More Coordinated Action from the Right

[MrSoundAndVision]

Roman catholic bishops are forming a committe to determine whether they should impose 'sanctions' on politicians who profess Roman Catholicism as their religion, but support stances on issues such as abortion which are contrary to Catholic decree. So, here are the high five questions of the day:

Which candidate(s) claims the Roman Catholic religion and also supports views contrary to Catholic decree? Here is another pertinent question: In what political theatre would such a condemnation of the Catholic Church mean most?

If you answered Dennis Kucinich to the first question, that's one high five, and if you answered the presidential race on the second that's two high fives. Hurray if you got two.

Someone posted a CBS story here at the DU earlier that listed many interested polls and correlations between them and such. These polls were taken from 9/28 through 10/1, featuring the opinions of 981 adults polled via telephone. In the name recognition poll, Dennis Kucinich posted dead last with 86% of those polled having never heard of Dennis Kucinch. On the question of "Who can beat Bush?", 0% said Kucinich, NOBODY said Kucinich. Out of 981, nobody thought Dennis Kucinich, with his uber-progressive policies could beat Bush. They didn't even get one Dean supporter who was willing to go out on a limb for the K man, and just surprise a poller with DK.

So here's the double high five question: Is CBS NOT doing it's job in covering Kucinich, or is it 'DOING' it's job in NOT covering Kucinch?

It's YOUR democracy.

Click here for the 'condemnation' story:

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20031110/ap_on_re_us/bishops_abortion_1

Click here for the poll:

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/10/02/opinion/polls/main576342.shtml

[dsc]

1. He isn't the only Catholic

Both Kerry and Clark are as well.

[MrSoundAndVision]

2. I thought Kerry was

But then I don't usually think much of Kerry, nor Clark really. I guess they are prochoice too, right?

[dsc]

3. yep

they are.

[sandnsea]

5. Carol too

And Dean was baptized Catholic, and his mom was too, even though they changed to Episcopalian. Lots of Catholics for the Church to be riling up.

[DieboldMustDie]

4. The Yahoo story refers...

"...to church teaching on abortion and other issues." So why dwell only on abortion?   If Catholics followed their church's teachings on social justice issues they'd never vote Republican.

In a 1986 Pastoral Letter, for example, U.S. Catholic Bishops wrote "Harsh poverty plagues our country despite its great wealth... That so many people are poor in a nation as rich as ours is a social and moral scandal that we cannot ignore."

see http://www.osjspm.org/cst/eja.htm for more.

[sandnsea]

7. Vasectomy Vigils

When the Church starts going gaga in America over men's vasectomies they way they have over women's reproduction, then they may have a teensy bit of credibility.

(They really should go back to caring for the poor and outcasts of society, the way they used to)

[cosmicdot]

6. when do we synchronize our watches for the Dark Ages?

gee, and Al Smith and JFK thought thought they had a Roman Catholic issue to overcome

I'll start prepping myself ...

"The period in which Benedict lived is known popularly as the Dark Ages, and the dark fact is that, from about 500 to about 1000, when the pagan epic Beowulf appeared, not a single piece of literature was written that anyone but a medieval scholar reads today."



Now Beowulf bode in the burg of the Scyldings,
leader beloved, and long he ruled
in fame with all folk, since his father had gone
away from the world, till awoke an heir,
haughty Healfdene, who held through life,
sage and sturdy, the Scyldings glad...."