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Is the Tea Party movement compatible with the Catholic Faith - our Morals and Social objectives?
 
If a Catholic can find a way to be a Democrat while avoiding compliance with the partys’ pro abortion, pro homosexuality ticket) it’s certainly o.k. to be a member of the Tea Party.
 
Barbkw said:
If a Catholic can find a way to be a Democrat while avoiding compliance with the partys’ pro abortion, pro homosexuality ticket) it’s certainly o.k. to be a member of the Tea Party.
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Do you think a Catholic can be a Democrat and remain a Catholic in good standing?
 
As a British person, my perception of the Tea Party was that it was Republican.

I was told by a Canadian friend that they campaign against having free health care? Can I ask why anyone in their right mind would campaign against that, especially as many people in the USA has to pay hefty health insurance fees, which don’t always pay out?

My friend also explained that the reasoning behind this was that they are sure the American Dream is going to pay out for them - and that yes, free healthcare will benefit them now, but when they eventually get millions of pounds and become rich, they don’t want to have to pay taxes to pay for national health insurance, even though it will be cheaper then private health insurance?
 
“Do you think a Catholic can be a Democrat and remain a Catholic in good standing?”

I’m an Independent. 🙂
 
The Tea Party Movement is too diverse to say anything one way or the other. Most of the high profile figures seem to be with the Church on some issues, and against the Church on others. Like any politician or political movement, each Catholic must make his or her own prudential judgment about it.
 
LemonAndLime said:
I was told by a Canadian friend that they campaign against having free health care? Can I ask why anyone in their right mind would campaign against that, especially as many people in the USA has to pay hefty health insurance fees, which don’t always pay out?
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To be clear, you know that the healthcare law that was just passed here doesn’t offer “free healthcare”, right? They still would campaign against free healthcare for obvious reasons but it’s better not to derail the thread with all that.
 
LemonAndLime said:
As a British person, my perception of the Tea Party was that it was Republican.

I was told by a Canadian friend that they campaign against having free health care? Can I ask why anyone in their right mind would campaign against that, especially as many people in the USA has to pay hefty health insurance fees, which don’t always pay out?

My friend also explained that the reasoning behind this was that they are sure the American Dream is going to pay out for them - and that yes, free healthcare will benefit them now, but when they eventually get millions of pounds and become rich, they don’t want to have to pay taxes to pay for national health insurance, even though it will be cheaper then private health insurance?
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The Tea Party movement has nothing to do with Obama’s foolish healthcare pork gram er I mean program.
 
Robert_Burns said:
Do you think a Catholic can be a Democrat and remain a Catholic in good standing?
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Why not? Isn’t it possible for a Democrat to belong to the party, while maintaining Catholic belief and attempt to convince other Democrats from within the party? At least where I live if you don’t like something in a party, there are three choices: ignore it, change parties, or work from within the party to voice your concerns.
 
I’m Catholic and I support the tea party movement. As far as I can see; there is nothing that the tea partiers support, that is not compatable with what I believe. Both as a citizen and as a Catholic, I can support the tea partiers. God bless:thumbsup:👍👍
 
You have to realize that a political party isn’t a religion. You can take some and leave some. It’s not like a “I must believe everything this political party believes”.

Sometimes I vote for X and hold my nose. It’s just politics.
 
Is the Tea Party movement compatible with the Catholic Faith - our Morals and Social objectives?
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I don’t think that the Tea Party Movement is so monolithic as to embrace a single, comprehensive philosophy or platform, to begin with. It seems to be composed, on the one hand, of angry fiscal conservatives who are mad at the GOP for allowing government to balloon out of control and for reckless spending during the Bush Administration. This faction of the Tea Party wants the GOP to “reform” itself and to re-embrace strictly “conservative” notions of small government and low taxes.

But then you have Tea Partiers even further to the right who are largely just opposed to the person of the incumbent president. This faction of the Tea Party are focused mostly on non-issues (“fringe” issues), such as President Obama’s “true” religion (they suspect he is a secret Muslim), President Obama’s “true” nationality (they suspect he was not born an American citizen) and President Obama’s secret identity (they suspect President Obama is actually the “Antichrist”).

In short, the philosophy and objectives of the Tea Party are almost indefinable, and at any rate have nothing to do with the Roman Catholic religion.

Finally, the Tea Party is not even a party, at all. It’s just a lose-knit association of people who are upset about different things, really.
 
“You have to realize that a political party isn’t a religion.”

Actually, many people today do treat “their” political party as if it’s a religion.
 
TMC said:
The Tea Party Movement is too diverse to say anything one way or the other. Most of the high profile figures seem to be with the Church on some issues, and against the Church on others. Like any politician or political movement, each Catholic must make his or her own prudential judgment about it.
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I agree. America’s Independent Party most closely represents my views and has the support of a Catholic conservative and former Republican. And yet I have some disagreement with some of the party members over some minor issuses.
 
youtube.com/watch?v=lUPMjC9mq5Y

I’m sorry, but the “Tea Party” is kind of the laughingstock of everyone NOT involved at the moment . . . and I have a really hard time respecting these completely uneducated people. See link.
 
bhall0689 said:
youtube.com/watch?v=lUPMjC9mq5Y

I’m sorry, but the “Tea Party” is kind of the laughingstock of everyone NOT involved at the moment . . . and I have a really hard time respecting these completely uneducated people. See link.
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Well, this tea party guy (myself) almsot has his Masters and will be working on a Ph.D shortly afterwards.

Education, however, is overrated.
 
Barbkw said:
“You have to realize that a political party isn’t a religion.”

Actually, many people today do treat “their” political party as if it’s a religion.
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Yes. That’s wrong and sad.
 
bhall0689 said:
youtube.com/watch?v=lUPMjC9mq5Y

I’m sorry, but the “Tea Party” is kind of the laughingstock of everyone NOT involved at the moment . . . and I have a really hard time respecting these completely uneducated people. See link.
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Not everyone: Bill Clinton recognizes that a movement supported by a third of the country is not a laughingstock. (btw, so do liberal republicans in a number of states where they lost their primaries to Tea Party candidates.)
 
LemonAndLime said:
I was told by a Canadian friend that they campaign against having free health care? Can I ask why anyone in their right mind would campaign against that, especially as many people in the USA has to pay hefty health insurance fees, which don’t always pay out?
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How about because “free health care” is not free. It is paid for by taxes. So to institute a “free health care” system taxes must go up.
 
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