Jeb Bush Thinks His Faith Shouldn’t Inform His Position On Climate Change. Except When He Does.

[cbayer]

http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2015/06/18/3671027/jeb-bush-faith-climate/

BY JACK JENKINS POSTED ON JUNE 18, 2015 AT 8:19 AM


credit:AP

Former Florida Governor and Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush doesn’t want his Catholic faith to inform his politics. Well, except for when he does.

Speaking at a town hall campaign event in New Hampshire on Tuesday, Bush, who converted to Catholicism 20 years ago, all but dismissed the pope’s new encyclical on the environment, which was leaked to the press on Monday and officially released on Thursday. In an apparent rejection of the document’s impressively comprehensive, faith-based call for Catholics to help slow the effects of climate change, Bush said that he thinks religion “ought to be about making us better as people and less about things that end up getting into the political realm.”

“I hope I’m not going to get castigated for saying this by my priest back home,” Bush added, “but I don’t get my economic policy from my bishops or my cardinals or my pope.”

While Bush seems suddenly eager to distance himself from the pontiff, he was singing a very different tune just last month, when he offered the commencement address at Liberty University. After specifically championing Pope Francis as an exemplar of the Christian faith, Bush pushed back on the idea that a politician should unconditionally cleave their faith from their legislative agenda.

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[pangaia]

1. Liberty f*****g University!!

It's a calming drug for delusional people.

[cbayer]

2. It's really out there, I agree.

Their law school is the most disturbing part, imo.

[cleanhippie]

6. What, no scolding him for calling believers delusinal?

but instead an agreement?

What gives, cbayer?

[cbayer]

7. I agree with him about Liberty University.

That's all that gives.

[cleanhippie]

8. You used to be so passionate about the word delusional being used to describe believers.

You don't seem to have that passion anymore, considering you didn't even mention it.

[cbayer]

9. You just can't help but make it personal, can you?

I made a mistake. See you.

[cleanhippie]

10. Bye. It was nice while it lasted.

[trotsky]

11. Here, you should use this approved response:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1218&pid=126975
"Spare me... I don't give a shit whether you put me back on ignore or not. That's entirely up to you and won't alter a thing about how I do or do not respond to you."

[cleanhippie]

18. Well, you know what they say. Once a hypocrite...

[pangaia]

12. "believers"

This word can describe so many nuances it is almost meaningless..

[tanyev]

3. Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a cudgel in my hands...

[cbayer]

4. His word is whatever is expedient.

[trotsky]

5. But neither do liberal politicians like Joe Biden or John Kerry.

They support abortion rights despite what their Catholic faith says about that.

[Goblinmonger]

13. Given that you and others here completely ignore Frank's sexism and homophobia

perhaps it shouldn't be a surprise to you that others ignore different things that Frank says.

[hrmjustin]

14. He is bought and paid for by the polluters.

[Yorktown]

15. His family was bankrolled to invade Iraq

The Bush family can't very well suddenly backtrack against the interests of polluters, can it?

[cbayer]

17. Them and a whole slew of other industries.

[edhopper]

16. When he makes the rounds

on the Sunday morning talkfests, will he be called on this hypocrisy?
(That's rhetorical, of course he won't)