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Vatican official attacks U.S. Democrats as “party of death”
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by bill hicks | October 3, 2008 at 06:37 am
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Vatican officials seldom single out political leaders who differ with the Church on issues like abortion rights or embryonic stem cell research. But now that the Vatican’s highest court is led by an American, the former St. Louis Archbishop Raymond Burke, we can expect things to get more explicit in Vatican City — at least when when it comes to U.S. politics.
Burke, who was named prefect of the Vatican’s Supreme Court of the Apostolic Signature in June, told the Italian Catholic newspaper Avvenire that the U.S. Democratic Party risked “transforming itself definitively into a party of death for its decisions on bioethical issues.” He then attacked two of the party’s most high profile Catholics — vice presidential candidate Joe Biden and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi — for misrepresenting Church teaching on abortion.
He said Biden and Pelosi, “while presenting themselves as good Catholics, have presented Church doctrine on abortion in a false and tendentious way.”
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at 06:42 on October 3rd, 2008
bill hicks, I like this story. It's good stuff.
at 07:09 on October 3rd, 2008
bill hicks, I like this story. It's good stuff.
at 07:10 on October 3rd, 2008
There is going to be a lot of last minute switching of votes to McCain.
at 09:11 on October 3rd, 2008
Biden has already lost the Catholic vote.
at 09:18 on October 3rd, 2008
But it does not show up in the polls. The pollsters selectively re-dial people who favored their desired result in the previous poll. They do this by asking so called un-related questions but those questions can determine what the future responses will be if certain things happen. They do it to discourage the opposing voters from going to the polls sort of like the 'Florida goes to Bush' announcement prior to the closing of the polls in the western part of the state and then all the networks said they did not know (we are so stupid).
at 09:21 on October 3rd, 2008
bill hicks, I like this story. It's good stuff.
at 11:45 on October 3rd, 2008
What is really nuts about abortion issues is the fact that now there is good birth control that was not available when the Supreme Court made the decision. Women were getting abortions. They called them D and C's I think (I was a little kid).