Cardinal Dolan to Romney, Obama: Pledge to play nice
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The deeply traditionalist Catholic Knights of Columbus want GOP contender Mitt Romney, President Obama and their running mates to all sign a civility pledge. Handing out the invite: Cardinal Timothy Dolan.
Dolan, archbishop of New York and president of the U.S. bishops, who will give the closing prayer for the RNC and has offered/pushed the DNC to invite him as well, says the goal is…
so that the upcoming campaign will remain focused on the critical issues facing our nation, and not on personal attacks.
The pledge says:
We, the undersigned citizens of the United States of America, respectfully request that candidates, the media and other advocates and commentators involved in the public policy arena employ a more civil tone in public discourse on political and social issues, focusing on policies rather than on individual personalities.
For our part, we pledge to make these principles our own.
The Knights say America wants this because, polls show…
78 percent of the American people are frustrated with the tone in politics today, and that 66 percent believe that candidates spend more time attacking their opponents than discussing the issues.
Clearly, this pledge would nix birther wisecracks and dog-on-car allusions.
But given that the election is all about which ticket you trust to deliver what you care about, the candidates’ veracity and their character under fire are very much a matter of personality, not policy. [more]
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Why is it men that seem to have this abortion debate? What’s the deal!
So agree Margaret.
Here’s why, Margaret: because women’s rights are being denied. Can you believe that they are denying women the right to life? That’s right, they’re killing them before they’re even born — the most fundamental right any woman has. The fact that you can’t see that shows how desperately you need the clear thinking of a man to guide you and keep you on track.
It’s worth noting that Jim does not want to play nice and fair and civil because $#@&^* Jim isn’t nice and fair and civil. He’s weird, he champions the lives of zygotes in his own mean and brutal way.
Hey Carl, question: I went to dictionary.com, inserted $#@&^*, but it said it couldn’t communicate the meaning via the internet, as the meaning was too nasty. Isn’t that weied how you said I’m not nice or fair or civil, yet you, the nice guy, call me a swear word? Very disrespectful, mean, unfair, and uncivil dear Carl.
If this is implemented CatholicVote/American Papist and California Catholic Daily will have a lot of blank space
The cardinal of New York could set an example by playing nice himself. If he feels called to continue his political involvement, by all means he needs to resign his cardinalate etc and restart his career as a precinct worker. The church could use a few good spiritual leaders, it already has a superabundance of political hack-types.
I agree with Florian.
The Catholic Bishops should try playing nice and stay out of politics.
It’s not nice to kill babies, Tom — and Obama wants the killing to continue.
So, Tom, let’s not stick our head in the sand while Rome is burning and say, “let’s have a nice hot dog roast.” Things are not nice, Tom — they are brutal and ugly. Babies getting killed everyday, and people dying and going to Hell every day. That is not only not nice, that is absolutely horrible. Get Mr. 666 out of office.
Of course it isn’t nice to kill babies nor is it nice to budget food and health care out of the hands of the poor.
True, Tony (of course, the Republicans don’t want to do what you say they do, but I’ll leave that go for the moment) — but, I’d rather be alive and have to scrounge for food than be killed brutally before I am ever born. Get your head in the game, Tony.
The cardinal and members of the church need to stop having so much to say in politics. We have the principle of separation of church and state for a good reason. Dolan should concentrate on helping his brother drunken bishops and helping the bishops to clean up their own act.