Posted on 04/12/2007 8:22:49 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
1994 Rudy: "I will work as hard to protect someone's right to believe in God as he or she sees fit -- or not to believe in God."
The Brody File has dug up a Rudy quote from the past that makes for an interesting discussion. In a 1994 New York Times article, Rudy said this:
"As the Mayor of New York City, I will work as hard to protect someone's right to believe in God as he or she sees fit -- or not to believe in God -- because I realize that my right to practice my religion depends completely on my commitment to defend someone else's right to practice theirs, or to practice no religion at all."
The article goes on to mention his views on Catholicism.
"Mr. Giuliani, who as a young man once considered joining the priesthood, noted that many Catholics today "feel that in some intellectual or quasi-intellectual circles, they are demeaned." He said he had also heard Catholics say that "Catholic-bashing has become part of the dogma of what they regard as the politically correct." And he said: "Indeed, I do detect among some who accept the most recent intellectual fads a disdain for those who share in the more orthodox faiths, whether Christian or Jewish or Muslim. In my humble opinion -- and this is meant as an observation, not a challenge -- that disdain emerges from an almost subconscious conclusion that to believe in God too fervently betrays a certain intellectual infirmity." He compared such a view with the "difficult time that some believers have in drawing the line between belief in dogma and respect for those who disagree." He called for believers and unbelievers alike to avoid "the arrogance of having no doubts."
Read the rest of the article here. It's interesting to hear Rudy talk about his faith. Clearly, there is a deeper story there. It makes me wonder what his upbringing was like and how his Catholic faith helped shaped who he is today. It's something worth exploring. I interview Giuliani next week. Maybe I'll pursue this with him. Got questions for him? Email them to me.
Well I’m sure the Radical Muslims who take over this nation will make sure abortion will be outlawed....
Rudy should be running for President for the Left.
I’m finding fewer and fewer issues I agree with him on.
I really think he’s running for the wrong party.
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Yeah, if I had a nickel for every Catholic politician who "thought about entering the priesthood" I'd be retired.
Guns, gays and abortion..the right wing wacko trifecta.
“Guns, gays and abortion..the right wing wacko trifecta.”
How many times must I say FR is a conservative site? We do not support abortionism, homosexualism, feminisim, environmentalism, gun control, liberalism, socialism, etc, etc, etc. When I say I suspect we will become even more conservative than we already are, possibly via attrition if nothing else, what do you think I’m referring to? When FR starts pushing hard and I mean hard against abortion, gay marriage, homosexual education forced on our school children, pandering to illegal aliens, gun control, McCaine-Feingold type usurpation, global warming, etc, etc, even if supported or advanced by the GOP, then I fully suspect certain types of moderate/liberal Republican supporters are probably going to be a little uncomfortable here. We will be fighting for traditional American conservatism no matter who we have to fight against and I’m afraid that’s going to piss off some folks.
And I’ll borrow a slogan used by the NFRA that I realy like:
“We are the ‘Republican’ Wing of the Republcan Party!”
~Jim Robinson~
Right wing wacko?
I pray to my bookshelf. Is that absurd or just faith?
“how his Catholic faith helped shaped who he is today
You can’t blame the Catholic Church for Rudy Giuliani being as liberal as he is. There are a LOT of good, devoted Catholics out there.”
Maybe you can ... I know far too many Catholic-educated liberals, and as a Catholic I recognize far too many instances of Catholic church promoting bad (anti-free-market) economics in the name of good theology.
Calm down...I was just fooling with ya.
“The anti-Rudy folks with the hate complex are just the latest edition of the ‘Buchannan Brigades’. The peasants with pitchforks.”
Wrong. The MAJORITY of GOP voters, including me, has decided to support some other candidate besides Rudy.
Rudy will not be the nominee.
It will be either Mitt Romney or Fred Thompson. Watch and learn.
If that was intended to make a point, feel free to try again, and with less obscurity.
Since when did this stop being a discussion board and start being the land of the lock-step?
October 14 2003 1:47 pm. Didn’t you get the Freepmail?
From that point on everyone has to agree with me.
BTTT
Well, I was sure the Cowboys were going to make the SuperBowl last year, so my crystal ball isn't all it should be. But have no fear, I will watch, and I will learn.
Your prediction seems to fly in the face of current evidence, but who knows? That's why they play the games.
As P.J. O'Rourke once noted, it was right-wing gun nuts who founded this country.
And as Ben Franklin noted, we have a Republic - if we can keep it.
Liberal twerps like Rudy and yourself are what the likes of Franklin was concerned about.
Lighten up..it was a bad joke.
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