Posted on 04/25/2015 10:13:36 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Michigan Republican Tim Walberg was a Christian minister before winning election to Congress in 2010 — and he hasn't entirely changed jobs.
In a rare Tuesday night committee meeting at which House Republicans advanced a bill curtailing reproductive rights, Walberg took the even rarer step of lecturing his colleagues on Scripture.
"It is clearly taught by Jesus the Christ himself," Walberg preached to members of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, "for those of us who believe in him — and I understand and I accept the fact that there are those who don't — but he said render unto Caesar what's Caesar's and God what's God's, and I think that's an important consideration for us on this committee tonight."
Claiming Jesus in a political dispute is inflammatory, particularly when you accuse your opponents, as Walberg did, of "a continued attack on religion." The appeal to theocracy was even more incendiary because it was used to justify a bid to strike down a new District of Columbia law protecting women from workplace discrimination if they receive fertility treatments, use birth control, or have abortions.
Rep. Gerry Connolly, D-Va., took issue with Walberg. "I studied for the Roman Catholic ministry," he responded. "But I certainly don't think that it is my job to propound the dogma of my church as a member of Congress."
Replied Pastor Walberg: "While I will not wear my religion on my sleeve, I will not hide my faith."
Clearly.
The late committee meeting, which ended after 7 p.m., was bound to get little media attention. This was probably no accident, because the committee (the same one that three years ago refused to seat Sandra Fluke on an all-male panel about birth control) was causing yet more woman trouble for the party....
(Excerpt) Read more at columbian.com ...
In a rare Tuesday night committee meeting at which House Republicans advanced a bill curtailing reproductive rights …Abortion is not, never was, and never will be a “reproductive right”. It stops reproduction by means of bloodshed, therefore it is the greatest curtailment to the right (privilege?) of reproduction.
Why is it that “reproductive rights” always involve not reproducing?
The right to reproduce is being curbed?
I though that was only in China.
Reproductive rights: The new code words for “KILL THE BABY”.
Not only that .. but Abortion is clearly and convincingly LINKED TO BREAST CANCER.
Yeah! Imagine using the Gospel as a source of morality! The NERVE ...!
Don’t babies in the womb have reproductive rights? They have reproductive organs, don’t they?
Meanwhile when dems use god its never said to be incendiary.
Because “reproductive rights” are about removing impediments to untrammelled promiscuity.
“Rep. Gerry Connolly, D-Va., took issue with Walberg. “I studied for the Roman Catholic ministry,” he responded. “But I certainly don’t think that it is my job to propound the dogma of my church as a member of Congress.””
Abortion is Catholic Dogma?
Hey Dana!
Pretending Christ is unconcerned about killing babies as a matter of your personal convenience, is ETERNALLY INCENDIARY!!!
This is one of the guys who would gladly help execute Hillary Clinton’s plan of making Americans change their religious beliefs in order to accommodate the bloody desires of the baby killers. So long as it can be couched in something benign sounding like “reproductive rights,” murder would be just dandy.
Using abortion and birth control to win elections is incendiary.
So is inciting anti Christianity
Pelosi, Kennedy, Biden ... There are dozens of high-ranking democrat “Catholics”.
Does anybody have a complete list?
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