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RE: Amy Coney Barnett officially confirmed as Supreme Court Justice
October 27, 2020 at 6:32 am
(October 27, 2020 at 6:17 am)onlinebiker Wrote: A majority Catholic Supreme Court - and now the Dems want to put a Catholic in the White House......
You REALLY think ol' Joe is going to turn down those late night phone calls from the pope?
Oh - you optimist you......
Given that there are about 50 million adult Catholics in the US, most of whom are eligible to vote, I don’t think ANY American president would turn down a late night phone call from the pope.
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RE: Amy Coney Barnett officially confirmed as Supreme Court Justice
October 27, 2020 at 7:14 am
(October 27, 2020 at 7:04 am)onlinebiker Wrote: (October 27, 2020 at 6:26 am)arewethereyet Wrote: Not all Catholics are extreme in their beliefs. I grew up surrounded by them. At one time I was one of them though it wasn't my choice.
True enough - but the average Catholic doesn't have to field requests for favor from the pontiff.
I'm not sure how often the Pope feels the need to call on the US president.
Anyone know how often the Pope and Jack Kennedy chatted?
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RE: Amy Coney Barnett officially confirmed as Supreme Court Justice
October 27, 2020 at 7:22 am
The current pontiff, as well as the Church hierarchy as a whole, is pretty clear that separation of church and state is a good thing. I don't expect this to be an issue.
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RE: Amy Coney Barnett officially confirmed as Supreme Court Justice
October 27, 2020 at 7:35 am
(October 27, 2020 at 6:26 am)arewethereyet Wrote: Not all Catholics are extreme in their beliefs. I grew up surrounded by them. At one time I was one of them though it wasn't my choice.
That is true. But as more and more of what the rcc is comes out into the open, the extremists are becoming a bigger share of the catholic population. In twenty years USian catholicism will be like Irish catholicism, populated mostly by the headbangers.
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RE: Amy Coney Barnett officially confirmed as Supreme Court Justice
October 27, 2020 at 9:15 am
Biden may be a Catholic, but he doesn't resemble someone out of the Handmaid's Tale.
I kinda hope we see women get pregnant and have a protest abortion just to piss the conservatives off.
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RE: Amy Coney Barnett officially confirmed as Supreme Court Justice
October 27, 2020 at 9:36 am
Congress has the constitutional power to determine the jurisdiction of the Supreme Court. If the House and Senate vote to legislate that the SC cannot hear cases on, say, abortion; they can do so and any such cases would not go past the state Supreme Courts.
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