John Kerry just will not do what the pope says. Hey John, how about not being catholic, and tell the pope to shove it?
"On Oct. 5, a committee of European Parliament members voted to oppose Italy's nomination of Rocco Buttiglione, a Christian Democrat, to be the European Union's justice commissioner. During a hearing before the Parliament's Civil Liberties Committee, he had labeled homosexuality a sin and asserted that the family exists so a woman can raise children under a man's protection. Buttiglione is a friend of Pope John Paul II and various high-ranking Vatican officials.
'It looks like a new Inquisition. It is a lay Inquisition, but it is so nasty,' Cardinal Renato Martino, who heads the Vatican's Council for Justice and Peace, told reporters this week in response to the dispute. 'You can freely insult and attack Catholics and nobody will say anything. If you do so for other confessions, let's see what would happen.' [ed: how funny is that?]
The controversy was new proof of the heat of a long debate in Europe over issues of women's equality in the workplace, gay marriage, abortion, scientific research using human embryos and separation of church and state.
Such debates are also intense in the United States, where the Vatican has waged a campaign against abortion, advising U.S. bishops on the inadmissibility of giving Communion to Catholic politicians who persist in supporting abortion rights. It did not specify names, but some bishops in the United States have said they would not administer the sacrament to Sen. John F. Kerry, the Democratic presidential candidate"
See, I think the democrats ought to tell the vatican to get out of politics or be taxed, right now.
Thursday, October 21, 2004
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"Sharon matched the pope: he said that Israel needs George Bush and that anyone that voted for Kerry would not be welcome in Israel or at any temple."
Most Jews would tell Sharon to shove it and stay the hell out of our politics. If Sharon somehow came out, with the same kind of threat for Kerry? Whoa! There'd be some buildings burned, with Jews putting Israel ahead of the United States and the whole thing about Israel being behind 9/11 would be all over the right wing blogs.
Catholics being persecuted? That's like corporations complaining about high taxes.
Ummm, speaking of corporations: have you noticed that the airlines, every one of them, is dead silent on the price of jetfuel, or how it is affecting their bottom line as the longest line at the airport is the bankruptcy window? Bought and paid for by Bush.
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