NEW YORK (Roto Reuters) Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani and front runner Republican presidential nominee has faced increasing questions on his standing as a Catholic. In recent articles he has responded, saying it was a question that "I prefer to leave to priests." He added that clerics would "have a much better sense of how good a Catholic I am or how bad a Catholic I am."
With increasing questions on this subject Mayor Giuliani has now responded by given a much fuller statement on his views on the subject.
"It all comes down to Thomas Jefferson's concept of building a wall of separation between church and state as he wrote to the Dansbury Baptists. I have only taken Jefferson's concept to a personal level. I have built a wall of separation between my actions and my faith. As a mayor and a presidential nominee I know that you are part of the state 24/7 and so all of my actions must be separated from my faith."
"It really can be quite a struggle since for example I am personally opposed to abortion and that wall of separation keeps my donations to Planned Parenthood and appointment of pro-abortion judges while mayor from affecting my faith life. As I have said before I don't like and in fact hate abortion, but also as I have said before if my daughter going against my personal advice wanted one then I would give her the money for that. That is how separation of actions and faith work."
"Now I can't take the credit for taking this separation to the personal level. I can thank trailblazers like John F. Kennedy who was quite skilled at keeping his faith contained and separated from his actions. Plus there are a plethora of Catholic politicians that have maintained a high degree of detachment from their personal actions and their personal faith. Though I do have a certain degree of pride by kicking it up a notch by having married three times, supporting homosexual acts, and federal funding of Embryonic Stem-Cell Research while still going to Mass on Sundays and calling myself a Catholic."
"My daughter in fact has learned so well from me that she has separated me as her father from her voting for Obama in the election."
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Funny! And sad....
What a load of hooey.
Yar! Methinks this be a parody.
Not bad. Didn't realize it was a parody 'til the fourth paragraph
Worse than sad. Why are so many national level Catholic politicians such an embarassment?
I read this and I could vomit. I wouldn't vote for him for dog catcher.
Very funny!
I don't think he could have put it better himself.
I didn't know it was a parody until I read the comments. And I was really worked up about it! Shame on me.
Hey, I'm not a priest, and I'd be glad to tell him exactly how he isn't Catholic! Please! Just let me at him!
A parody? Yes, but a rather sad commentary on our "Catholic" politicians.
The funny thing (or actually sad thing) is that I was believing this was an accurate statement from Rudy Tootie until I got to the last paragraph.
I agree with the people who almost believed this was a genuine interview. You had me going, Jeff, until the fifth paragraph. What's sad is that it all sounds so much like him ... and like too many others.
And now I'm suddenly afraid you're going to tell us it wasn't a parody!
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POarody yes, 99% true also even if he hasn't actually put it into words.
Took me three whole paragraphs and part of the fourth to realize this was a parody. Truly sad that a brilliant parody can appear to be a real news story in this case. :(
You got me. It sounded so much like Rudy trying to swim around Bishop Tobin's direct challenge that it didn't occur to me that it was satire until I read the comments.
I want to apologize for calling Rudy "Tootie". I don't like his wishy-washy stance on life issues but I don't want to resort to name calling.