Hypothesis number one: The new Catholic Newt is simply being American.
Hypothesis number two: Professor Newton Leroy Gingrich has recognized Catholicism’s intellectual appeal.
Hypothesis number three: Former Speaker Gingrich has found Catholic ammunition for the culture wars.
Hypothesis four: Newt loves Catholic style.
"Mrs. Gingrich #2 was dumped after her husband had carried on an extramarital affair with a fetching, blond congressional staffer named Callista Bisek, who went on to become the present Mrs. Gingrich #3. This Family Values paradigm was complicated by the fact that whilst Mr. Gingrich was filibustering Ms. Bisek over the Speaker’s desk, he was simultaneously leading the impeachment charge against a naughty president of the United States....The much-married Newt Gingrich converts to Catholicism this weekend—and I’d pay a year’s salary to have been a bug on the wall during his religious instruction."
-- Christopher Buckley, from the thread The Audacity of Poping
Atheists from WaPo commenting about Catholicism.
There’s a laugh-riot.
What kind of Catholic is:
Nancy Pelosi, John Kerry, Joe Biden, Teddy Kennedy and the other Kennedys, Richard Daley and so many others.
Or, what kind of Christian is Barack Obama and Jeremiah Wright.
The faith of Republicans and Conservatives is always questioned. Democrats are always given a free pass.
It is as simple as that.
In the conduct of his personal life, Mitt Romney is much more of a Catholic than Newt.
I am not a Newt fan but I have heard him address this issue before, particularly the serial womanizing which appears to be a weakness of many powerful men. I am also a Catholic convert and can say with certainty that Catholic theology does not deal with human imperfection as a circumstance of simply being “born again.” For that reason alone, I would imagine that had you been “a bug on the wall” during his religious instruction, you might have well refrained from the judgment you now seem so willing to make about Gingrich and his religion.
A rather convenient one.
Newt is a Catholic? I guess he does have a flaw after all.
a very slanted article from the Wash compost.
Move on folks.
Same kind as Kerry.
What kind of Catholic is Newt Gingrich? Fair enough. How about:
What kind of Communist is Obama?
“[Newt] has seemingly changed his religion to suit prevailing fashion”
What fashion is that?
Being Catholic instantly puts a huge target on your back, especially in the media and here on FR though it is by far the largest religious affiliation.
I'm not all that interested in Newt's conversion other than what he claims. I've seen Prots convert because their fiance could not marry a non Catholic. Maybe wife #3 wouldn't marry him without conversion. Maybe he had a "road to Damascus" experience, who knows. He at least attends church. Would we rather have a Mormon that attends every time the doors open? How about Mosque? Would we still be so pious to want the Muslim candidate to attend Mosque? Newt says he is a Catholic, so what are we going to do, put him on the rack to question him? I see many every day that claim Catholicism and you would never know it. There is no fruit. Catholics such as Pelosi, Kennedy, Biden, or Kerry. Is Newt a worse Catholic than Pelosi that went to Rome and said abortion isn't settled in the Church after a visit with the pope?
Allowing an atheist to decide if Newt is Catholic enough, is pretty foolish, IMHO.
Instead of wasting time testing Newt, why not find out where Obama got his college money, or what his connection to Rezko is, or how close was he to Blago, or did he attend church the weekend Farahkhan was honored and preached from the Qur'an?
Hypothesis number one: The new Catholic Newt is simply being American.
A flip-flop to please his most current wife.
Newt is an unsaved man that uses religion for his own purposes.. I do not think he was ever really a baptist except around election time..
He has no fruit to to demonstrate his salvation ..his spiritual fruit has always been demonstrated as rotten ..
Newt converted this time for his wife.. that is a common experience for the unsaved.. they want to please the religious wife (that was having an affair for years with a married man)
To the unsaved all the tradition and pomp make them actually feel holy...
So what kind of a catholic is newt ?An unsaved one like most of the others going to church with him ..
A flawed one. Just like everybody else. Just like everyone else who’s a Christian. Just like everyone, period. My problems with him, as with every other candidate in the declared field, stem from grounds other than where he goes to church.
And Chris Buckley is, for far more reasons than that column, a creep and a human secretion stain on the conservative movement (I’ll leave to you what kind of secretion, but rest assured it’s from below the waistline, sunshine).
CINO?
Quoting atheists Christopher Buckley and the Washington Post to bash Christians. How low can FR go?
Since he’s on his 3rd wife he might be a Roamin’ Catholic.
Hypothesis number five: he married a Catholic girl (wife #3).
Look at their accomplishments. Newt allied himself with Ronald Reagan to build the Reagan Coalition, the Religious Right, and the Republican majority (together the Reagan Revolution) which directly led the downfall of the Soviet Union, the Contract with America, government reforms, less government, tax cuts, a balanced budget, and the great, long-standing Reagan economy.
Romney, on the other hand, vehemently denied Ronald Reagan and aligned himself with Ted Kennedy and the left. Romney accomplished installing liberal big government programs, defended and promoted Roe v Wade and legalized abortion as “settled law,” advocated and implemented RomneyCare with its liberty killing government mandates against formerly free citizens and its taxpayer funded or subsidized and mandated abortion procedures. He ran and governed to the left of Ted Kennedy on the “gay agenda” resulting in gay marriage in Massachusetts. He appointed liberal judges and liberal appointees throughout his government. Under his “leadership” conservatism and the Republican party was all but destroyed in Massachusetts.
Romney is one evil liberal progressive. No way in hell will MittBots be allowed to support this abortionist, big government, socialist scumbag on FR!
Guess my message isn’t clear enough. I have to keep repeating it and zotting would be MittBots.
79 posted on Sat Dec 03 2011 19:59:37 GMT-0800 (Pacific Standard Time) by Jim Robinson