Posted on 06/06/2013 4:26:44 PM PDT by NYer
Details from Sports Illustrated:
Retired Ravens center Matt Birk spoke out Thursday morning on Minnesota’s KFAN about his reason for declining an invitation from President Barack Obama to be at the White House during the team’s visit a day earlier.
Birk, a six-time Pro Bowler who was on the Ravens’ 2013 Super Bowl team, said he has “great respect for the office of the Presidency” but decided against going with the team on Wednesday as part of an annual NFL tradition for Super Bowl winners. Birk said he based his decision on a comment the president recently made in which he applauded Planned Parenthood, a leading health care provider of reproductive and sexual health:
“I wasn’t there. I would say this, I would say that I have great respect for the office of the Presidency but about five or six weeks ago, our president made a comment in a speech and he said, ‘God bless Planned Parenthood’…Planned Parenthood performs about 330,000 abortions a year. I am Catholic, I am active in the Pro-Life movement and I just felt like I couldn’t deal with that. I couldn’t endorse that in any way…I’m very confused by [the President's] statement. For God to bless a place where they’re ending 330,000 lives a year? I just chose not to attend.”
"That's not woman, - it's a lizard, baby."
Exactly and we left Cleveland’s colors in Cleveland. The drunkard snook out in the middle of the night stealing our Colors.
She’s a bat-faced biotch!
My hero!
Dolan: I’ll temporarily set aside my responsibilities as a Catholic leader if it earns me a big seat at the banquet. Ah hell, I’ll shirk my faith and morals too if it gets me an elbow rub with my Bamy Buddy.
Just having faith in GOD, as a Christian, and doing what is commanded of you puts you on Obama’s enemies list.
I never thought 40 years after Nixon I would even mentioned the words “enemies list”.
God Bless that Raven’s player!
We have no influence at “ESPN/Fox Sports/CBS Sports, etc” except to turn them off. You can bet they’ll have the homosexual basketball player though. That was a national story in every market even ones with no NBA.
Cardinal Dolan believes in hobnobbing with pro-aborts, getting one’s picture taken laughing one’s head off with pro-aborts, giving Communion to pro-aborts, etc.
Excellent! I hope his courage inspires others.
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