Texas bishop criticizes Planned Parenthood for anti-Mexican ethnic slur against Dem. state senator

[RandySF]

The Bishop of Brownsville, Texas has criticized Planned Parenthood and pro-choice political organizations in the state for use of anti-Mexican ethnic slur in its campaign against the reelection of pro-life state Senator Eddie Lucio, Jr.

“While not surprised that Planned Parenthood would attack State Senator Eddie Lucio’s pro-life record, I am deeply discouraged that Texas Freedom Network and others would join in this malicious kind of attack, using such derogatory language to disparage him and his family,” Bishop Daniel Flores said in a July 3 statement.

The statement came after the Planned Parenthood Texas Votes PAC and the Texas Freedom Network reportedly used the term “Sucio Lucio” to describe the state senator in a direct mailing campaign.

“‘Sucio’ is an unacceptable word when associated with a Mexican American family name. Maybe they know not what such words mean in South Texas. Now more than ever it is imperative that words be used with care, with an awareness of their impact,” Flores added.

Lucio’s campaign issued a press release July 2, in response “to a recent direct-mail piece issued by Planned Parenthood & Texas Freedom Network attacking Sen. Eddie Lucio, Jr. using the term 'Sucio Lucio,' to describe the Hispanic senator and his traditional Catholic values of support for life.”

The release included a statement from state Sen. Lucio’s son, Texas state Representative Eddie Lucio III.

“I’m truly disheartened, given all that’s happening in the world today, that Planned Parenthood, Texas Freedom Network, Texas Rising, and others continue to disparage our family name with derogatory and racial slurs. These big special-interests groups from outside our border community should comprehend the deeper connotations behind the word 'sucio' ('dirty Mexican') and the association with a person of Hispanic descent,” the younger Lucio said.



https://angelusnews.com/news/nation/texas-bishop-flores-criticizes-planned-parenthood-for-anti-mexican-ethnic-slur/

[EarnestPutz]

1. Looked up "sucio" and found out that it means "dirty" as in an immoral sense.

Got to agree that PP shouldn't have gone there. He's not immoral, he just thinks that his morality trumps that of a lot of women.

[NutmegYankee]

2. Those that oppose women's right have no morality; Only depravity.

[SoonerPride]

3. +1

Yeah, he is immoral.

[rownesheck]

4. No one person's belief

in an invisible man floating around in the sky, should override another person's health decisions and science. This lucio person deserves it. I can't abide these jesus freaks anymore, regardless of what political party they align with.

[ananda]

5. Yep

Women have taken some hard hits these
past few years; even SCOTUS ruled against
women re birth control.

[musette_sf]

9. It's exactly like "dirty" in every sense,

meaning it is used to denote dirt (a dirty dress, vestido sucio), or used in an immoral sense.

That being said, as far as I'm concerned, if you are an enemy of my sacred civil, human, and Constitutional rights, then you are most definitely sucio, in both senses of the word. You're filth inside and out.

[Rstrstx]

6. That's been his nickname down here for years

He's an unnecessarily conservative Democrat in an area that a Republican can't win. I'll never forgive him for being the deciding vote that allowed the anti-gay marriage Proposition 2 to proceed to a ballot referendum in 2005; he was the only Democrat to support it if I recall correctly. His son is not quite as conservative but that's not saying much.

[RandySF]

7. Any sense of how that runoff will go Tuesday?

[Rstrstx]

8. He'll probably win

He got 49.8% in the primary. I still voted for Stapleton-Barrera and still think the Catholic Church should keep their noses out of politics.

[musette_sf]

10. Get bent, Flores.

How DARE you make vile and derogatory disparagements against innocent female citizens, and the free and unencumbered exercise of their sacred civil, human and Constitutional rights?

Vicious bigots who seek to erase those sacred rights from innocent women are anti-American. And those vicious, unacceptable bigots are SUCIO, filthy in mind and soul. Planned Parenthood and Texas Freedom Network speak the truth about you, and about Dad And Lad SUCIO Lucio. All of you can take your malicious, sexist slurs, and shove them where the sun doesn't shine.