Playing the Catholic card at the Supreme Court
last weekPosted by Ann Corcoran on April 29, 2018
Quoting the USCCB proved a shrewd tactical maneuver on Katyal’s part,
since five of the nine Supreme Court justices are Roman Catholic, and one —
Neil Gorsuch — was raised Catholic but left Catholicism for the Episcopal
Church.
Here we go again! Bishops appeal to Prez on Christian charity grounds, never mention their federal funding
Here we go again! Bishops appeal to Prez on Christian charity grounds, never mention their federal funding
Did you know that the US Conference of Catholic Bishops filed an amicus
brief against the Trump Administration in the travel ban case before the high
court? I didn’t,
but it really isn’t a surprise. You know where this Pope stands!
Of
course, they are free to file briefs, but I just wish they would for once admit that
they receive millions of your dollars from the US Treasury every year for their
Migration Fund (nearly
$100 million to the Bishops alone, not including the other millions that go to
Catholic Charities to ‘care’ for those migrants).
Just
once I wish they would admit they have a pecuniary interest in how the travel
ban is resolved. See Catholics close 20 offices as government revenue dries up.
Do you, my Catholic friends, know that the Bishops want more migrants
admitted to the US from terror-producing countries?
Tyler
O’Neill at PJ Media: Catholic Bishops Call Trump Refugee Order
‘Blatant Religious Discrimination’ in Supreme Court Brief Here are
some snips…
In arguments before the Supreme Court on Wednesday, attorney Neal
Katyal attacked President Donald Trump’s refugee proclamation — oft maligned as
a “Muslim ban” — by quoting the U.S. Council of Catholic Bishops (USCCB), which
called the order “blatant religious discrimination.”
Trump’s
proclamation, currently before the Court, “has both the purpose and the effect
of discriminating against Muslims,” the bishops argued in their
friend-of-the-court brief, filed March 30. “Prior to issuing the Proclamation, the
President repeatedly announced his desire to target Muslims for denial of entry
into the United States…. Such blatant religious discrimination is repugnant to
the Catholic faith, core American values, and the United States Constitution.”
Neal Katyal:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neal_Katyal
Katyal
quoted the bishops in response to Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito, who
pressed the attorney for evidence that a “reasonable person” would view Trump’s
order as discriminating against Muslims.
“This
is a ban that really does fall almost exclusively on Muslims,” Katyal said,
Commonweal magazine reported. “Look at the wide variety of amicus briefs filed
in this case from every corner of society, representing millions and millions
of people, from the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, which calls it, quote,
‘blatant religious discrimination’…”
“This
is not a so-called Muslim ban,” Solicitor General Noel Francisco declared on
Wednesday. “If it were, it would be the most ineffective Muslim ban that one
could possibly imagine since not only does it exclude the vast majority of the
Muslim world, it also omits three Muslim-majority countries that were covered
by past orders, including Iraq, Chad, and Sudan.”
Trump’s
campaign remarks on immigration and his executive orders regarding the issue
have drawn sharp criticism from Christians, Roman Catholic and evangelical
Protestant alike.
During the campaign, Pope Francis attacked Trump as “not Christian,”
citing the candidate’s desire to build a wall on the U.S.-Mexico border. In December 2016, Catholic bishops
insisted that they saw “the Holy Family” in the struggles of immigrants and
refugees. Last February, the USCCB welcomed the original blocking of Trump’s
travel ban. At the same time, more than three thousand evangelical Protestant
leaders — including prominent names like Tim Keller and Max Lucado — expressed
“deep concern” over the order. In September, they declared the cancellation of
DACA (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrives) “reprehensible.”
See
the whole PJ Media article especially
for the links to further reading. And, be sure to read this post of mine from a month ago:
This
is the most important part: Here in an audit of the USCCB for
2015 and 2016, we see this (below) on page 14.
See
original article for insert. Catholic Bishops received $11.5 million in 2016
from the US government for refugee work. The total tab in 2016 for the US
Refugee Program was $95.3 million.
See
my category, Supreme Court,
for more on the travel ban issue.
I
suspect others of the nine federally funded resettlement agencies also filed
‘friend of the court’ briefs against Trump, but I haven’t looked for those yet.
I sure hope your tax dollars aren’t paying for their lawyers!
The contractors (aka VOLAGs)….
I
post the contractor list almost every day because I want new readers to know
exactly who is responsible for driving the US Refugee Admissions Program (in
addition to the UN!).
The
number in parenthesis is the percentage of the nine VOLAGs’ income paid by you (the
taxpayer) to place the refugees, line them up with (low paying) jobs in food
production and cleaning hotel rooms, and get them signed up for their services (welfare)!
From
most recent accounting, here.
Ethiopian Community Development Council (ECDC) (secular)(93%)
International Rescue Committee (IRC) (secular) (66.5%)
US Committee for Refugees and Immigrants (USCRI) (secular) (98%)
Norb Leahy, Dunwoody
GA Tea Party Leader
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