Wanna bet Cardinal Dolan gets disinvited also?!!?
If you’d like to be on or off, please FR mail me.
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Not that I'd believe them if they left the language in, but someone made the decision to remove it, which is significant.
“.......the Obama-Biden campaign found itself in a dilemma when Cardinal Dolan, after accepting an invitation to provide a benediction at the Republican convention, offered to do the same at the Democratic convention. Initially, the campaign declined. A few days later, it reversed course.
That is probably good politics. With Ohio, Wisconsin and even Michigan and Pennsylvania now in play, attracting Catholic votes could prove critical.
Still, giving the cardinal the microphone at the convention has its price. Key Democratic constituencies are deeply invested in a strategy of tarring as misogynists and bigots those who reject liberal beliefs and policies. These constituencies are not exactly enthusiastic about having their party undercut that strategy or blunt its force.
.......Some conservative Catholics are upset that Cardinal Dolan offered to appear at the Democratic convention. They fear his presence will inadvertently signal that it is acceptable from a Catholic perspective to oppose (as the Democratic Party does) virtually all meaningful protections for the child in the womb, or the historic view of marriage as a conjugal union.
Their concerns are understandable. But perhaps these critics are failing to consider how the Democrats are, whether they like it or not, sending an implicit signal of their own. The cardinal’s presence confounds efforts by the abortion-rights and gay-marriage movements to stigmatize and marginalize those who refuse to fall into line.
Some on the left fear that Cardinal Dolan will use the platform that the Democrats are providing to preach about the right to life of unborn children and the importance of preserving traditional marriage. He doesn’t have to do that. He will make his point and achieve his goal just by showing up.”
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10000872396390443847404577629132692725436.html