At a press conference today, Religious Right leaders and Roman Catholic bishops unveiled a joint statement criticizing laws that allow reproductive choice and same-sex marriage.Hmm...Roman Catholics acting catholic? That is news! I really wish AU could get their story straight.
Aww...I preferred it when they were saying that the Roman Catholics only wanted to stop helping people at all!Said the Rev. Barry W. Lynn, Americans United executive director, “This declaration is certain to be deeply divisive. These religious leaders want to see their doctrines imposed by force of law, and that goes against everything America stands for.
“I am optimistic that the people in the pews will not heed their leaders’ misguided call to action,” Lynn said. “Polls show that most church-goers do not want to see their faith politicized. But I am also well aware that religious leaders have vast lobbying power that cannot be ignored.”
Lynn noted the House version of health-care reform was revised at the behest of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops to curtail women’s access to abortion.So which is it, AU? Should they have stayed out of politics altogether (when they energized their base to lobby for universal health-care)? Or is it only when they bring to their political activism who they are as people of faith?
AU is only interested in what advances its own political agenda. It has long since ceased to be a neutral First Amendment watchdog, and is now devoted to driving enemies of its liberal ideology out of the arena.
ReplyDeleteIf you'd like another hysterical response, check our Robert Parham's in the "On Faith" section of the Washington Post. Strictly content-free, and some of it made up out of whole cloth. That's what happens when you criticize a document without actually reading it.