Bishop in R.I. Laments That Biden-Harris Ticket Doesn't 'Have A Catholic On It': WTH?

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'Bishop laments Biden-Harris ticket doesn’t have ‘a Catholic on it,' gets schooled by Twitter,' Walter Einenkel, Daily Kos Staff, Aug.12, 2020.



Providence Rhode Island Catholic Bishop Thomas Tobin seems to have been sad emoji frowny face at the announcement that Joe Biden had chosen Sen. Kamala Harris as his running mate. The problem for the bishop? No Catholics! He went to Twitter to write “Biden-Harris. First time in awhile [sic] that the Democratic ticket hasn’t had a Catholic on it. Sad.”

Of course, besides being a truly dumb thing to say, it is also an aggressively ignorant and factually incorrect thing to say. For example, the “in awhile [sic]” Bishop Tobin is talking about includes the famous ticket of Barack Obama and his very Catholic running mate Joe Biden. Biden, Biden, Biden, where have I heard that name recently? Right, in the first word of the good bishop’s lament. The rest of the Twittersphere decided to remind Bishop Tobin about loving thy neighbor and all of that good stuff found in those old books he allegedly reads so much.

This isn’t Tobin’s first foray into making political waves. He has barred Rep. Patrick Kennedy of Rhode Island from receiving communion based on Kennedy’s stances on abortion and stem cell research. But luckily, there were many people willing to correct the Bishop’s mistakes.

Biden-Harris. First time in awhile that the Democratic ticket hasn’t had a Catholic on it. Sad.
James Fallows
@JamesFallows
The same person who was the Catholic on Dem tickets in 2008 and 2012 is also the Catholic on the ticket now.
10:38 PM · Aug 11, 2020
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*Not going to let that fact go. To be clear, no one should let that go. Bishop Thomas Tobin was the auxiliary bishop of Pittsburgh, “one of six Pennsylvania dioceses covered in a scathing grand jury report on the cover-up by Catholic Church officials in Pennsylvania of decades of child abuse by more than 300 priests.” He has said the abuses suffered during his time in that position were outside of purview...

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/8/12/1968676/-Catholic-bishop-laments-that-Biden-Harris-doesn-t-have-a-Catholic-on-it-gets-schooled-by-Twitter

https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/after-priest-says-pedophilia-doesnt-kill-anyone-bishop-tobin-responds-82733

[CurtEastPoint]

1. Oh and he got SLAMMED on his Twitter.

Link to tweet

[appalachiablue]

2. Maybe had a good buzz when he wrote it?

[NotANeocon]

3. In his own sick way -

- the Bish is probably of the belief that one can not be Roman Catholic and respect the rights of women by supporting all reproductive rights.

[bearsfootball516]

4. That's exactly what it is.

Saying Biden isn’t a *real* Catholic because he’s pro-choice.

[CaptYossarian]

5. They just want more victims to molest.

[no_hypocrisy]

6. Hey Bishop! Don't forget to mention "bearing false witness" when you go to Confession this week!

[Squinch]

7. Bishop in RI is an imbecile and likes to make sure everyone knows it.

[Walleye]

8. I think Biden was actually our first Catholic vice president

[appalachiablue]

9. Correct, Pence would have been had he not converted

from Catholic to Evan. Prot.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catholic_Church_and_politics_in_the_United_States#:~:text=In%202008%2C%20Joe%20Biden%20became,to%20Protestantism%20later%20in%20life.

[sl8]

11. But Pence came after Biden.

Did you mean to say , "Pence would have been the second ... " or am I missing something?

[appalachiablue]

12. Second, and how astonishing there have been so few

[Paladin]

10. Roll the JFK "The Pope won't be my boss" footage.

Meanwhile, fuck off, Bishop Tobin.