"He speaks for God! Well, except when he says ..."
Ted Cruz, a Republican candidate for president and resident Senate nut-job, was
thrilled with Pope Francis's
speech to Congress on Thursday morning, downright gushing over the pope's
message that it is "our responsibility to protect and defend human life at every stage of its development." In fact, Cruz said that the pope's words should make President Obama "very nervous" about opposing the Republican Party's latest effort to defund Planned Parenthood.
So, what about the pope's very next words on protecting and defending life, where he said:
This conviction has led me, from the beginning of my ministry, to advocate at different levels for the global abolition of the death penalty.
Meh. Not
so much. Cruz:
... said he respected Francis’s views and the Catholic Church’s teachings on the issue, but “as a policy matter, I do not agree.”
Well, sure. That's policy as opposed to funding the government which is ... uh ...
funding its policies?