You can’t be Pro-Choice and Catholic

This week, Illinois passed the most extreme pro-abortion state legislation in America — with some Catholic lawmakers taking the lead in pushing forward this anti-life bill.

In response, Bishop Thomas Paprocki of Springfield, Illinois, has issued a public decree communicating to his priests that all Illinois Catholic lawmakers who voted for the state’s new Reproductive Health Act, or for an earlier 2017 bill that legalized taxpayer funding of abortions, should not present themselves to receive Holy Communion in the Diocese of Springfield “without first being reconciled to Christ and the Church.” The decree, and an accompanying letter, were mailed earlier in the week to all of the Catholic lawmakers who voted in favor of the bills.

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AMERICA’S GOT TALENT: The 2017 Overall Winner’s performances – This is wonderful and truly worth 20 minutes of your life. [19:56]

2020

BIDEN: Too middle ground – Sens. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) made one thing clear this past weekend at the California Democratic Party state convention: So-called middle ground candidates like Joe Biden aren’t progressive enough and are too willing to play nice with Republicans.

Noah Rothman (Commentary Magazine) offers a much more important reason to keep Joe Biden out of the White House:

“There may be no greater incongruity in American politics than that between the unilateral powers vested in the president on matters related to foreign affairs and how little the electorate cares about foreign affairs. Absent an acute crisis, events on the world stage just aren’t foremost on American minds. Joe Biden’s ascension to the Democratic Party’s presidential nomination would alter that equation, in part because he spent over a decade as the ranking member and then chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. But Biden’s efforts to favorably contrast himself with the Trump administration on foreign policy will be complicated by his record of astoundingly bad judgment.”

• https://www.commentarymagazine.com/politics-ideas/campaigns-elections/joe-biden-bad-judgment/
• https://legalinsurrection.com/2019/06/sanders-and-warren-declare-war-on-middle-ground-candidates-at-ca-democratic-convention/

GILLIBRAND: The NRA responded to Gillibrand’s attack by posting a letter she wrote to them in 2008. In 2009, she bragged about her 100% A rating from the NRA and said she kept two guns under her bed. In 2018, she said she is now embarrassed by her previous views on gun rights.

• https://www.foxnews.com/politics/nra-fires-back-after-gillibrand-points-to-her-2008-letter-praising-gun-rights-group

MOULTON: Don’t ask me. I never heard of him either. – He’s no different than the rest. And he’s polling at less than 1%. [:59]

Trevor Noah to @ericswalwell: "If you could not convince your parents to vote for Hillary Clinton, how do you think you would convince other Americans to not vote for Donald Trump?" pic.twitter.com/0dTHTa0OVY

— Eddie Zipperer (@EddieZipperer) June 4, 2019

Will you donate $1 now to get me to the debate stage? I'm ready to clean s#*% up!

Give $1 now 👉 https://t.co/knlPxrcWzk pic.twitter.com/nwnhPtpG5i

— Eric Swalwell (@ericswalwell) June 2, 2019

SWALWELL: He’s a pathetic loser – But hey, he can change a diaper!  So clearly, he should be POTUS! Right?! Right?!

• https://twitchy.com/brettt-3136/2019/06/04/eric-swalwell-still-paying-off-his-student-loans-wants-to-be-president-of-the-united-states/
• https://twitchy.com/gregp-3534/2019/06/04/game-over-it-appears-that-trevor-noah-may-just-have-ended-the-eric-swalwell-presidential-campaign/

Question: "Why should the women of America vote for you instead of our sisters, who are kind of more qualified?"

Buttigieg: “We ought to have a woman in the Oval Office right now. I’m still disappointed that didn’t happen.”

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— Breaking911 (@Breaking911) June 3, 2019

BUTTIGIEG: He’s real sorry about being a white male, which is more than can be said for Bernie “If you write a best seller, you can be a millionaire too” Sanders.