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Thursday, May 08, 2008

Maybe this is why McCain's spiritual adviser, John Hagee, hates the Catholic church
Posted by Jill | 9:52 PM
Because Nuns. Kick. Ass.

Surely, our majority-Catholic Supreme Court should have known better than to get on the wrong side of the Sisters. As we wrote earlier, the first victims of the new ruling on Voter ID were elderly nuns in Indiana. This just in, in my emailbox: The nuns of Missouri rap the Supreme Court's knuckles with a great big ruler:



Nun of the Franciscan Sisters of Mary comments on Voter ID disenfranchisement

WHO: Missourians for Fair Elections


WHAT: Press Conference on the impact of legislation to

require government-issued photo ID to vote


WHEN: 1:00 PM, Thursday, May 8, 2008


WHERE: League of Women Voters, 8706 Manchester, Jefferson City, MO 63144


JEFFERSON CITY, MO – On Thursday, May 8, three Missouri voters who lack government-issued photo IDs as well as Secretary of State Robin Carnahan and community leaders will discuss the potential impacts of legislation currently being pushed through the Missouri General Assembly. The proposed legislation would make Missouri one of the toughest states in the country for eligible citizens who want to vote by requiring voters to present a government-issued photo ID at the polls. If passed, these changes could be in place by the November general election and could put the voting rights at risk for up to 240,000 registered Missouri voters.


"This may sound like a good idea at first," stated Sister Sandy Schwartz of the Franciscan Sisters of Mary regarding voter ID requirements, "but once you stop to think about who would really be affected, this is going to keep a lot of our loved ones from being able to vote." Yesterday in Indiana twelve nuns in their 80s and 90s
were turned away from the polls because they lacked the needed IDs to vote. Sister Schwartz and others are concerned about the difficulties the policy change would create for elderly Missouri nuns, as well as other senior citizens, the poor, and minorities.


Awesome.

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Blogger Unknown said...
What's wrong with hating the Catholic church?
5/9/08, 10:04 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...
They would have just voted nun of the above
5/11/08, 3:54 AM  
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