Well yeah. There’s no point in talking to Trump.
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God has always had a keen personal interest in the U.S. Supreme Court. Considering all the other things to do in the Universe, it’s really rather nice of Him and much under-appreciated.
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This lady must have been a real B…h,to get FIRED from the Trump administration.
" Top State Department adviser fired over ‘abusive’ management style
Kiron Skinner, the director of the Policy Planning Staff, was told on Thursday that she was being dismissed.
By NAHAL TOOSI and ELIANA JOHNSON
08/02/2019 10:29 AM EDT
Updated 08/02/2019 12:31 PM EDT"
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This is great; now where are the Methodists, the Lutherans, the Southern Baptist’s, the Presbyterians, the Congregationalists, etc etc
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But if he is repentant “in his heart,” he can cavort with the Devil as long as he wants. Particularly if the “Devil” happens to do the things that he wants done.
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How about Catholics on the Supreme Court?
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While they’re sending out press releases, this is what the Catholic church is also doing:
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Anti-papist tweet coming up. Pence must be giddy.
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Seems the “religious” are starting to see the writing on the wall. It is time to take a stand. Should be interesting to watch the evangelicals twist themselves into pretzels to defend the indefensible.
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Well it’s what some “rogue Catholic clergy” with the financial backing of wealthy “lay Popes” who want to go back to pre-Vatican II days are doing. The Catholic Church is vast and diverse.
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I’d like to see the RC Church do more, but to imply that they do nothing is incorrect. My take, hot as it might be, is that the RC church knows it fucked up when they went all-in on abortion to the exclusion of every other issue that they support. Which led them to partner with the evangelicals who hate the RC church more than they hate us libs. Which led to Trump ripping up democracy and deporting their congregants. I’m not waiting for a huge mea culpa but I do expect more of denunciations of Trump and that could swing PA/MI/WI/FL.
This was 2 weeks ago - https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/70-catholics-arrested-in-dc-protest-over-trump-immigration-policies/2019/07/18/1f3b2bd6-a973-11e9-86dd-d7f0e60391e9_story.html?utm_term=.e388b05363e7
In Boston - Catholic Charities funds immigrant attorneys.
The Bishops are pretty clear on this - https://justiceforimmigrants.org/
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Millions of observers whisper “what is taking you so long”? Of all the issues they could have pounced upon…
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Can’t remember the last time, if ever there was a time ,I agreed with Catholic Authorities.
FYI. That’s the National Cathedral - an Episcopal Church - in your picture. Not the National Basilica.
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They are and I doubt there are many persuadables among the evangelicals. That is why I am saying focus on the mainline Protestants and the Catholics - that is where the persuadables are.
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WASHINGTON — Kiron Skinner, the State Department’s director of policy planning and the highest-ranking African-American woman in the department, has been forced out of her job, according to administration officials.
Ms. Skinner took leave last September from serving as a professor at Carnegie Mellon University and as a researcher at the Hoover Institution, to join Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s senior leadership team. Her small unit, one of the most storied inside the State Department, has been trying to develop a long-term strategy for dealing with the rise of China. She has written widely on the foreign policy of the Reagan administration, among other topics.
She joins a long list of officials in the Trump administration who have been removed from their posts or who have resigned. But she is among the first of Mr. Pompeo’s small circle of influential aides.
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She was navigating complex bureaucratic waters: While Mr. Pompeo is a hard-liner who describes the competition with China in zero-sum terms, others in the administration, including Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, regard the country as one the United States can reach trade deals with, and profit alongside.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/02/us/politics/kiron-skinner-state-department-pompeo.html
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“I fear that recent public comments by our President and others and the responses they have generated, have deepened divisions and diminished our national life,” Wilton Gregory, the only current black archbishop in the U.S., said in a Thursday interview with the Catholic Standard.
Ya think?
Good for the archbishop. Now if we could hear something similar from some evangelical leaders. Maybe Jerry Falwell, Jr or Franklin Graham.
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Word - this is the door opening for us.
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Offspring of the Moral Majority…decades in the making.