And the first obligation we all have is, ‘Love your God,’ the second one is, ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’”, Meanwhile, the Trump campaign responded by attacking Biden’s running mate, Kamala Harris as “anti-Catholic.”, Kamala Harris worships at Royal Missionary Baptist Church on Sunday, Sept. 22, 2019, in North Charleston, S.C. (AP Photo/Meg Kinnard), The New York Times explained: “The charge stems in part from questions Harris posed in 2018 to a federal judicial nominee about his membership in the Knights of Columbus, a lay Catholic fraternal organization.
President John F. Kennedy (in rocking chair) meets with E.S.James, editor of the Baptist Standard, in the Oval Office, in February 1963.
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In this day, it was common for Baptists to refer to Catholics as “papists” or to disdain the problem of “popery.”. Notably, Hillary Clinton’s running mate in 2016, Tim Kaine, is an active Catholic. Since 1937, Gallup has asked Americans if they would vote for an otherwise well-qualified person for president who happened to be Catholic. It inflamed Republicans at the time, with one senator authoring a resolution to affirm the constitutional ban on religious tests for federal officials and state that membership in the Catholic group is not ‘disqualifying.’ Now that Harris is Biden’s running mate, conservatives are replaying the moment to try to chip at the pro-abortion-rights Democratic ticket’s appeals to religious voters.”. “I think if you really thought about issues and about this country, you’d do it differently, and when I heard him explain his rationale, it didn’t really make that much sense to me.
When we see military, or police, or politicians “bending the knee,” we don’t see people committing to “end police brutality.” We see people submitting to the communist mob. Sens. A ‘dramatic shift’ among Catholics is drawing the devoted to Trump’s ‘fortitude and courage’, Rising red tide: Russia accused of trashing Bering Strait amid Arctic power struggle, Liberal advocacy group plans to hold protests at McConnell’s home, offices, Doctor: “Doing This Every Morning Can Snap Back Sagging Skin (No Creams Needed)”, ‘View’ co-host Joy Behar triggered after Kim Klacik brings up her ‘Blackface’ costume, How ICE ‘abandoned’ cities and forced communities like Los Angeles to embrace sanctuary status. Grand jury indicts 1 officer on criminal charges in Breonna Taylor case That doesn’t mean I think Mr. Floyd deserved what he got. From left, Senators Tim Kaine, Chris Van Hollen, Martin Heinrich, and Michael Bennet kneel during a moment of silence with Senate Democrats to protest the deaths of … more_vert. I find what Mr. Floyd did to that pregnant woman, appalling.
The Biden campaign recently launched an effort to convince Catholic voters that the Democratic candidate embodies their values and can bring healing to a divided nation. Sen. Tim Kaine, the running mate of Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton, defended the NFL player’s refusal to stand for the national anthem just a … play_arrow. That hasn’t changed, but there is at least an effort to reach this community now,” former GOP Rep. Tim Huelskamp of Kansas told Politico in January.
Huelskamp is a senior political adviser for CatholicVote.org. Other priests, including Bishop Joseph Strickland of Tyler, Texas, have endorsed Altman’s video and shared it. “Maybe Stephanopoulos would have found the time to ask Kaine about Kaepernick bashing Trump if it wasn’t so inextricably sandwiched between two anti-Hillary rants,” said News Busters’ Mike Ciandella. Yes, I understand that he served 5-years for that crime and paid his debt, but someone who is capable of doing that is simply not hero material.