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Religious Herald - Catholics warn Gingrich, Santorum on race baitingNEW YORK (RNS) -- More than 40 Catholic leaders and theologians have issued an open letter to Catholic candidates Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum, warning them to stop perpetuating ugly racial stereotypes on the campaign trail.
The signers of the open letter, which was released Friday (Jan. 20), cited Gingrichs repeated criticisms of Barack Obama as a food stamp president who encourages government dependency for the poor, especially for African-Americans.
They also criticized Santorums statement that he does not want to make black peoples lives better by giving them somebody elses money. Santorum later said he intended to use a word other than black but did not say what that word would have been.
At Thursdays debate in South Carolina, both Santorum and Gingrich continued to blast the Obama administration for allegedly encouraging the use of food stamps.
Those statements have been criticized for encouraging racially charged associations between blacks and government welfare, and have drawn sharp denunciations from civil rights groups and many pundits.
In their open letter, the Catholic leaders -- many of them associated with progressive and Democratic causes -- say that raising racist caricatures is irresponsible, immoral and unworthy of political leaders.
It looks like race baiting is not apart of Catholic teachings. In fact, it goes against it.
Religious Herald - Catholics warn Gingrich, Santorum on race baitingNEW YORK (RNS) -- More than 40 Catholic leaders and theologians have issued an open letter to Catholic candidates Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum, warning them to stop perpetuating ugly racial stereotypes on the campaign trail.
The signers of the open letter, which was released Friday (Jan. 20), cited Gingrichs repeated criticisms of Barack Obama as a food stamp president who encourages government dependency for the poor, especially for African-Americans.
They also criticized Santorums statement that he does not want to make black peoples lives better by giving them somebody elses money. Santorum later said he intended to use a word other than black but did not say what that word would have been.
At Thursdays debate in South Carolina, both Santorum and Gingrich continued to blast the Obama administration for allegedly encouraging the use of food stamps.
Those statements have been criticized for encouraging racially charged associations between blacks and government welfare, and have drawn sharp denunciations from civil rights groups and many pundits.
In their open letter, the Catholic leaders -- many of them associated with progressive and Democratic causes -- say that raising racist caricatures is irresponsible, immoral and unworthy of political leaders.
Maybe the catholic "leaders" should clean up their own house first. Pedophile clergymen, complicity with the Nazis to exterminate the Jews in Europe, and assisting Nazi war criminals to escape Europe after World War 2, are just three things that come to mind.
Hypocrites.
Maybe those clerics should have a little sit-down with Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson, the DNC, MSLSD and the Boiking himself, before they point fingers at anyone else.
I eagerly await hearing about Newt putting the Clergy "in their place".
Maybe so...I still find absolutely nothing race baiting about dubbing Boiking "the food stamp president".Maybe those clerics should have a little sit-down with Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson, the DNC, MSLSD and the Boiking himself, before they point fingers at anyone else.
They wrote to a bunch of the left wingers back in 2008. I read the article about it one of the Catholic media.
Sorry to burst that particular bubble.
I am not the least impressed or persuaded by what the Catholic leadership thinks about any of the candidates. Any group that will harbor and enable pedophiles loses all credibility with me...forever!
Things are fucked up when the truth is now race baiting. Honestly, Gingrich was a thousand percent right.
I eagerly await hearing about Newt putting the Clergy "in their place".
Religion
Gingrich was raised a Lutheran.[155] In graduate school he was a Southern Baptist, and he converted to Catholicism, Bisek's faith, on March 29, 2009.[156][157] He said "over the course of several years, I gradually became Catholic and then decided one day to accept the faith I had already come to embrace." The moment when he decided to officially become a Catholic was when he saw Pope Benedict XVI on his visit to the United States in 2008: "Catching a glimpse of Pope Benedict that day, I was struck by the happiness and peacefulness he exuded. The joyful and radiating presence of the Holy Father was a moment of confirmation about the many things I had been thinking and experiencing for several years."[158] Gingrich has stated that he has developed a greater appreciation for the role of faith in public life following his conversion, and believes that the United States has become too secular. At a 2011 appearance in Columbus, Ohio, he said, "In America, religious belief is being challenged by a cultural elite trying to create a secularized America, in which God is driven out of public life."[99]
I am not the least impressed or persuaded by what the Catholic leadership thinks about any of the candidates. Any group that will harbor and enable pedophiles loses all credibility with me...forever!
I agree that their addiction to young boys is disgusting and appalling. Now, only if we could persuade California Girl of this.
I am not the least impressed or persuaded by what the Catholic leadership thinks about any of the candidates. Any group that will harbor and enable pedophiles loses all credibility with me...forever!
I agree that their addiction to young boys is disgusting and appalling. Now, only if we could persuade California Girl of this.
If you can provide some actual post of mine supporting your comment - that would be cool. But you cannot, because I don't. But please feel free to create your own reality to justify your moronic comment.
I agree that their addiction to young boys is disgusting and appalling. Now, only if we could persuade California Girl of this.
If you can provide some actual post of mine supporting your comment - that would be cool. But you cannot, because I don't. But please feel free to create your own reality to justify your moronic comment.
Your reaction to my post stating that the Catholic Church has some addiction issues with young boys speaks volumes.
I don't need your words, when your actions speaks for themselves.
Things are fucked up when the truth is now race baiting. Honestly, Gingrich was a thousand percent right.
Except of course, that he wasn't.
Things are fucked up when the truth is now race baiting. Honestly, Gingrich was a thousand percent right.
Except of course, that he wasn't.
What part of blacks being 2.5 times more likely to be on food stamps then whites is not true?You can't seriously reduce entailments without doing such! Newt is right.
What's wrong with a republican to fight for jobs and getting people off of such? That's the very platform republican run on in the first place. REDUCING government, Reducing taxes and getting people off of welfare.
Except of course, that he wasn't.
What part of blacks being 2.5 times more likely to be on food stamps then whites is not true?You can't seriously reduce entailments without doing such! Newt is right.
What's wrong with a republican to fight for jobs and getting people off of such? That's the very platform republican run on in the first place. REDUCING government, Reducing taxes and getting people off of welfare.
Actually, 57 percent of the SNAP recepients are white.
Thanks for playing.
