Mr. O'Donnell the best is yet to come. Remember secrets well Mitt kept on during his last run for President. Well new President and transparency brings out Mitt's Mexican relatives. Watch Rock Center with Brian Williams on Jan. 9th as he will show Mitt's Mexican relatives living in the same town his GrandFather founded. Mitt's Grandfather has about 12 wives and alot of kids both American and Mexican. Mitt's Dad said he never had more then one wife but his career of Governor and possible Presidential candidate it would be bad news to hear different. But Mitt's relatives can vote for him even living in Mexico because of their Father being American they have both American Mexican citizenship. Mitt might be able to draw in some minority votes. I wonder if any of relatives are really secret sisters/brothers and George Romney was born in Mexico and Mormons practiced polygamy

Nice to see your Dad benefited from taxpayer money Lawrence. Even you kids benefited from taxpayer money. Question for you Larry...

WHY IS IT SACRILEGIOUS FOR PEOPLE TO BENEFIT FROM TAXPAYER MONEY NOW?

Lawrence, you're a very very smart man. Think and report about this phenomenon. Its sacrilegious NOW because it benefits minorities. The right wing and conservatives in general HATE THAT. Has nothing to do with right, wrong or status quo.

They hate minorities period. They hate doing anything that helps minorities. That's what you and MSNBC should be reporting on. They love if it helps a DAD with 5 children who is WHITE. But that same DAD who is BLACK they say F him!

Report on that instead of all the nonsense you guys and gals like to report on.

I admire you immensely for the objective, honest, and respectful expression of your views on matters. I especially wanted to commend you for your presentation this evening of the story about the woman who was "immorally" refused Communion by a priest at her mother's funeral, the same priest who then walked out of the sanctuary while she delivered her eulogy to her deceased mother, and topped off all that immoral insult by refusing to attend the burial of the mother. It was one disgusting display after another. It had nothing, absolutely nothing to do with religion except the evil that has always accompanied it, proving that religion is man's creation, not God's. That insulting priest's behavior ranks with the sinful sex abuse that continues to be sinfully covered by the pope and other bishops--under his absolute, monarchical management.

Like you, I attended parochial schools. The abuse by the nuns that I witnessed, and experienced myself at the very end--and walked out on because of its horrid injustice--matched the behavior of this priest who is only an organization man, who has absolutely nothing to do with Jesus. I served mass for many years, even during my Korean War days. I taught in parochial schools for the first five of my thirty-five years in education. I left the parochial school system because of the continuation of mental and physical abuse that I witnessed during those five years.

I then moved through a five-year evolution of continuing study, thought, and searching that led me out of the Catholic Church, testing Reformation branches, including Unitarianism, then agnosticism, and finally atheism. It's been a long, serious, difficult, and even painful journey. If one is going to be serious about serious business, religion deserves deep consideration from the early childhood brain washing that captures most people, who then methodically warm church pews out of fear, or "good insurance" as a deceased friend used to say, or just out of unthinking habit.

If "God" is absolute infinitude, how dare we claim to know enough to even attempt to explain it? What an awful presumption on the part of all "believers," "The People of God," especially the theologians, to think that those who recite any single notion of any single creed or prayer really share the same belief regarding the words methodically recited.

I will wait to see if that crude and cruel priest who represents the very worst of Catholic clericalism is not more publicly reprimanded, removed from ministry because what he did is as evil as sex abuse. If Franklin Graham can take back his obnoxious comments about Barack Obama, even though it was only to save his clerical butt, that priest should not only be very strongly, publicly reprimanded, he should be removed from ministry because he has clearly demonstrated he is unfit.

But the Catholic Church is overwhelmed with clergy like that. That is precisely why, ten years after the U.S. bishops, except for Fabian Bruskewitz of Lincoln, NE, made a noisy publication of their Dallas 2002 plan to stop the sex abuse of kids and make amends, the cover-up continues--under the direction of the Vatican. Bruskewitz just as noisily announced that he would have nothing to do with the episcopal plan of 2002, and neither John Paul II nor Benedict have done a thing about his "sinful" recalcitrance. Yet Benedict can fire William Morris, bishop of Toowoomba, Australia, for merely expressing his opinion, publicly, that he feels the awful priest shortage--to say nothing of the sinful behavior of "celibate" clergy--could be eased by ordaining women and married people. Benedict acted like your "friend," Donald Trump, "You're fired!"

Keep up the great work, Lawrence. You're a rare bird, and we need to continue hearing your song.

I admire you immensely for the objective, honest, and respectful expression of your views on matters. I especially wanted to commend you for your presentation this evening of the story about the woman who was "immorally" refused Communion by a priest at her mother's funeral, the same priest who then walked out of the sanctuary while she delivered her eulogy to her deceased mother, and topped off all that immoral insult by refusing to attend the burial of the mother. It was one disgusting display after another. It had nothing, absolutely nothing to do with religion except the evil that has always accompanied it, proving that religion is man's creation, not God's. That insulting priest's behavior ranks with the sinful sex abuse that continues to be sinfully covered by the pope and other bishops--under his absolute, monarchical management.

Like you, I attended parochial schools. The abuse by the nuns that I witnessed, and experienced myself at the very end--and walked out on because of its horrid injustice--matched the behavior of this priest who is only an organization man, who has absolutely nothing to do with Jesus. I served mass for many years, even during my Korean War days. I taught in parochial schools for the first five of my thirty-five years in education. I left the parochial school system because of the continuation of mental and physical abuse that I witnessed during those five years.

I then moved through a five-year evolution of continuing study, thought, and searching that led me out of the Catholic Church, testing Reformation branches, including Unitarianism, then agnosticism, and finally atheism. It's been a long, serious, difficult, and even painful journey. If one is going to be serious about serious business, religion deserves deep consideration from the early childhood brain washing that captures most people, who then methodically warm church pews out of fear, or "good insurance" as a deceased friend used to say, or just out of unthinking habit.

If "God" is absolute infinitude, how dare we claim to know enough to even attempt to explain it? What an awful presumption on the part of all "believers," "The People of God," especially the theologians, to think that those who recite any single notion of any single creed or prayer really share the same belief regarding the words methodically recited.

I will wait to see if that crude and cruel priest who represents the very worst of Catholic clericalism is not more publicly reprimanded, removed from ministry because what he did is as evil as sex abuse. If Franklin Graham can take back his obnoxious comments about Barack Obama, even though it was only to save his clerical butt, that priest should not only be very strongly, publicly reprimanded, he should be removed from ministry because he has clearly demonstrated he is unfit.

But the Catholic Church is overwhelmed with clergy like that. That is precisely why, ten years after the U.S. bishops, except for Fabian Bruskewitz of Lincoln, NE, made a noisy publication of their Dallas 2002 plan to stop the sex abuse of kids and make amends, the cover-up continues--under the direction of the Vatican. Bruskewitz just as noisily announced that he would have nothing to do with the episcopal plan of 2002, and neither John Paul II nor Benedict have done a thing about his "sinful" recalcitrance. Yet Benedict can fire William Morris, bishop of Toowoomba, Australia, for merely expressing his opinion, publicly, that he feels the awful priest shortage--to say nothing of the sinful behavior of "celibate" clergy--could be eased by ordaining women and married people. Benedict acted like your "friend," Donald Trump, "You're fired!"

Keep up the great work, Lawrence. You're a rare bird, and we need to continue hearing your song.

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