Howard Dean's big mouth
Howard Dean has opened his big mouth again over the weekend, once again talking about something about which he has no real clue. He told a conference that the Democratic Party needs to reach out to Catholic voters by reminding us that "the social agenda of the Catholic Church and the social agenda of the Democratic Party are virtually the same."Oh really? If that has become the political situation, someone at the DNC forgot to send me the memo. If the social agenda of the Church and the Democrats are the same, that means that the Democratic Party has seen the light on some very important questions:
Such a declaration would mean that the Democrats now accept the integrity of Holy Matrimony as a part of their platform. It means that the Democrats no longer accept the notion that homosexuals should have the same rights in law as a validly married couple.
Further, if the social agenda of the Democrats and the Church are in unison, it means that the Vatican and the Party have come to agreement on the question of life. The Democrats accept at a national level that life begins at conception and deserves protection in law.
If the social agenda of the Church and the Democrats have achieved unity, this would also mean that the Democrats have now embraced the idea that children and their parents deserve the right to choose whatever school they would like to attend, whether that school is public, private, or parochial. No child should be confined to one kind of school merely because their family is poor.
If the Democrats have changed their position on these matters, somebody please let me know. Otherwise, I'll chalk this up to Howard Dean's big clueless mouth.
To be fair, no one can confine the social agenda of the Catholic Church to one political party. In this sense, the Church is very different than many other churches in America. The Church is not a political entity, so it is free to stand up for what is just and right, and in doing so, the Church does not care who it offends, and may sound like a conservative Republican one day and a liberal Democrat the next. This is because the Church is concerned with what is right and what is wrong, not with what is politically expedient, or what party agenda to attach itself to. Someone with a truly Catholic mind would do well to explain this to Chairman Dean.
posted by Deacon David Oatney @ 8:36 AM
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