President George W. Bush talks with Mother Assumpta Long after addressing the National Catholic Prayer Breakfast Friday, April 13, 2007, in Washington, D.C. "One of the reasons that I am such a strong believer in the power of our faith-based institutions is that they add something the government never can, and that is love," said the President in his remarks.
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God bless you. Pres. Bush, for always being faithful to the cause of the inalienable right to life.
PING!
I was fortunate to attend the Prayer Breakfast. Corporal Michael Blair led the Pledge of Allegiance before the President spoke. I noticed him enter the banquest hall at the Washington Hilton before the breakfast started. He was walking with a cane in his dress uniform. As I said to the person seated next to me, the Marine dress uniform just commands respect.
When he was introduced for the Pledge and walked up the podium, he received the longest standing ovation of the morning. He was obviously touched. When the applause ended, he turned to the flags behind the podium, saluted, and then put his hand on his chest and started the Pledge. When it was finished, he walked slowly off the stage, still visibly touched/choked up by the response he received.
“But because he was a Catholic, he could not vote or hold public office in his native Maryland.”
This is a very unfortunate howling mistake. Charles Carroll was a Catholic and he held many offices including membership in the Continental Congress, state Senator in Maryland (starting in 1777) and eventually the U.S. Senate (though he eventually quit to serve in the Maryland senate).
Moreover, if my Maryland history is correct, did not Maryland pass an act of tolerance sometime in the mid 1600s? Finally, is it not the case that Lord Baltimore had a special burden for giving Catholics a place of refuge? (Most Maryland colonizers were still Protestant, of course).
In any event, I think someone at the White House needs to check the facts on this before putting the C of Chief in front of the country and saying things like Charles Carroll was prohibited from voting and holding office. How the hell did he even sign the Declaration if he wasn’t a member of the Continental Congress?
Amen, STARWISE! AMEN!
Archbishop Donald Wuerl was Pittsburgh Diocesan bishop for many years, good to see him mentioned in this post.
More euphemistic buzz words. He could enforce the laws now. But he hasn't and recently is only making a modest show of such.
And now is the time for the United States Congress to get a bill to my desk that I can sign. (Applause.)
Sigh. I assume that was merely "polite" applause.
Note he has already plotted with his Senate RINO-cohorts to erase the 700 mile fence he is required by the existing law to build. And he now has additional willing accomplices on other side of the aisle to ram through his Amnesty.