their voting records and policy positions.

Meanwhile, Klintoon, Sharptongue, Jackasson, and many other Leftist mouthpieces, were all allowed to spew Commie vomit from the pulpits of the liberal churches with no threat whatsoever to the 501-3c status to those churches.


21 posted on 11/10/2009 11:10:22 AM PST by Westbrook (Having more children does not divide your love, it multiplies it.)
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To: clintonh8r
Her district residents must be morons for electing her. Can't even email her if you aren't in Cal.

“I expect political hardball on any legislation as important as the health care bill,” Woolsey writes in Politico. “I just didn’t expect it from the United States Council of Catholic Bishops … Who elected them to Congress?”

Get used to it Lynnie. They didn't vote, so you don't have to be in the black hole that you call congress. The yell will be coming from all sides. Better than your commie acorn.

22 posted on 11/10/2009 11:11:54 AM PST by Pit1
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To: Nachum

“I expect political hardball on any legislation as important as the health care bill,” Woolsey writes in Politico. “I just didn’t expect it from the United States Council of Catholic Bishops … Who elected them to Congress?"

Wow. I expect Democrat congresspeople to make arrogant comments, ignorant comments, and threatening comments. I just didn't expect a comment that would be all three at the same time.

23 posted on 11/10/2009 11:15:20 AM PST by Califelephant
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To: clintonh8r

Woolsey also lead the attack against the Boy Scouts.

As this mush-headed waste of flesh represents southern
Sonoma county and Marin county, I’ve had the opportunity to hear her speak, or rather attempt to string together words to form a coherent sentence.

Quote: “I hope I never have to vote to the center”

Even her peers in Congress consider her an idiot.


24 posted on 11/10/2009 11:20:14 AM PST by GunsAndBibles (God save Calif. - 'cause it's gonna take a miracle.)
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To: Nachum
I hope that all those Roman Catholics that voted for Obama and his maladministration enjoy the change.
25 posted on 11/10/2009 11:22:13 AM PST by Nosterrex
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To: Nachum
“I just didn’t expect it from the United States Council of Catholic Bishops … Who elected them to Congress?

We feel your pain, Woosley! We feel the same about the czars. Who elected them? Or how about your aides who "read the bills" and report back to you if it's a good deal or not? Did we elect them? NO.

Woosley, I think you have chosen the wrong organization to go after. You're fixin' to get bitch slapped any minute now. LOL

26 posted on 11/10/2009 11:27:05 AM PST by NRA2BFree (President Obama agreed to commit an additional 40,000 troops to help fight Fox News," Jay Leno)
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To: Pit1

If you want to email Woolsey, feel free to use my zip 94952.

I’ve wasted too much time trying to figure out how this stupid creature keeps getting re-elected. My theory is that southern Sonoma and Marin voters consist of either people living on the edge (government handouts), apathetic uniformed imbeciles, or extremely wealthy liberals who figure they’ve “got theirs” and smugly feel superior enough to want to dictate how the rest of the populace should live.

There are still a few individualists left here, mostly in southern Sonoma. Marin is a lost cause.


27 posted on 11/10/2009 11:27:45 AM PST by GunsAndBibles (God save Calif. - 'cause it's gonna take a miracle.)
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To: Nosterrex

Strangely enough, many still do.


28 posted on 11/10/2009 11:28:42 AM PST by 353FMG (Save the Planet -- Eliminate Socialism)
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To: Nachum

These people hate, hate, hate the First Amendment.


29 posted on 11/10/2009 11:29:22 AM PST by denydenydeny (The Left sees taxpayers the way Dr Frankenstein sees the local cemetery; raw material for experiment)
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To: mrsmel

Who made you and other congressmen our rulers rather than public servants? Who elected ACORN? Who elected all the lobbyists that the “most transparent administration EV-ah” was going to do away with? I am steaming at the arrogance of this POS and her arrogant statement.
++++++++++++++++

You tell her Mrs. Mel!


30 posted on 11/10/2009 11:32:39 AM PST by SeattleBruce (God, Family, Church, Country - Keep on Tea Partiers - party like it's 1773!)
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To: Nachum

They weren’t elected congressman. You were. And you were elected to do what the people want you to do.


31 posted on 11/10/2009 11:33:48 AM PST by Terry Mross
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To: TYVets

Next, coming to any church that disagrees with the messiah.
++++++++++++++++

What a weird true phrase. What ‘bizarre but true’ times we live in...


32 posted on 11/10/2009 11:34:42 AM PST by SeattleBruce (God, Family, Church, Country - Keep on Tea Partiers - party like it's 1773!)
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To: clintonh8r

Never heard of this commie before, is he in a district where there’s a prayer of replacing him?


33 posted on 11/10/2009 11:37:05 AM PST by east1234 (It's the borders stupid! My new environmentalist inspired tagline: cut, kill, dig and drill)
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To: Nachum
Evidently, she thinks "freedom of speech" isn't free. You don't get it if you don't pay taxes.

Well, if that's the case, I know of several groups that need to give up their freedom of speech, such as welfare recipients, those who receive the EITC, etc.

34 posted on 11/10/2009 11:40:11 AM PST by Mannaggia l'America
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To: east1234
SHE is in this district. This should tell you enough.

California's 6th congressional district

35 posted on 11/10/2009 11:41:28 AM PST by Pyro7480 ("If you know how not to pray, take Joseph as your master, and you will not go astray." - St. Teresa)
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To: silverleaf

Yeah...that will happen...lol...

Right after the nest of Obama supporting liberal nonprofits which were part of and co-conspirators in Bernie Madoff’s operation are audited.


36 posted on 11/10/2009 11:45:22 AM PST by Brugmansian
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To: Nachum

Liberalism is a religion, and abortion is its sacrament.


37 posted on 11/10/2009 11:52:54 AM PST by rfp1234
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To: Pyro7480

Wow, that’s one of the districts we will have to throw out of the Union one of these days.


38 posted on 11/10/2009 11:53:12 AM PST by east1234 (It's the borders stupid! My new environmentalist inspired tagline: cut, kill, dig and drill)
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To: Califelephant

Ny Eyes, My eyes, why are Democrat women so fugly?


39 posted on 11/10/2009 11:53:12 AM PST by Venturer
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To: Nachum

How many Catholic justices are on SCOTUS?
End of argument.


40 posted on 11/10/2009 11:55:30 AM PST by JohnLongIsland
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To: Nosterrex
Ditto! If it weren't for abortion, there would be no Catholic Republican voters. They are FOR the social programs, FOR higher taxes, FOR illegals, Against the death penalty, and on and on and on. I'm sure the Bishops would be against the Second Amendment if anybody has bothered to ask, I just haven't heard with my own ears. Somewhere along the line they have been convinced that Jesus was a commie. They missed the point that Jesus was instructing His Church, not the government. There is actually very little about government in the Bible. It is entirely about instructions to HIS people. Sending a hungry person to the welfare office isn't the same as feeding him yourself.

Just as a side note, I'm completely stunned that the Anglicans will be welcomed back in the fold. I will be watching intently if the Catholic Church starts to make separate rules for the lukewarm's. The reason Anglicans got in trouble in the first place is liberalism. Like a cancer, they will start to soften their beliefs in sodomite marriage, abortion and whatever else is dedicated to the "Can't we all just get along" category. It may take awhile in coming, but like cancer, it will most likely show itself soon. How can Catholics preach piety and allow Pelosi, Biden, Kerry, and 50 Kennedy's to remain in the Church? Their hypocrisy will be pointed to every time they try to re educate an Anglican.

Just another passing thought, ...What happens when the Episcopalians, Lutherans, et al want to come back in? My bet is some amalgamation of mushy dogma that would accept a Hindu going to heaven without Jesus. At some point, you are either a Catholic or you need to figure out what you are. One that votes for Obama needs to repent. Killing babies pretty much trumps most other things in my book.

Abandoning abortion principles to get more food stamp programs is just pointing to someone that doesn't "get it".

41 posted on 11/10/2009 11:59:11 AM PST by chuckles
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To: Marty62
Watch out Woolsley. You may get what you wish for. Every church that spouts your leftist Commie vomit will get the same treatment.

Yeah, she wants to attack Catholics who oppose abortion based on the bible, but not a peep about the man-childs black liberation church he attended for 20 years.

I defy anyone who can find a more hypocritical group than the RAT party.
42 posted on 11/10/2009 12:01:37 PM PST by Cheerio (Barack Hussein 0bama=The Complete Destruction of American Capitalism)
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To: Nachum

Uh, maybe Lynn, you would like to be investigated.


43 posted on 11/10/2009 12:02:00 PM PST by freekitty (Give me back my conservative vote; then find me a real conservative to vote for)
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To: Nachum

Time for the Catholic Defense League to take its cue from the late, great Meir Kahane.

Given her way, Woolsey and those of her ilk will be only too happy to fire up the ovens.


44 posted on 11/10/2009 12:03:38 PM PST by DPMD (~)
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To: chuckles
I do not know how accurate this is, but I read that Obama received 67% of the Catholic vote. That is very high if that is accurate. I do not understand how someone that is pro-abortion and pro-homosexual can be supported by so many Catholics.
45 posted on 11/10/2009 12:04:39 PM PST by Nosterrex
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To: Cheerio

The Cult of Death is in charge of the U.S. today. That evil cult has a name..it is called the Democrat Party.
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The vile hissing from that Party as any attempt is made to stop the killing.
..........
Now the party of Death is going after the retirees, elderly and disabled.
Remember all, once this evil is allowed to take hold, they will not be satisfied until the streets (metaphorically) run red with blood.
As Serial killers escalate their hunger for death. It is without question that the killing party will escalate their victims.


46 posted on 11/10/2009 12:08:47 PM PST by Marty62 (former Marty60)
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To: Nosterrex
I read that Obama received 67% of the Catholic vote

Source?

47 posted on 11/10/2009 12:54:02 PM PST by Campion ("President Barack Obama" is an anagram for "An Arab-backed Imposter")
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To: GunsAndBibles

Is there a law in California that elected representative need to submit to a mandatory lobotomy or something? Pelosi, Boxer, Feinstein, Waters and now this bozo...


48 posted on 11/10/2009 1:10:58 PM PST by JrsyJack (a healthy dose of buckshot will probably get you the last word in any argument.)
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To: Campion
He's probably referring to this Gallup Poll where Obama had a 67% approval rating from Catholics. Only 53% of the Catholics voted for Obama (same source).
49 posted on 11/10/2009 1:23:00 PM PST by Brown Deer (4 Google execs are on Obama's staff - YouTube is owned by Google)
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To: Nachum
The U.S. Conference (not Council) of Catholic Bishops, which supports universal health insurance coverage but opposes abortion.”

What the hell is their problem?
I agree on the abortion issue
but the communist take over is ok? Do they have any idea of the misery this will cause?

Dear Bishop's , put you faith in GOD not tyrants.
If you want to help people that's ok, I will even pitch in (voluntarily that is).

50 posted on 11/10/2009 1:30:09 PM PST by DaveTesla (You can fool some of the people some of the time......)
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