The Democrats’ open clash with Catholic beliefs this campaign season is something new in our national politics. But there are also signs in local races that party doctrine and Catholic beliefs are increasingly at odds. For instance, it’s hard to look at the Democratic Party's attacks on GOP congressional candidate Keith Fimian without thinking that Democrats hate faithful Catholics intensely and perhaps hate authentic Catholicism even more.

• [John K. Matyi] The article may be saying "Catholic," but what is really happening here is that any Christian that is faithful to his/her beliefs will be attacked as being severely 'Right-Wing' or worse, radical. When did we go from mainstream to being radical?

• [The Catholic Thing] Keith Fimian is a businessman who is running for Congress from the 11th District in increasingly liberal Northern Virginia. He has never run for political office before, but has spent his life running what has become a very successful business.

• [The Catholic Thing] The Washington Post reports that seven million very slick mailers have been sent to voters in the 11th District, raising alarms that Fimian is "extremely disturbing." They say he is an officer in an organization that wants to outlaw the "constitutionally guaranteed rights of women," that is "dedicated to ending contraception," and encourages women to be more "submissive" to their husbands.

  Fimian's crime – one that, according to the Democrats in Congress, disqualifies him from federal office – is that he is a faithful Catholic who is a member of an organization of other faithful Catholics. The group is called Legatus, which was created by Domino's Pizza founder Tom Monaghan as an avenue for Catholic CEOs to live their Catholicism more faithfully. It’s not a mere coincidence that Legatus has links on its website to other groups that have also fallen outside the pale for the Democrats.

• [The Catholic Thing] Representative Chris Van Hollen of Maryland, an Episcopalian educated at the Jesuit-run Georgetown Law School, heads the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee. The head of the Democratic Party in the House of Representatives is the noted Catholic theologian Nancy Pelosi of California. They are responsible for the campaign about Fimian's Catholicism. In these attacks, the Democrats have lied. That’s politics. But what they have also tried to do is establish something like a religious test for federal office, something that is explicitly unconstitutional for government employees.

• [The Catholic Thing] We get into constitutional trouble when a religious test for office is imposed or suggested by people in government. New York Senator Charles Schumer may have violated the constitutional prohibition on a religious test when he closely questioned candidates for federal judgeships about their "personal and deeply held beliefs" because Schumer was in fact getting at their Catholicism.

  The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee is on treacherous ground in their religiously-based attacks on Keith Fimian. The Democrats are very clearly trying to invoke a religious test for federal office and their conclusion is that faithful Catholics need not apply.

[John K. Matyi] The bulleted points here are from the article written by Austin Ruse for "The Catholic Thing" that you can read here in it's entirety. I recognize that the article is written in a Catholic publication for mostly Catholic readers, but I believe anyone who is faithful to their religious beliefs regardless of what their religion is, are in the same boat.  As long as you stay in the far-left Liberal bubble you can apply, all others will be attacked. Your Pro-Choice[?] beliefs have to be accepted or you will be told you are a sexist pig [pun intended].

Nancy Pelosi fits into that left political bubble because she interprets her 'Catholic' beliefs' different than most Catholics, their Bishops, and the Pope. Sarah Palin is a threat because she is seen by many 'Wal-Mart moms' as someone they relate to. How dare she not kill her Down's Syndrome baby.

In closing let me say that the Christian community literally shocked the Obama handlers when they didn't come out en mass to attack her 17 year-old daughter for being pregnant outside of wedlock. I guess their 'Religion Consultants' didn't know that Christians are forgiving because they know that all humans are sinful.

Now I ask you, just who is it that is out of touch?     Add Comment