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--Denis Diderot
Next time, don't hold back.
Why on earth would we ever listen to a bunch of pedophiles?
Like the Mormons, these jerks are hypocrites.
The people of this country need to deliver a firm message to the church. Back off or crumble.
The members of the Catholic Religion have their trust in God. Go Obama!
"In 1990, California voters passed Proposition 115 (the Crime Victims Justice Reform Act) - a conservative 'law-and-order' measure that said certain criminal defendants would not have more rights than provided by the U.S. Constitution. Prop 115 had passed as an amendment, but the state Supreme Court called it a 'revision.' Why? Because ... Prop 115 had 'such a far-reaching change in our governmental framework as to amount to a qualitative constitutional revision, an undertaking beyond the reach of the initiative process.' Prop 115 adversely affected a defendant's right to due process, equal protection, assistance of counsel, and the standards for 'cruel and unusual punishment' - which effectively made it a 'revision.'"
http://cosmos.bcst.yahoo.com/up/player/popup/?r...
I don't see this as part of a wayward priest, the Catholic Bishops have been saber rattling for a couple days about this since the Presidential election.
Enjoy.
as long as the Easter Bunny still leaves pretty
little eggs for the children then I could care less
about communion or any other fairy tales.
I have nothing against fairies, BTW.
prosecute the bejezus out of the Church
for pedopriests and make them bleed money
like Stigmata!
fuck, the POPE was a HITLER YOUTH
for Chrizzist's sake.
the Church will be nothing but a bad memory
in one or two more generation's time.
good riddance, I say!
So sad watching these geriatric religious fundamentalists rail against what they do not understand and tie that back to being “Christian”. It’s very simple, they are racists.
I am so glad that the U.S. is finally entering the 21st century. Watching these husks of human beings fade into irrelevance will be so enjoyable.
NO WAFER FOR YOU!!
The Sacrament Nazi.
And Tony Perkins is complaining about the way gay people are protesting and picketing OUTSIDE of churches and hurting and scaring the congregants. Tony needs to be more concerned about the abuse their getting INSIDE their churches from their own pastors, priests and fellow members.
Any questions about anyone who left the catholic church should be answered with this article.
ps - those who live in glass house, well, you know the rest.
If it weren't for the UCC I would have abandoned Christianity and all spirituality years ago. In fact I did just that and was only drawn back when I found the UCC. As a Buddhist Christian I'm convinced that the UCC is the Buddhist branch of the Christian faith.
You will not find a more progressive, mainline Christian denomination ANYWHERE: first to ordain an African-American; first to ordain a woman and first to ordain an openly gay man and passed a resolution supporting FULL marriage equality, both civil and religious, for GLBT people at the General Synod of 2005.
Oh, and by the way, Obama is UCC. I don't believe for one minute that he REALLY believes that marriage should be only between a man and a woman. Don't forget that Gore said that too and Dean said that too but now both admit that they support marriage equality.
Check it out. You will be AMAZED! I know I was.
ucc.org
GodIsStillSpeaking.com
or the website of my local church in Tampa:
ucctampabay.org (click on any picture on the intro page to enter the site) Be sure to read the church's resolution against Amendment 2. It was passed by our 90% straight congregation UNANIMOUSLY and later passed by the entire state conference. Forgive me if I'm particularly proud of it; I wrote it.
There's a lot of good information in there about what this congregation and this denomination are about. If you are at all inclined to the Christian faith, or feel that the faith left you behind when it became the faith of exclusion and hate, you might be surprised to find that there is a very different kind of Christian church out there.
And with that I'm done with the sales pitch!
These hypocritical asswipes need to have their tax exempt status challenged and revoked.
Every Catholic knows that his/her own conscience is paramount, so he/she doesn't need to listen to this priest if the vote was made in good conscience. The priest doesn't know who voted how, so unless you come to communion wearing an Obama T-shirt, no one is going to deny you communion.
It's offensive to me as a Catholic that this priest made that statement. It's offensive to me that my own priest implied as much before the election (he stayed within the correct IRS boundaries, though). But he didn't stay within the guidelines provided by the Catholic bishops of America which laid out the steps by which one forms his/her own conscience.
But Catholic laypeople don't follow like blind sheep - that's why we helped to elect Obama. I couldn't have voted for McCain in good conscience because I felt that the outcome of his presidency would have been more war, less care for the poor, and more abortions!
And I know lots of priests who would have taken the opposite viewpoint to this guy in S.Carolina - it's a very big church, with lots of people - good people, not so good people, misguided people, journeying people - people like Joe Biden, God bless him!
http://www.stmarysgvl.org/contact/?contactID=2#...
http://www.stmarysgvl.org/
http://www.bishop-accountability.org/news2006/1...
Jay, you're just another case of clergy blinded by political righteousness. The fact that your parish once harbored a sexual predator has not humbled you.
The Bible and Jesus have not helped to educate you in the fine art of humility either. A shepherd leads by example, and you chose to model intolerance, as if you were God himself. As a Catholic, I am ashamed for you.
mlawrence@dioceseofsc.org
"Moderate" and "Cultural" Catholics, as they call themselves, are either kidding themselves or u$ing the Catholic church for bu$ine$$ advantage.
"Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich." -- Napoleon Bonaparte
Please read my post, "A priestly hell," at Contextual Criticism - http://mythandhope.blogspot.com/
Jacob