More symptoms of insanity on the American right

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In yesterday's American Thinker, a man with the Italian name of Bonelli wrote the following, extremely offensive statement:

The United States is different from most other countries in many ways. One unique aspect of our country is that our elected officials, officers of the court, and the military, all pledge their allegiance to the Constitution and not to an office, individual or party. This assures continuity of the ideals set forth by the founders.

As an Italian citizen, I have personally sworn to defend the Constitution of my country when I served in the Italian army. The presumption involved in this ignorant display of insular arrogance is an insult to every constitutional government in the world.

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Then you should have said that. What I was speaking about was ritual. These are kinds of treason, but different. Oddly enough, the worst offender against ritual - Cardinal Mahoney - is more firm than many more orthodox bishops in the matter of abortion. That does not excuse his various horrors, but reminds us that crimes and criminals differ.

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http://www.americanpapist.com/2009/09/video-cardinal-mahoney-tries-to-dodge.html

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I have seen that particular video. The Cardinal was waylaid by a hostile journalist with a near-incomprehensible question, and did not answer it at all well. He is, however, the signatary of a number of radically anti-abortion letters to Congress and various bodies, as well as to his own clergy in his own diocese.

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The second part of his question was pretty straight forward. Should abortion be allowed in the health care bill? Even if he didn't know anything about it he could have answered it better. I do not take Obama at his word in this matter. That provision is still there, an amendment to make a Hyde-type amendment to the bill was voted down, as well as conscience protection was voted down. He just appeared spineless.

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As I said, I am no fan of Mahoney; in fact, I look at his every action with suspicion. Which is why I have been repeatedly surprised by firm positions taken on abortion, not once, but several times.

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P.S.: I am no fan of Mahoney. If I were Pope, he would have discovered a sudden missionary vocation to Antarctica.