Pat Kennady Irresponsible, and Ignorant

(CNSNews.com) Rep. Patrick Kennedy (D-R.I.) is irresponsible and ignorant of the facts about the Catholic Churchs views on health care reform and continues to be a disappointment to the Catholic Church and to the citizens of the State of Rhode Island, said Bishop Thomas J. Tobin of the diocese of Providence in a statement released Friday in response to an interview CNSNews.com conducted with Kennedy.

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[laughingcrowe]

This whole thing was started by Kennedy's poor taste in comments he made against the Catholic church's disagreeing with this one part of the health care bill. Why is everyone in turn hating the Catholic church for it...to the point of tirades onto other issues that have nothing to do with the first? How one sided.

[guatay]

Sympathies for your coworker. However, "In 2005 (the most recent year for which there is reliable data), approximately 1.21 million abortions took place in the U.S., ...an estimated 1.29 million in 2002, 1.31 million in 2000 and 1.36 million in 1996. From 1973 through 2005, more than 45 million...abortions have occurred in the U.S.," (AGI). Thank you Patrick Kennedy. P.S. Given those staggering abortion figures, Kennedy has no shame to whine about not receiving Holy Communion. Pathetic!

[rmontena]

Right on, Patrick. I realize this is old, but, it is still very much a topic.

A personal private views on such issues as this should, in my opinion, remain their personal view. What is good for the country or Americans is not necessarily what i prescribe to myself. The common good is to have health care that takes care of all of Americans, not just the ones who agree with a certain opionion or are a certain political party. We are all Americans, not just some of us, all of US.

[capevideo]

This asshole sidestepped the issue in the reporters question. Kennedy did not address funding for abortions in the health care bill.

[smudoshi]

DICKHEADS = CATHOLIC CHURCH

[DalisYT]

...3) Health workers employ the ABC method (abstinence, being faithful, condoms) to prevent infection but dropped C because they were encouraging promiscuity and compromised quarantine efforts. You have to gear the strategy to the population. What would you suggest when they're raping albinos? Wear a condom? What about when the patient has an opportunistic airborne infection like TB? Wear a condom and don't exhale? Your prejudice clouds sound policy and people die. Educate yourself.

[DalisYT]

3) Condoms in Africa? Don't get me started. Condoms are what people suggest when they want to act like they're helping but wouldn't step one foot on that continent. They mail them by the box to the Vatican, to Africa, while people die who've never had sex. The Catholic Church is actually on the ground in Africa fighting HIV/AIDS for the long haul so the patients don't become resistant to the meds. Epidemiologists know enough to know that condoms are not a sound strategy with those populations.

[DalisYT]

2) Pedophiles bad. Yeah, no argument there.

[DalisYT]

Ok, one at a time: The Catholic Church will continue to fulfill its social service contracts in Washington and is not threatening to drop them but is asking for an conscientious objection exemption to the anti-discrimination bill currently in debate. The City of Washington is threatening to drop their contracts if they won't adopt children out to same-sex couples, even though this is a violation of their religious teachings. This, by the way, is an unconstitutional breach of the First Amendment.

[DalisYT]

I said this before and I will say it again. I am one of those uninsured Americans. No American should have to choose between health care (which is a human right outlined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in the 1946 United Nations Charter) and funding abortions (which denies the right to life of the unborn child).

[DalisYT]

(continued) I'm just demonstrating that the Democrat Party loves the abortion industry more than winning elections (apparently). I'm not nor would I deign to be a member of the Republican Party. I'm a Roman Catholic and a lesbian, so those things alone would dissuade me. Additionally, that party supports war, the death penalty, and their anti-abortion record is dismal - basically everything the Catholic Church is against. Abortions actually go up when the GOP is in the White House.

[DalisYT]

artvandelay3911: Since you asked, I am uninsured. You assume much. You know what? I would love love love health insurance and to be able to go to a decent doctor, especially at my age (30). I am a strong supporter and campaigner for health care reform in my state. I do not however support abortion funding or coverage. I'll type slowly: abortion...is...not...health..­.care.