Pope Francis, according to Limbaugh: "Every Catholic should vote for the Democrat Party."

[pnwmom]

Yes, that about sums it up. Thanks, Rush.



http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/a-test-of-faith-pope-francis-puts-2016-gop-hopefuls-on-the-defensive/2015/06/18/bc3af116-15d2-11e5-9518-f9e0a8959f32_story.html

While social justice has long been a pillar of Catholic doctrine, that kind of rhetoric in the document sounds anti-capitalist to many on the right.

“Essentially, what this papal encyclical is saying is that every Catholic should vote for the Democrat Party,” conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh said Tuesday, using the name for such a document from the pope. “That’s what it is. How else do you interpret it when the pope comes out and sounds like Al Gore on global warming and climate change?”

Catholic politicians face a balancing act, given the popularity of a pope who had an approval rating of 86 percent among U.S. Catholics and 64 percent among Americans overall in a recent poll conducted by the Pew Research Center.

[onehandle]

1. Way ahead of you, you drug addled gasbag. nt

[pnwmom]

2. I agree -- open carry IS a form of terrorism. n/t

[DFW]

3. Well, since Catholics are supposed to accept that the Pope is infallible.......

We just won the 2016 election. Fine with me!

[pnwmom]

6. Well, you're half right.

Catholics are not supposed to accept that the Pope is infallible except on the rare occasion (only twice in Church history) when he has declared a belief "ex cathedra."

[Cal33]

13. You're right. The Pope can even be teaching religion to children, say, and make mistakes. It

is difficult for people to understand how very limited in scope his infallibility really is.

[jomin41]

4. Your lips to god's ear, rushbo. nt

[Yavin4]

5. Finally, he says something sensical

Watch out for flying pigs.

[Arkana]

7. Yes, Rush. I'm sure that as an Argentine living in fucking VATICAN CITY

that he is very concerned with how American Catholics choose to cast their votes.

You miserable, fat, greasy fuckwad.

[Hekate]

8. How long before that fool resurrects all the old anti-Catholic canards from the KKK days?

It's always been there, just below the surface. Pro-life fundagelicals made common cause with American Catholics over the issue of abortion, but it hasn't gone deeper than that. Now we've got a new Pope of the Poor preaching economic justice, and even going so far as to say that American fundamentalism is a "sickness" -- I see the outward friendship unravelling swiftly between the two groups.

[pnwmom]

9. I will be very happy to see that alliance unravel. n/t

[Rosa Luxemburg]

10. That's around 80 million votes?

[L. Coyote]

11. God speaks through the oddest of creatures too.

Because he is a kind and loving god, not a hateful, asshat, buffoon, blowhard, toad of a god, even Rush can help pass along the will of the lord.

[craigmatic]

12. Him saying this about the Pope makes it harder on republicans. Catholics just might shift more to

dems after the new statements by Francis.