Day: November 16, 2013

Pope Francis: Poster Boy for Gay Marriage | The American Spectator

Paul Kengor, of Grove City (Pa.) College, delivers quite a case of pope portrayed as Nancy Pelosi Catholic and being taken as poster boy for gay marriage and the like (including the Mike Madigan debacle on the floor of the Illinois house!) and concludes with advice for Francis:

Thus, I say with all due respect, deference, and sincerity that this pope needs to be really careful about what he’s saying. If he doesn’t, this boil will continue to fester. Unless he clarifies things better, and more strongly affirms and articulates Church teachings, this situation will get worse, spreading major errors throughout the Church, the country, the culture, and the world.

A case of withstanding Peter to his face, if mildly compared to Paul’s action.

Not for attribution

Nicely said by bishops and opportunely reaffirmed:

At the conclusion of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops’ fall meeting, the bishops of the United States issued a special message strongly confirming their opposition to the HHS mandate.

“With its coercive HHS mandate, the government is refusing to uphold its obligation to respect the rights of religious believers,” the US bishops stated.

“Beginning in March 2012, in ‘United for Religious Freedom’ we identified three basic problems with the HHS mandate: it establishes a false architecture of religious liberty that excludes our ministries and so reduces freedom of religion to freedom of worship; it compels our ministries to participate in providing employees with abortifacient drugs and devices, sterilization, and contraception, which violates our deeply-held beliefs; and it compels our faithful people in business to act against our teachings, failing to provide them any exemption at all.” [boldface…

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Obama trying to run something

Obama, overwhelmed by requests for his deciding things, especially from Rahm E., told staff he wanted fewer of them.

Undoubtedly, every president is vexed by the same problem–everyone wanting a piece of him, a flood of information and demands for decisions, decisions, decisions. I suspect that if Obama had even the slightest bit of administrative experience in his career of legislating, teaching and community organizing, he might have better handled this problem.

I guess that’s why the American people have elected much fewer lawmakers president. They intuitively know that they need someone with management and administrative skills, such as a governor or a military leader.

This by Dennis Byrne is to become a theme or already is. Electing an executive without executive experience? Pig in poke?