USCCB: Genocide, torture, and the direct and intentional targeting of noncombatants in war or terrorist attacks are always wrong. (
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Trump: “You have to take out their families, when you get these terrorists, you have to take out their families. … When they say they don’t care about their lives, you have to take out their families.” (
link) Trump says ‘torture works,’ backs waterboarding and ‘much worse’ (
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USCCB: supports efforts to end the use of the death penalty (
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Trump: “One of the first things I do [if elected President] in terms of executive order if I win will be to sign a strong, strong statement that will go out to the country, out to the world, that … anybody killing a police officer—death penalty. It’s going to happen, O.K.?” (
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USCCB: The use of weapons of mass destruction or other means of warfare that do not distinguish between civilians and soldiers is fundamentally immoral. The United States has a responsibility to work to reverse the spread of nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons, and to reduce its own reliance on weapons of mass destruction by pursuing progressive nuclear disarmament. (
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Trump: “If Japan had that nuclear threat, I’m not sure that would be a bad thing for us.” Donald Trump thinks more countries should have nuclear weapons. (
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USCCB: The institution of marriage is undermined by the ideology of “gender” that dismisses sexual difference and the complementarity of the sexes and falsely presents “gender” as nothing more than a social construct or psychological reality, which a person may choose at variance with his or her biological reality (see Compendium of the Social Doctrine of the Church, no. 224). (
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Trump: Donald Trump Thinks North Carolina Got It Wrong On Anti-LGBT Bathroom Bill (
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USCCB: Wages should allow workers to support their families (
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Trump: “They were talking about increasing the minimum wage. And whether it’s taxes or minimum wages, if they’re too high, we’re not going to be able to compete with other countries.” (
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USCCB: The Gospel mandate to “welcome the stranger” requires Catholics to care for and stand with newcomers, authorized and unauthorized, including unaccompanied immigrant children, refugees and asylum-seekers, those unnecessarily detained, and victims of human trafficking. (
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Trump: Trump’s immigration plan: Mass deportation (
link) In the interview, Trump expanded on his plan to restrict immigration from areas with high levels of terrorism, insisting that his rhetoric is not a “roll back” of his initial proposal to ban all Muslim immigrants. (
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USCCB: Our Conference offers a distinctive call to seriously address global climate change, (
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Trump: “Obama’s talking about all of this with the global warming and … a lot of it’s a hoax. It’s a hoax. I mean, it’s a money-making industry, OK? It’s a hoax, a lot of it.” (
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Which IMO is why he seemed so disinterested in her speech.After years of having to listen to her he has leRned to just tune her out!
