Catholics at stake in senate fracas --- Pryor nomination

[Cocoa]

http://www.msnbc.com/news/940318.asp?0cv=NB10

WASHINGTON, July 23 — A Senate confirmation battle over President Bush’s appeals court nominee William Pryor has turned into a high-stakes gamble for Catholic voters in the 2004 election. Some Republicans are trying to paint the opposition to Pryor, who is a Catholic, as religious bigotry. Furious that the GOP is insinuating that bias is behind the opposition to Pryor, Democrats are nearly certain to filibuster his nomination.

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A group called Committee for Justice, headed by Boyden Gray, White House counsel to President George H.W. Bush, has run newspaper advertisements in Rhode Island and Maine, charging that “some in the Senate” have opposed Pryor because he is Catholic. The ad featured a photo with a sign reading “Catholics need not apply” hanging on a courthouse door.

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Democrats called on GOP senators to disavow the ad. One, Sen. Saxby Chambliss, R-Ga., did so. “I wish they’d cease running it because it is simply not correct when it comes to members of this committee,” he said.

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[goobergunch]

1. Oh no...

I agree with Saxby Chambliss. :puke:

<washes mouth out with soap>

[tnlefty]

3. LOL! these are strange times are they not? n/t

n/t

[LizW]

2. Race card with Estrada, now religion card with Pryor

anything to avoid facing the fact that the nominee is ill-qualified to be a Federal judge. Whatever.

Pryor's the AG of my state, and I didn't even know he was Catholic. Grabbing at straws much?

[Cocoa]

4. NPR playing audio of this debate

it's nasty.

One of the repugs spewed some crap, and Dick Durbin said "this is disgusting." And he meant it sincerely, judging from the tone in his voice.

The Dems are PISSED.

[dflprincess]

6. I also heard on NPR that Sen Leahy

took great exception to this. Leahy is Catholic. Hell, I'm Catholic (more or less) and I take exception to this.

I believe I heard them say one of the attacks on the "anti-Catholics" is that they oppose this clown because he's against abortion even in cases of rape and incest. The argument is that you can't hold his belief in Catholic doctrine against him.

Well, yeah you can. When you try to impose your religious beliefs on others, you can hold it against them. It's one of those pesky First Amendment things.

[American Renaissance]

5. I am a Catholic and...

I find Pryor absolutly repulsive, lots of people call themselves catholics, but being batized isn't exactly a seal of quality.