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This site is a member of WebRing. To browse visit here. Wednesday, June 16, 2004 No more communion for you, John Kerry! Doug, at George W. Bush, Will You Please Go Now keeps stealing my thunder. As a cradle Catholic (though long since fallen away), I really wanted to comment on our fearless leader's whiny demand for the Pope to get American Catholics in line. A lot of people beat me to it—the story has been all over the net for a couple of days now—but as usual, Doug minced no words:[Deal] Hudson [conservative Catholic ally of Karl Rove] said he believes the denial of Communion should begin, and end, with Kerry. Even better, he said, would be if priests would read letters from the pulpit denouncing the senator from Massachusetts "whenever and wherever he campaigns as a Catholic." So Hudson has come right out and said that while denial of Communion is a perilously slippery slope — one that could even conceivably trip up Bush allies who supported the war or the death penalty — priests should deny Communion anyway. But just to John Kerry. Because he, after all, has committed the cardinal sin of opposing George W. Bush. As someone who's been on both the giving and the receiving end of Communion during his life as a Catholic, allow me to say to Deal W. Hudson: You're a whore. Catholicism isn't a faith to you anymore, it's a campaign strategy. An attack ad. A push poll. It sounds like when you go into church these days, you no longer think, "How I can I live my life to best emulate the example set by Jesus Christ," but rather, "How can I take this stuff and use it against John Kerry?" There are people who have devoted their lives to this religion — and I can think of one rather important guy who gave his life for it — but you're reducing it to the status of the ball in a big political game of keep-away. Even those of us who haven't read the entire Bible cover to cover have some idea of what happened the last time people like you set foot in the temple — we seem to recall that Jesus pretty well whupped your ass.Amen. I was in high school when John F. Kennedy ran for President. I recall saying indignantly to classmates that he was an American first and a Catholic second. It is bitterly ironic to hear that a contemporary of those students (who I'm sure had some of the same thoughts as they about JFK's priorities) is now lobbying the Vatican to get Catholic bishops "with him." posted by Liz @ 8:27 PM | The template is set to display 10 posts. 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I'm not sure why Americans decided that televised drama was better than the real thing, that cardboard microwave food containers were an adequate substitute for real dishes, and their contents for real food, or that cooking, dishwashing and face-to-face conversation wasn't worth the effort and time it required. Someone fed this nation a plastic crate of out-of-season tomatoes and told us it was life and we took them at their word, and we're so much the poorer for it that it's hard to know where to start to list the shortcomings." I wrote this a couple of years ago, but I have to admit it's much less amusing than I thought it would be to see the artifical construct falling apart. 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Doug, at George W. Bush, Will You Please Go Now keeps stealing my thunder. As a cradle Catholic (though long since fallen away), I really wanted to comment on our fearless leader's whiny demand for the Pope to get American Catholics in line. A lot of people beat me to it—the story has been all over the net for a couple of days now—but as usual, Doug minced no words:[Deal] Hudson [conservative Catholic ally of Karl Rove] said he believes the denial of Communion should begin, and end, with Kerry. Even better, he said, would be if priests would read letters from the pulpit denouncing the senator from Massachusetts "whenever and wherever he campaigns as a Catholic." So Hudson has come right out and said that while denial of Communion is a perilously slippery slope — one that could even conceivably trip up Bush allies who supported the war or the death penalty — priests should deny Communion anyway. But just to John Kerry. Because he, after all, has committed the cardinal sin of opposing George W. Bush. As someone who's been on both the giving and the receiving end of Communion during his life as a Catholic, allow me to say to Deal W. Hudson: You're a whore. Catholicism isn't a faith to you anymore, it's a campaign strategy. An attack ad. A push poll. It sounds like when you go into church these days, you no longer think, "How I can I live my life to best emulate the example set by Jesus Christ," but rather, "How can I take this stuff and use it against John Kerry?" There are people who have devoted their lives to this religion — and I can think of one rather important guy who gave his life for it — but you're reducing it to the status of the ball in a big political game of keep-away. Even those of us who haven't read the entire Bible cover to cover have some idea of what happened the last time people like you set foot in the temple — we seem to recall that Jesus pretty well whupped your ass.Amen. I was in high school when John F. Kennedy ran for President. I recall saying indignantly to classmates that he was an American first and a Catholic second. It is bitterly ironic to hear that a contemporary of those students (who I'm sure had some of the same thoughts as they about JFK's priorities) is now lobbying the Vatican to get Catholic bishops "with him."
[Deal] Hudson [conservative Catholic ally of Karl Rove] said he believes the denial of Communion should begin, and end, with Kerry. Even better, he said, would be if priests would read letters from the pulpit denouncing the senator from Massachusetts "whenever and wherever he campaigns as a Catholic." So Hudson has come right out and said that while denial of Communion is a perilously slippery slope — one that could even conceivably trip up Bush allies who supported the war or the death penalty — priests should deny Communion anyway. But just to John Kerry. Because he, after all, has committed the cardinal sin of opposing George W. Bush. As someone who's been on both the giving and the receiving end of Communion during his life as a Catholic, allow me to say to Deal W. Hudson: You're a whore. Catholicism isn't a faith to you anymore, it's a campaign strategy. An attack ad. A push poll. It sounds like when you go into church these days, you no longer think, "How I can I live my life to best emulate the example set by Jesus Christ," but rather, "How can I take this stuff and use it against John Kerry?" There are people who have devoted their lives to this religion — and I can think of one rather important guy who gave his life for it — but you're reducing it to the status of the ball in a big political game of keep-away. Even those of us who haven't read the entire Bible cover to cover have some idea of what happened the last time people like you set foot in the temple — we seem to recall that Jesus pretty well whupped your ass.
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