[ May 20, 2024 ]
Depraved, immoral, godless and violent. That’s the platform of the Democrat party.
Biden says nuns inspire him to run, plans to sue Little Sisters of the Poor
.- Presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden has released a campaign video in which he credits his Catholic faith, Pope Francis, and the example of nuns for his personal inspiration.
The short video was released August 9 on the Democratic National Convention’s Twitter account. Biden’s use of nuns as an inspirational example of “generosity to others” comes despite his promise to renew legal action against the Little Sisters of the Poor should he win election.
Biden has promised to remove freedom of conscience protections which exempt the sisters from the “contraceptive mandate,” opening them back up to renewed suits by the federal government for failure to provide contraceptives to their employees.
“This is the kind of moral conviction we need in the president of the United States,” says the tweet, which led into the video.
This is the kind of moral conviction we need in the president of the United States. pic.twitter.com/iJKAOVoFns
— 2024 Democratic National Convention (@DemConvention) August 9, 2020
In the video, Biden, a Catholic, narrates how once, after having a brief meeting with Pope Francis at St. Peter’s Basilica, he departed the church and ran into a group of religious sisters.
These sisters, said Biden in a voiceover, “to me, epitomize everything Pope Francis talked about in his homily and what he stands for. About generosity to other people, about reaching out, about making it a point to understand that we are our brother’s keeper,” said Biden.
Biden said the idea that people have an obligation to look out for one another had been imprinted on him during his Catholic upbringing and “being educated by the nuns.”
“That’s what those lovely women I’m talking to symbolize to me,” said Biden.
He quipped he thought it was a “good omen” to see the sisters, and said the encounter was an “exciting time and it gave me a lot of hope.”
Recognizing that people are obligated to help each other is “the only way we’re gonna make the world better and safer,” said Biden.
Biden and the pope met in the Vatican in April 2016, when Biden was presenting at a Vatican conference on regenerative medicine, and in 2013, when the then-vice president led a delegation from the United States to Francis’ papal inauguration.
The images and videos in the ad are from the 2016 trip.
Biden’s use of the nuns’ example of service for campaign purposes sits in contrast to his pledge to force one religious order to violate their consciences and provide birth control, sterilizations, and abortifacient drugs to their employees.
Shortly after the Supreme Court ruled in favor of the Little Sisters of the Poor in Little Sisters of the Poor v. Pennsylvania on July 8, Biden said he was “disappointed” by the decision and promised to reinstate Obama-era policies requiring the sisters to ensure access to birth control in violation of their religious beliefs.
Following nine years of legal battles, and two trips to the Supreme Court, the court upheld an executive action offering the sisters religious freedom and conscience exemptions to the “contraception mandate” issued by the Department of Health and Human Services following the passage of the Affordable Care Act.
“If I am elected I will restore the Obama-Biden policy that existed before the [Supreme Court’s 2014] Hobby Lobby ruling: providing an exemption for houses of worship and an accommodation for nonprofit organizations with religious missions,” said Biden in July.
“This accommodation will allow women at these organizations to access contraceptive coverage, not through their employer-provided plan, but instead through their insurance company or a third-party administrator.”
The Little Sisters of the Poor would not have qualified as a “nonprofit organization with a religious mission” under the Obama-era accommodations. The order serves and employs people of all or no faiths, in accordance with their vocation to serve the elderly poor.
The Little Sisters of the Poor have repeatedly stated that authorizing a “third-party administrator” to provide birth control to their employees is still a violation of their beliefs and is not an acceptable compromise.
Following the July 8 decision, Biden said that the decision “will make it easier for the Trump-Pence Administration to continue to strip health care from women–attempting to carve out broad exemptions to the Affordable Care Act’s commitment to giving all women free access to recommended contraception.”
When the Affordable Care Act was signed into law in 2010, the legislation did not mandate that insurance plans provide at least one form of female contraception, including sterilization. The “contraception mandate” was announced as an interim final rule on August 1, 2011, and was finalized on January 20, 2012.
If elected president, Biden said that he would “end Donald Trump’s ceaseless attempts to gut every aspect of the Affordable Care Act.”
Biden did, however, support members of the Leadership Council of Women Religious (LCWR) groups after the Vatican ordered an inquiry into their conduct and political advocacy.
During a 2011 meeting with then-Pope Benedict XVI, Biden told the pontiff that he was being “entirely too hard on the American nuns” and that he needed to “lighten up.”
The video is not the first time that Biden, who has promised to enshrine the fullest application of Roe v. Wade in federal law, ensuring unlimited access to abortion in the United States, has used his Catholicism in his campaign.
In February, he released a video displaying black-and-white pictures of himself with various religious figures, including Pope Francis.
“Personally for me, faith, it’s all about hope and purpose and strength, and for me, my religion is just an enormous sense of solace,” he added.
“I go to Mass and I say the rosary. I find it to be incredibly comforting,” he said.
While Biden has repeatedly profiled his Catholicism during this election campaign, his faith has been a source of controversy over his lengthy political career, and he has endorsed policies that are contrary to Church teaching.
Shortly after his election as vice president, the then-bishop of his hometown of Scranton, PA, rebuked Biden for his views on abortion.
“I will not tolerate any politician who claims to be a faithful Catholic who is not genuinely pro-life,” said Bishop Joseph Martino of Scranton in 2008.
“No Catholic politician who supports the culture of death should approach Holy Communion. I will be truly vigilant on this point.”
During the 2008 campaign, Biden also received a letter from the then-bishop of the Diocese of Pensacola-Tallahassee, after he received Communion at a parish in the diocese. The letter reiterated the Catholic Church’s views on abortion, and the bishop offered prayers that Biden would “live by the virtue of fortitude as you proclaim your support to the Person of Christ in the most vulnerable of his members: the pre-born child.”
In October 2019, Biden was refused Communion at a Catholic church in South Carolina. The priest denied Biden Communion in accord with a 2004 diocesan policy that prohibits politicians who have been supportive of legal protection for abortion from receiving the Eucharist.
“Catholic public officials who consistently support abortion on demand are cooperating with evil in a public manner. By supporting pro-abortion legislation they participate in manifest grave sin, a condition which excludes them from admission to Holy Communion as long as they persist in the pro-abortion stance,” says a 2004 decree signed jointly by the bishops of Atlanta, Charleston, and Charlotte.
At the time Biden was denied Communion, his website stated that one of his priorities as president would be to “work to codify Roe v. Wade” into federal law, and that “his Justice Department will do everything in its power to stop the rash of state laws that so blatantly violate the constitutional right to an abortion,” including laws requiring waiting periods, ultrasounds, and parental notification of a minor’s abortion.
“Vice President Biden supports repealing the Hyde Amendment because healthcare is a right that should not be dependent on one’s zip code or income,” said his website.
Biden’s website also pledges him to “restore federal funding for Planned Parenthood,” and promises to “rescind the Mexico City Policy (also referred to as the global gag rule) that President Trump reinstated and expanded.”
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29 Comments
3 years ago
Democrats are evil.
3 years ago
Thanks Joe, for proving Trump’s case and ours to all Americans JUST HOW NASTY, ROTTEN, AND EVIL you and the Democrats are!
LANDSLIDE WIN FOR TRUMP AND PENCE ON NOVEMBER 3RD, 2020!!!!
3 years ago
Reply to
BITE ME, Democrats
Yep – LANDSLIDE!!! Minus, of course, the massive voter fraud well underway even now — but even at that, our President should win reelection easily.
3 years ago
Leo Terrell: not only is Biden unfit to be president.. Biden’s also a racist. .. Joe Biden has the mindset of a Plantation owner
3 years ago
Reply to
taxpayer22
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/leo-terrell-blasts-dems-thugs-attacking-citizens IS WHERE HE SAYS IT ALL EVEN IN THE HEART OF THE LEFT COAST IN THE STATE OF CA!
3 years ago
I’m sure the sisters are remembering what Jesus said, “Remember, before they hated you, they hate me.”
3 years ago
Surprised CNA ran the piece … they’re shills for the godless, homosexual, communist “clerics” who run the RCC …
… like a broken clock, though, they do get a few things right on occasion.
Biden is a two-faced pro-baby murder Demokkkrat, and to paraphrase Biden
… if you vote Demokkkrat, you ain’t a Christian or any kind of Catholic …
… albeit you might get a pass if you’re already dead, absent, or a victim of ballot harvesting …
*** Everyone here at Geller have an excellent weekend …
… and remember, even if you’re Catholic …
… to spay or neuter your Lefty relatives …
3 years ago
Reply to
Dan Knight
“to spay or neuter your Lefty relatives “..
Great one Dan. You and yours stay safe, healthy, and vigilant.
3 years ago
Reply to
Ziggy46
Thank you, Ziggy … I stole it … 😉
*** You and yours have an excellent week, I hope y’all are well as we say in Texas!
3 years ago
He wants to force the Little Sisters of the Poor to pay for birth control for his real supporters, the Little Girlfriends of the Rich. Disgusting.
3 years ago
biden claims to have faith yet he does this to The Little Sisters of the Poor? The man is a fraud.
3 years ago
And they say Biden is frail and old. He can ride a bicycle and beat up geriatric nuns.
3 years ago
You just know these standards will never be applied to f’ing muslum orgs.
3 years ago
Reply to
MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
Uncle Joe is on record saying pisslam should be taught in ALL US schools…..
3 years ago
3 years ago
The Pope, Biden and Pelosi should feel right at home with each other. What a love fest that would be.
3 years ago
Joe Biden loves black people………..he thinks everyone should own one.
Joe Biden loves little kids………………he thinks everyone should molest one.
Joe Biden loves nuns……………………he thinks everyone should sue one.
Biden/Harris 2020………………………..bwa-hahahahahahahahahahahaha !!
3 years ago
Stay in your basement, you lying, corrupt, degenerate filth.
3 years ago
3 years ago
You can’t be catholic if you support scraping future children out of a womb.
3 years ago
It is not rocket science to realize the Democrats are determined not to get elected. This is an election year and the blue state governors are oppressing their voters, Biden is a mentally unfit candidate, his VP is a known whore who slept her way to the top. Now Biden has declared he will sue the Little sisters of the poor? How does that get votes? Then there is the Democrat Support of the rioting, vandalizing, murderous, arsonists, BLM and Antifa, and lets not forget the Alcoholic Speaker of the house Nancy Pelosi who is determined to block Federal relief to the victims of the lefts Fake Pandemic. How does deliberate impoverishing unemployed Americans get votes???
No the Democrats do not want to win the election they just want to appear to be trying.
WHY? Obama set the stage for economic collapse. Consequently the Dem’s do not want to be in power when it happens. The problem for the hysterical TDS Democrats is that Donald Trump is in power and can scuttle their globalist plans.
3 years ago
Joe Biden plans to sue Little Sisters of the Poor.
Say What!? Isn’t he “Catholic”? Or did they excommunicate him?
And I thought the Sisters just won their case?
3 years ago
Its all about the true FASCISTS – The demo-rats – The ‘ government ‘ FORCING devoutly religious people/institutions to conform to their twisted social experiments.If the ” Sisters ‘ employees want to use birth control they can go get it on their own – work should’nt have anything to do with how people conduct their lives away from the workplace anyway –
3 years ago
The Pope has already proven he is a socialist so….no surprise these two would hang together…
3 years ago
“parental notification of a minor’s abortion.” It is an invasive surgery. Who is responsible if something goes wrong? The doctor? Joe Biden? The insurance company? Mom and Dad?
