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Ex-New York Gov. Mario Cuomo, 82, hospitalized
Associated Press ^ | Nov 29, 2014 8:51 PM EST

Posted on 11/29/2014 9:20:54 PM PST by Olog-hai

Officials say New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s father, former Gov. Mario Cuomo, has been hospitalized.

The governor’s office says Saturday the elder Cuomo is being treated for a heart condition.

A gubernatorial spokeswoman says the 82-year-old former three-term governor is in good spirits and is thankful for the best wishes and support he’s received. …

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To: stanne

Good points.


21 posted on 11/30/2014 1:00:07 AM PST by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: Olog-hai

Ping me when he’s room temperature.


22 posted on 11/30/2014 1:27:12 AM PST by Viking2002
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To: Olog-hai

good,
Take your worthless prima donna bitch of a son with you


23 posted on 11/30/2014 2:30:23 AM PST by Joe Boucher (The F.B.I. Is a division of holders Justice Dept. (Nuff said))
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To: Chode

more proof...
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Excellent comment, Chode!


24 posted on 11/30/2014 3:00:10 AM PST by octex
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To: gasport

Sfacheem!


25 posted on 11/30/2014 3:28:44 AM PST by ronnie raygun (Empty head empty suit = arrogant little bastard)
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To: Veggie Todd
Speaking of pies and the Pie Hole.


26 posted on 11/30/2014 4:26:08 AM PST by wally_bert (There are no winners in a game of losers. I'm Tommy Joyce, welcome to the Oriental Lounge.)
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To: Olog-hai

I won’t miss Mario The Pious as Rush called him.


27 posted on 11/30/2014 4:27:28 AM PST by wally_bert (There are no winners in a game of losers. I'm Tommy Joyce, welcome to the Oriental Lounge.)
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To: Olog-hai

The two governors of New York who created the cesspool of evil were Nelson Rockefeller and Mario Cuomo. Perhaps they will be neighbors soon.


28 posted on 11/30/2014 6:41:50 AM PST by MIchaelTArchangel (Have a wonderful day!)
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To: Olog-hai

No comment as my parents told me if I can’t say anything nice I shouldn’t say anything at all.


29 posted on 11/30/2014 6:52:39 AM PST by ExCTCitizen (I'm ExCTCitizen and I approve this reply. If it does offend Libs, I'm NOT sorry...)
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To: Brown Deer

Cardinal Dolan had time to guffaw and back slap at the al smith dinner with pro abortion pro kill them yourself if they come out alive Obama during the pres election

He has time as leader of the US Catholic Bishops to endorse the Latino wing of the Us bishops in their quest to interrupt mass to tell is we’re bad if we don’t recognize Latinos from foreign countries as better than we greedy Americans who must give up our church to this invasion, which, btw, is against the catechism. Dolan has not had time to my letters explaining that and my disappointment

Cardinal Dolan is promoting gay activists in the annual St Patricks Day Parade. Bill Donahue dropped back from trying to fight it and is put.

Bill Donahue of the Catholic League asked last year for the permit to have a pro life group march as a pro life group if the gays were going to march as gays

The cardinal went back on it and is allowing the gays a
Nod not the pro lifers

Bill Donahue of the catholic league lost.a battle to the cardinal


30 posted on 11/30/2014 8:07:50 AM PST by stanne
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To: stanne

Stop bad mouthing my relatives. I’m sure that plenty could also be said about O’Connor, but I’m not going to go there.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/02/13/will-cardinal-timothy-dolan-be-the-next-pope-pros-and-cons_n_2673426.html


31 posted on 11/30/2014 3:51:20 PM PST by Brown Deer (Pray for 0bama. Psalm 109:8)
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To: Brown Deer

It’s all a matter of public record, Cardinal Dolan being a public figure and all.

refute it with facts, please.


32 posted on 11/30/2014 3:53:44 PM PST by stanne
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To: stanne
Once in the seminary, I quickly learned some harsh truths. Many of my classmates in the New York archdiocesan system were exceptionally narrow-minded, and some were out-and-out bigots who made offensive remarks about Jews and Hispanics, among others, all the while offering pious phrases about Jesus. I protested, but nothing happened. I protested some more, and then told a friend what was going on. My friend wrote to John Cardinal O'Connor and urged him to investigate what sounded like officially approved hate crimes. With reason to fear a media scandal, the archdiocese pretended to discipline the seminary superior who had coddled the bigots, but in reality it merely shuffled him off to a cushy job. I was expelled from the seminary.
33 posted on 11/30/2014 4:07:48 PM PST by Brown Deer (Pray for 0bama. Psalm 109:8)
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To: stanne
Cardinal Dolan is promoting gay activists in the annual St Patricks Day Parade.

NONSENSE!

New York City, N.Y., Sep 19, 2014 / 02:14 am (CNA).- Cardinal Timothy Dolan has clarified his support for the New York City St. Patrick’s Day Parade, while acknowledging some remaining concerns amid the controversy over the parade’s decision to include an LGBT advocacy group.

“I share the hope of the organizers that the March 17 parade will be loyal to its proud heritage of celebrating Irish identity, culture, and contributions – all a beautiful part of Catholicism – thus bringing this great community together in unity and festivity, and look forward to leading it as grand marshal,” the cardinal said in his Sept. 17 column posted on the New York archdiocese’s website.

He explained that he supports the decision to allow an LGBT group to march in the parade under its own banner for the first time this year because he has been told the group will not be advocating homosexual actions, but simply professing a gay identity, which does not violate Catholic teaching.

The St. Patrick’s Day Parade Committee had had a long-standing policy that banned most forms of political signs and self-identification. The policy had drawn protests and political, legal and economic threats from LGBT activists and their allies in politics, media and business who demanded the traditionally Catholic parade include LGBT advocacy groups.

On Sept. 3, the parade announced that Out@NBCUniversal, an employee resource, recruitment and affinity volunteer group for LGBT people and their supporters within the media corporation NBCUniversal, would march in the parade. The announcement drew significant media attention.

In his initial response, the New York cardinal voiced confidence in parade organizers, while clarifying that he had not been involved in making the decision, as he is not part of the parade committee.

In his Sept. 17 reflection, Cardinal Dolan acknowledged that his decision to be the parade’s grand marshal had caused “confusion and dismay” among some observers.

The cardinal said he had “often” expressed support for the former policy, which he found “logical and fair.” He rejected claims that the previous parade policy was “anti-gay,” and said he did not “push, condone, or oppose” the new policy.

He said some of his critics had voiced “thoughtful reasons” against the new policy.

“You observe that the former policy was fair; you worry that this is but another example of a capitulation to an ‘aggressive gay agenda,’ which still will not appease their demands; and you wonder if this could make people think the Church no longer has a clear teaching on the nature of human sexuality,” the cardinal summarized.

“Thank you for letting me know of such concerns. I share some of them.”

The cardinal said that he had considered whether the new policy violates Catholic faith and morals, knowing that if it did then the committee “compromised the parade” and he must object and refuse to participate.

However, Cardinal Dolan said that “being gay” is not a sin. Homosexual actions are sins, like “any sexual relations” outside of marriage.

“So, while actions are immoral, identity is not! In fact, as the Catechism of the Catholic Church reminds us, people with same-sex attraction are God’s children, deserving dignity and respect, never to be treated with discrimination or injustice.”

The cardinal said that the committee’s inclusion of the LGBT group “allows a group to publicize its identity, not promote actions contrary to the values of the Church that are such an essential part of Irish culture.”

He said he had been assured that the group is “not promoting an agenda contrary to Church teaching, but simply identifying themselves as ‘gay people of Irish ancestry’.”

Cardinal Dolan said that parade committee leaders “tried to be admirably sensitive to Church teaching” and worried that the former policy was being interpreted as biased, exclusionary and discriminatory.

“I found their sensitivity wise, and publicly said so,” the cardinal explained, before addressing his critics: “If, in doing so, I have shown an insensitivity to you, I apologize.”

“If the parade committee allowed a group to publicize its advocacy of any actions contrary to Church teaching, I’d object,” he said.

The well-known parade dates back to 1762. The parade’s website says it is the oldest and largest parade in the world, with participants ranging in number from 150,000 to 250,000. The Archbishop of New York traditionally reviews the parade from the steps of St. Patrick’s Cathedral. Many previous archbishops have been grand marshals of the parade.

Supporters of the previous policy included past New York archbishop Cardinal John O’Connor, who died in 2000. The parade committee previously defended the parade against lawsuits aimed to force it to approve LGBT groups’ applications.

In a statement much quoted in the media controversy over the new parade policy, Cardinal O’Connor in 1993 said that he “could never even be perceived as compromising Catholic teaching” by allowing the Irish Lesbian and Gay Organization to march in the parade as an identifiable group.

The Out@NBCUniversal Twitter feed promotes LGBT causes and interests, as well as entertainment-related stories. The feed promotes the company’s support for Pride parades and organizations like the LGBT activist foundation GLAAD. It retweeted an Aug. 29 story from the MSNBC news show The Cycle on LGBT activist Matthew Vines. The tweet read, “Meet the inspirational young man who makes the biblical case for same-sex relationships.”

Bill Donohue, president of the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights, had long supported the parade’s previous policy. He said he had backed the parade’s policy change on the understanding that a pro-life Catholic group would also be allowed to march.

However, he later withdrew the Catholic League’s small contingent, citing the ultimate lack of a pro-life Catholic group in the 2015 parade. He said his choice was not due to the presence of the LGBT advocacy group. Rather, he charged that the parade leadership had not fulfilled a promise to include the pro-life group.

Other controversies have surrounded the parade and its relationship to the Catholic Church. In 1983, New York’s then-archbishop Cardinal Terence Cooke refused to review the beginning of that year’s parade because its grand marshal had been Michael Flannery, an alleged Irish Republican Army weapons smuggler.

34 posted on 11/30/2014 4:16:30 PM PST by Brown Deer (Pray for 0bama. Psalm 109:8)
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To: Brown Deer

from Catholic online, Deal Hudson author (senior editor as well):
Whether or not Donohue and the Catholic League will continue to support the St. Patrick’s Day Parade is contingent on whether or not the committee allows pro-life groups to march under their own banner - not an unreasonable request!

Most of the attention, however, has been focused on Cardinal Dolan’s decision to remain associated with the parade, especially given the memories of Cardinal O’Connor’s vigorous and outspoken tussles with gay activists. In 1993 a federal judge upheld the decision of parade organizers, backed by Cardinal O’Connor, not to allow an Irish gay and lesbian organi-zation to participate in the parade because it violated the free speech rights of the parade’s sponsor.


35 posted on 11/30/2014 4:39:34 PM PST by stanne
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To: wally_bert

NEWS FLASH FOR M.C.

Saint Mario the Pius,

We all we gots to die, us.


37 posted on 11/30/2014 5:29:37 PM PST by Fightin Whitey
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To: stanne
Bill Donohue asks to march in NYC Gay Pride Parade
38 posted on 11/30/2014 5:41:42 PM PST by Brown Deer (Pray for 0bama. Psalm 109:8)
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To: Brown Deer

Yours is from: Jamie Manson | Mar. 20, 2014 Nat’l Cath Reporter

This is from six months later:

By Jessica Chasmar - The Washington Times - Thursday, September 11, 2014

For the first time in 20 years, the president of the the Catholic League has announced the group will not be marching in New York City’s St. Patrick’s Day parade next year.

The decision comes one week after parade organizers lifted a ban on gay groups marching under their own banners. Catholic League President Bill Donohue said the decision was based on parade organizers not allowing a pro-life group to march as well.

Read more: http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/sep/11/betrayed-catholic-league-drops-out-new-york-st-pat/#ixzz3KbvWepSC
Follow us: @washtimes on Twitter


39 posted on 11/30/2014 6:49:08 PM PST by stanne
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To: stanne

So Bill Donohue marched in the Gay Pride Parade, but not St. Patrick’s Day? Did you march with him?


40 posted on 11/30/2014 7:11:12 PM PST by Brown Deer (Pray for 0bama. Psalm 109:8)
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