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McCamy Taylor

(19,240 posts)
Sun Feb 12, 2012, 12:50 AM Feb 2012

Why Do the Catholic Bishops Hate Rick Santorum?

Someone has to ask this question, so I will. But first, a pop quiz:

What is the number one defining characteristic of Americans?

No, it isn’t their appetite for greasy, fast food. No, it is not their love of NASCAR. If you said “Being proud of being dumb,” you are close. The answer is: Americans do not want anyone telling them what to do. Especially not members of the clergy of some religion to which they do not belong.

So, what do the nations Catholic Bishops decide to do just as their man (the Catholic) pulls ahead of the Lutheran turned Southern Baptist turned Catholic (Newt), the Mormon (Mittens) and the Libertarian? They start acting like the Vatican is now in control of the White House. You know, what we were warned would happen when JFK was elected, but it didn’t, because he was a Democrat first and a Catholic second.

They won’t make that mistake again. Rick Santorum is a Catholic First and a Republican second. To quote the Catholic press, Rick is a "complete Catholic candidate."

http://www.catholicvote.org/discuss/index.php?p=17854

With their man riding high in the Republican polls, the Catholic Bishops have made up their mind that they do not intend to wait for January, 2013. They plan to push through their religious agenda now, whether American voters like it or not. And they are going to rub our faces in it, too, just to prove that they can. And by the time they are done, every Protestant, Atheist, Agnostic, Hindu, Buddhist, Shamanist and Other American is going to know exactly what a Rick Santorum Presidency will be like----

It’s going to mean a knocked up daughter, a son on the line for child support for the rest of his adult life, a mom dead from a pregnancy her body could not handle and a lifetime of rubbers, because no insurance plan in the country will pay for a vasectomy.

Way to go, Catholic Bishops! Keep up the good work! Who needs freedom of religion when we can have a German bachelor living in Rome making all our important family decisions for us!

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Why Do the Catholic Bishops Hate Rick Santorum? (Original Post) McCamy Taylor Feb 2012 OP
"I promise you a chicken in every pot and a bun in every oven..." bhikkhu Feb 2012 #1
Actually it is a foreign government Angry Dragon Feb 2012 #2
Santorum's full employment plan: kestrel91316 Feb 2012 #3
Hard-core. Good points. anAustralianobserver Feb 2012 #4
maybe Santorum is not 2pooped2pop Feb 2012 #5
Excellent post malaise Feb 2012 #6
It's funny how reality is playing out differently than the media spin. GoCubsGo Feb 2012 #7

Angry Dragon

(36,693 posts)
2. Actually it is a foreign government
Sun Feb 12, 2012, 12:59 AM
Feb 2012

which makes it worse

according to the way I read it rubbers would be outlawed too because it leads to peolple being able to do nasty things

and just think about all the jobs ricky is going to eliminate, unless he is going to train them to be bedroom inspectors

 

kestrel91316

(51,666 posts)
3. Santorum's full employment plan:
Sun Feb 12, 2012, 02:14 AM
Feb 2012

Millions of panty sniffers, menstrual cycle verifiers, pregnancy testers, hymen validators, and miscarried fetus tissue analyzers.

But he'll repeal minimum wage so they will all be working for $2/hr like in the good old days. Women will be barred from the workplace, but children will be encouraged to work (at 25c/hr of course).

GoCubsGo

(32,088 posts)
7. It's funny how reality is playing out differently than the media spin.
Sun Feb 12, 2012, 10:29 AM
Feb 2012

This is still being spun as "Obama is trampling on religious liberty" by the media. On the other hand, the Bishop of Charleston had a letter published in every local fish wrap in this state. Unless one goes to the web site and reads the comments section, the response has been chirping crickets. And, in the comments sections online, it's been a few sane people trying to argue with the most severely afflicted Obama Derangement Syndrome victims we have in this craphole town. It's been fascinating to watch. What do these sociopaths hate more: Being told what to do by their government (a.k.a., "that N***er&quot , or being told what to do by the leaders of a religious sect that most of them hate? I think a few of them are going to blow a gasket over this, but given the general silence, most don't want the German bachelor in Rome telling them what to do, apparently. I haven't seen any poll numbers on this matter to see if my suspicions about that are correct. Hmmmm....I wonder why.

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