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cal04 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-11-11 12:20 PM
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Catholic Scholars To Boehner: Your Agenda Defies ‘Church’s Most Ancient Moral
Catholic Scholars To Boehner: Your Agenda Defies ‘Church’s Most Ancient Moral Teachings’ On Helping Poor
http://thinkprogress.org/2011/05/11/catholic-scholars-letter-boehner/

House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) will give the commencement address at The Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C. this weekend. Ahead of the visit, dozens of faculty members from the school and other other Catholic universities are writing to Boehner — who is himself an observant Catholic — challenging his willingness to “gut” social programs while protecting “new tax cuts for corporations and the wealthy.” “Mr. Speaker, your voting record is at variance from one of the Church’s most ancient moral teachings” of caring for the poor, they write:

Your record in support of legislation to address the desperate needs of the poor is among the worst in Congress. This fundamental concern should have great urgency for Catholic policy makers. Yet, even now, you work in opposition to it.

The 2012 budget you shepherded to passage in the House of Representatives guts long-established protections for the most vulnerable members of society. It is particularly cruel to pregnant women and children, gutting Maternal and Child Health grants and slashing $500 million from the highly successful Women Infants and Children nutrition program. When they graduate from WIC at age 5, these children will face a 20% cut in food stamps. The House budget radically cuts Medicaid and effectively ends Medicare. It invokes the deficit to justify visiting such hardship upon the vulnerable, while it carves out $3 trillion in new tax cuts for corporations and the wealthy.

(snip)
Update In response, Boehner's spokesperson told the New York Times that Boehner's speech is "personal" and "non-political." He did not address the scholars' argument.
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highplainsdem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-11-11 12:21 PM
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1. Great letter from them! K&R
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FSogol Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-11-11 12:23 PM
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2. K & R. n/t
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IcyPeas Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-11-11 12:24 PM
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3. k+r
ex-catholic here, but I am glad of their stance on this.

and he is a "devout catholic" - puleeze
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Kber Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-11-11 12:34 PM
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6. "devout catholic"
translation - anti-abortion rights

The rest of the teachings are optional, I guess.
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xchrom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-11-11 12:39 PM
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7. +1
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LetTimmySmoke Donating Member (970 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-11-11 01:33 PM
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16. He's got the drinking part down.
Not sure about what else though.
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atreides1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-11-11 12:25 PM
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4. How
How can this evil f**k be considered an observant Catholic, when he has no compassion for the poor, not even for those in his own district?
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CatholicEdHead Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-11-11 12:50 PM
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9. Observant Catholic is anti-abortion and gay marriage
even at the Bishop/Archbishop level more and more. Concern for the poor is a distant third at best in issue importance. :puke:
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The Backlash Cometh Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-11-11 12:55 PM
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11. They should excommunicate him!
He acts like a Protestant.
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The Midway Rebel Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-11-11 12:27 PM
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5. What up with that...
John?
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Octafish Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-11-11 12:46 PM
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8. Don't forget the war.
Wars. Sorry.
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The Backlash Cometh Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-11-11 12:54 PM
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10. It's about frickin time!
This is the Catholic church I remembered.
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Drale Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-11-11 01:14 PM
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12. AHAHAHA
Even Religion is now turning on Boner, who has he not alienated yet?
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Scottybeamer70 Donating Member (844 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-11-11 01:26 PM
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13. When they give up some
of their gold furnishings and ridiculously huge cathedrals where the poor can go to give their money,
I might believe them. Until then..................NO
If they ever had any moral authority, they lost it a long time ago.
Calling someone out on "moral authority"??? puleeeeeeazzze!
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nichomachus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-12-11 10:11 AM
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26. +1
Edited on Thu May-12-11 10:12 AM by nichomachus
Let's not forget the systematic child rape
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WatsonT Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-11-11 01:27 PM
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14. "Don't get caught banging kids"
Oh they meant the other one .. .
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LetTimmySmoke Donating Member (970 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-11-11 01:31 PM
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15. This is good to hear.
Focusing on social justice and away from women's nasty, dirty, little body parts may actually bring the Catholic Church back into some relevance.
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Blue Owl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-11-11 04:51 PM
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17. In other words -- Boner is IMMORAL
n/t
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Mimosa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-11-11 04:53 PM
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18. Wooo hooo Yippee!!!!!
Always enough money for war, never enough to help those in need.
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Bandit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-11-11 05:36 PM
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19. Wonder why they backed the Republicans in the last two elections...
They were going to kick Kerry out of the church in fact because he was for a woman's right to chose..
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ohheckyeah Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-11-11 05:40 PM
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20. I really don't give a rat's ass
about the Catholic 'ancient moral teaching' on this or anything else. Taking care of the poor and vulnerable is a human decency standard, not a Catholic standard.
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AngryOldDem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-11-11 05:53 PM
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21. It is, but social justice is a cornerstone of modern Catholic teaching.
And the Church is getting away from that, thanks to all the far right nutjobs who have taken it over. I'm glad to see this rebuke of Boehner because it shows that at least in some Catholic circles, the tenets of social justice aren't dead.
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white_wolf Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-11-11 06:45 PM
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22. Sometimes the Catholic Church impresses me.
I haven't been into a church in over 2 years, but when I read stuff like this it makes me thing if I had to go back to the Catholic Church, i could pick worse ones.
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nichomachus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-12-11 10:12 AM
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27. This isn't the Catholic Church
This is a group of professors. If the church felt this way, Boner would be barred from the campus.
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Lifelong Protester Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-11-11 08:43 PM
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23. Read his name out at mass, I tell ya.
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orpupilofnature57 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-11-11 08:47 PM
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24. Boner one worldly man ,who can sob without producing a tear.
Edited on Wed May-11-11 08:49 PM by orpupilofnature57
Sun booth addled lackey, an agent for the 7% and nothing more.
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Canuckistanian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-11-11 08:59 PM
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25. It's about bloody time the Catholic Church spoke out
This isn't a new problem. Catholics like Santorum, Vitter and Brownback have been pushing this "social Darwinism" since they came to office.

Good to see the Church finally speaking out when it matters, though.
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fascisthunter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-12-11 10:17 AM
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28. he chose not to respond because he has no defense, and he's a COWARD
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