Posted on 07/01/2014 6:27:01 AM PDT by marshmallow
Pope Francis must have vomited when he heard the Hobby Lobby news. Nothing could undo the good he has recently done the Church’s image more than yet another case of anti-woman lashing out by a cabal or far right Roman Catholic activists– this time in the Supreme Court.
Alarmed by the Supreme Court pandering to the extreme religious right in the Hobby Lobby case, the new pope might ask “Who is responsible for this?” The answer is: Many people. However two people are the real instigators: the late evangelical far right activist, Charles Colson, and Roman Catholic far right ideologue and anti-gay activist, Princeton Professor Robert George. Their tool has been Justice Antonin Scalia the other Roman Catholic members of the Court.
George is a close friend and co-conspirator with fellow ultra-conservative far right Roman Catholic ideologues including with Scalia who became the ringleader of the GOP’s Court-driven Hobby Lobby lunge into theocratic politics. George is the de facto father of the twinned war against gays and war against women. Scalia is his follower and close friend. And George has the support of the U.S. Roman Catholic bishops, the Mormon leadership and the most conservative of the evangelical leaders. Charles Colson was George’s close confident. Together they hatched the plan that in the end (and after Colson died) became the Hobby Lobby case.
Way back when, the late Charles “Chuck” Colson teamed up with George of to launch the dirty tricks campaign to brand President Obama as “anti-religious.” They decided to use the issue of contraception as the hinge to turn people against him.
(Excerpt) Read more at patheos.com ...
Gee, sounds pretty extremist. I guess Jesus wasn't much into relativism.
What is that he is holding -- knitting needles? Is he prepared to do abortions in his barn?
"Frank Lee Hysterical"?
"Sploded"?
"StinkEyeSchaeff"?
"D.Lusionalef T"?
"Bay B. Pouting"?
Judicial philosophy...: Purposive approachBreyer's pragmatic approach to the law "will tend to make the law more sensible"; according to Cass Sunstein, Breyer's "attack on originalism is powerful and convincing." In 2006, Breyer said that in assessing a law's constitutionality, while some of his colleagues "emphasize language, a more literal reading of the [Constitution's] text, history and tradition," he looks more closely to the "purpose and consequences." [emphases mine]
Frank Schaeffer is Eastern Orthodox.
I would think all those Catholics that rejoiced at his conversion to Catholicism are wondering if they can throw this fish back into the sea.
Schaeffer converted to Eastern Orthodoxy, not Catholicism.
‘On October 10, 2008, a public letter to Senator John McCain and Sarah Palin from Schaeffer was published in the Baltimore Sun newspaper.[8] The letter contained an impassioned plea for McCain to arrest what Schaeffer perceived as a hateful and prejudiced tone of the Republican Party’s election campaign. Schaeffer was convinced that there was a pronounced danger that fringe groups in America could be goaded into pursuing violence. “If you do not stand up for all that is good in America and declare that Senator Obama is a patriot, fit for office, and denounce your hate-filled supporters ... history will hold you responsible for all that follows.”’
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Schaeffer
They’re Catholics.
“The author has fallen so far from the faith and good values of his father, it’s pathetic.”
Yes, but I find it interesting that these types often come from a supposed Christian hothouse, where they should have flowered instead of withering. I have some sympathy for children of famous men. Often the cult surrounding their parents hides the humanity that the Scriptures blatantly lay bare (see: King David).
To these people the disconnect between the fame cult and reality is unbearable. Imagine all the fawning phony baloney that must have gone on at La Brie! Ever been to a retreat with a beloved preacher? Nice place to visit...
I hope Frank gets “surprised” along the way by The Lord.
The Church has been split the same way the country has for the last several years. That is coming to a head as well.
Same idiots think that blacks are incapable of getting an ID card.
Every FReeper should at least skim the whole article - it's really grade-A lunacy.
Although by comparison it's almost sane, I had to call out this phrase: "depriving women of contraceptives." So if A is not forced by law to provide B for C, then C has been "deprived of" B ... just think of all the things you're being "deprived of" because nobody is legally required to buy them for you.
Are you sure the source isn’t pathological.com?
Just damn!
Frankie clearly needs help.
He looks like that guy with the mug shots of gold paint around his nose and mouth.
Freegards
Ironically, Robert Bolt, the author of the play, “A Man for All Seasons,” which the movie was based on, was an atheist—but he admired Sir Thomas More as a man of principle.
Technically maybe, but so are Methodists.
Schaeffer converted to Eastern Orthodoxy, not to Roman Catholicism, and not to Eastern Rite Catholicism.
You must be very Protestant to not understand the differences involved here.
LOL!
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