Jeb Bush calls out Pope Francis on climate change

[spanone]

DERRY, N.H. – During his first campaign stop Tuesday as an official presidential candidate, Jeb Bush took issue with a leaked document authored by Pope Francis in which the Catholic leader calls for a global effort to combat climate change.

“First of all, Pope Francis is the most extraordinary leader. He speaks with such clarity, speaks so differently. He’s drawing people back in the faith, which as a converted Catholic now of 25 years, I think is really cool,” Bush said.

But Bush disagreed with the sentiment Pope Francis expressed in the document. “Numerous scientific studies indicate that the greater part of the global warming in recent decades is due to the great concentration of greenhouse gases … given off above all because of human activity,” Pope Francis wrote in the encyclical, a papal letter to bishops.

“I hope I’m not going to get castigated for saying this by my priest back home, but I don’t get economic policy from my bishops or my cardinals or my pope,” Bush said. “And I’d like to see what he says as it relates to climate change and how that connects to these broader, deeper issue before I pass judgment. But I think religion ought to be about making us better as people and less about things that end up getting in the political realm.”

http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/jeb-bush-calls-out-pope-francis-climate-change

[hollysmom]

1. so it is him and Paul Ryan - do they both want to be the head of the Catholic church?

[riversedge]

2. Hey Jebber--shut of fox news and educate yourself

[hatrack]

3. "Render unto Caesar" - not economic policy? "As you have done to the least of these"? - not?

Whatever, Heb.

[lame54]

6. Is it Heb or Yeb?

[hatrack]

7. It's spelled "Heb" but it's pronounced "Entitled Clueless Rich-Boy Prick"

[lame54]

8. Ahhh - spanish is so hard

[hatrack]

9. Yeah, it's tricky, unless you fill out the voter registration form correctly

If you do, then hey presto! You're fluent!

[olddots]

4. the world will castigate Jeb .....

when we find our tweezers ........... hey thank you , I'm here thru Friday .

[lame54]

5. having water and being able to breathe will make be better as a person

[tavernier]

10. He doesn't think it the place of church leaders

to speak to their parishioners about the role of being good stewards to this planet that God created, where all living things dwell?

I would think that that would come first, as it does in the Bible.

But perhaps Jeb is reading the st. bush version.

[Iliyah]

11. I guess GOPers are all knowing

[Gman]

12. Cafeteria Catholic.

[Backwoodsrider]

13. perfect i hope everyone sees this

The pope is bigger than a rockstar right now and most of the world except our leaders understand we are heating up this place and how to slow it down so we at least have a chance of living into the 2100s.

I imagine people might start to get a bad taste in their mouth when they think of some of our leaders because they see another Bush blowing crap in the air and telling us we love it because its a luxury.

[Johonny]

14. How is addressing climate change not about making us better as people?

The only people that think climate change is "political" are asshats like Bush that pretend that it is so they can do nothing.

[hifiguy]

15. You'd better pray that Pope Frank doesn't smack you down personally

for your brutal display of ignorance, Jebbie. The RCC hasn't been in the biz of rejecting truth in the physical sciences for a while now. You know, the Big Bang, evolution, all those things the RCC accepts but you don't. Apparently you didn't get the memo, but there's so much you don't get the index could fill a library.

[malaise]

16. Whatever JebusEnoughBushes

[spanone]

18. whodda thought....jebbie the science denier, just like his bro george....

remember...no govt stem cell research during juniors term.....

[malaise]

19. Entitled opportunists

Fugg 'em all

[d_r]

17. except for

abortion, gay marriage, school prayer/evolution, what am I missing?

"But I think religion ought to be about making us better as people and less about things that end up getting in the political realm.”

[Drahthaardogs]

20. Jeb, you are either loyal to the Magesterium or you are not.

Remember, no cafeteria Catholics allowed. Or does that only apply when John Kerry runs for office?