If you're the GOP, you know you have a messaging problem when the Nuns on the Bus leader

[politicaljunkie41910]

Sister Simone Campbell called them a Pro-Birth movement and not a Pro-Life movement, last evening on an appearance on MSNBC. She accused the GOP of not being Pro-Life as the term LIFE encompasses about 30 different areas that the GOP has continuously been deficient in. She found it troubling that the so called "Pro-Life" party latest stance would be to throw all their resources behind fighting gun control legislation when the unrestrained control of these weapons are destroying families across the nation.

Scoreboard:
Sister Simone - 1
Party of God and Guns - 0

[Berlum]

1. I call the right wingers Pro-Totalitarian

because it is so perfectly apt.

[liberal N proud]

2. I have been calling them Pro-Birth for a long time

Using the anti health-care, anti welfare and other things that help people that they are against.

[1StrongBlackMan]

8. Let's not forget ...

the gop's unnatural affection for putting needles into people's arms or strapping them into electric chairs.

[brer cat]

11. It needs to be shouted at every opportunity.

They don't give a damn about the children once they are born, and even in utero if it takes tax $ for prenatal care.

[lifesbeautifulmagic]

3. I would never be disrespectful to the sister

but I think forced birth describes them better.

[Larkspur]

7. Agree

The Rethugs want to force women to carry unwanted pregnancies to term and not help support the mother and child after the birth of the child, yet they will be the first to demonize these women for being welfare queens.

[life long demo]

4. Sister Simone and the Nuns on the bus

They are the real Catholic faith representatives. Love them.

[hamsterjill]

6. +1

I think they are true heroines!!!

[BlueStreak]

9. The only people in the entire universe of Christianity willing to stand with Jesus

I'm an atheist, but these are Christians I deeply admire. The rest of them I can do without.

If you claim a religion, then you damn well had better LIVE that religion. These sisters do.

[uponit7771]

12. +1

[sheshe2]

5. Thank You, Sister Simone! nt

[LeftInTX]

10. I like to call them Pro-Rape

[lobodons]

13. Pro-Death party

Guns, War, anti-health care = Pro-Death Party

[NYC_SKP]

14. K/R (nt)

[okaawhatever]

15. I was suprised to learn recently that 54% of catholics voted for obama. From the article I read

(which was in a catholic paper) they said they interpreted the pope's message as there's more than one issue when it comes to life and catholic values. The Pope is anti-death penalty and anti-war so I guess he did the math and realized the GOP was a net loser when it came to life. Now, let me also point out that there wasn't a direct endorsement, but people generally felt that his support was for Obama.

[burnsei sensei]

16. Compassion for the impoverished

and an advocacy of policies that reduce poverty generally are both Christian objectives-- absolutely central to Christian social understanding.
The Catholic clergyman John Ryan originated the idea of the living wage.
The Catholic Worker movement was no aberration.
I've heard reactionary Catholic responses to the Nuns of the Bus, and the paternalism that suffuses them is positively nauseating.
These women represent the future of Christianity, and its only redemption in the social arena of the West.

[hodger]

17. Pro-Death

I have held in my mind for a long while that these people are pro-death. War=obvious; pro-guns=obvious; death penalty=again obvious. But some tenants are not so obvious. Anti-choice=a form of death of the expectant mother, non-personhood; anti-universal health care=slow death; draconian drug laws=bad needles and living death in prisons; resistance to climate change science=possible death for us all, or at least millions. I haven't thought of all the instances for a long time, but you get my logic. Sorry for the depressing idea, but just had to add to this. For the non-thinkers, more money and maybe two more houses to stay in sometime. Thanks to be that the nuns and we are being honest with ourselves.