Hilary Clinton Uses Photo Of Herself With Mother Teresa

[Didymus]

[quote name='catholicinsd' post='1276442' date='May 18 2007, 09:21 AM']Isn't ours a church of love?[/quote]

yes, and until she stops killing babies, the Church's love for her will be very tough.

[catholicinsd]

[quote name='homeschoolmom' post='1276445' date='May 18 2007, 09:31 AM']That is your comeback? Seriously?

Of course we are going to look at Clinton's past. We are going to scrutinize her time as First Lady and the agenda she was pushing at that time. We will look at her voting record as senator... Yes, that's what voters should do. Of course our Church espouses love. Hillary Clinton, however, does not. You have the mistaken idea that somehow Hilary Clinton is a victim being picked on. She is not. She is a candidate for one of the most powerful positions in the world. In an effort to gain that position, Clinton is trying to distance herself from her left-wing radical pro abortion past. She has not changed her view on abortion, but she wants people to believe that she is moderate. She's not.

What is it about Hilary Clinton that you love so much that you are willing to look the other way when it comes to abortion?[/quote]

So why do you instist on critizing only her? Where's the critizism of the Republicans?

[homeschoolmom]

If there were pictures of Guiliani or any other pro choice candidate with Mother Teresa or the Pope trying to use a photo op to soften their position on abortion, I'm sure there would be threads on that, too.

Why don't you just answer my question?

[quote]What is it about Hilary Clinton that you love so much that you are willing to look the other way when it comes to abortion?[/quote]Also, is this what you believe?

[quote]You are suggesting that by posing with Hillary Clinton, Mother Teresa endorsed her politics.[/quote]

[catholicinsd]

Mother endorsed Mrs. Clinton as person. Ya'll don't realise that can like a person without agreeing with them on one issue.

[homeschoolmom]

[quote name='catholicinsd' post='1276528' date='May 18 2007, 11:27 AM']Mother endorsed Mrs. Clinton as person. Ya'll don't realise that can like a person without agreeing with them on one issue.[/quote]
What you don't realize is that politicians use photo ops to imply endorsements of a candidate's position that are not there... We are not talking about a private photo that Mrs. Clinton might have hanging in her living room as a keepsake. We are talking about deliberately using someone's image and good reputation to cloak your own bad image.

Answer my questions, please.

[Apotheoun]

Mother Teresa did not "endorse" anyone as a person. One simply is a person.

As far as Mrs. Clinton's views on the "right to life" are concerned, they are at variance with Catholic teaching, and -- as a consequence -- no Catholic can endorse her views on that question.

[Luthien]

This isn't a matter of democrats vs. republicans. This is a matter of pro-life vs. pro-death. Period.

[Seven77]

This is a vicious attack on what Mother wrote to to the 1995 Beijing Conference. The picture followed by Mrs. Clinton words AT that Conference, supporting aborting. Insidious.

[catholicinsd]

I'm sorry, but I just don't think its couthed to attack someone over something as simple as picture.

[homeschoolmom]

Then you are very naive when it comes to politics. That picture was chosen by the campaign for a purpose-- to link Clinton with Mother Teresa in the minds of voters. So that the good feelings people have for Mother Teresa will be associated with Clinton.
Why don't you answer my questions?

[Church Punk]

[quote name='homeschoolmom' post='1276567' date='May 18 2007, 01:11 PM']Then you are very naive when it comes to politics. That picture was chosen by the campaign for a purpose-- to link Clinton with Mother Teresa in the minds of voters. So that the good feelings people have for Mother Teresa will be associated with Clinton.
Why don't you answer my questions?[/quote]

You dont see her with pictures of the unborn children that were murdered now do you? Mother Thresea is in the video because everyone loves her. Everyone on earth sees her face as the face of compassion and hope for the world. So when Hilary places herself beside her in a nice picture, it makes people thing that Hillary is also compassionate and the hope for the world, which isnt the case!

[homeschoolmom]

[catholicinsd]

Mother Teresa was woman above politics. While it may or may not be morally right to use the photogragh in the manner that Mrs. Clinton is, is it definatly wrong to attack Mrs. Clinton simply being proud of this relationship.

[homeschoolmom]

[quote name='catholicinsd' post='1276573' date='May 18 2007, 12:22 PM']While it may or may not be morally right to use the photogragh in the manner that Mrs. Clinton is,[/quote]
Which is it? Morally right or morally wrong?

If she were merely "proud of the relationship" (which was nothing more than a photo op) then she would simply have a copy of the picture in her home. That would be understandable. However, that she is using it in a campaign video is exploitive.

If Mother Teresa was "above politics" (which I don't agree with), why did she write letter to the members of the World Conference on Women in Beijing in 1995? The same conference where Mrs. Clinton proclaimed that abortion was a human right. If Mother Teresa has no interest in meddling the political world, she would have stayed in Calcutta serving the poor. Instead, she tried to use her notoriety to gain exposure of the evil that abortion is.

[Apotheoun]

The use of the picture is misleading, and as I said in another thread; if Mrs. Clinton continues to use the picture in her ads, then: "Someone should start running an ad that always follows Mrs. Clinton's ad, in which Mother Teresa speaks about the crime of abortion and the absolute right to life of the unborn."