Posted on 09/25/2005 12:57:52 PM PDT by Diago
I write in response to the article about nominee and practicing Catholic John Roberts. (UB, July 29)
John Roberts opposed equal rights for women as an aide to Justice William Renquist in the 1980s.
He played a pivotal role on President Bush's legal team that secured the presidency for him in 2000.
He wrote that there is no guarantee of privacy in the U.S. Constitution.
He sat on the three-judge panel that overturned the U.S. District Court ruling that the U.S. must treat Guantanamo Bay detainees in accord with the Geneva Conventions.
If this is a practicing Catholic, maybe an atheist judge would be better.
Editor's note: Father Jiminez is an associate pastor of St. Augustin Church in Cleveland
That does appear to be the bottom line for liberals. I would like to see government back off instead of trying to increase its control. But the hurricane season, IMO, will bring the death of Posse Comitatus.
Carolyn
Maybe he would prefer they were treated according to the methods of the Spanish Inquisition?
Probably pro-sodomite too.
Where was this priest during the molesting of young boys.
Did he speak out then or does he just pick and choose his causes.
His positions seems so blatantly at odds with Church teachings that surely somebody has called him on them before.
His positions are wacky but thios is the Diocese of Cleveland. Bishop Pilla was set to appear at a Kerry rally but Kerry declined.
From the Toledo Blade:
http://www.toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20041119/NEWS10/411190430/-1/NEWS
"He said, for example, that he made arrangements for Bishop Anthony M. Pilla of the Cleveland Catholic Archdiocese and the Rev. Edward Glynn, president of John Carroll University, a Jesuit college in Cleveland, to appear at a rally for Mr. Kerry in the pivotal state of Ohio, but the senator passed."
This Father Jiminez wants a liberal activist "catholic" sitting on the supreme court. Probably equates being pro-life with infringing on women's rights.
Yup.
Amazing how much stupidity can be crammed into so few sentences.
I'm sure this priest would have no problem voting for a pro-abortionist shoot-a-teen-in-the-back-to-win-a-purple-heart and a presidential resume like Kerry or even knock-up-a-secretary and have an unfortunate accident like Ted Kennedy.
I wondered why I couldn' find anything. The correct spelling of his name leads to a number of references:
Father Ben Jimenez. He is an activist, liberal Jesuit. He is entitiled to his opinions - fallacious as they may be.
And that "phrase" ("opposed equal rights for women") is the liberal catch-all for "pro-abortion" forces.......
So, why is this liberal priest supporting abortion forces - by lying?
The last complaint means this "priest" opposed Bush's win in FL, and means that he is a viciously pro-abortion pro-Gore supporter.
The people at St. Augustin Church in Cleveland are insulting Austine's philosophical and logical writings he gave to mankind (From inspiration of the risen Christ).
"He wrote that there is no guarantee of privacy in the U.S. Constitution."
Roberts unequivically suppports the norion of a "right to privacy." What he wrote, in Rust, was that there was no right to privacy at issue when mothers kill their babies. This "Catholic" priest is using a judge's finding of a right to life as a pretext for saying he cannot participate in government. As Dennis Miller said about theives who stole Pope John Paul II's Christmas present, "that's about the surest way to hell I can think of."
You've got that right! The Cleveland Diocese is one of the handful of 'ultra liberal' dioceses in the US. As for "Fr." Ben Jimenez, he is a peace activist who has served time in prison.
11 Let the woman learn in silence with all subjection.
12 But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence.
13 For Adam was first formed, then Eve.
14 And Adam was not deceived, but the woman being deceived was in the transgression.-- I Timothy 2:11-14
If this is a practicing Catholic, maybe an atheist judge would be better.
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Practicing pedophile?
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