Think You Can Trust the Democrat Party To Get It Right When It Comes to the Military and Veterans?
posted by Pro Ecclesia 11:01 PM
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Saturday, October 07, 2006
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A convert to the Catholic Church who became Catholic because of a belief in and devotion to the Real Presence of Jesus Christ in the Eucharist. * A graduate of Baylor University and the University of Virginia School of Law. * Former Mayor of the Town of Columbia, Virginia. * Married with four children: two boys and two girls. * Primary interests include the Catholic Church, family, Early American History, and law/politics * Primary purpose of this blog is fostering enlightened discussion about the roles played by the institutions of religion, family, and state in our daily lives. * Under the protection of St. Thomas More, martyr, and patron of lawyers, judges, civil servants, politicians, statesmen, and large families (not to mention troubled marriages).
Thomas More, counselor of law and patron of statesmen, merry martyr and most human of saints:
Pray that, for the glory of God and in the pursuit of His justice, I may be able in argument, accurate in analysis, keen in study, correct in conclusion, loyal to clients, honest with all, courteous to adversaries, trustworthy with confidences, courageous in court. Sit with me at my desk and listen with me to my clients' tales. Read with me in my library and stand always beside me so that today I shall not, to win a point, lose my soul.
Pray that my family may find in me what yours found in you: friendship and courage, cheerfulness and charity, diligence in duties, counsel in adversity, patience in pain -- their good servant, and God's first. AMEN.
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Prayer to St. Thomas More for Lawyers and Judges
Dear Scholar and Martyr, it was not the King of England but you who were the true Defender of the Faith. Like Christ unjustly condemned, neither promises nor threats could make you accept a civil ruler as head of the Christian Church.
Perfect in your honesty and love of truth, grant that lawyers and judges may imitate you and achieve true justice for all people. AMEN.
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"Give me the Grace Good Lord, to set the world at naught; to set my mind fast upon Thee and not to hang upon the blast of men's mouths. To be content to be solitary. Not to long for worldly company but utterly to cast off the world and rid my mind of the business thereof."
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Litany of St. Thomas More, Martyr and Patron Saint of Statesmen, Politicians and Lawyers
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"The ordinary acts we practice every day at home are of more importance to the soul than their simplicity might suggest."
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"What does it avail to know that there is a God, which you not only believe by Faith, but also know by Reason: what does it avail that you know Him if you think little of Him?"
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4 Comments:
I'll comment here because Michelle doesn't take comments.
Aren't there laws against uniformed military or police personnel appearing in campaign advertisements and materials?
My understanding is that if the DNC had pictures of actual uniformed American military people on its website, both the DNC and the people pictured could get into legal trouble.
So, then, why bother posting a picture of someone in uniform at all, rather than skirting the law by posting a Canadian soldier?
This reminds me of when I was in the U.S.S. Midway in the Indian Ocean during the Iranian Hostage Crisis. We had been at set for about 90 days straight when President Carter held a press conference and during it referred to us as "the other carrier." 90 days at sea and we weren't even worth a mention? Though we had fun with it and had shirts printed with that phrase.
Paul,
They could easily get stock photo's of military personnel which would not violate the law. Political campaigns certainly have shown their candidates speaking to groups of military personnel in the past. Even if the law was so strict as to not allow even stock photographs, then it certainly would be a lot smarter to not show someone from the Canadian military.
The whole point is that they wouldn't know the difference.
Turns out the photo of the Canadian did come from a stock photo site on the internet. Which pretty much proves that they didn't know it wasn't a picture of our military. They just looked for one that had a face with a dour expressesion
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