You know, I’m starting to think that maybe a lot of the Kennedy’s don’t really care about abortion. This is truly outrageous. CNS reports:
Rep. Patrick Kennedy (D-R.I) told CNSNews.com that the Catholic Church is doing nothing but fanning “the flames of dissent and discord” by taking the position that it will oppose the health-care reform bill under consideration in Congress unless it is amended to explicitly prohibit funding of abortion.
“I can’t understand for the life of me how the Catholic Church could be against the biggest social justice issue of our time, where the very dignity of the human person is being respected by the fact that we’re caring and giving health care to the human person–that right now we have 50 million people who are uninsured,” Kennedy told CNSNews.com when asked about a letter the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) had sent to members of Congress stating the bishops’ position on abortion funding in the health-care bill.
“You mean to tell me the Catholic Church is going to be denying those people life saving health care? I thought they were pro-life?” said Kennedy. “If the church is pro-life, then they ought to be for health care reform because it’s going to provide health care that are going to keep people alive. So this is an absolute red herring and I don’t think that it does anything but to fan the flames of dissent and discord and I don’t think it’s productive at all.
October 26, 2009 at 12:41 am
I'm starting to think that it would be better, when it is accurate, that the MSM refers to CINO "devout Catholic" politicians as "former altar boys," no offense meant to former altar boys.
October 26, 2009 at 1:33 pm
"for the life of me how the Catholic Church could be against the biggest social justice issue of our time…–that right now we have 50 million people who are uninsured…"
For the life of me I can't understand why a "Catholic" news service would give a platform for this argument when our country has killed 50 million babies and continues to kill them at the rate of 3,000+ a day… but that is not a social justice issue.
Welcome to the fairy kingdom.
P.S. For all those who wish to canonize Eunice Kennedy: wasn't her husband on the first national pro-abortion ticket in the U.S.?
October 26, 2009 at 5:45 pm
Why do these people to continue calling themselves Catholic?