Barack Obama's running mate Joe Biden is Catholic.
If you don't know that, you haven't been listening to 2008 election politics.
During the 2004 election, it would be like not knowing that John Kerry served in Vietnam.
The Barack Obama campaign is highlighting Biden's faith, the good Catholic.
That image has hit a bit of a stumbling block.
DENVER -- Sen. Joseph R. Biden Jr. arrived at the Democratic National Convention on Monday amid rumblings over whether his pro-choice Catholicism would help or hurt the Democratic ticket.
An Irish-Catholic from a working-class upbringing, Mr. Biden won the nod as presumptive presidential nominee Barack Obama's running mate in part because of his appeal to blue-collar Catholics, the same voters who swung during the primary for Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York.
Although he represents Delaware in the Senate, Mr. Biden grew up in Pennsylvania, a must-win state for Democrats in November.
But the party's hopes of winning the critical Catholic vote took a hit Sunday when Archbishop Charles Chaput of Denver said Mr. Biden should avoid taking Communion as a result of his pro-choice stand on abortion.
Archbishop Chaput, who was scheduled to lead a pro-life candlelight vigil Monday night here in front of Planned Parenthood, called Mr. Biden's support for abortion rights "seriously wrong," said archdiocese spokeswoman Jeanette De Melo.
"I certainly presume his good will and integrity," said the archbishop, "and I presume that his integrity will lead him to refrain from presenting himself for Communion if he supports a false 'right' to abortion."
I object to all this talk of the holy Catholic Biden while he shamelessly ignores the Church's abortion stance.
Biden and Obama are exploiting his Catholic faith for their personal political gain. It's very unseemly and insulting to Catholics.
If Biden is going to tout himself as Catholic, he gets into trouble when he disregards something as fundamental as the sanctity of life.
Archbishop Chaput did not forbid Biden from receiving Communion, but he did call on him to show some integrity and refrain from receiving the Sacrament because he "supports a false 'right' to abortion."
Pro-abortion John Kerry didn't win the Catholic vote in 2004.
I would be surprised if pro-abortion Obama/Biden win the Catholic vote in 2008.
4 comments:
Way to go pro-life Catholics... you keep electing warmongers who lie us into wars, ignore the poor, destroy the middle calss, and deny medical services to millions.
George W. Bush and his fellow economic conservatives have been playing the religion card for so long that you seem to be blind to it. They campaign as religious folk and then govern as the economic conservatives they are.
As a Catholic, I find your remarks extremely offensive.
I don't vote for war. I don't vote to ignore the poor or destroy the middle class or deny medical services to anyone.
People who vote Republican (not knowing if this applies to you or not) based on the single issue of voting for a pro-life candidate must accept the fact that they are voting for Republicans who mislead us into wars, ignore the poor, destroy the middle class, and deny medical services to millions.
If people vote Republican, they are voting for all of these things no matter what reason they have for voting Republican.
Are you comfortable with me saying that if people vote for Democrats they most definitely vote for the slaughter of innocent human life, no matter what reason they have for voting Democrat?
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