Grass Roots: Catholic bishop echoes support for labor; what does your faith say?

[XanaDUer]

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SNIP - In case you missed it, leaders of the Catholic Church in Wisconsin are out in support of the moral right of labor to organize as Gov. Scott Walker leads a charge to dismantle collective bargaining rights for public workers.
Madison Diocese Bishop Robert Morlino "echoes" a statement by Milwaukee Archbishop Jerome Listecki to members of the Joint Committee on Finance, according to a post Wednesday on the Madison Diocese website.

Listecki asked legislators to carefully consider the implications of Walker's budget repair bill provision on collective bargaining, and "evaluate it in terms of its impact on the common good."

[RandySF]

1. I grew up in churches that hated unions.

[RagAss]

4. did you grow up in the south?

[RandySF]

6. Suburban Detroit

Full of hateful fundie churches.

[RagAss]

7. Gotcha...met a few folks from there...most hateful people I have ever been around.

[Brickbat]

2. According to the catechism, defrauding workers of their wages is a sin against the Holy Spirit, one

of the gravest. It's as bad as murder. Well, and sodomy, but yeah.

[arbusto_baboso]

3. Every once in awhile, Catholicism shows some of its social justice roots.

I'm with them on this one.

[XanaDUer]

5. Speaking for Jesus:

cronusap said on: February 17, 2011, 5:20 pm

@madteacher: Jesus doesn't like people who are greedy and corrupt and your public employee unions are indeed greedy and formed a corrupt alliance with the Democrats years ago. You can only use this "fair wage" and "social justice" BS for so long to justify your greed and theft from taxpayers. The taxpayers have had enough and so has Jesus!

[Drale]

9. I hope I'm still alive if jesus comes back

so I can see the look on these crazies when they realize everything they believed in their lives was wrong HA! :rofl:

[RandySF]

8. Not Catholic, but grew up in a Catholic neighborhood

in suburban Detroit. Back then, the church opposed abortion, contraception and capital punishment, but supported social welfare, social justice and workers' rights to organize.

[quiller4]

10. I went to Catholic schools in the 1950s. My spouse is a retired

union rep. When I was a child Republicans twice tried to pass Right to Work (for less) laws in Washington. The Catholic Archdiocese of Seattle and the Diocese of Spokane both came out in strong opposition to the measure.

My US history classes included segments on the history of labor. I was astounded when I compared my parochial school textbooks to the texts used in my neighbors public junior high. Strike breakers were heros in my neighboir's text and sinners in mine.

[XanaDUer]

11. Kick

nt.

[ProgressiveProfessor]

12. I do not believe the FSM has commented on this yet