LATEST sounds of outrage over a political decision comes from Catholics in the US who are rallying to condemn Barack Obama’s running mate Joe Biden.
Vice Presidential candidate Joe Biden
Biden is himself a Catholic – but the WRONG sort of Catholic, as he won’t toe the Vatican line on abortion.
The Roman Catholic group, Fidelis, said the choice was ” a slap in the face to Catholic voters” and poses a major challenge for American Catholics.
Fidelis president, Brian Burch, said that Obama had “re-opened a wound among American Catholics” by picking a pro-abortion Catholic politician like Joe Biden.
According to this report, the row raises a major problem for Catholic groups, as just last week the Vatican reaffirmed its policy that Catholics who support abortion would not be allowed to take Communion.
During the recent Democratic primary campaign Biden said:
I am a long-standing supporter of Roe v Wade and a woman’s right to choose.
Wailed the interfering Burch:
Senator Biden is an unrepentant supporter of abortion in direct opposition to the church he claims as his own. Selecting a pro-abortion Catholic is a slap in the face to Catholic voters.
According to Burch:
The American bishops have instructed Catholic voters to consider many issues, but have characterized the defense of human life as foundational and have explained that the issue has a special claim on the conscience of the Catholic voter. This means that a political candidate like Biden, because of his strong support for abortion rights, forfeits any claim for support despite his views on other issues like health care and the economy.
Oh, go stick you head in a bucket of boiled communion wafers, you posturing nitwit!
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August 25th, 2008 at 1:21 pm
Here’s a thought - if these spook-fanciers had a youth group they could call it ‘Kiddy Fidelis’
August 25th, 2008 at 2:19 pm
Stuart H. - good one! It amazes me that the Catholic Church is so obsessed with the unborn child, yet its leaders allowed children to be raped and did nothing to stop it. And what’s the betting it’s only in Western countries that the chlld abuse has been curbed? I would put money on it still going on across Latin America, Africa and a sizeable chunk of Asia. No doubt we’ll get the stories - and the lawsuits - in due course.
August 26th, 2008 at 8:48 pm
The Republican will win, regardless. But reading some of the above-posted drivel it’s hard to believe this country “leads the world” isn’t it?
August 27th, 2008 at 2:00 am
Of course that’s what the bishop says! Because raising
helpless (you don’t need health care, trust us to heal you!)
poor (forget the economy, you don’t need money)
unwanted children
is just what these manipulators want. This is their normal cattle call in the US. It’s designed to create more brainwashed, unwashed slaves and to demonstrate political influence over their herd.
(I believe they refer to it as a “flock” amongst themselves, but herd strikes me as more accurate.)