Month: November 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.
Cornel West, Robert George to speak at Swarthmore (PA) College
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?
Bishops are looking into Common Core and Natl Catholic Educ. Assn.
Meet Bruce Rauner tonight in River Forest
Don’t miss this opportunity to meet one of the Republican candidates for governor, Bruce Rauner!
Come to the Good Earth Greenhouse tonight, 7900 Madison, River Forest, 6:30-8:30.
Hear his platform and ask your questions. There is NO charge for this event. Appetizers and cocktails.
Bring your family and friends.
I look forward to seeing you.
Linda Tibensky
Republican Committeeman
A New USCCB President, but Bishops Won’t Budge on HHS Mandate
Go, bishops. They are on solid ground here, resisting gummint in a crucial issue.
More from Rauner
Since announcing for governor, I’ve done over 300 events, put more than 30,000 Illinois miles on the Ford and built a grassroots team of more than 1,000 volunteers and over 70 volunteer coordinators.
The response to our plans to get spending under control, reverse the Quinn-Madigan tax hikes, transform our schools and enact term limits has been tremendous.
Now, we’re going up with television advertisements to spread our message far and wide.
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Onward to victory,
BR
Rauner plays moneyball, erases giving limits for all in governor race
Kirk Dillard does not like it:
“Bruce Rauner has shown he will stop at nothing to buy his way into office, but Republican voters will see through it. Rauner voted as a Democrat and has given hundreds of thousands of dollars to Democrat candidates like Dick Durbin, Mayor Daley and Mayor Emanuel,” said Dillard campaign manager Glenn Hodas.
“GOP voters can’t be bought. They want a governor who is tested and prepared, with the experience that money can’t buy.”
Waiting till now to pump up his campaign, however, Rauner provided time for big-bucks individual donors and others to give and sign on:
By waiting until now to take the caps off, Rauner was able to cripple efforts of his competitors to tap big-money donors who then ended up gravitating to Rauner. That includes Ron Gidwitz, who joined on Rauner’s campaign team, abandoning his previous support for Dillard.
The law…
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