Top Catholic Magazine Rescinds Kavanaugh Endorsement

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The Editors: It is time for the Kavanaugh nomination to be withdrawn

They previously had endorsed the nomination of Kavanaugh but have now withdrawn that endorsement.

If Senate Republicans proceed with his nomination, they will be prioritizing policy aims over a woman’s report of an assault. Were he to be confirmed without this allegation being firmly disproved, it would hang over his future decisions on the Supreme Court for decades and further divide the country. Even if one thinks that Dr. Blasey's allegations are not credible, demonstrating them not to be would require further investigations and testimony. This would include calling additional witnesses and assessing further allegations against Judge Kavanaugh from other women, to which Republicans on the committee have been unwilling to commit and which would be divisive in any case.
 
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I'm actually shocked that America magazine would ever have endorsed Kavanaugh in the first place. They are quite liberal. So their withdrawl of support doesn't mean much for what Catholic opinion makers are thinking.

In the past decade millions have been paid out to the victims of sexual abuse by priests. Many of those victims came forward many decades after the fact, without a lot of physical evidence to corroborate. Some of those victims were in their teens, not small children.

The National Catholic Reporter also wrote an article supportive of Dr. Ford & critical of Kavanaugh and Trump.
 
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The Editors: It Is time for the Kavanaugh nomination to be withdrawn

I wonder how they feel about the pedophiles in their midst.
 
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I wonder how they feel about the pedophiles in their midst.

What pedophiles? You actually believe 35 year old accusations now?
 
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In the past decade millions have been paid out to the victims of sexual abuse by priests. Many of those victims came forward many decades after the fact, without a lot of physical evidence to corroborate. Some of those victims were in their teens, not small children.
What does that have to do with the topic at hand? Smells like a cheap shot against the Catholic Church having nothing to do at all with anyone endorsing or not endorsing Kavanaugh. And it's billions with a 'b' and not mere millions.
The National Catholic Reporter also wrote an article supportive of Dr. Ford & critical of Kavanaugh and Trump.
That wouldn't be a surprise either as they wear their liberalism on their sleeve far more than their Catholicism. What WOULD have been significant was if the National Catholic Register would have written such a thing instead of the National Catholic Reporter.
 
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That's a good point, if there isn't an investigation that can please the majority of people, it would be divisive and undermine the Court's credibility.

But alot of damage is already done. Kavanaugh went on a political attack yesterday, becoming even conspiratorial in a way that was not called for. It's clear he's no fan of "the left", for sure, which means he's sort of played his hand. Something that judicial appointees tend to try not to do so overtly.
 
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That's a good point, if there isn't an investigation that can please the majority of people, it would be divisive and undermine the Court's credibility.

That's a good point... incidentally, who, if anyone, would benefit if SCOTUS' credibility went in the tank?

But alot of damage is already done. Kavanaugh went on a political attack yesterday, becoming even conspiratorial in a way that was not called for.

I half expected him to pull off his mask and be Donald himself underneath.

It's clear he's no fan of "the left", for sure, which means he's sort of played his hand. Something that judicial appointees tend to try not to do so overtly.

A pity the Senate approves of such naked partisanship.
 
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What pedophiles? You actually believe 35 year old accusations now?

It makes a world of difference when there's a pattern of supposed crimes (i.e. like these priests.. or high profile cases like Harvey Weinstein). Not isolated ones.
 
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It makes a world of difference when there's a pattern of supposed crimes (i.e. like these priests.. or high profile cases like Harvey Weinstein). Not isolated ones.

3 accusers... all isolated. Got it.
 
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3 accusers... all isolated. Got it.

No, you don't get it. If it was a pattern, it would have continued in his adult life. Especially a person this egregious, where he's reached near cartoon villain levels. It'd be a "worst kept secret" in DC at best. Yet the number of people defending him (including many women) far outnumber this.
 
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No, you don't get it. If it was a pattern, it would have continued in his adult life.

Not if he stopped. Nobody's claiming that he's a rapist now...

Especially a person this egregious, where he's reached near cartoon villain levels. It'd be a "worst kept secret" in DC at best. Yet the number of people defending him (including many women) far outnumber this.

Meanwhile, I can name hundreds of women Jack the Ripper didn't kill...
 
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I'm actually shocked that America magazine would ever have endorsed Kavanaugh in the first place. They are quite liberal. So their withdrawl of support doesn't mean much for what Catholic opinion makers are thinking.
It's interesting that you would consider the magazine quite liberal when it adheres to Catholic doctrine and most consider the Church conservative.
 
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I think he was gentlemanly, compared to what I would have said to that pompous congress, had they slandered me and put my family through those filthy things they were openly saying.

We have no reason to believe he is innocent.
 
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It's interesting that you would consider the magazine quite liberal when it adheres to Catholic doctrine and most consider the Church conservative.

Catholics are a little bit more liberal than evangelicals in that they don't always adhere to every single aspect of republicanism.

I think it is the focus on doing good works rather than simply having faith as has always been the divide between catholic and protestant.
 
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Catholics are a little bit more liberal than evangelicals in that they don't always adhere to every single aspect of republicanism.
I would agree but that is different than being "quite liberal" but Catholics vary politically, from far right to far left. As an example, of the four Supreme Court justices who are on the court presently, three are considered Conservative and one Liberal with the present nominee, Kavanaugh, being Conservative. Of course, far right Conservatives look at moderate Republicans as being quite liberal. :)

I think it is the focus on doing good works rather than simply having faith as has always been the divide between catholic and protestant.
Us Catholics call it being Christian. Living as Jesus called.

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It's interesting that you would consider the magazine quite liberal when it adheres to Catholic doctrine and most consider the Church conservative.
"When it adheres to Catholic doctrine" is debatable.
 
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What pedophiles? You actually believe 35 year old accusations now?

Just to be clear, I would not believe a 35 year old accusation against a Catholic priest if the accuser had never been a Catholic, and couldn't prove ever having stepped foot into the same Church as the priest.

An accusation doesn't amount to truth..there has to be some basis for belief.
 
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