There's absolutely Nothing Christian about Ryan. Nothing is sacred to him when it comes to his pocketbook. Wait for the news to pick up on his insider information and how he profited. There's rules/laws in place to prevent politicians from profiting by their positions - he doesn't care. There's religious beliefs that all religions share concerning the poor, the weakest in society - he doesn't care. He is an adopted "white evangelical christian" and a member of the New Right of Paul Weyrich whose ideology diminishes our lives - our value.
Elizabeth D, I think your either dreaming or you got some BAD weed..... I feel the republican Christians have lost their way on the road to the white house. Take form the poor and give to the rich....
Maybe Ryan/Romney will cut off you GENEROUS government aid and let the free market succeed or fail apply to you. We can't legislate morality issues and should as Christians try to change the world as Jesus taught us one heart and mind at a time and keep the Church out of politics where we are manipulated into voting for people who are systematically extracting wealth from the middle class and poor while preaching to us at the same time. Wake up.
"I suspect they are going to take care that the most helpless needy are not hurt."
"I am a poor person who receives an extremely generous amount of government aid myself, and my reaction when Paul Ryan was announced was delight, because he is completely pro life"
How very sad that people choose their leaders, hense the economic policies, based upon an issue totally irrelavent to the health and well being of the nation as a whole. The right to choose a legal, safe abortion truly blinds rational discourse and logic. Nobody wants abortions, but they're going to happen, so it must be safe and legal in a rational world.
If R & R wins and congress begins dismantling programs/benefits that Elizabeth is currently receiving ' I suspect' she may reconsider her opinion of the nuns fighting for similar programs she benefits from?
Romney and Ryan have fought throughout their political lives for economic policies that benefit their own self-interest; what makes low and modest income people like Elizabeth choose a Ryan? You can't eat principles - and democracy won't survive without the middle class. With wedge issue voters like Elizabeth - democracy is bought by special interest groups that put on horrid ads that pander to emotion - just for a vote.
The National Catholic Register interviewed Bishop Morlino who defends Ryan as a serious Catholic who knows and applies Catholic social teaching, in an article published online today. He doesn't endorse him of course, but extremely rightly stands up for him as he's being unfairly attacked. http://www.ncregister.com/daily-news/paul-ryans-bishop-defends-him-amid-attacks-on-his-application-of-church-tea/ This priest who spoke to liberal PRWatch attacking Ryan's ideas, says he never had a political conversation with his parishioner--but Ryan and Bishop Morlino have known each other well and have talked quite a bit about those matters. Ryan also has had some good dialogue with Cardinal Dolan, for instance recently Ryan published a substantive and interesting exchange of correspondence between them on the House budget website http://budget.house.gov/fy2012budget/dolandialogue.htm . Does Fr Umhoefer's opinion have any particular relevance at all?
All the younger priests in our diocese, many older priests, and all the seminarians (we have 32 terrific seminarians) understand perfectly that right to life issues are weightier than budget issues, yet that completely is not even touched on in this article--why not? A Catholic cannot vote in good conscience for a candidate that supports abortion rights, but people could believe either way on the Ryan budget, and anyway the Romney campaign has stated they will have their own new budget proposal. I am 34 and I have been aware since childhood that our country has a huge and unsustainable debt and that has obviously gotten a lot worse, a solution to that is necessary and inherently politically unattractive. I suspect they are going to take care that the most helpless needy are not hurt.
I was at the "bus nuns" political stunt in Janesville (Jonathan Rosenblum would remember me) where a friend and I wanted to bring a religious freedom message--that the sisters clearly saw as antithetical to their own message. I saw in person that a lot of the support for the "nuns on the bus" was frankly decidedly anti-Catholic, and we saw it again back in Madison, where our non political capitol rosary rallies with tons of families and kids and consisting simply of 15 decades of the rosary, were protested by nasty atheist anti-Catholic protesters with signs and shouting about their support for the "nuns on the bus". I have to think this priest is out of touch and does not realize what he is saying besides he is concerned for the poor, which is fine.
I am a poor person who receives an extremely generous amount of government aid myself, and my reaction when Paul Ryan was announced was delight, because he is completely pro life and I think we have really NEVER had at that top level of government as sincere a Catholic as he seems to be. But just as Wisconsinites I think we can be proud of him, the ability, the kind of character and ordinary lovely family he has, let us all acknowledge he is a credit to our state, whether we agree with him about everything or not.
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