6 Comments

1. revsiopao

   

   24 January, 2009, 6:29

   mainit na usapin talaga ito kapatid.
   inaabangan din namin dito ang developments nito.
   “magkakasubukan” ang political will ng bawat kampo.

   kung mangyaring ipasara ng mga obispo ang mga catholic hospitals sa amerika, 30% kaya iyon ng kabuuan. ang mga mahihirap na naman ang unang masasagasaan.

   abangan ang susunod na kabanata.
   tayoy magmatyag… magdasal!
2. Dfish

   

   24 January, 2009, 13:26

   I was glad Rick Warren did the inaugural prayer. I have to be realistic – America is less a Catholic country than a Protestant one. heck, there are still even residues of anti-Catholic ideologues flagging their religious bigotry. With due deference to Obama’s evangelical faith, he remains a man of diplomacy, the go-between guy of multicultural America. Such diplomatic talent now and then floats in the kind decision he embarks on, always in view of trying to give an equal slice of pie to all perspectives concern, a kind of political goal that’s actually impossible to achieve. Initially, gay Bishop Gene Robinson was considered for the main prayer to acknowledge the LGBT community. But Warren was the final act. Because America remains a nation of the Evangelicals and the choice somehow balances the possibility of a President going against the anti-abortion stream of the Evangelicals by signing the FOCA. Talk of a President who is also a political trickster. Catholic voice aside, more political will could be mustered against liberalizing abortion by reckoning the Evangelical voice. We will see how far President Obama’s diplomatic talent could read both Catholics and Evangelicals not only as political blocs he could candy-charm with but the capstone moral arguments, Biblical or otherwise, against the evil of abortion.
3. Dfish

   

   24 January, 2009, 13:34

   Officially, Protestants do not classify themselves as Evangelicals and vice versa. At least not yet and seems like will never be. I don’t mean to give a single name to both; it’s simply an error out of haste.

   Dfishs latest blog entry..“Belo Touches My Skin. Who Touches Yours?”
4. bluepanjeet

   

   9 February, 2009, 9:09

   @Revsiopao – I don’t think the bishops would do that, closing the catholic hospitals if ever the law is passed since the law woudn’t go far as to force it to all hospitals. That’s why some political analysts are saying that there will be a terrible religious crisis in the US if obama will push thru with FOCA because some catholic hospitals would definitely disobey the law if it ever happens and I think the catholic congressmen and representative in the white house and even obama himself doesnt want to put undue pressure to Catholics because Catholics comprise a big bulk on the electorate.

   Yeah, lets see what happens
5. bluepanjeet

   

   9 February, 2009, 9:12

   Its somehow clear after postponing the allocated funds for abortion activities by Obama himself that he is really thinking hard about the FOCA.
6. bluepanjeet

   

   9 February, 2009, 9:13

   Evangelicals is just a denomination of Lutheranism if my knowledge is correct and if my memory serves me right.