Showing posts with label Kamala Harris. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Kamala Harris. Show all posts

Wednesday, October 23, 2024

Like Melania Trump, Kamala Harris sees no room for compromise on abortion


 

I don’t think we should be making concessions when we are talking about a fundamental freedom to make decisions about your own body.

-- Kamala Harris 

What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own? 

-- I Corinthians 6:19

Saturday, September 28, 2024

Thirty paragraphs into a story touting Joe Biden's popularity with Catholics, Politico admits he lost the white Catholic vote nationally by 15 points


 
 
Kamala Harris’ Pennsylvania Problem: Joe Biden’s local ties and cultural roots kept him competitive in culturally conservative northeastern Pennsylvania. Harris’ prospects in the heavily Catholic, working-class region there are dicier:
A Brookings analysis earlier this year by University of Pennsylvania professor John DiLulio noted that Hillary Clinton lost the overall white Catholic vote by 33 points in 2016, but four years later, Biden cut that deficit in half, losing by only 15 points.     
 
The story never once mentions that J. D. Vance, Trump's running mate, is a 2019 convert to the Catholic faith and might represent as big a challenge for Harris as her abortion advocacy and her grilling of "a Catholic judicial nominee about whether he could remain impartial due to his membership in the Knights of Columbus, a respected Catholic fraternal organization".

Saturday, September 14, 2024

I'm so old I remember when the pope excommunicated Martin Luther for doing this very thing Pope Francis recommends American Catholics do in this election

 

“Not voting is ugly,” the 87-year-old pontiff said. “It is not good. You must vote.”

“You must choose the lesser evil,” he said. “Who is the lesser evil? That lady, or that gentleman? I don’t know."

"Everyone, in conscience, (has to) think and do this.”       

-- Pope Francis, quoted here

 

Since your most serene majesty and your highnesses require of me a simple, clear, and direct answer, I will give one, and it is this: I cannot submit my faith either to the pope or to the council, because it is clear that they have fallen into error and even into inconsistency with themselves. If, then, I am not convinced by proof from Holy Scripture, or by cogent reasons, if I am not satisfied by the very text I have cited, and if my judgment is not in this way brought into subjection to God's word, I neither can nor will retract anything; for it cannot be either safe or honest for a Christian to speak against his conscience. Here I stand. I cannot do otherwise. God help me. Amen.

-- Martin Luther, quoted here 



 

Sunday, August 18, 2024

Shall we be made a story and a byword through the world?


 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 O baseness to support a tyrant throne,
And crush your freeborn brethren of the world!
Nay, to become a part of usurpation,
T' espouse the tyrant's person and her crimes.

-- John Dryden

Friday, July 26, 2024

'Tis The Silly Season


 Both ways deceitful is the wine of pow'r;
When new 'tis heady, and when old 'tis sour.
 
-- Walter Harte