"Make us truly free, by tethering freedom to truth and ordering freedom to goodness."
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I think Cardinal Dolan did an amazing job. A lot of my Protestant/Evangelical friends even like him, I think it is because he doesn't pander. Sure in events like this he is tactful but he doesn't water-down what he stands for. For years the spirit of Vatican II types were so high on "ecumenicism" with liberal groups, ELCA, Episcopal Church, etc. and it never really got Rome anywhere, but Dolan's robust defense of religious liberty and pro-life is really resonating with serious believers in the Evangelical community.
It is also worth noting that a Greek Orthodox bishop, Metropolitan Methodios of Boston also gave a prayer. One thing I will definitely say for the Orthodox is that they have done a great job not ditching their traditional clerical garb. Chairman Reince Priebus introduced the Metropolitan, Priebus is a Greek name, is he Orthodox? If so, that must be something of a mile-stone in a party normally dismissed by the media as too WASPy and lacking in diversity.
Lastly as to the convention, I noticed a bizarre merging of two media-memes...
1-The GOP base is rabidly 'anti-choice' but their politicians are clever/cynical enough to know that it is unpopular so they do their best to ignore their base and sweep this under the rug. 2-Almost everything Republicans say has racist 'dog-whistle' cues.
So here we have, from the Washington Post's "On Faith" column about "Paul Ryan's Abortion Problem."
"Yet, Wednesday night he didn’t mention abortion in his passionate speech to the Republican National Convention in Tampa. That has to be because Romney feels the issue is a distraction."
Yet when I read the text of Ryan's speech he said, "We believe that in every life there is goodness; for every person, there is hope. Each one of us was made for a reason, bearing the image and likeness of the Lord of Life" the pro-life message seems very clear.
How can the same media that sees references to "golf" and "Chicago" as racially charged, not notice a clear pro-life statement? My theory is that they tend to understand pro-life as "anti-choice" and part of a "war on women" and so they expect pro-life statements to be very harsh and 'mean spirited' and thus can't even recognize genuine pro-life sentiments that go beyond the caricatures they have made up in their own minds.
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I think Cardinal Dolan did an amazing job. A lot of my Protestant/Evangelical friends even like him, I think it is because he doesn't pander. Sure in events like this he is tactful but he doesn't water-down what he stands for. For years the spirit of Vatican II types were so high on "ecumenicism" with liberal groups, ELCA, Episcopal Church, etc. and it never really got Rome anywhere, but Dolan's robust defense of religious liberty and pro-life is really resonating with serious believers in the Evangelical community.
It is also worth noting that a Greek Orthodox bishop, Metropolitan Methodios of Boston also gave a prayer. One thing I will definitely say for the Orthodox is that they have done a great job not ditching their traditional clerical garb. Chairman Reince Priebus introduced the Metropolitan, Priebus is a Greek name, is he Orthodox? If so, that must be something of a mile-stone in a party normally dismissed by the media as too WASPy and lacking in diversity.
Lastly as to the convention, I noticed a bizarre merging of two media-memes...
1-The GOP base is rabidly 'anti-choice' but their politicians are clever/cynical enough to know that it is unpopular so they do their best to ignore their base and sweep this under the rug.
2-Almost everything Republicans say has racist 'dog-whistle' cues.
So here we have, from the Washington Post's "On Faith" column about "Paul Ryan's Abortion Problem."
"Yet, Wednesday night he didn’t mention abortion in his passionate speech to the Republican National Convention in Tampa. That has to be because Romney feels the issue is a distraction."
Yet when I read the text of Ryan's speech he said, "We believe that in every life there is goodness; for every person, there is hope. Each one of us was made for a reason, bearing the image and likeness of the Lord of Life" the pro-life message seems very clear.
How can the same media that sees references to "golf" and "Chicago" as racially charged, not notice a clear pro-life statement? My theory is that they tend to understand pro-life as "anti-choice" and part of a "war on women" and so they expect pro-life statements to be very harsh and 'mean spirited' and thus can't even recognize genuine pro-life sentiments that go beyond the caricatures they have made up in their own minds.
Thank you for sharing this video. He did an awesome job! :)
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