Catholic Bishops Say Ryan Budget Fails Moral Test

[NAO]

WASHINGTON (RNS) A week after House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan claimed his Catholic faith inspired the Republicans' cost-cutting budget plan, the nation's Catholic bishops reiterated their demand that the federal budget protect the poor, and said the GOP measure "fails to meet these moral criteria."

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/04/18/ryan-budget-catholic_n_1434919.html?ref=politics&ir=Politics

[HubertHeaver]

1. The Bishops need excommunicate Mr. Ryan.

The only way to get his attention.

[Worried senior]

2. This would mean more to me

if the catholic bishops weren't so hypocritical in regards to other situations such as child abuse, hatred of gays and sticking their noses in the government.

[NAO]

3. All it means to me is that they take their marching orders from the Vatican

They have been publicly bashing Obama in Sunday Mass and crying about their "persecution" ever since the birth control mandate.

I'm just glad to see the Republicans suffering abuse from them too. Maybe the both parties in the US will get fed up with religious bullying.

I'd like to hear somebody stand up against this like Barry Goldwater did in 1981:

"There is no position on which people are so immovable as their religious beliefs. There is no more powerful ally one can claim in a debate than Jesus Christ, or God, or Allah, or whatever one calls this supreme being. But like any powerful weapon, the use of God's name on one's behalf should be used sparingly. The religious factions that are growing throughout our land are not using their religious clout with wisdom. They are trying to force government leaders into following their position 100 percent. If you disagree with these religious groups on a particular moral issue, they complain, they threaten you with a loss of money or votes or both. I'm frankly sick and tired of the political preachers across this country telling me as a citizen that if I want to be a moral person, I must believe in 'A,' 'B,' 'C,' and 'D.' Just who do they think they are? And from where do they presume to claim the right to dictate their moral beliefs to me? And I am even more angry as a legislator who must endure the threats of every religious group who thinks it has some God-granted right to control my vote on every roll call in the Senate. I am warning them today: I will fight them every step of the way if they try to dictate their moral convictions to all Americans in the name of 'conservatism.' "

Barry Goldwater, as quoted in Congressional Record, September 16, 1981

[IndyJones]

4. Pot, meet kettle. I do not support the Ryan Budget, but let's be honest here.

The RCC is not really on firm ground when it comes to judging morality.

[hedgehog]

5. Call me when the letter is read from the pulpit on Sunday!