Thank God for the Red States that we were spared the spectacle of this woman saying this as First Lady. Ter-AY-za Heinz Kerry deigned to provide her opinion on how some bishops spoke up during the presidential campaign last year. Obviously she didn’t like some bishops saying that voting for a pro-abortion, dissenting Catholic would be objectively evil.
“You cannot have bishops in the pulpit—long before or the Sunday before the election—as they did in Catholic churches, saying it was a mortal sin to vote for John Kerry,” she said.
Evidently she didn’t see the irony when she later said:
“The church has a right and obligation to teach values,” Heinz Kerry declared. “They don’t have a right to restrict freedom of expression, which they did.”
Who freedom of expression is being limited here? She wants to limit the ability of bishops and priests to speak out on moral issues. But where is the converse true? How is a bishop giving his opinion limiting Kerry’s freedom of expression? How does it limit the voter’s freedom of expression? The Church doesn’t have stormtroopers standing outside of polling places taking down the names of Catholics who vote for Kerry (and how would they know anyway) and then carting them away later under the cover of darkness. The reality is that all the bishop is saying is that God knows who they are voting for and the moral law says we must not provide support for the intentional murder of innocents, that God knows what we are doing and that our actions, including our votes, have moral consequences.
It’s funny, but Democrats don’t seem to have a problem when bishops speak out against capital punishment or tax breaks or the war in Iraq. You don’t hear them claim that the bishops are “limiting freedom of expression.” I guess that’s good curtailment of freedom.
What’s also funny is that the response from the US bishops was so tepid. So few of them even took a stance on Kerry and other pro-abort Catholic pols. How would they react if the majority of bishops were actually courageous enough to do something so countercultural as a united front?
Finally, you often heard Democrats during the campaign proclaim how smart Ter-AY-za is or how smart Hillary is. If these low-wattage intellects are the best that liberals have to offer, we don’t have to worry about them for years to come.
“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof…”
When it serves them, I think many become confused that the wall of “separation” is one way. They want to forget that government can’t play god but the Church can play politics.
Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on 03/7/05 at 10:55 AM
Oh, goody, Teresa is back to give us the benefit of her wisdom. I was so afraid that she would keep a low profile—maybe vacation in one of her European homes for a year or two to get away from us stupid Americans.
Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on 03/7/05 at 12:02 PM
“You cannot have bishops in the pulpit—long before or the Sunday before the election—as they did in Catholic churches, saying it was a mortal sin to vote for John Kerry,” she said.
(The preceeding announcement was produced by Jawbone-of-an-Ass-Productions.)
Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on 03/7/05 at 01:38 PM
That phrase imortalized by the anti-Catholic Justice Hugo Black “separation of Church and State” in Everson is now the club to beat down any dissent from the political view that Kerry represents when it can be attached to a religious pov.
Don’t expect Teresa to give a boost to the bishops who said it was ok with them to vote for Kerry.
Is THK proposing to stop “the bishops in the pulpit” by any means necessary? Note she doesn’t even address the question of whether it is a mortal sin to vote for a pro-abort.
Actually Earl, since your asking, I would prefer an excerpt and link rather than a complete crosspost. I’ve had problems with people copying my work in the past and I hate to set a bad precedent. You know I value your work and your friendship, but it’s the principle of the thing. I hope you understand.
I’m afraid it didn’t occur to me since it was attributed and linked, but the last thing I would wish to do would be to set a bad precedent when my sole intent was to honor and publicize your work—not appropriate it.
I’ll revise it ASAP. And thanks for the kind words.
Earl
Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery—unless it is plagiarism.
Thanks Earl. Don’t worry about it. It’s just that I once had someone copying entire articles of mine to their web site without permission and if I let one person do it, then ...
I appreciate the thought and intention and am honored that you would want to bring attention to my words.
Teresa,
Did you ever think it might have been his own fault that he lost?
Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on 03/8/05 at 09:13 AM
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Ter-AY-za on the Catholic bishops
Thank God for the Red States that we were spared the spectacle of this woman saying this as First Lady. Ter-AY-za Heinz Kerry deigned to provide her opinion on how some bishops spoke up during the presidential campaign last year. Obviously she didn’t like some bishops saying that voting for a pro-abortion, dissenting Catholic would be objectively evil.
Evidently she didn’t see the irony when she later said:
Who freedom of expression is being limited here? She wants to limit the ability of bishops and priests to speak out on moral issues. But where is the converse true? How is a bishop giving his opinion limiting Kerry’s freedom of expression? How does it limit the voter’s freedom of expression? The Church doesn’t have stormtroopers standing outside of polling places taking down the names of Catholics who vote for Kerry (and how would they know anyway) and then carting them away later under the cover of darkness. The reality is that all the bishop is saying is that God knows who they are voting for and the moral law says we must not provide support for the intentional murder of innocents, that God knows what we are doing and that our actions, including our votes, have moral consequences.
It’s funny, but Democrats don’t seem to have a problem when bishops speak out against capital punishment or tax breaks or the war in Iraq. You don’t hear them claim that the bishops are “limiting freedom of expression.” I guess that’s good curtailment of freedom.
What’s also funny is that the response from the US bishops was so tepid. So few of them even took a stance on Kerry and other pro-abort Catholic pols. How would they react if the majority of bishops were actually courageous enough to do something so countercultural as a united front?
Finally, you often heard Democrats during the campaign proclaim how smart Ter-AY-za is or how smart Hillary is. If these low-wattage intellects are the best that liberals have to offer, we don’t have to worry about them for years to come.
COMMENTS
“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof…”
When it serves them, I think many become confused that the wall of “separation” is one way. They want to forget that government can’t play god but the Church can play politics.
Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on 03/7/05 at 10:55 AM
Oh, goody, Teresa is back to give us the benefit of her wisdom. I was so afraid that she would keep a low profile—maybe vacation in one of her European homes for a year or two to get away from us stupid Americans.
Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on 03/7/05 at 12:02 PM
“You cannot have bishops in the pulpit—long before or the Sunday before the election—as they did in Catholic churches, saying it was a mortal sin to vote for John Kerry,” she said.
(The preceeding announcement was produced by Jawbone-of-an-Ass-Productions.)
Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on 03/7/05 at 01:38 PM
That phrase imortalized by the anti-Catholic Justice Hugo Black “separation of Church and State” in Everson is now the club to beat down any dissent from the political view that Kerry represents when it can be attached to a religious pov.
Don’t expect Teresa to give a boost to the bishops who said it was ok with them to vote for Kerry.
Is THK proposing to stop “the bishops in the pulpit” by any means necessary? Note she doesn’t even address the question of whether it is a mortal sin to vote for a pro-abort.
Posted by Patrick Sweeney on 03/7/05 at 02:57 PM
Dom, I trust you don’t mind my posting this on Catholic Kerry Watch, crossposted to Catholics in the Public Square?
It was just too good not to share with our readers!
Earl
Posted by Earl Appleby, Jr. on 03/7/05 at 09:56 PM
Actually Earl, since your asking, I would prefer an excerpt and link rather than a complete crosspost. I’ve had problems with people copying my work in the past and I hate to set a bad precedent. You know I value your work and your friendship, but it’s the principle of the thing. I hope you understand.
Posted by Domenico Bettinelli on 03/7/05 at 10:01 PM
Of course, please accept my apologies, Dom.
I’m afraid it didn’t occur to me since it was attributed and linked, but the last thing I would wish to do would be to set a bad precedent when my sole intent was to honor and publicize your work—not appropriate it.
I’ll revise it ASAP. And thanks for the kind words.
Earl
Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery—unless it is plagiarism.
Posted by Earl Appleby, Jr. on 03/8/05 at 02:01 AM
Thanks Earl. Don’t worry about it. It’s just that I once had someone copying entire articles of mine to their web site without permission and if I let one person do it, then ...
I appreciate the thought and intention and am honored that you would want to bring attention to my words.
Posted by Domenico Bettinelli on 03/8/05 at 05:33 AM
Teresa,
Did you ever think it might have been his own fault that he lost?
Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on 03/8/05 at 09:13 AM
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