US bishop says Trump should concede, as Nixon did with clear voter fraud

LifeSite News ^ | November 18, 2020 | Emily Mangiaracina

[ebb tide]

US bishop says Trump should concede, as Nixon did with clear voter fraud

'Love of country and not self is patriotic,' tweeted Bp. Richard Stika of Knoxville.

KNOXVILLE, Tennessee, November 18, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) — Bishop Richard Stika of the Diocese of Knoxville recently denied voter fraud and called for President Donald Trump to concede the 2020 presidential election to Joe Biden. Days later, the bishop commended Richard Nixon for conceding the 1960 presidential election despite what Stika considers the decisive influence of “deceased” voters in that election.

Stika’s implication that Trump should concede regardless of the credibility of voter fraud allegations is just the latest in a series of apparent shifts in stance regarding Democrat Joe Biden and the presidential election.

'Love of country and not self is patriotic,' tweeted Bp. Richard Stika of Knoxville.

On Nov. 12, Stika tweeted, “So technically we don’t have a President-elect until the states certify the vote and the Electoral College votes. Until now, it’s the national media who have proclaimed the winner. Just saying....”

However, the same day, Stika referred to Biden as a “head of state” in addressing a story about Biden meeting with Pope Francis:

On Nov. 15, Stika praised Richard Nixon for his “patriotic” “love of country” for not contesting his official loss in the 1960 presidential election, despite the fact that “history now tells us” dead voters swung the election in Kennedy’s favor.

[Secret Agent Man]

Dont concede a close election

- hillary

[ChinaGotTheGoodsOnClinton]

Nixon couldn’t PROVE it.

[Darksheare]

Soon will be openly engaging if Francis has his way.

[californian by choice]

Nixon did not do any vote fraud, his problem was that his re-election team spied on the Democratic headquarters, just as Obama did with Trump.

[deks]

Stika, who heads the Diocese of Knoxville, tweeted he’d likely excommunicate Catholic New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo if he were his bishop.

https://www.knoxnews.com/story/news/2019/02/13/knoxville-bishop-richard-stika-abortion-cuomo-tweet/2836041002/

[Trumpisourlastchance]

Why is a bishop Tweeting anything about the election? Doesn’t he have other things to do?

[HereInTheHeartland]

Without Kennedys fraud, Vietnam and 58,000 dead Americans probably wouldn’t have happened

[higgmeister]

That Bishop needs to be flogged!

Or,
maybe he is doing it to himself?

[ebb tide]

Exactly! Stika was four years-old in 1960.

[Gerish]

Certainly a lot of pride in this Bishop’s remarks. This kind of pride not only stops him from being good, but also from understanding what is good. Biden is not good. If this Bishop can’t see that, then he is just another rotten apple whose words are useless to the faithful.

[lasereye]

HOW does letting the theft of an election go unchallenged, thereby negating the will of the voters and undermining the founding principles of the nation stem from “love of country” and “patriotism”? The idea is totally perverse.

The notion that Nixon helped the country by not challenging the election fraud back in 1960 has been repeated endlessly, so that it has come to be seen as some kind of established fact. It’s just a story someone made up.

[rollo tomasi]

Exhibit A: Nixon team with the aid of Senator Thruston B. Morto, contested 11 States; Illinois, Texas, Delaware, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, New Jersey, New Mexico, Nevada, Pennsylvania and South Carolina right off the bat. Nixon team lost all challenges.

Exhibit B: Republicans raised enough money led by H. Meade Alcorn Jr. to generate a recount in Cook County, IL. Did not find ENOUGH fraud for the Judge to overturn. Appeals denied.

Exhibit C: Nixon may have also cheated in States he won or not enough in States he lost.

[FrdmLvr]

Go with a Missouri synod only. They are conservative. ELCA is out if the question, and Wisconsin synod leans liberal, from what I understand.

[Still Thinking]

What if THE COUNTRY would be better off with Trump presidency than a Harris one? Then does love still counsel concession?

[DannyTN]

We need to fight and expose the corruption.

[faithhopecharity]

while I respected Nixon’s concession, he should not have done it. USA should not have presidents inaugurated based on false, illegal, deceased, or corrupted votes. Trump obviously won and won big, he should fight on til he can true the vote! And I am so thankful he is doing it,

[kiryandil]

He’s a servant of Moloch and The Great Deceiver.

[JBourne]

As a Catholic I am embarrassed by clergy who are more interested in being good democrats than good Catholics

[BradyLS]

We’re here because Republicans have been gracious losers in the face of fraud ever since.