NATIONAL CATHOLIC REVIEW: This Is What Civility Looks Like: Sanders at Liberty

[snagglepuss]

Dollars to donuts it was Bernie's deep-felt and passionate speech at Liberty University that is at the bottom of the Vatican's invitation to Bernie.

It really has turned out to be a smart move because look at all the attention that is now focused on the conference, a conference that would never have been mentioned in MSM.






From the AMERICA THE NATIONAL CATHOLIC REVIEW

Sanders did not try to hide the fact he and many in the audience likely do not see eye to eye on issues like abortion and same-sex marriage. But that did not keep the Vermont senator from seeking common ground. Sanders touched on many of his usual talking points but asked the students to "put this in the context of the Bible." He quoted Amos 5:24 ("But let justice roll on like a river, righteousness like a never-failing stream.”) and the Gospel (“do to others what you would have them to do to you,” Mt 7:12) to make the case that the massive inequality of wealth and income in this country are an affront to Christian morality.

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He said that none of God's children should die because of inadequate health care: “The poor, the wretched, they have a right to go to a doctor when they are sick.” Sanders expressed his commitment to family values by making a case for paid family and medical leave in the only developed country that does not a mother is not “guaranteed the right to stay home and get income in order to nurture her baby.” And he said he “agreed with Pope Francis, who called the financial crisis a “profound human crisis,” and speaks often of the “idolatry of money.”

http://americamagazine.org/content/all-things/what-civility-looks-sanders-liberty-university

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Go Bernie GO!

[NWCorona]

1. That was a great speech!

[Uncle Joe]

2. Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread, snagglepuss.

[Fumesucker]

3. Good find, thanks for sharing and I agree with you

[GeorgiaPeanuts]

4. Yep I think the Pope sees big things in Bernie

Sorondo is the Pope's aide and close friend so I have no doubt the Pope knew Sanders was being invited and agreed to it

[Ferd Berfel]

5. Bernie's Liberty SPeech boiled down to a sentence

[snagglepuss]

8. Brilliant!

[snagglepuss]

10. kick

[Nanjeanne]

6. So true.

[azmom]

7. I'm so proud of Bernie. Nt

[beam me up scottie]

9. The very first thing Bernie did at Liberty U was stand up for women and lgbt people:

And let me start off by acknowledging what I think all of you already know. And that is the views that many here at Liberty University have and I, on a number of important issues, are very, very different. I believe in a woman's rights....

And the right of a woman to control her own body.

I believe gay rights and gay marriage.

He didn't pander and he certainly didn't agree to compromise on civil rights.

[kgnu_fan]

11. Beautiful!

[snagglepuss]

12. kick