Reuters is reporting that leading left-wing senator and cognitive dissonance-filled Catholic Ted Kennedy has been made a Knight by Queen Elizabeth:
“Senator Edward Kennedy, patriarch of one of America’s most fabled political families, has been awarded a honorary knighthood by Queen Elizabeth, the British government said on Tuesday. The award, in recognition of Kennedy’s service to the U.S.-UK relationship and to Northern Ireland, comes as British Prime Minister Gordon Brown visits Washington to meet with President Barack Obama and address the U.S. Congress on Wednesday.”
So an Irish Catholic who has given up much of the”Catholic” in that title gets a knighthood from the British crown. I bet even Henry the 8th –who as a Christian no doubt would have violently opposed legalized abortion and gay marriage–is feeling shocked.
March 4, 2009 at 3:28 pm
A-yep. US Constitution, Article I, Section 9.8 – “No Title of Nobility shall be granted by the United States: And no Person holding any Office of Profit or Trust under them, shall, without the consent of the Congress, accept of any present, Emolument, Office, or Title, of any kind whatever, from any King, Prince, or Foreign State.”
Have these guys even read the thing? And is there a Republican left anywhere in DC with the stones to put this to a vote, as required, and make them go on record for it?
March 4, 2009 at 3:54 pm
If it were not for prohibition and Papa Joe’s bootlegging, we never would have heard of the Kennedy’s.
If Ted drove a VW beetle, he would have been president.
An Irishman knighted by the Queen of England.
Not only is he a pretend Catholic, he’s not even a good Irishman.
March 4, 2009 at 4:03 pm
Yeah, Kennedy just lost his Irish street creds.
March 4, 2009 at 4:09 pm
What does Mary Jo Kopechne get out of this?
March 4, 2009 at 4:35 pm
Why does it matter? Who cares what Queen (so she says) Elizabeth does. She is an usurper. The rightful kings of England are the Jacobites. So who cares what they do in England where they are playing dressup. The English monarchy is a schismatic, heretic monarchy so they can honor bad Catholics all they want. Maybe if it were the legitimate Spanish monarchy it would be another story.
March 4, 2009 at 4:43 pm
Hmmm… guess he stopped his donations to the IRA then?
March 4, 2009 at 5:00 pm
One worthless family giving an award to another worthless family. Meh.
March 4, 2009 at 5:20 pm
following along the MaryJo comment:
Perhaps the newly Knighted Ted can offer to take Her Majesty out for a night on the town and a romantic moonlit drive afterward?
Which brings another thought to mind: The Mother in Law of the People’s Princess, dead in part due to drunk driving and excessive speed, is now Knighting a chap guilty of the same form of homocide.
March 4, 2009 at 7:03 pm
When they make clowns like Ted Kennedy, Elton John, Mick Jagger, and Paul McCartney, et al, “knights” the value of British knighthood is that of what can be found in any waste materials that fell out of the garbage dumpster. The sun set on Great Britain a long time ago…and if we are not careful and prayerful, it will set soon here as well.
March 4, 2009 at 9:58 pm
I’m not convinced Ole Henry would have been violently opposed to gender selection abortion, or sex screening embryos and chucking those missing a certain “Y”.
March 4, 2009 at 9:59 pm
The Constitution is a “distraction” nightfly, to be disregarded when “inconvenient”.
March 4, 2009 at 10:14 pm
LCB– very funny!
March 5, 2009 at 7:08 am
Anonymous 12:20
Brilliant comment. I’m going to post.
If Se. Kennedy is concerned about the legality of this honour, he should consult the same lawyers as Steven Spielberg and the late Cap Weinberger. They got them as well.
Of very much greater concern to British Catholics should be the possible invocation of the draconian Civil Contingencies Act, which permits the government to ban assemblies by fiat. These may include the Mass.
March 5, 2009 at 4:57 pm
The rudeness of some of your commentators about the Queen and her family is coarse and beside the point. Are they so ill educated that they don’t know this is a government decision of Prime Minister Gordon Brown and has nothing to do with the Queen? They should also see even from your own report that it is an “honorary” knighthood. These do not confer the title “sir”. Finally, you might care to know that the award has been heavily criticized in Britain by the conservative party on the grounds That Kennedy is no friend of Britain and has sympathised with the murderous IRA for years. Naturally, as Catholics we should be equally disgusted that this disgrace to our religion adds yet more secular honours to his shameful record. Judgment is coming.
March 5, 2009 at 8:38 pm
I’d like to be the first to congratulate the new Earl of Chappaquiddick.
March 5, 2009 at 11:15 pm
“Why does it matter? Who cares what Queen (so she says) Elizabeth does. She is an usurper. The rightful kings of England are the Jacobites. So who cares what they do in England where they are playing dressup. The English monarchy is a schismatic, heretic monarchy so they can honor bad Catholics all they want. Maybe if it were the legitimate Spanish monarchy it would be another story.”
What a mind-bogglingly ignorant statement. Caesar is Caesar regardless of his religious affiliation. If it was enough for St. Edmund Campion to swear allegiance to his Protestant Queen minutes before his martyrdom at Tyburn then it’s good enough for me!
Vivat Regina!