Patrick Murphy: Catholic Church should not tell Catholic Congressmen how to be Catholic November 25 2009
Patrick Murphy, the Democratic blue lap dog from Pennsylvania’s 8th District is outraged that the Catholic Church won’t give Rhode Island Congressman and JFK nephew Patrick Kennedy Communion because of Kennedy’s pro-abortion abortion stance:
“We don’t legislate at the orders of the Vatican, we legislate what is in our conscience and what we think is good for our country,” said Rep. Patrick Murphy, a Democrat and Catholic who, like Kennedy, supports abortion rights. Murphy spoke at Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass., where he received a John F. Kennedy New Frontier Award from the late president’s daughter, Caroline Kennedy.
It has apparently not yet occured to Murphy, who was “deeply hurt” when the Catholic Church refused to bless his marriage in 2006 for his own pro-abortion stance, that the Catholic Church does not legislate at the orders of the U.S. Congress.
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