Don't tell me that mamzer Kal-El's mixed up in politics now ...
Posted on 03/11/2010 6:44:52 AM PST by Pope Pius XII
No, this is not a news release about Rahm Emanuel, though it could have been. After all, he is the pro-abortion Jew who is working quietly to shape the health bill. But I wouldn't have characterized his lobbying that way. Why? Because to do so would have smacked of Jew-baiting. NPR, however, ran an article today about Richard Doerflinger, the pro-life point man for the bishops, that read, "Powerful Catholic Quietly Shaping Abortion, Health Bill Debate." The inartful headline marred an otherwise fair piece.
NPR looks innocent next to others. In the past week, Slate.com has questioned, "Whither Ecumenism? Catholics Interfere with a Rival Doctrine." Newsweek ran a piece entitled, "When Bishops Play Politics: A New Generation Gets Righteous." Examiner.com used this headline: "Religion Pollutes, Threatens Health Care Reform via Abortion, Catholic Bishops." And RHRealityCheck.org posted an article beckoning readers to "take a good, hard look at just how the Bishops are cooking it up...Covering-up their real intentions with lofty sentiments about morality and justice while they cook-away, and deal-away, behind closed doors...."
"Jews Interfere." "When Rabbis Play Politics: A New Generation Gets Righteous." "Religion [Judaism] Pollutes." "Rabbis Deal-Away, Behind Closed Doors." Such bigotry would never be published by any of the aforementioned media outlets.
Now the inevitable. Connie Saltonstall, a Michigan activist, has decided to challenge Rep. Bart Stupak in the Democratic primary; Stupak is leading the fight against abortion coverage in the health bill. Citing his "personal, religious views," she says it is "reprehensible" for him to "deprive his constituents of needed health care reform because of those views." (My italics.) You guessed it—Stupak is Catholic.
(Excerpt) Read more at catholicleague.org ...
Article seems a bit ‘Mein Kampf-y’ to me. Don’t know why...
Fair enough, I guess what he was trying to say is that Catholicism is the last acceptable prejudice.
Wait, now I’ve read the article instead of glancing through it, I can see the point he is trying to make....
No one seems to be zeroing in on the killing off of the elderly and disabled in this AuschwitzCare bill. They fully intend to deny care to anyone Big Brother deems too old or too costly to cure. Instead of treating or keeping these people alive, Big Brother will ship them to hospice centers to die. Sounds like Nazi Germany to me. Obama, Pelosi, Reid et al. want to run every aspect of your life and death. They, more than likely, have an enemies list completed already. Wonder if you’re on it?
Thank you! We haven’t seen anything yet folks. It’s going to get worse before it gets better.
Rahm, like most Jews in America, rates leftism higher than G-d.
So let’s please not conflate proper Judaism, the practice of and belief in which the Rahms of the world avoid, with leftism.
Doerflinger ping
I do, however,think it's proper for people on the right wing, the leftr wing, and the middle-of-the-bird to question whether the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) ought to be lobbying in the fashion they do.
It is the role of the bishops and their staff to teach principles; it's the role of the laity to do politics. I've brought this up often on Free Republic, like here: http://209.157.64.200/focus/f-religion/2438745/posts?page=24#24.
The Catholic Church makes the necessary distinction between a straight moral judgment (e.g. "do not kill unborn babies" and "do care for the poor, the sick, and the needy") vs. a prudential application (should we care for the sick by founding and staffing Church-related hospitals? by giving charitably to medical missions? by supporting the state Medicaid program? by giving home-care to our own terminally ill parents? how?") Prudential questions are "how" questions on which there can be different legitimate opinions. In this prudential area--- and especially in the complex, nuanced, political area of health-care-reform--- the USCCB should not be usurping the proper role of the laity.
Yehuda:
Good post, Jinos and Cinos, both trying to destroy Western Civilization a civilization that comes from the convergance of both traditions God first revealing Himself to the Jewish People, which we as Catholic see as a prefigurement of Christ revealing God to everyone and then the Church and Christianity which linked the monotheism first revealed to the Jews which Christianity grew out of the Christian Tradition grew in and with and could not have developed without the best of both Roman and Greek Civilization giving us Western Civilization.
Don't tell me that mamzer Kal-El's mixed up in politics now ...
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