Posted on 10/09/2014 2:30:14 PM PDT by NYer
The Sisters of Mercy of Silver Spring, Maryland, have released a 2014 midterm election guide that urges voters to favor candidates who support amnesty, climate change, gun control, and Pentagon budget cuts.
The election guide states:
As sisters, associates, companions, co-workers, students, volunteers and friends of the Sisters of Mercy, we have an opportunity and a responsibility to vote for those candidates who share our concern for people who suffer from poverty, sickness and lack of education; candidates who share the Sisters of Mercy’s Critical Concerns of Earth, immigration, nonviolence, racism and women. While this is not a presidential election year, the voice of Mercy is needed to inject compassion into conversations on policy and on national priorities during Senate, congressional, state and local races that will shape our nation for years to come.
“We are called to vote for those who are equally scandalized by these ills and who have a vision for addressing them,” the Sisters write. “And we are called to help shape that vision.”
The nuns’ election guide is geared to “U.S. residents,” rather than “U.S. citizens,” and it features a series of questions that the nuns say “will help those U.S. residents listen to candidates with an ear attuned to the Sisters of Mercy’s over-arching mission.”
The Sisters’ questions address how candidates address the “need for poverty reduction programs,” or welfare programs, what they refer to as “the wealth gap,” and the federal minimum wage. They also emphasize the Obama administration’s talking point that 8 million people have enrolled in the healthcare exchanges created by the new law.
Regarding climate change, the Sisters of Mercy suggest voters should note whether candidates speak about the issue with “urgency.”
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These kooks should join the Nuns on the Bus, ping!
Pull their non-profit status. Problem solved.
Not a habit in the bunch. Feh.
They don’t look like nuns.
There are no nuns in that picture.
Sorry nunnies but you are asking people to vote for democrats who want to eliminate the church.
They are sisters (except the men, who must be “associates” or “volunteers.”
Fortunately, all the new ones are joining conservative orders.
How very sad. Thought you might wish to give input on this subject.
Their list of priorities speaks volumes. God is conspicuous in His absence.
Obama voters.
And pure communism....a prime example.
I’ll have nun of this!
Time to eliminate the church then. You want control...you got it.
“Pull their non-profit status. Problem solved.”
Nun-chucks were invented in the orient many years ago to take care of problems like this. FWAP! Done deal.
I was being sarcastic; however, they do not look like nuns. There is a lovely group of nuns from Spain that live across the street from us. The hags in the picture could learn something from them.
Idiots
if I recall my parochial lessons from the '60's, one of the vows taken during the 3? degrees of commitment was to take the habit (garb) as a clear sign of the faith.
These old women were young women in the 60s and 70s, when most of them joined their orders. It was a messed-up time with lots of messed-up messages.
We have Sisters of Mercy here. One of their facilities began as a home for handicapped/chronically ill children, and then, as the original residents grew up, became a home for adults. There are still good works being done by orders that have gone dotty. Sometimes their compassion is practical and effective, and sometimes it’s just flaked out, especially when you get to things like “climate.”
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