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Teddy Kennedy Catholic funeral embraces LGBT Community
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Posted on 08/31/2009 6:40:14 PM PDT by narses

End of an Era

I was four years old when Ted Kennedy’s brother, Senator John Kennedy was elected President…the first President I was really aware of. I was seven when President Kennedy was shot, a traumatizing event for our family and the whole country. The news reels of that assassination are burned into my brain. I remember Bobby Kennedy’s inspirational run for President and the shocking news, and news coverage, of his assassination. Ted Kennedy, entered the Senate when I was six and has been there for most of my life. Since I was born, one of the three Kennedy brothers* was always in office. Now there are none.

I am not the CSPAN junkie my father was. But I have tuned in when LGBT rights issues were being debated. Ted Kennedy was always someone I could count on to make an impassioned and inspiring speech in favor of our rights. In fact, I have stood up and cheered in my living room, after some of the speeches he has made. I have always counted on him to fight for causes I believed in, like civil rights, minimum wage increases, health care, immigration reform, disability rights and voting against the Iraq war but passing legislation to get body armor and armored vehicles for the soldiers who had to fight there but were sent ill equipped. According to President Obama, "For five decades, virtually every major piece of legislation to advance the civil rights, health and economic well-being of the American people bore his name and resulted from his efforts." Dubbed the “Liberal Lion” of the Senate, he was one of the last liberals in national politics. I have been riveted to the coverage of Teddy Kennedy’s death and celebration of his life all week. I have learned many things about him I didn’t know, like the fact that he started fighting for universal health care back in the 60’s, his ability to reach out across the aisle to get legislation passed and his deep friendships with Republican Senators he spent much of his time fighting on the Senate floor. But I was astonished yesterday, when even during his funeral, he was fighting for the disenfranchised people of this country, including the LGBT community.

At the beginning of the funeral mass, primarily younger members of the Kennedy family, grandchildren, nieces and nephews went up to the podium to offer prayers, mostly taken from Teddy’s own speeches.

Jack Schlossberg, Caroline Kennedy’s 16 yr old son, offered this LGBT inclusive prayer: In a renewed season of hope, that my Uncle Teddy envisioned, we will rise to our best ideals and close the book on the old politics of race and gender, group against group and straight against gay. We pray to the Lord.

I wasnt the only person who noticed how unusual it was to hear that at a Catholic Mass. An ABC News commentator noted: I’m not sure in how many Catholic churches there have been prayers lifted for reconciliation between straights and gays. But I think it appropriate at Senator Kennedy’s funeral mass, given his beliefs, that that prayer went up.


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1 posted on 08/31/2009 6:40:14 PM PDT by narses
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2 posted on 08/31/2009 6:40:34 PM PDT by narses (http://www.theobamadisaster.com/)
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To: narses

I think the Catholic church needs to stand up for its own doctrines by excommunicating those who do not follow those doctrines.


3 posted on 08/31/2009 6:46:29 PM PDT by NraFreedom (Mr. Clinton, and John Kerry, should be charged, convicted and shot for the crime of Treason.)
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To: narses
My parish priest and I were having a conversation about the actions of Obama since he took office just this evening.

He is very worried for America.

He is Maltese and told me the socialist attempted to take over his country in the 60's. He told me first they took over finance, then businesses, followed by health care. He told me all the good doctors have left Malta, and if you need an operation you go to London.

They met their match when the attempted to take control of the Catholic Church.

The bishops went toe to toe against them.

4 posted on 08/31/2009 6:48:46 PM PDT by mware (F-R-E-E, that spells free. Free Republic.com baby.)
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To: NraFreedom

Same goes for elected leaders who don’t follow the Constitution.


5 posted on 08/31/2009 6:49:24 PM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear (“During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.” -George Orwell)
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To: mware

Wow! I would love to have Glenn Beck get ahold of that little tidbit of information.

Blessings to your priest!


6 posted on 08/31/2009 6:51:48 PM PDT by Salvation (With God all things are possible.)
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>>>> I have learned many things about him I didn’t know, like... <<<<

To The Author:

Did ya know that when my former girlfriend went to work as a young college intern at Fat Boy’s Boston office, that one of the first things they instructed her on her first morning there was “Don’t ever get into the elevator alone with the Senator and without an escort.”

Did ya know that the “Liberal Lion” was in his late-40’s a notorious philanderer and sexual predator of young Catholic college students.

No?

Well now you do.


7 posted on 08/31/2009 6:52:11 PM PDT by angkor (The U.S. Congress is at war with America.)
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To: narses

From the front or the back?


8 posted on 08/31/2009 6:53:24 PM PDT by RichInOC (No! BAD Rich! (What'd I say?))
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To: Salvation
We sat down together and he was dead serious. telling me, "Martha, you do not understand I watched this happen in my own country as a child."

He mentioned how the bishops literally went from town to town following the socialist refuting what they had said.

I do think I am going to do a little research and see just how the communist/socialist worked their magic in Malta.

9 posted on 08/31/2009 6:58:01 PM PDT by mware (F-R-E-E, that spells free. Free Republic.com baby.)
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"For five decades, virtually every major piece of legislation to advance the civil rights, health and economic well-being of the American people bore his name and resulted from his efforts."

Sending Rush Limbaugh's syndicator a nasty letter about the phony soldiers in the so called antiwar movement advanced civil rights?!!!

10 posted on 08/31/2009 6:59:32 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Kennedycare?Recall that "Animal Farm" begins with a Socialist Revolution to honor Big Major's legacy)
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To: narses

Borking advanced civil rights?

Opposing Hispanic judicial nominees BECAUSE of their ethnic background advanced civil rights?


11 posted on 08/31/2009 7:00:18 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Kennedycare?Recall that "Animal Farm" begins with a Socialist Revolution to honor Big Major's legacy)
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To: narses

Those “prayers” did not go up. They came from hell, and to hell they went back. If socialized “health care” is imposed upon us, it will not be because of heretic “prayers”.


12 posted on 08/31/2009 7:01:20 PM PDT by gedeon3
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To: RichInOC

Well he DID participate in a menage a tois with Chris Dodd and a waitress...


13 posted on 08/31/2009 7:02:02 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Kennedycare?Recall that "Animal Farm" begins with a Socialist Revolution to honor Big Major's legacy)
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To: narses
An ABC News commentator noted: I’m not sure in how many Catholic churches there have been prayers lifted for reconciliation between straights and gays.

How about reconciliation between gay sinners and God? Who matters here?

14 posted on 08/31/2009 7:17:05 PM PDT by pray4liberty (http://aroodawakening.tv)
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To: narses

The enforced stupidity of this Kennedy Cliff Notes for idiot liberals is nauseating.


15 posted on 08/31/2009 7:17:59 PM PDT by Talisker (When you find a turtle on top of a fence post, you can be damn sure it didn't get there on it's own.)
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To: narses

I, me, me, me, I, I, I.....

18 “I’s” and 5 “me’s” in this article. Did BJ Clinton write this?


16 posted on 08/31/2009 7:31:35 PM PDT by Auntie Mame (Fear not tomorrow. God is already there.)
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To: narses

Kennedy has done an outstanding job of leaving a legacy of condoning perversion in nearly everything he has associated himself and his family name. His followers have done as much to degenerate the Kennedy family name in their memoriam.


17 posted on 08/31/2009 7:34:54 PM PDT by Cvengr (Adversity in life and death is inevitable. Thru faith in Christ, stress is optional.)
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To: narses
appropriate at Senator Kennedy’s funeral mass, given his beliefs, that that prayer went up.

Rest at ease, folks.....the "prayer" went due south, right along with his flammable carcass.

18 posted on 08/31/2009 7:37:35 PM PDT by ErnBatavia (It's not an Obama "Administration"....it's a "Regime")
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To: narses
KennedyCar
19 posted on 08/31/2009 7:38:17 PM PDT by jongaltsr (Hope to See ya in Galt's Gulch.)
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To: a fool in paradise

http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&source=hp&ie=ISO-8859-1&q=waitress+sandwich&gbv=2


20 posted on 08/31/2009 7:38:58 PM PDT by ErnBatavia (It's not an Obama "Administration"....it's a "Regime")
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