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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsReligious Leaders Slam Ryan For Using Catholic Faith To Justify Cutting Programs That Help The Poor
Religious Leaders Slam Ryan For Using Catholic Faith To Justify Cutting Programs That Help The Poor
By Travis Waldron
House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (R-WI) told Christian Broadcast Network earlier this week that the House GOPs budget, which he wrote, was driven by his Catholic faith. A persons faith is central to how they conduct themselves in public and in private, Ryan said, and Catholic principles are what led him to cut programs for the poor so as to keep people from becoming dependent on government.
As ThinkProgress noted Tuesday, Ryans budget seems to ignore Catholic social teaching that calls for protecting the poor and improving access to food, jobs, health care, housing, and the social safety net. And now religious leaders are making the same case. The founder of the PICO National Network, the largest national coalition of religious congregations, slammed Ryans claim of adherence to Catholic teaching as the height of hypocrisy in a release circulated Wednesday:
By these measures, the release says, the Ryan budget is a severe failure, noting that it cuts Medicare, Medicaid, Pell Grants, food stamps, and other programs that help vulnerable working families make it through tough times and live better lives, while giving massive tax breaks to the wealthiest Americans and corporations. Overall, 62 percent of Ryans budget cuts come from programs that benefit the poor. The mission of the Church is to bring good news to the poor and to protect the vulnerable, not to justify the impoverishment of the very young, the very old and the sick in order to enrich the wealthy, the release says.
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http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2012/04/12/463211/catholic-leaders-ryan-budget/
By Travis Waldron
House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (R-WI) told Christian Broadcast Network earlier this week that the House GOPs budget, which he wrote, was driven by his Catholic faith. A persons faith is central to how they conduct themselves in public and in private, Ryan said, and Catholic principles are what led him to cut programs for the poor so as to keep people from becoming dependent on government.
As ThinkProgress noted Tuesday, Ryans budget seems to ignore Catholic social teaching that calls for protecting the poor and improving access to food, jobs, health care, housing, and the social safety net. And now religious leaders are making the same case. The founder of the PICO National Network, the largest national coalition of religious congregations, slammed Ryans claim of adherence to Catholic teaching as the height of hypocrisy in a release circulated Wednesday:
Its the height of hypocrisy for Rep. Ryan to claim that his approach to the budget is shaped by Catholic teaching and values, said Fr. John Baumann, S.J., founder of PICO National Network. [...] A central moral measure of any budget proposal is how it affects the least of these (Matthew 25). The needs of those who are hungry and homeless, without work or in poverty should come first.
By these measures, the release says, the Ryan budget is a severe failure, noting that it cuts Medicare, Medicaid, Pell Grants, food stamps, and other programs that help vulnerable working families make it through tough times and live better lives, while giving massive tax breaks to the wealthiest Americans and corporations. Overall, 62 percent of Ryans budget cuts come from programs that benefit the poor. The mission of the Church is to bring good news to the poor and to protect the vulnerable, not to justify the impoverishment of the very young, the very old and the sick in order to enrich the wealthy, the release says.
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http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2012/04/12/463211/catholic-leaders-ryan-budget/
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Religious Leaders Slam Ryan For Using Catholic Faith To Justify Cutting Programs That Help The Poor (Original Post)
ProSense
Apr 2012
OP
And how he refused to heal the lepers because their condition was pre-existing...
Moonwalk
Apr 2012
#7
opihimoimoi
(52,426 posts)1. Ryan plan 2.0 = Fail
Demit
(11,238 posts)2. Well, sure, remember how Jesus gave the multitudes vouchers for loaves & fishes?
These people really are a perversion.
3waygeek
(2,034 posts)3. And how he invited the moneychangers into the temple? n/t
Moonwalk
(2,322 posts)7. And how he refused to heal the lepers because their condition was pre-existing...
freshwest
(53,661 posts)4. The lost books of the Bible revealed! The Book Of Saint Ayn of Rand!
Ryan has his aides read Rand's books and has her on his FB page. Will she be canonized by the Church?
Good work there, Friar Baumann, I hope someone's listening to you higher up.
EC
(12,287 posts)5. So I wonder how the preaching is going to sound now?
they still going to preach the repub values?
ChairmanAgnostic
(28,017 posts)6. As anti religion as I am, I still wonder. . .
What took you jerks so fucking long?