Party of Death
I would have picked Hezbollah for that sobriquet—Party of God isn’t too far from Party of Death when one of your tenets is to love death the way Christians and Jews love life.
But no, the Party of Death is a little closer to home (via Hot Air):
Vatican officials seldom single out political leaders who differ with the Church on issues like abortion rights or embryonic stem cell research. But now that the Vatican’s highest court is led by an American, the former St. Louis Archbishop Raymond Burke, we can expect things to get more explicit in Vatican City — at least when when it comes to U.S. politics.
Burke, who was named prefect of the Vatican’s Supreme Court of the Apostolic Signature in June, told the Italian Catholic newspaper Avvenire that the U.S. Democratic Party risked “transforming itself definitively into a party of death for its decisions on bioethical issues.” He then attacked two of the party’s most high profile Catholics — vice presidential candidate Joe Biden and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi — for misrepresenting Church teaching on abortion.
He said Biden and Pelosi, “while presenting themselves as good Catholics, have presented Church doctrine on abortion in a false and tendentious way.”
You know another mark of my political transformation away from liberalism? I admire people who take stands, even if I don’t always agree with the stands. (Hitler: rat bastard, but you knew what he believed.)
Maybe abortion is about a women’s right to choose, and maybe stem cell research is about curing disease. But at the very least you have to acknowledge the other side—especially when it’s espoused by your spiritual leaders.
Martino said,
October 2, 2008 @ 2:31 pm
It’s about time my Church crammed it up Pelosi’s ass. I’m stoked.
And the Church has no problem with adult stem cell research, as far as I know.
Karen said,
October 4, 2008 @ 10:30 am
I agree that the Church comes out, It’s about time someone does. I hope they continue to be in the political world, at this time we need faith based organization, I would much rather have my faith in the church, than the idea of liberalism.
Note Obama voted four separate times in the Illinois state legislature to deny care to a baby born alive after a botched abortion.
Bring on the Church