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To: rmlew
(...The left is using this to attack the Church...)

What the left thinks should not matter at all. The Church is only obligated to serve the interests of practising Catholics (who are mostly conservative).

(...I believe that some crimes cannot be overlooked. They did not inherit a situation like slavery. They created the crime...)

Does that mean that you would also support the campaign by some Native Americans, to remove President Andrew Jackson from the 20 dollar bill? Many Native Americans feel the same resentment against Jackson, that you do about Queen Isabella, that "some crimes cannot be overlooked".

But the interests of a nation must always precede the interests of special interest groups. Andrew Jackson, whatever his faults, advanced the cause of the American nation, just as Queen Isabella advanced the Spanish cause.
13 posted on 08/27/2002 6:23:59 PM PDT by jstone78
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To: jstone78
(...I believe that some crimes cannot be overlooked. They did not inherit a situation like slavery. They created the crime...)

Does that mean that you would also support the campaign by some Native Americans, to remove President Andrew Jackson from the 20 dollar bill? Many Native Americans feel the same resentment against Jackson, that you do about Queen Isabella, that "some crimes cannot be overlooked".

If someone proposed Andrew Jackson today, I would oppose having him on the bank note. Given his policy on a National Bank and the economic damage it caused, the decision to put Jackson on the $20 was an affront to Jackson and to our banking system. It was a stupid political move.
I opposed Jackson's decision to move the Cherokee's because it was an afront othe Constitution. The Supremem Court had rightly ruled that states cannot overturn federal treaties with Indian nations. Jackson told teh court "You made the decision, now enforce it."
For that alone, he should have been impeached. Jackson was exactly the type of demagogue the Founders warned us about.

But the interests of a nation must always precede the interests of special interest groups. Andrew Jackson, whatever his faults, advanced the cause of the American nation, just as Queen Isabella advanced the Spanish cause.
The issue isn't Spain honoring Isabella I, but the Roman Catholic Church making her a saint. The RCC is supposed to be catholic, not particularist to the patriotism of individual nations.
The RCC, by virtue of its name is supposed to be universal and undivided. (look up catholic).

21 posted on 08/27/2002 7:02:32 PM PDT by rmlew
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