The Mormon Bishop and Catholic Representative

[mdohoney]

Governor Romney as a Mormon Bishop who is morally challenged because he is addicted to stealing from the American Taxpayer legally. Stealing people's pensions and destroying peoples lives may be legal in his thinking but are morally reprehensible. That makes him morally challenged to me.

Representative Ryan is a Catholic who has problems with bearing false witness. The plenitude of prevarications he dished out in his acceptance speech in Tampa reveals the degree to which he ethically challenged.

The total lack of respect for the people embodied in these two can not bode well for the American people if elected.

[Brother Buzz]

1. Ryan has already rebuked by the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (and of course, others)

A faith-based lesson for Paul Ryan

By Dana Milbank
April 27 2012

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In an interview with the Christian Broadcasting Network’s David Brody this month, Ryan, the author of the House Republican budget endorsed by Mitt Romney, said his program was crafted “using my Catholic faith” as inspiration. But the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops was not about to bless that claim.

A week after Ryan’s boast, the bishops sent letters to Congress saying that the Ryan budget, passed by the House, “fails to meet” the moral criteria of the Church, namely its view that any budget should help “the least of these” as the Christian Bible requires: the poor, the hungry, the homeless, the jobless. “A just spending bill cannot rely on disproportionate cuts in essential services to poor and vulnerable persons,” the bishops wrote.

In fact, Ryan would cut spending on the least of these by about $5 trillion over 10 years — from Medicaid, food stamps, welfare and the like — and then turn around and award some $4 trillion in tax cuts to the most of these. To their credit, Catholic leaders were not about to let Ryan claim to be serving God when in fact he was serving mammon.

“Your budget,” a group of Jesuit scholars and other Georgetown University faculty members wrote to Ryan last week, “appears to reflect the values of your favorite philosopher, Ayn Rand, rather than the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Her call to selfishness and her antagonism toward religion are antithetical to the Gospel values of compassion and love.”

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/paul-ryans-faith-based-lesson/2012/04/27/gIQAH76TlT_story.html