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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsRep. Paul Gosar, R-Ariz Boycotts Pope's Address Over #ClimateChange
Wonder how many other baggers will follow this nut case over the cliff??
Rep. Paul Gosar, R-Ariz Boycotts Pope's Address Over #ClimateChange Views http://n.pr/1inouAD
Conservative Lawmaker Boycotts Pope's Address Over Climate-Change Views
September 18, 2015 1:10 PM ET
Susan Davis
Rep. Paul Gosar, R-Ariz., who is Catholic says he will boycott Pope Francis' address to Congress this week because of the pope's progressive views on climate change.
Rep. Paul Gosar, R-Ariz., who is Catholic says he will boycott Pope Francis' address to Congress this week because of the pope's progressive views on climate change.
Matt York/AP
A conservative Catholic lawmaker announced he will boycott Pope Francis's historic address before Congress next Thursday because of the pope's views on climate change.
"More troubling is the fact that this climate-change talk has adopted all of the socialist talking points, wrapped false science and ideology into 'climate justice' and is being presented to guilt people into leftist policies," wrote Rep. Paul Gosar, R-Ariz., in an editorial for the conservative commentary site Townhall.com.
"If the Pope stuck to standard Christian theology, I would be the first in line."
Gosar is the first lawmaker to announce he will boycott the pope's address. A self-described "proud Catholic," who attended a Creighton University, a Jesuit college, Gosar asserts, "The earth's climate has been changing since God created it, with or without man."
The Arizona Republican further takes issue with Pope Francis's encyclical, a 192-page paper released this summer in which the pope calls for new action to combat human-driven climate change...............
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Rep. Paul Gosar, R-Ariz Boycotts Pope's Address Over #ClimateChange (Original Post)
riversedge
Sep 2015
OP
I fully support boycotting the pope addressing Congress, but for different reasons.
PeaceNikki
Sep 2015
#6
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,672 posts)1. I'm sure the Pope will be very disappointed.
GeorgeGist
(25,319 posts)2. Evil
47of74
(18,470 posts)3. Fuck him.
He and his teabagging ilk were all about the Papacy when it was Benny or JPII in charge. Now that it's someone the slightest bit progressive he and his ilk are having a fit. Fuck all of them.
spanone
(135,819 posts)4. the face of science denial. looks totally devoid of critical thought.
meow2u3
(24,761 posts)5. Deny him communion
Protecting creation and caring for the poor should be a couple of the church's "non-negotiables" instead of sex-related matters.
PeaceNikki
(27,985 posts)6. I fully support boycotting the pope addressing Congress, but for different reasons.