Minority Leader Pelosi believes it is economic since the Pope opposes the continued destruction of Earth's troposphere by the petroleum industry. The petroleum industry also destroys the land as well as causing cancers in Third World countries such as Ecuador.
You have to realize The Catholics, at the Vatican, have an entire segment of their religious order as scientists. It is not as though the Catholic Church assigned them to become scientists, they were scientists when they became priests. So, according to the right wing of the Republican Party, Catholicism is not a religion.
Religious bigotry.
With Ryan leaving he is now willing to do the bidding for the Kochs and their billions they spend every year to buy the USA Congress. If Ryan was running he would need the Catholic vote to be re-elected or at the very least he would have to be the least offensive a bigot to his electorate. If he was running he would have to tolerate the Catholic priest when he really rather make the Kochs happy.
Oh, but, the Kochs are not Evangelicals. Really? But, the aspect of the electorate that carries their agenda to victory are.
October 23, 2014
Washington — Despite their stated support (click here) for both personal and economic libertarianism, billionaires Charles and David Koch are sending funds through their dark money political network to support a “get out the vote” drive by evangelical Christians who oppose abortion rights and are furious at recent court rulings that allow gay marriage.
Over the past month, Freedom Partners Chamber of Commerce, the central hub of the Kochs’ dark money enterprise, contributed $885,000 to CitizenLink, a social welfare nonprofit focused on election engagement. The group was launched by Focus on the Family — an evangelical Christian group that opposes abortion and gay marriage — and was previously known as Focus on the Family Action....
The United States of America now only has one religion and anyone who says differently is confused about reality. The good priest and the Pope should file a lawsuit against the USA Congress for exercising religious bigotry.
There is Freedom of Religion in the USA so long as it is the only religion with billions to buy elections.
Boston will never be the same.
By Jim Newell
On April 16, (click here) House Speaker Paul Ryan announced a personnel change among the House of Representatives staff: Father Patrick Conroy, the House chaplain since 2011, who opens each daily session with a prayer and advises members on faith matters, would be stepping down in May.
“As chaplain, Father Conroy has been a great source of strength and support to our community,” Ryan’s office said in a statement. “He is deeply admired by members and staff. Father Conroy’s ministry here has made a difference, and we are all very grateful to him.”
Left out of the appreciative send-off was the fact that Ryan’s office had forced him out, as first reported by The Hill today.
The speaker’s chief of staff had approached Conroy and asked him for his resignation, or he would be fired. Conroy agreed to resign. In his first resignation letter—“Dear Paul, the Peace of Christ!” it opened—Conroy wrote that the “time of my departure is to be determined in conversation with your Chief of Staff anon.” Anon, indeed. In a second letter dated the same day, April 15, Conroy wrote that “after mutual consideration, it is determined my final day will be 24 May 2018.”
There hadn’t been much knowledge of Ryan’s decision until this morning, when House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi brought it up in a Thursday whip meeting. Shocked Democrats were in a “furor” over the issue. Pelosi, according to an aide, was given advance notice of the move, but made it clear to the speaker that “she disagreed with this decision.” AshLee Strong, a spokesperson for Ryan, told Slate that Pelosi was consulted on the decision, though the final decision was the speaker’s....
Just to be clear:
February 11, 2016
...And yet, we (that is, Protestants) (click here) have consistently groaned in annoyance each time a fellow evangelical pronounces a recently departed or politically engaged or virtuous Roman Catholic a Christian. When evangelicals cite Mother Teresa as an example of Christian virtue, we inwardly – or outwardly, if we’re brave enough – groan in agony. It hurts our conscience to sit there quietly as more and more evangelicals speak of Romans Catholics as though they are, indeed, fellow Christians....
This doesn't come as a surprise, does it? Hello? Muslim travel ban? White Supremacists? The evidence is in, the GOP went belly up for "Kochs Grand Scheme."
