AmericanPapist Comments
Get used to using your "OUTRAGEOUS" label. Now that he is back in the picture, you could install a little button video of Tom Daschle saying it. That way, any time we have an item that fits this bill, we can click on ole' Tom!
Who said the presidental races were the only important races. Everything from the local school board to the city council is important. This is where many get a start...
'cept for the prez elect. He went from straight to senator campaigning for prez.
wow people need to stop and think
women are not men!
so why are so many trying to be one!
"I need to vote in favor of love not hate"!
ok stop throwing out that excuse of a line!
Women's dignity is being threatened by people like Von Harton who think that women need to be men!
I am not a man! I don't want to be a man! Read JPII Theology of the Body-you ll understand why then only dudes are priest!
Pax~
The Church doesn't have any "positions that don't allow women to become priests", just as the Church doesn't have any positions that don't allow people to transform into geese. Both are impossible. It's just that no one has demanded that Church transform him into a goose.
Atleast, not so far, but you never know...
The intolerance doesn't surprise me. For some time now, I have been arguing about the ideological totalitarianism of the Left. Essentially, it is the belief that there is only space in the public square for one viewpoint and that is the viewpoint that agrees with the soft-headed liberals view of the world. Of course, this is hidden under fancy equivocation with words like "tolerance."
Let me see if I've got this right -- a public official
is deciding this case not on its merits but based
on her dislike of the petitioner? What on earth
happened to the idea of equality before the law
in that county? What truly astonishes me is that
this person is not concealing her prejudice, but
freely admits it. What other groups should expect
to be treated as second-class citizens at her
hands? This woman deserves to be removed from
office.
Imagine the outcry if a pro-life elected official
used their office to deny a zoning request from
Planned Parenthood based solely on his dislike
for the organization.
I see from the original article in The State that Ms.
Von Harten did have the decency to recuse herself
from the actual decision on the Church's case. However, she vows to fight the expansion of the church -- even though the decision was rendered
and the expansion is legal -- simply because she doesn't like the Catholic Church. I hope that if she
uses her political power improperly in this fight
of hers the people of Beaufort County hold her to
account.
When it comes to this screwball or others, always keep in mind the advice of Marx, Groucho- "I would never join any club that would have me."
I used to live in Beaufort for a while (95-96 and 05-06) and I was involved in the huge, blood-and-guts real estate business their. St. Gregory the Great lies on the side of the highway on the way to Hilton Head, and is preparing to build a gigantic church to accommodate the booming Catholic population. They've been getting ready for this for 10 years. It is one of the toughest aesthetics regimes on the east coast, and anti-Catholic Yankee bigots who can't stand the idea of seeing a Catholic church from the road (as well as secularist carpet bagging interlopers of all types) must be going crazy.
Deploying crazy rhetoric when dealing with the unholy development situation down there is common, though. For instance, when the county proposed developing the poor, rural northern part of the county and the representatives from Hilton Head objected, the pro-development people claimed that the Hiltonians were afraid they'd loose their cheap black and Hispanic work force who lived in the north, and proceeded to call them racists.
It's that kind of thing that made me leave.
Here's the "apology": I truly intended my remarks on human rights to pertain to the Catholic Church as a political entity, with a seat at the United Nations, but I acknowledge that I offended individuals in my own community. In no way did I intend to infringe on anyone's freedom of religion. In no way did I intend to disparage any individual member of the Church. I respect the rights of all people to worship in the church of their choosing. Given the history of persecution endured by members of the Catholic Church, I regret my insensitivity on this matter.
I interjected my concerns regarding the Catholic Church into a zoning discussion, and for that I am truly sorry. I meant only an extension of my overall opposition to development that restricts access on the basis of factors such as race, age or gender but it was an inappropriate forum. Please be assured that I have been reminded of the importance of separation of church and state in matters of land use, and have learned a great deal from this incident. As I have publically (sic) stated, I will abstain from voting on the project currently under consideration.
from: http://www.beaufortgazette.com/l...ory/
623407.html
Von Harten must not have heard the comments our Holy Father made to the pontifical council for the laity on the 19th:
"Man and woman, equal in dignity, are called to enrich each other in communion and collaboration, not only in marriage and family life, but also in society," he said.
"One can never say enough about how much the church recognizes, appreciates and values the participation of women in its mission of spreading the Gospel," the pope said.
source: http://www.catholicnews.com/data...cns/
0805828.htm
This shows how much she is "reaching" to cover her comment. The Church does not have a seat at the UN. The Vatican is a Non-Member State Permanent Observer.
I press my TOM button.
Not much surprises me anymore Thomas.
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