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DearAbby Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-26-11 07:33 PM
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Protestant bishops call GOP budget 'morally indefensible'
What would Jesus think of the GOP budget now before the Senate? Not much, says a consortium of Protestant bishops.

In what is becoming something of a pig pile on the GOP from the Christian Left, more than two dozen bishops from mainline Protestant denominations sent a letter to Congress today denouncing proposed Republican budget cuts as "morally indefensible."

Following on missives from Catholics to House Speaker John Boehner, from Catholics and evangelicals to Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan and from the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops to Congress as a whole, Protestant leaders such as the Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church, Katharine Jefferts Schori, are advancing the argument that the GOP budget is an immoral document.

Insisting that the term values has relevance beyond such issues as abortion and homosexuality, bishops from the Episcopal Church, the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America and the United Methodist Church call in their letter on members of Congress to “come together across partisan lines to shape a budget that defends human dignity and basic economic security for all Americans.”

More: http://religion.blogs.cnn.com/2011/05/26/protestant-bishops-call-gop-budget-morally-indefensible/
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Turbineguy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-26-11 07:42 PM
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1. Or as Lewis Black would say:
"WE'RE FUCKED!"
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DearAbby Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-26-11 08:31 PM
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2. lol!
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indepat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-27-11 06:48 PM
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3. The whole of the RW agenda is morally indefensible
:patriot:
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