Tuesday, July 3, 2012

Nuns with guns


Nuns who have been critical of a budget proposed by Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) that would defund many social programs in favor of tax cuts wrapped up their nine-state tour in Washington, D.C. on Monday with an interfaith event at the United Methodist Building near the Capitol.

“Paul Ryan has claimed to be a faithful Catholic, and I have no reason to suspect that that isn’t accurate, “Sister Mary Ellen Lacy Daughter, a lobbyist at Catholic social justice lobbying group NETWORK, told Raw Story. “What we do know, and what the bishops agree with us on, is that the document, the budget that he wrote, is not a moral document. It is not a faithful budget. It is not consistent with the Catholic social teachings. He may claim one thing, but it is clearly in opposition to what we believe.”

“The reality is we should be voting for people who espouse our values, not necessarily voting for your religion,” Daughter said. “What we can judge is the product of what they put out, and Ryan put out a budget that decimates programs that provide for people’s futures.”

Read it at Raw Story
Social justice nun: Ryan’s budget is ‘not a moral document’
by Kay Steiger

Paul Ryan may have a problem here. Nuns on his back.

2 comments:

Trixie said...

You don't understand. I had to suffer through 12 years of Catholic schooling. In the city of Chicago, in which smack-talk was an art form. And survival.

But I tell you what. The one afternoon this kid made fun of someone's holes in their shoes? It was the calm before the storm. Everything turned into slow motion and the only thing I heard sounded like Charlie Brown's teacher. And I never saw that kid again. There were rumors, but we'll never know.

It's payback time, Ryan. Courtesy of me.

Go Sistahs!

Matt Franko said...

Hey RCC, here's your doctrine:

"4 If indeed, then, you should have tribunals for life's affairs, the contemptible in the ecclesia, these you are seating?
5 To abash you am I saying this. " 1 Cor 6:4-5

This should be all you need to read...

rsp,