This is something new from the governor. He did not consider me part of the “religious right” when seeking my help with the minimum wage increase, prison reform, protection of migrant workers, a welcome of immigrants and refugees, and advocacy for college programs for the state’s inmate population, which we were happy to partner with him on, because they were our causes too. I guess I was part of the “religious left” in those cases.
The civil rights of the helpless, innocent, baby in the womb, as liberal Democrat Pennsylvania Governor Robert Casey once remarked is not about “right versus left, but right versus wrong.”
The governor (Cuomo) also continues his attempt to reduce the advocacy for the human rights of the pre-born infant to a “Catholic issue,” an insult to our allies of so many religions, or none at all. Governor Casey again: “I didn’t get my pro-life belief from my religion class in a Catholic school, but from my biology and U.S. Constitution classes.”
Yes, religion is personal; it’s hardly private, as the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s life and struggle for civil rights so eloquently showed. Governor Cuomo’s professed faith teaches discrimination against immigrants is immoral, too. Does that mean he cannot let that moral principle guide his public policy? Clearly not.
Debate abortion on what it is. Don’t hide behind labels like “right wing” and “Catholic.”
REMNANT COMMENT: Guts "cardinalling", Eminence! And, not to worry: We think they'll still invite you to do your funny thing on St. Patrick's Day now that you've made it clear you're not with those retarded "religious right" people but you're all down with Martin Luther King and everybody. Well, played!
By the way, here's what Catholic bishops used to sound like when speaking to demons. This is one of three semons preached by Clemens August Count von Galen, the Bishop of Munster on July 13, 1941, at St. Lamberts.
Keep in mind that His Excellency wasn't defying a little stain like Andy Cuomo, either. As the Gestapo was rounding up priests and nuns and making all kinds of Catholics "disappear", the Bishop of Munster stood up in his pulpit like a roaring lion and thundered Christ at the entire Nazi regime:
My Christians! It will perhaps be held against me that by this frank statement I am weakening the home front of the German people during this war. I, on the contrary, say this: It is not I who am responsible for a possible weakening of the home front, but those who regardless of the war, regardless of this fearful week of terrible air-raids, impose heavy punishments on innocent people without the judgment of a court or any possibility of defence, who evict our religious orders, our brothers and sisters, from their property, throw them on to the street, drive them out of their own country. They destroy men's security under the law, they undermine trust in law, they destroy men's confidence in our government. And therefore I raise my voice in the name of the upright German people, in the name of the majesty of Justice, in the interests of peace and the solidarity of the home front; therefore as a German, an honourable citizen, a representative of the Christian religion, a Catholic bishop, I exclaim: we demand justice! If this call remains unheard and unanswered, if the reign of Justice is not restored, then our German people and our country...will perish through an inner rottenness and decay.
That was then. This is now:
Thank God it was von Galen, and not Dolan, who was on hand in those day to hold the Catholic ground rather than trailing Hitler's entourage and prostituting away his Catholicism in order to curry favor with the regime.
