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<\/p>\nRUSH: Let\u2019s get started on the phones. We\u2019ll start here with Tom in Riverdale, New Jersey. Great to have you, sir. Welcome to our program. Hi.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Hi. Rush, I have a perplexing thought, which is, why are people — I\u2019m using good people now — such as our cardinal here in New York, can\u2019t come out and do his job? I view it as based on what the governor did in New York and people are attempting to do in Virginia, there\u2019s infanticide, and things of that nature, and they\u2019ve legalized it and institutionalized it. In my case, I\u2019m a Catholic, I\u2019m wondering why he doesn\u2019t excommunicate someone like the governor of the state of New York. As an example by his silence, right, he\u2019s not condemning them. And the thing is, there\u2019s an old saying. Evil can only thrive if good men keep silent. And your actions are what you do and how you\u2019re interpreted. I\u2019m just perplexed by this. I\u2019d like to have your insights, possibly.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: This is a question that has been going back and forth ever since his father, Mario “The Pious,” was governor of New York. And this predates Cardinal Dolan. We\u2019re going back to Cardinal O\u2019Connor now. You had Mario who, for his day, was no different than Ralph Northam. I mean, whatever the most extreme position on abortion was back in the 1980s and the early nineties, then Mario Cuomo held it.<\/p>\n
And so people are saying, \u201cHow in the world, how in the world can the Catholic Church not say something about this? How can they not refuse communion, how can they not excommunicate?\u201d And the way governor Cuomo explained this (paraphrasing), “Well, I separate my political views from my religious and personal. I don\u2019t feel I have the right to impose my religious views on the American people.\u201d<\/p>\n
So that was his out. “Yeah, I\u2019m a Catholic. And, yeah –” He wouldn\u2019t even say he\u2019s opposed to abortion. He would let people infer that. He wanted people to infer that because he was Catholic, he was opposed, but his politics and the right to choose and a woman\u2019s freedom, that was different than his religious view. And he can\u2019t take his religious view and impose it on the American people in the context of politics because that violates separation of church and state. That was his answer. That answer satisfied the Catholic Church.<\/p>\n
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Now, the answer, although slick as it can be, is also bogus as it can be because Governor Cuomo and now his son, Governor Cuomo, they inflict their personal religious views on people all the time. This idea that they have a dividing line on what they believe personally does not find its way into politics is just a crock! They feel the need to impose their views on the American people constantly! Just look at taxes!<\/p>\n
So they have an out here by saying, “Well, these are my religious views, and I don\u2019t feel I can impose them on the American people. My political views have nothing to do with my religious views because of separation of church and state.” That\u2019s all the Catholic Church needs to hear \u2019cause they don\u2019t want the controversy. They don\u2019t want to have to excommunicate the governor of New York when the state is represented by 75% liberal Democrats. I mean, the Catholic Church is a fundraising organization as well in addition to everything else.<\/p>\n
But what you\u2019re really asking is, what has happened to the backstops? What\u2019s happened to the institutions that everybody has always relied on when individual strength is not enough. When our society at large, when our culture at large needs an institution to stand up for justice and what\u2019s right, where is it? That\u2019s what you\u2019re asking me. And I think there are many different answers for this, many different explanations.<\/p>\n
I used to believe — and was wrong — I remember telling people 25 years ago, when the militant gay community was storming Mass at St. Patrick\u2019s Cathedral and bombing Cardinal O\u2019Connor with condoms and so forth, I remember telling people the church cannot moderate, church cannot modify to fit the zeitgeist, the spirit of the times. The church is the church. The church is teachings. The Catholic religion is what it is. It does not bend and shape and flake and form to accommodate societal evolution.<\/p>\n
I don\u2019t know if that\u2019s true anymore. And this is what your question really is about. And the Catholic Church is not the only one. But you mention it. That\u2019s why I\u2019m addressing it. There are all kinds of these institutions. The law. We have a two-tiered system of justice now. What is immigration law worth if nobody\u2019s going to enforce it and if there are people actively seeking to promote breaking that law with impunity?<\/p>\n
All kinds of these traditions are falling by the wayside. As an optimist, I think at some point this is all going to rebound. It has to at some point. The people involved in this, the people getting linguini spines and so forth are gonna pay a price for this at some point. I don\u2019t know when. I don\u2019t know when life spans, how long they are, that this stuff\u2019s gonna happen, but it is gonna get fixed at some point, somehow.<\/p>\n
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We\u2019re too far gone now. Our country can\u2019t remain as founded if this stuff isn\u2019t checked. And that really is the question. Do enough people in the country want this nation to remain as founded, and do they even know what that was or is as a result of their education?<\/p>\n
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