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You are not a Catholic,so you no nothing of what you speak, again.
Originally posted by sad_eyed_lady
Joe Biden is not a practising Catholic. A Bishop said he should not be receiving Communion. You can not be a practising Catholic and vote Pro-Choice. Same goes with Nancy Pelosi.
A Colorado bishop has stated that Catholic politicians who support legal abortion or same-sex marriage—and perhaps Catholic voters who support them--should not receive Communion.
Originally posted by MidnightTide
From the looks of this thread the socialists are getting rather aggressive, aren't they?
Originally posted by Tw0Sides
You are not a Catholic,so you no nothing of what you speak, again.
Originally posted by sad_eyed_lady
Joe Biden is not a practising Catholic. A Bishop said he should not be receiving Communion. You can not be a practising Catholic and vote Pro-Choice. Same goes with Nancy Pelosi.
As a Catholic, I am free to choose any side of the Abortion debate.
Please go speak your Bull%#&% somewhere else.
Originally posted by MidnightTide
From the looks of this thread the socialists are getting rather aggressive, aren't they?
They're saying that for the last couple of years, at least, the SS tax wasn't covering their expenses so they've had to ask the government to start giving them cash for the IOUs to make ends meet. In 2012, the government will have to cough up $165 billion.
In 2011, Social Security’s cost continued to exceed both the program’s tax income and its non-interest income, a trend that the Trustees project to continue throughout the short-range period and beyond. The 2011 deficit of tax income relative to cost was $148 billion, and the projected 2012 deficit is $165 billion.
They're pointing out that the two funds combined will have enough IOUs in the fund during the next 10 years at least, but the DI (disability) trust fund will be completely wiped out in four years.
The Trustees project that the assets of the OASI Trust Fund and of the combined OASI and DI Trust Funds will be adequate over the next 10 years under the intermediate assumptions. However, the projected assets of the DI Trust Fund decline steadily, fall below 100 percent of annual cost by the beginning of 2013, and continue to decline until the trust fund is exhausted in 2016.
Basically, all Social Security trust funds will be gone in 20 years and the money coming in for payroll taxes at the time will require cutting benefits to 3/4 of what they are now.
The Trustees project that annual cost will exceed non-interest income throughout the long-range period under the intermediate assumptions. The dollar level of the combined trust funds declines beginning in 2021 until assets are exhausted in 2033.
Originally posted by DarkSecret
as long as a fetus is not able to live outside the mom's body it's not a viable human being and thus not murder.
good luck with that, keep wishing for personhood and abortion/contraception bans!
Originally posted by buddhasystem
Gym rat for President!
And I thought that being able to field dress a moose was the only requirement for this office.
Originally posted by Tw0Sides
As a Catholic, I am free to choose any side of the Abortion debate.
Please go speak your Bull%#&% somewhere else.
Biden may or may not ever have procured an abortion for anyone, I don't know. But if he has, the penalty is clear, and I hope he is reconciled to the Church. But what about indirect aid such as voting for laws, etc.?
2271 Since the first century the Church has affirmed the moral evil of every procured abortion. This teaching has not changed and remains unchangeable. Direct abortion, that is to say, abortion willed either as an end or a means, is gravely contrary to the moral law:
2272 Formal cooperation in an abortion constitutes a grave offense. The Church attaches the canonical penalty of excommunication to this crime against human life. "A person who procures a completed abortion incurs excommunication latae sententiae," "by the very commission of the offense," and subject to the conditions provided by Canon Law. The Church does not thereby intend to restrict the scope of mercy. Rather, she makes clear the gravity of the crime committed, the irreparable harm done to the innocent who is put to death, as well as to the parents and the whole of society.
2273 "The moment a positive law deprives a category of human beings of the protection which civil legislation ought to accord them, the state is denying the equality of all before the law. When the state does not place its power at the service of the rights of each citizen, and in particular of the more vulnerable, the very foundations of a state based on law are undermined. . . . As a consequence of the respect and protection which must be ensured for the unborn child from the moment of conception, the law must provide appropriate penal sanctions for every deliberate violation of the child's rights."
2286 Scandal can be provoked by laws or institutions, by fashion or opinion.
Therefore, they are guilty of scandal who establish laws or social structures leading to the decline of morals and the corruption of religious practice, or to "social conditions that, intentionally or not, make Christian conduct and obedience to the Commandments difficult and practically impossible."
2287 Anyone who uses the power at his disposal in such a way that it leads others to do wrong becomes guilty of scandal and responsible for the evil that he has directly or indirectly encouraged.