You’ll remember Barack Obama at Saddleback, telling Pastor Rick Warren that deciding when life begins is “above my pay grade.”
It was a shockingly shallow answer for a man who’d already voted to legalize the killing of babies outside the womb.
It’s an even worse answer for a Catholic nun. Much worse.
Sister Simone Campbell of Nuns on the Bus fame is at the Democratic convention and she had a brief conversation with John McCormack of The Weekly Standard:
…how does Campbell, a Catholic who says she believes abortion is the taking of an innocent life, weigh her budget concerns against her opposition to abortion? It turns out there’s not a dilemma because, as Campbell told me this afternoon at the Charlotte Convention Center, she doesn’t know if she supports laws protecting the lives of unborn children.
TWS: On the legal question, do you think there should be penalties against abortion doctors? I mean, should it be illegal to perform abortions?
CAMPBELL: That’s beyond my pay grade. I don’t know.
Hmmmm. Wonder why the Vatican felt the need to oversee the LCWR?
September 6, 2012 at 12:10 pm
I'm 64, and if I were a delegate at the klaven (when you-know-where freezes over) I'd be one of the young'uns. Where did they find all the old, bobble-heading hippies?
September 6, 2012 at 3:20 pm
To deny life, to despise the fruit of the loins to death, and claim ignorance is not leadership, not from Campbell and not from Obama.
September 6, 2012 at 3:34 pm
Mary De Voe: your famous line which gives such a true and lasting impression when it comes to abortion: "Scraping the Will of God out of the mother's womb." Amen.
September 6, 2012 at 5:23 pm
Above her pay grade? Hmmm.. who IS above her pay grade. Oh! I remember THE BISHOPS!
September 6, 2012 at 5:23 pm
Above her pay grade? Hmmm.. who IS above her pay grade. Oh! I remember THE BISHOPS!
September 6, 2012 at 7:08 pm
Weird… when I first read your headline, I thought it said:
Beyond My Gay Pride.
Freudian slip I guess.
September 6, 2012 at 7:51 pm
These useful idiots have not learned the lesson of the pen given to Sister Carol Keehan by the devil himself. And here they are being useful idiots this time for a bus ride. Stupid cows come to mind, I don't know why.
September 7, 2012 at 2:08 am
Defrock the fake nun!
September 7, 2012 at 2:38 am
@elm: One Hail Mary
September 7, 2012 at 6:16 pm
http://divine-ripples.blogspot.com/2012/09/catholic-nun-bears-false-witness.html
September 7, 2012 at 11:55 pm
"Sister" Simone is the new darling of the liberals. She is one sad example of a nun.
September 10, 2012 at 1:12 am
The Christ the Bridegroom nuns don't seem to think it's above their pay grade!