Since Obama has said he will announce his Vice-Presidential candidate on Saturday (Biden has said it's not him, which means it's probably Kaine or Bayh) I thought I would read up on Kaine.
I thought this was interesting:
I recognize that he is not a conservative Catholic (the kind most of you call "Catholic Catholic") but I think it would be difficult for people who have not spent a year of our youth as Jesuit missionaries in Central America to say he is not a person of strong faith.
For the Democrats, who have allowed Republicans to define words like faith (possessed by lean, mean pro-life machines,) it gives them a window of opportunity to show that faith is defined as much by the "shalts" as by the "shalt nots..."
The spector of archbishops picking on lay Jesuit missionaries would be akin to bullies knocking down little old ladies, I imagine.
As a June 24 poll shows Catholics
http://abcnews.go.com/sections/us/DailyNews/poll010702.html
While it saddens me to think that so many Catholics think that abortion should be widely available, it makes me mad that we have let a small bunch of mean-spirited gun-toting warmongers define what religion is for the rest of us, and I am hopeful that Kaine may be the one who helps break that stereotype.
I thought this was interesting:
He attended Harvard Law School, taking a year-long break during law school to work with the Jesuit order as a Roman Catholic missionary in Honduras.[4] Kaine is fluent in Spanish from his time in Honduras.
He supports restrictions on abortion, such as requiring parental consent and banning so-called partial-birth abortions in cases where the woman's health is not at risk.[26
I recognize that he is not a conservative Catholic (the kind most of you call "Catholic Catholic") but I think it would be difficult for people who have not spent a year of our youth as Jesuit missionaries in Central America to say he is not a person of strong faith.
For the Democrats, who have allowed Republicans to define words like faith (possessed by lean, mean pro-life machines,) it gives them a window of opportunity to show that faith is defined as much by the "shalts" as by the "shalt nots..."
The spector of archbishops picking on lay Jesuit missionaries would be akin to bullies knocking down little old ladies, I imagine.
As a June 24 poll shows Catholics
by contrast, look like the public at large in their views on abortion, despite the opposition from their church. Fifty-five percent of Catholics say abortion should be generally legal, and 28 percent say their religion is the main factor in their opinion on the subject in both cases about the same as the population at large.
http://abcnews.go.com/sections/us/DailyNews/poll010702.html
While it saddens me to think that so many Catholics think that abortion should be widely available, it makes me mad that we have let a small bunch of mean-spirited gun-toting warmongers define what religion is for the rest of us, and I am hopeful that Kaine may be the one who helps break that stereotype.