Video Emerges of Obama in 1991 Rallying for Diversity at Harvard Law School - Page 3

CatholicBoy1957 · #31 Mar 9, '12, 7:12 am

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"bin Laden is dead, and GM is alive"!

Racial division = Republicans trying to disenfranchise minority voters
Class warfare = The income disparity caused by 30 years of Reaganomics
HHS mandate = Fewer unintended pregnancies and fewer abortions
Elena Kagan = A very nice lady
Sonia Sotomayer = Another very nice lady
Obamacare = Health care for millions of previously uninsured people
Keystone pipeline = A big fat red herring.

In the video, I see a young man speaking out against racial injustice with great eloquence and charm. Two decades later, we learn that while not perfect, he's still pretty good. He has gotten out country through some tough times. I used to wonder if I'd vote for him again, and having seen what the other side has to offer, I certainly will!

By the way, I'm a serious Catholic.

Seriously confused, maybe.

This is why my distinctions are always a matter of faithful vs. unfaithful. What is a "serious" Catholic?

Obama got me through, and I'm far worse off than I ever was.

**SamH** · #32 Mar 9, '12, 7:52 am

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This is why my distinctions are always a matter of faithful vs. unfaithful. What is a "serious" Catholic?

One that walks around with a furrowed brow and no sense of humor?

Tigg · #33 Mar 9, '12, 8:38 am

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Catholics are provided with the tools to have a well informed conscience on how they as an individuals and by extension the community are to morally act. If the state "forces" religious institutions that provide health care to include contraception than Catholics are to abstain from using such services OR the institution can withdraw their health care options. Europe and the rest of the world where the Catholic Church presides has the exact same "problem" yet they do not insite an insurrection or a rebellion against their government that tantamounts treason. But that is what is being promoted by extremist in the Church. It is an ungodly act in direct conflict with the teachings of the Church.

Sooooo, the bishops, all 100% of them who have condemned this mandate, said it is an unjust law, and that we cannot, we will not obey it, are extremists and in direct conflict with the teachings of the Church?? Yes....we are seriously confused.

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The only exception to this is if the state is DIRECTLY requiring us to act immorally. Catholics are neither being forced to use contraception or have abortions by the state so you have no moral argument.

Apparently the moral theologians do not agree with you.

http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/ne...f-hhs-mandate/

http://www.catholicculture.org/news/...?storyid=13423

qui est ce · #34 Mar 9, '12, 12:24 pm

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Europe and the rest of the world where the Catholic Church presides has the exact same "problem" yet they do not insite an insurrection or a rebellion against their government that tantamounts treason. But that is what is being promoted by extremist in the Church. It is an ungodly act in direct conflict with the teachings of the Church.

Peace,

David

I was not aware that Europe had the same Constitution we have here in the US. This is not a contraception issue as the left would like us to believe. It's a Constitutional issue.

_Abyssinia · #35 Mar 9, '12, 5:50 pm

Derrick Bell in 1994: ‘Jewish Neoconservative Racists’

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Among other remarks, Bell denounced Henry Louis (Skip) Gates for writing a New York Times op-ed condemning black anti-Semitism:

I was furious. Even if everything he said was true, it was inexcusable not to mention what might have motivated blacks to feel this way, and to fail to talk about all the Jewish neoconservative racists who are undermining blacks in every way they can.

Bell went on to say, “Now, that wouldn’t excuse anti-Semitism, which is awful, but it would at least provide a context for this anger…”

It might seem nice of Bell to acknowledge the awfulness of anti-Semitism, but he didn’t mean it. The very same interview began as follows: “We should really appreciate the Louis Farrakhans and the Khalid Muhammads while we’ve got them.” Khalid Muhammad was Farrakhan’s right hand, who made a name for himself referring to Jews as, among many other things, “bloodsuckers” whose “father was the devil.”

http://www.commentarymagazine.com/20...ative-racists/