David at Catholics for President George W. Bush notices the following:
On Saturday, New DNC chair Howard Dean had this to say about Catholics in America:
We have to remind Catholic Americans that the social mission of the
Democratic Party is almost exactly the social mission of the Catholic
Church.
Not in the transcript was the following line:
Except when it comes to abortion, embryonic stem cell research, same sex mariage, euthansia, and human cloning.
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Almost exactly"? I would have agreed if he said "sometimes exactly" or "once in a great while exactly". And I have some advice for Dean over the comments he made about speaking differently about abortion and other issues (Dems are "pro-choice" vice "pro-abortion): Actions speak louder than words.
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Well said.
Amen Brother!
If I had been a lifelong committed Democrat that comment of Dean’s would have turned me away. What business is it of somebody like Dean’s to tell me at all about being Catholic, let alone in that minatory fashion? What Mr. Planned-Parenthood-But-I-Didn’t-Do-Abortions knows about Catholicism could, I imagine, be written twice on a postage stamp. If I’m to be scolded about Catholic social teaching, let it be by another faithful Catholic, with whom I can at least have a sensible argument.