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re: The Perfect Christmas Gift for Neo-Conservative Toddlers

Deirdre Fulton — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 17:06:26 GMT

I was literally about to post this exact same thing.

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re: Bill O'Reilly's Boston University College of Communication Homecoming

Mike Cluster — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 17:27:59 GMT

Nice piece, Chris. I graduated from COM in 1960. The building and curriculum were new when I attended and the students totally operated WBUR. Those were some of the best years of my life.

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re: Catholic Church officially opposes healthcare reform

purplehusky64 — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 15:19:21 GMT

churches want to exert power over women and make them powerless....

they are being used by the right to further attempts to crush healthcare reform...

Pharisees and Saducees...

re: Catholic Church officially opposes healthcare reform

Jennifer — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 13:18:31 GMT

How can any church be against health care reform? Does anyone realize that Americans are dying each day because they either lack insurance or their insurance carrier denies their right to treatment? I do know the Catholic Church has a hospital system in the United States and that it provides charity treatment, but this is not enough. Americans deserve health care. Not every insured woman will run out to have an abortion. Think about that! Church is not the place for politics or the opinion of the bishop. The founders of the United States purposefully decreed a separation of church and state. What good will it serve for the Catholic Bishops to hand out literature? I am Catholic and quite frankly very disillusioned with my church.

re: Catholic Church officially opposes healthcare reform

Iamacatholic — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 02:18:08 GMT

I'm catholic and I don't understand why the church is getting involved with this. It upsets me.

re: Catholic Church officially opposes healthcare reform

droftnek — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 22:00:51 GMT

The church could prevent thousands of abortions if it would support family planning and sex education programs.

Making abortion illegal would not stop abortion, it would just make criminals out of women and doctors. We'd have prisons full of young women, with a few doctors tossed in for good measure. (Unless you want to execute them for premeditated murder, which many of you call abortion.)

Leave your religion out of this important public policy debate. And if you want to preach about it from your pulpits, pay the taxes on your church property and your tithe and offering income.

re: Catholic Church officially opposes healthcare reform

AverageJoe — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 21:06:54 GMT

The Church is at it again...I love the fact that they have mastered the art of saying with a straight face that they are fighting for whats best for our fellow man. Clearly no one told them that our current healthcare system leave millions of the most at risk individuals unprotected and that millions die as a result of the system.

Hey...maybe if the church would pay taxes on thier vast property holding we could afford healthcare for all. Or maybe they are afraid that true healthcare reform would put thier tax stayus at risk.

Bottom line, everything the church does these days is in thier own selfish best interest. They are lying if they say otherwise.

re: Ten Morning Observations from Polling Stations around Boston

Sarah Scolari — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 20:12:27 GMT

Most of these observations relate to Flaherty. Nice advocate piece. You're in the tank with those nitwit nightlifers, Faraone. So weird to watch a progressive "alternative" paper support the guy who marches in the homophobic St. Patrick's Day parade, opposes tenant rights, gay rights, you name it. Old Southie Boston is not the future of Boston I want to live in.

re: Catholic Church officially opposes healthcare reform

FredFrosty — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 20:02:25 GMT

TScribe,

Leaving religion out of the Abortion debate, how do you reconcile the cases where in states that recognize the unborn in vehicular homicide can charge one of the vehicle operators with the loss of life (Texas) but the same thing in another state (Vermont) the loss of life is not protected; i.e. no recourse for the mother that lost the child?

Additionally in the case of Abortion, it is not a life to protect if the mother does not want the child.

Is that the criteria? The mother wants it?

Prisoners have sued the state after they have killed an unborn child saying the state cannot bring religion into it.

Clearly the 3 examples show a conflict; a lack of logic.

The ONLY logical solution is to protect life from conception to natural death.

re: Catholic Church officially opposes healthcare reform

tscribe — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 19:55:24 GMT

Fred - Granted, particularly because the existence of the Hyde amendment is much narrower than the church-knows-what's-best argument.

"Abortion is not healthcare."

Well, sometimes it is. What abortion is not is one great monolith to which individual situations don't apply. And what the current iterations of the healthcare bills are is not only abortion. If we're all one-issue voters we're not likely to accomplish much.

re: Catholic Church officially opposes healthcare reform

FredFrosty — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 19:45:32 GMT

TScribe,

Although there is not currently a Law that protects the Unborn, there is a law that says that my Tax dollars do not have to pay for abortions. It is called the Hyde amendment.

The current proposals seek to undermine this law.

re: Catholic Church officially opposes healthcare reform

FredFrosty — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 19:42:43 GMT

I believe your unqualified headline is intentionally deceptive. You know why the Church opposes the current healthcare proposals. You say; “Catholic Church officially opposes healthcare reform.” You know that the Catholic Church opposes only the current proposal. Yet you would leave it as it is. You mislead intentionally. The Catholic Church runs more Hospitals and gives more to Charity than any organization in the history of the world. For sure you will fool some, but not most. Abortion is not healthcare.

re: Ten Morning Observations from Polling Stations around Boston

katesbJP — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 19:32:03 GMT

But the only question that remains is why the Phoenix, which used to be the "progressive" paper of Boston, continues to pull for Flaherty, the most conservative candidate in this race.

Where I come from, it's not progressive to vote AGAINST affirmative action, SUPPORT the death penalty, and vote AGAINST health benefits for gay parnters. It's not progressive to NEVER visit communities of color until you want their vote.

And tagging Yoon along for the ride doesn't make Flaherty more progressive -- it makes him a desperate but conniving politician who knows he can't win unless he fakes some sort of progressive front -- which will end as soon as the election is over.

MAYOR MENINO IS AND HAS ALWAYS BEEN THE PROGRESSIVE CHOICE FOR THE CITY OF BOSTON....

"YOU DON'T NEED A WEATHERMAN TO KNOW WHICH WAY THE WIND BLOWS!"

I'M PROGRESSIVE, AND I'M WITH TOM MENINO!