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 NBCs 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..
(Excerpt) Read more at firstthings.com ...
How about this?
The Catholic Church is the “hated” group because it will not conform to modernistic heresies.
A lot of people hate the church,So I have to believe that you guys(Catholics)must be doing the right thing.
...OR...
The Catholic Church is the hated group because it hates evil.
But Islam is an open, loving, understanding, foregiving, inclusive organization. /sarc
Yes, we Catholics hate Satan and his minions.
The new "Normal."
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.
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.
The people who hate the Catholic Church are collectively a hate group.
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
;-)
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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.
ping.... link for you
blah, blah...did u sign the petition, I guess?
Where on earth would someone come up with THIS idea?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_Inquisition
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