Do you mean “not responsible”? I thought that was the claim. She said the dogs make their own choices, and that she wasn’t responsible for what they did. The logical conclusion is that if dogs are responsible for their own behavior, then we should treat them as responsible entities, i.e. persons.
Your grandfather’s Democrat party bears no resemblance whatsoever to the Democrat party of today. The Democrat party stands in direct opposition to core moral teachings of the Catholic Church on abortion, homosexuality euthanasia and fetal stem cell research. It’s not a matter of anybody forcing their views on you-nobody forced you to be a Catholic. But the modern Democratic Party has made it impossible for a Catholic in good conscience to have voted for any of their presidential candidates since 1976. It is unfortunately nearly impossible for a Catholic to vote for a Democrat candidate in any national election as their national leadership has support of unrestricted restricted abortion on demand as a litmus test for power in their party
Probably not. The Catholic Church has a high loss of adherents - roughly 10 % nationwide , but twice that among Hispanics. Children of Hispanic immigrants often wind up in Evangelical or Pentecostal denominations. Half of Hispanic evangelicals are converts, with more than 43 percent of them tracing their roots to the Catholic Church.
I agree and have said the same often. How can people not see that the parties have changed over the years? Perhaps they don’t study the parties enough, perhaps they don’t read enough, perhaps they are too lazy to do the homework, or perhaps they are just plain stubborn. I know that my Irish Catholic grandfather who went to daily mass for many years would not recognize the Democratic Party now.
Really? Gay activists in 1973 overthrew the leadership and membership of the American Psychiatric Association? That sounds like quite a coup !
Perhaps. As I mentioned earlier, there are a sizable number of people who would like to remove the privileged tax status of religion, if religions want to participate in the political process.
Him he didn’t say they overthrew the leadership-he pointed out, correctly, that homosexual behavior was removed only because of the vote of a plurality of members attending the 1973 convention.
But it would signifigantly reduce the Church’s ability to operate. Many parishes would go bankrupt from the real estate taxes alone, let alone if donations were taxed as income.
Actually, he did imply that. To quote:
His statement implies a homosexual takeover of the American Psychiatric Association.
Ed, I’m not a Catholic, but I think that Catholic reasoning is above that kind of attack.
He stated no such thing. What he stated was the facts. Hopefully you did not believe that homosexual behavior was removed because of a peer-reviewed scientific study and after a long and reasoned debate.
The first reading is pretty pertinent, too!
I think that this is precisely the problem. The Catholic Church is the gate of salvation to the world. Christ gave us the keys to the kingdom of heaven, which means we were entrusted with the Gospel and our duty is to spread that Gospel to save souls. Well, far too many of us have abandoned that duty and instead have given into the ways of the world. Pope Pius V said that all evil in the world can be traced to lukewarm Catholics. That has never been more true that in our day. We need only look at all of the Catholic politicians who vote against the teachings of Church.
Too lazy to do their homework is the correct answer. My family was for the Democrats in the 1960s because they did stand up for what we believed. Today, the Republicans reflect that better. The Democratic party was infiltrated but everyone just kept thinking, “My Dad voted for the Democrats. So that’s what I should do.”
Two words: judicial review. Marshall made is possible for state law, even law that does not contradict or otherwise interfere with federal law, to be subject to review by the USSC. Combine that with the 14th amendment, and we now have was another said “constitution > everything else”.