http://newmexicoindependent.com/24240/disenfranchisement-comes-for-the-archbishop New Mexico news and politics Fri, 02 Sep 2011 18:15:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://newmexicoindependent.com/24240/disenfranchisement-comes-for-the-archbishop#comment-23015 Brigette_Russell Tue, 14 Apr 2009 09:10:28 +0000 http://newmexicoindependent.com/?p=24240#comment-23015 Any of us are free to sit in on committee meetings and stare pointedly at legislators. It's up to the legislators how they respond. If the Archbishop has sufficient moral authority to make legislators rethink their positions, that doesn't mean he's using tax-exempt Church funds to lobby unconstitutionally, it just means he has a lot of moral authority. You may wish he didn't, but you can't stop him from exercising his civil rights just because he does. Any of us are free to sit in on committee meetings and stare pointedly at legislators. It's up to the legislators how they respond. If the Archbishop has sufficient moral authority to make legislators rethink their positions, that doesn't mean he's using tax-exempt Church funds to lobby unconstitutionally, it just means he has a lot of moral authority. You may wish he didn't, but you can't stop him from exercising his civil rights just because he does.

]]> http://newmexicoindependent.com/24240/disenfranchisement-comes-for-the-archbishop#comment-23014 Brigette_Russell Tue, 14 Apr 2009 09:07:46 +0000 http://newmexicoindependent.com/?p=24240#comment-23014 Thanks for the kind words. As the the Church lobbying out of its 501(c)(3), it's not as if the Church was spending money taking out ads and so forth against the death penalty. Archbishop Sheehan and other members of the clergy went to the statehouse to lobby personally, wrote letters and made phone calls -- much as you or I or any other citizen is free to do, no matter what church or organization they may belong to. Thanks for the kind words. As the the Church lobbying out of its 501(c)(3), it's not as if the Church was spending money taking out ads and so forth against the death penalty. Archbishop Sheehan and other members of the clergy went to the statehouse to lobby personally, wrote letters and made phone calls — much as you or I or any other citizen is free to do, no matter what church or organization they may belong to.

]]> http://newmexicoindependent.com/24240/disenfranchisement-comes-for-the-archbishop#comment-23013 Brigette_Russell Tue, 14 Apr 2009 09:03:01 +0000 http://newmexicoindependent.com/?p=24240#comment-23013 I'm actually in favor of capital punishment, as you will see if you look at the archive of my past columns. I'm actually in favor of capital punishment, as you will see if you look at the archive of my past columns.

]]> http://newmexicoindependent.com/24240/disenfranchisement-comes-for-the-archbishop#comment-19541 Brigette_Russell Tue, 14 Apr 2009 04:10:28 +0000 http://newmexicoindependent.com/?p=24240#comment-19541 Any of us are free to sit in on committee meetings and stare pointedly at legislators. It's up to the legislators how they respond. If the Archbishop has sufficient moral authority to make legislators rethink their positions, that doesn't mean he's using tax-exempt Church funds to lobby unconstitutionally, it just means he has a lot of moral authority. You may wish he didn't, but you can't stop him from exercising his civil rights just because he does. Any of us are free to sit in on committee meetings and stare pointedly at legislators. It's up to the legislators how they respond. If the Archbishop has sufficient moral authority to make legislators rethink their positions, that doesn't mean he's using tax-exempt Church funds to lobby unconstitutionally, it just means he has a lot of moral authority. You may wish he didn't, but you can't stop him from exercising his civil rights just because he does.

]]> http://newmexicoindependent.com/24240/disenfranchisement-comes-for-the-archbishop#comment-19540 Brigette_Russell Tue, 14 Apr 2009 04:07:46 +0000 http://newmexicoindependent.com/?p=24240#comment-19540 Thanks for the kind words. As the the Church lobbying out of its 501(c)(3), it's not as if the Church was spending money taking out ads and so forth against the death penalty. Archbishop Sheehan and other members of the clergy went to the statehouse to lobby personally, wrote letters and made phone calls -- much as you or I or any other citizen is free to do, no matter what church or organization they may belong to. Thanks for the kind words. As the the Church lobbying out of its 501(c)(3), it's not as if the Church was spending money taking out ads and so forth against the death penalty. Archbishop Sheehan and other members of the clergy went to the statehouse to lobby personally, wrote letters and made phone calls — much as you or I or any other citizen is free to do, no matter what church or organization they may belong to.

]]> http://newmexicoindependent.com/24240/disenfranchisement-comes-for-the-archbishop#comment-19539 Brigette_Russell Tue, 14 Apr 2009 04:03:01 +0000 http://newmexicoindependent.com/?p=24240#comment-19539 I'm actually in favor of capital punishment, as you will see if you look at the archive of my past columns. I'm actually in favor of capital punishment, as you will see if you look at the archive of my past columns.

]]> http://newmexicoindependent.com/24240/disenfranchisement-comes-for-the-archbishop#comment-9892 Brigette_Russell Tue, 14 Apr 2009 03:10:28 +0000 http://newmexicoindependent.com/?p=24240#comment-9892 Any of us are free to sit in on committee meetings and stare pointedly at legislators. It's up to the legislators how they respond. If the Archbishop has sufficient moral authority to make legislators rethink their positions, that doesn't mean he's using tax-exempt Church funds to lobby unconstitutionally, it just means he has a lot of moral authority. You may wish he didn't, but you can't stop him from exercising his civil rights just because he does. Any of us are free to sit in on committee meetings and stare pointedly at legislators. It's up to the legislators how they respond. If the Archbishop has sufficient moral authority to make legislators rethink their positions, that doesn't mean he's using tax-exempt Church funds to lobby unconstitutionally, it just means he has a lot of moral authority. You may wish he didn't, but you can't stop him from exercising his civil rights just because he does.

]]> http://newmexicoindependent.com/24240/disenfranchisement-comes-for-the-archbishop#comment-9891 Brigette_Russell Tue, 14 Apr 2009 03:07:46 +0000 http://newmexicoindependent.com/?p=24240#comment-9891 Thanks for the kind words. As the the Church lobbying out of its 501(c)(3), it's not as if the Church was spending money taking out ads and so forth against the death penalty. Archbishop Sheehan and other members of the clergy went to the statehouse to lobby personally, wrote letters and made phone calls -- much as you or I or any other citizen is free to do, no matter what church or organization they may belong to. Thanks for the kind words. As the the Church lobbying out of its 501(c)(3), it's not as if the Church was spending money taking out ads and so forth against the death penalty. Archbishop Sheehan and other members of the clergy went to the statehouse to lobby personally, wrote letters and made phone calls — much as you or I or any other citizen is free to do, no matter what church or organization they may belong to.

]]> http://newmexicoindependent.com/24240/disenfranchisement-comes-for-the-archbishop#comment-9890 Brigette_Russell Tue, 14 Apr 2009 03:03:01 +0000 http://newmexicoindependent.com/?p=24240#comment-9890 I'm actually in favor of capital punishment, as you will see if you look at the archive of my past columns. I'm actually in favor of capital punishment, as you will see if you look at the archive of my past columns.

]]> http://newmexicoindependent.com/24240/disenfranchisement-comes-for-the-archbishop#comment-5286 Brigette_Russell Tue, 14 Apr 2009 02:10:28 +0000 http://newmexicoindependent.com/?p=24240#comment-5286 Any of us are free to sit in on committee meetings and stare pointedly at legislators. It's up to the legislators how they respond. If the Archbishop has sufficient moral authority to make legislators rethink their positions, that doesn't mean he's using tax-exempt Church funds to lobby unconstitutionally, it just means he has a lot of moral authority. You may wish he didn't, but you can't stop him from exercising his civil rights just because he does. Any of us are free to sit in on committee meetings and stare pointedly at legislators. It's up to the legislators how they respond. If the Archbishop has sufficient moral authority to make legislators rethink their positions, that doesn't mean he's using tax-exempt Church funds to lobby unconstitutionally, it just means he has a lot of moral authority. You may wish he didn't, but you can't stop him from exercising his civil rights just because he does.

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