Posted on 06/25/2010 3:45:14 PM PDT by NoLibZone
The Washington Post’s really should consider renaming Anthony Stevens-Arroyo’s column in its “On Faith” blog. “Catholic America” should be “Liberal Democrat Catholic America,” just for the sake of truth in advertising.
On June 23, left-wing hack Stevens-Arroyo again injected his politics into the ostensibly religious column. In “Common good v corp. profits,” he actually wrote that Catholics should “embrace a redistribution of wealth.”
The column sought to explain how Catholics and others should view Judge Martin Feldman’s ruling overturning the Obama moratorium on off-shore drilling. Why, the reader may ask, should this event have Catholic significance, beyond the fact that a liberal writer whose column has “Catholic” in the title was upset about it?
It doesn’t. But Stevens-Arroyo gamely offered that, “There may not be a ‘Catholic’ position about the immediate politics of off-shore drilling, but there is an on-going Catholic approach to resolving the competing interests.” Not surprisingly, that approach vindicates the left.
To Stevens-Arroyo, the issue came down to “common good,” which led him to make this puzzling statement: “While we have considerable freedom about our personal political choices in the application of principles, Catholics in America are bound to embrace a redistribution of wealth, even if it goes contrary to ranting from groups like the Tea Party or Wall Street.”
He never explained where exactly it states Catholics are bound to encourage the government to confiscate legally earned private property to give it to whomever it deems more worthy. Catholics are bound to assist others through charity, not compulsory redistribution.
This isn’t the first time Stevens-Arroyo has conflated socialism with faith. Last year he declared that “the most Catholic” part of Ted Kennedy’s funeral was the senator’s grandchildren pleading for nationalized health care.
But, not content being an arbiter of what is Catholic and what isn’t, Stevens-Arroyo set himself up as a law scholar, hypothesizing that the “Reagan-appointed judge” Feldman’s ruling could be seen as the work of an “activist court.”
He ranted that, “a judge is supposed to be limited to matters of constitutionality -- and not to impose his jobs’ policy. There can be no doubt that a presidential moratorium falls within the powers of the White House, so stopping this legitimate executive order on questions about its consequences constitutes activism.”
Even the Associated Press explained that the moratorium was overturned because the “Interior Department failed to provide adequate reasoning for the moratorium.”
Stevens-Arroyo has a history of being unable to hide his liberal viewpoints. Just last March he claimed that Fox New’s Glenn Beck was using “the same strategy of the Hitler Youth and the Polish Communist Party … ” In December he also attempted to compare Ft. Hood shooter Hidal Hassan to World War 1 hero Alvin York and General Patton.
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1,000:1 this jackass doesn’t practice “redistribution of wealth” with his own finances
Anthony Stevens-Arroyo, religious author and outgoing director of Brooklyn College’s Center for Study of Religion in Society and Culture, also asked that any Catholics that support AZ immigration laws be denied communion.
What has the moratorium to do with redistribution of wealth? The slush fund, yes. The moratorium? None, except maybe to redistribute wealth from the Gulf residents to Brazil, Venezuela and other oil-pumping nations.
Bingo! That right there sums it all up.
WaPo’s Stevens-Arroyo Calls for Catholics to ‘Embrace a Redistribution of Wealth’
Most of em already do, don’t they?
Shut up Arroyo.
What!
Let’s see the WaPo journalist’s tax returns for the last ten years or so and have a look at all the charitable deductions.
Talk is cheap, pal. I’ll bet you haven’t even donated blood over the last three years.
IMHO, Christians are obligated to consider the consequences of their actions. Yes, we need a reasonable safety net. But anyone who has not been asleep for the last 45 years must realize by now that the Great Society approach has been a catastrophe.
Yes, of course.
We all know that Jesus taught that the government should take money by threat of force from one person to give it to another.
/sarc, in case you didn’t know
Please read your BIBLES!!
He is only supporting the position of his Popeness.
Good idea! Every Christian should support envy, covetousness and theft. Then move on to sodomy, adultery and murder.
Mr. "Stevens-Arroyo" (note, never trust anybody with a hyphenated last name) needs to take a mandatory refresher course on the Catechism. And he might spend some additional time on John Paul II's writings about socialism and communism and why the Church is opposed to both.
Exactly!
I have no qualms with people freely choosing to ‘redistribute’ their own wealth. You can even send a check to the government for any amount over your usual tax obligation and they will cash it and do the job for you (so you think).
As a Catholic, I’m embarassed and saddened to hear his leftist spew. Stevens_Arroyo is a CINO at best. And a communist, Liberation Theology type at best, who loves Che more than the Pope. Maybe those who want redistribution of wealth can lead by example...
How about the Catholic Church set the Good Example and have the Vatican melt down all of the Gold they stole from the Native Americans and Repatriat it along with all of the Jewels.
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