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Asthma statement from Obama
| Tue, 10-21-2008 - 9:52am |
I am beside myself with anger over the statement Obama made about treatable illnesses!
| Tue, 10-21-2008 - 9:52am |
I am beside myself with anger over the statement Obama made about treatable illnesses!
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"I watched the video.
We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures.
Sorry to jump in, but I can provide a reference. The reference is in Scripture -
Matthew 7:1 "Judge not, that you be not judged. For with the judgment you pronounce you will be judged, and with the measure you use it will be measured to you."
and a bit more subtle, but the same message -
Matthew 7:3 "Why do you see the speck that is in your brother's eye, but do not notice the log that is in your own eye?"
Matthew 7:3 "Why do you see the speck that is in your brother's eye, but do not notice the log that is in your own eye?"
and from the Old Testament (sorry, don't have the numerical passage, but if it's very important I'll spend time finding what book it is in, although I think we're all familiar with the quote) -
"'Judgement is mine,' saith the Lord."
And this Catholic bishop says it even better than I ever could -
NATIONAL CATHOLIC REPORTER
Memphis Bishop calls upon Catholics to avoid 'one issue' votes
By tfox
Created 10/21/2008 - 10:33
TENNESSEE BISHOP RECEIVES AWARD AT NCEA CONVENTION IN ATLANTA: Bishop J. Terry Steib of Memphis, Tenn., accepts the award given by the National Catholic Educational Association to someone who has supported Catholic education on a national level.(CNS photo/Michael Alexander, Georgia Bulletin) (April 19, 2006)Memphis Bishop J. Terry Steib this week called upon Catholics to avoid being one-issue voters. He asked them to follow their consciences and weigh all the moral issues they face before casting their ballots.
“We must recognize,” he wrote, “that God through the church, is calling us to be prophetic in our own day. If our conscience is well formed, then we will make the right choices about candidates who may not support the church's position in every case.”
Citing words from a statement, “Forming Consciences for Faithful Citizenship,” a voting guide issued last November by the bishops of the United States, Steib wrote that "there may be times when a Catholic who rejects a candidate's unacceptable position may decide to vote for that candidate for other morally grave reasons. Voting in this way would be permissible only for truly grave moral reasons, not to advance narrow interests or partisan preferences or to ignore a fundamental moral evil."
He called upon Catholics to be prudent when they form their consciences. “Prudence is not easy to define, but according to the Catechism of the Catholic Church, prudence helps us to ‘discern our true good in every circumstance and to choose the right means of achieving it.’"
He posed the question facing many Catholics, asking what is a voter to do when presented with candidates whose views do not reflect the full teachings of the church.
To help answer the question he quoted the spiritual writer Fr. Ronald Rolheiser who wrote the following in his book Secularity and the Gospel:
“In an age of increasing violence, fundamentalism, and the myth that God wishes to cleanse the planet of its sin and immorality by force, perhaps the first witness we must give to our world is a witness to God's nonviolence, a witness to the God revealed by Jesus Christ who opposes violence of all kinds, from war, to revenge, to capital punishment, to abortion, to euthanasia, to the attempt to use force to bring about justice and God's will in any way."
Steib wrote that he understood Rolheiser to be saying Catholics cannot be one-issue people.
In a similar light, in an interview this week, Gabino Zavala, an auxiliary bishop in the Los Angeles archdiocese, said his fellow bishops have long insisted that "we're not a one-issue church," a view reflected in their 2007 document "Forming Consciences for Faithful Citizenship."
"But that's not always what comes out," said Zavala in the Los Angeles Times. Zavala is bishop-president of the Catholic peace group Pax Christi USA. "What I believe, and what the church teaches, is that one abortion is too many. That's why I believe abortion is so important. But in light of this, there are many other issues we need to bring up, other issues we should consider, other issues that touch the reality of our lives."
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KAREN
"But I wonder what's going to happen when nothing big breaks, and November 4th comes, and y'all realize that more than 50% of America voted for the big, bad, scary democrat..."
KAREN
"He was tired, the teleprompter wasn't working properly, and someone was calling out.
KAREN
You may want to take a step back and look again.
i don't know if it has been posted yet (i didn't read the whole thread yet)
but here it is:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S47sO1TCVmE
-Kristen
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