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The Catholic Church, a Hate Group?
First Things ^ | 1/4/13 | Austin Ruse

Posted on 01/05/2013 4:39:06 PM PST by marshmallow

The White House has started a cockamamie procedure where regular citizens can launch petitions and if they get 25,000 signatures the White House will respond.

Some are serious, like the one to exempt Hobby Lobby from the HHS contraceptive mandate. Some are silly, like the one asking for Joe Biden to be in a reality show. There is a petition for the arrest of NBC’s David Gregory for showing a magazine clip on his Sunday morning show, something that is illegal in Washington DC.

A new petition has gone up, on Christmas Day no less, asking for the Catholic Church to be labeled a hate group.

In his annual Christmas address to the College of Cardinals, Pope Benedict XVI, the global leader of the Roman Catholic Church, demeaned and belittled homosexual people around the world..

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1 posted on 01/05/2013 4:39:13 PM PST by marshmallow
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To: marshmallow

How about this?

The Catholic Church is the “hated” group because it will not conform to modernistic heresies.


2 posted on 01/05/2013 4:45:01 PM PST by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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To: marshmallow

A lot of people hate the church,So I have to believe that you guys(Catholics)must be doing the right thing.


3 posted on 01/05/2013 4:45:51 PM PST by Farmer Dean (stop worrying about what they want to do to you,start thinking about what you want to do to them)
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To: Salvation

...OR...

The Catholic Church is the “hated” group because it hates evil.


4 posted on 01/05/2013 4:47:11 PM PST by SumProVita (Cogito, ergo....Sum Pro Vita - Modified Descartes)
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To: marshmallow

But Islam is an open, loving, understanding, foregiving, inclusive organization. /sarc


5 posted on 01/05/2013 4:51:14 PM PST by SERKIT ("Blazing Saddles" explains it all.......)
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To: SumProVita

Yes, we Catholics hate Satan and his minions.


6 posted on 01/05/2013 4:56:18 PM PST by paterfamilias
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To: marshmallow
Your church is next, if it dares to deem habitual Bank Robbery as a perversion and a crime. Or habitual Rapists; or Serial Bigamists.

The new "Normal."

7 posted on 01/05/2013 4:59:37 PM PST by publius911 (Look for the Union Label -- then buy something else)
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To: Salvation
How about this? The Catholic Church is the “hated” group because it will not conform to modernistic heresies.

The only thing new here is now they are now singling out the Roman Catholics too . Fundamental Bible believing Christians have been named as dangerous by homeland security for several years now because of their stance on gay marriage , abortion , and Bible prophecy .


Yet so many Roman Catholics voted for these people and lots of priest were in support of free health care so they did not do much to stand against it before it was passed thinking that they would just get themselves an exemption.

8 posted on 01/05/2013 5:09:02 PM PST by Lera (Proverbs 29:2)
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To: marshmallow

There’s one to label the Tea Party as a terrorist group, economic terrorists. That petition thing is turning into a joke, although there are some good ones like one on drawing attention to the concentration camps in North Korea or the Hobby Lobby one.


9 posted on 01/05/2013 5:41:13 PM PST by Pinkbell
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To: marshmallow; potlatch; PhilDragoo

Rochester, NY news outlets are reporting that a petition to the White House to award the Medal of Freedom to four firefighters has surpassed the 25,000 signatures required for a White House staffer to review the matter. The men, two of whom died, responded to a house fire in the early hours of Dec. 24, 2012, only to be shot by the homeowner, an ex-con illegally possessing firearms.

One of the articles posted a link to the petition at whitehouse.gov.
The first name, last initial, city and state, and date of signing are listed.

Seems like Axelrod’s data base is getting fatter.


10 posted on 01/05/2013 5:42:13 PM PST by ntnychik
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To: marshmallow

The people who hate the Catholic Church are collectively a hate group.


11 posted on 01/05/2013 6:05:40 PM PST by Isabel C.
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To: Isabel C.

Yes, but we need to remember this gem of wisdom, even though the numbers may be a bit higher these days:

“There are no more than 100 people in the world who truly hate the Catholic Church, but there are millions who hate what they perceive to be the Catholic Church.” – Venerable Fulton J. Sheen

;-)


12 posted on 01/05/2013 6:12:17 PM PST by SumProVita (Cogito, ergo....Sum Pro Vita - Modified Descartes)
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To: marshmallow; Reaganite Republican; Clintons Are White Trash; HerrBlucher; mgist; raptor22; ...
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13 posted on 01/05/2013 6:39:35 PM PST by narses
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14 posted on 01/05/2013 6:40:09 PM PST by narses
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15 posted on 01/05/2013 6:41:12 PM PST by narses
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To: ntnychik

Things just keep getting worse day by day. I go to Drudge and am sickened by the headlines every day now. Can’t imagine what 4 more years of Obama will bring.

And - I already avoid Religion threads because of the fighting I see there. Why do Christians fight Christians? You and I have been friends for almost 11 years, and not once have we spoken one word against each other’s different Christian Denomination.


16 posted on 01/05/2013 8:36:54 PM PST by potlatch (~One Heart Less In My Life~)
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To: Lera
Your back must hurt from lugging this around.


17 posted on 01/05/2013 10:10:32 PM PST by A.A. Cunningham (Barry Soetoro can't pass E-verify)
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To: metmom; boatbums; Elsie

ping.... link for you


18 posted on 01/06/2013 12:17:40 AM PST by Cronos (**Marriage is about commitment, cohabitation is about convenience.**)
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To: Lera

blah, blah...did u sign the petition, I guess?


19 posted on 01/06/2013 12:19:31 AM PST by Cronos (**Marriage is about commitment, cohabitation is about convenience.**)
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To: marshmallow
The Catholic Church, a Hate Group?

Where on earth would someone come up with THIS idea?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_Inquisition

20 posted on 01/06/2013 1:19:26 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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