Nearly 3,700 Women Religious Urge Senate to Pass For the People Act

The Catholic Spirit ^ | 7/27/21 | CNS

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Members of the Sisters of St. Joseph of Brentwood, other women religious and laypeople attended a rally in support of For the People Act July 26 at the Sisters of St. Joseph motherhouse in Brentwood.

Following the event, a letter signed by 3,685 religious sisters from various congregations across the nation urging Congress to pass the measure was hand-delivered to the Long Island office of Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y.

“As Catholic women religious, we see and affirm the dignity of every person,” stated the letter, which also was addressed to President Joe Biden. “Knowing that all people are made in the likeness of God, we cannot tolerate practices or policies that suppress voters’ ability to participate fully in our democracy,” especially people of color in in the United States.

“Every voice — every vote — is sacred. The Senate’s recent failure to pass S. 1, For the People Act, rejects this holy truth,” it said.

Saying “our democracy is in crisis,” the sisters said that “immediately after” the 2020 election, during which Black, Latinx, Native American, Asian American and Pacific Islander women “made their voices heard in record numbers” — despite the pandemic and “partisan obstacles” — Republican state legislators began writing and passing “new laws to suppress the vote.”

The sisters also pointed to “insurrectionists” who “mounted a violent attack on our democracy” by rioting outside and inside the U.S. Capitol Jan. 6 while Congress met to certify the 2020 election results.

Since then, they said, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., and other members of Congress “have only increased their opposition to the For the People Act.” On June 22, in 50-50 vote, the Senate failed to end debate on the bill to bring it to a vote on the Senate floor.

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[Getready]

Every voice on YouTube...facebook...or Twitter or even notre dame is not sacred. This is a political stunt. They think it is still the 60’s...and we’re gonna get goofy queasy inside that they are “speaking truth to power”.

[willk]

I used to have so much respect for the Catholic church. Now the Pope is a commie, the priests ate molesting little boys and the nuns are all leftests.

[NWFree]

They should be taxed as a radical political organization and charged for accepting bribes as contributions.

[Still Thinking]

As Catholic women religious, we see and affirm the dignity of every person,”

How does the dignity of every person require election fraud and federalization of what should not be federalized??

[SuperLuminal]

"...3,700 Women Religious Urge Senate to Pass..."

This title tells you everything that is wrong with our moronic sheeple-dominated society...

[Marchmain]

Stunning article. Thanks.

[I-ambush]

These sisters know exactly what they are doing, and have nothing to fear at all from the Establishment. They are not religious, but rather, are liberal activists in polyester pantsuits.

[cld51860]

3700 very stupid people.