In an effort to pull Christian voters away from President Trump, Joe Biden launched a new ad campaign Thursday tailored around the former vice president’s Catholic faith and values.
The ads draw a contrast between Trump and the Democratic presidential nominee by emphasizing that the “common good values of the Biden-Harris agenda” deeply align with “the values of people of faith,” Biden’s campaign added.
Biden seems to be doing better with religious voters than 2016 Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton. A poll published last month by Vote Common Good, a nonprofit attempting to persuade evangelicals not to vote for Trump, found that Biden is doing well with Christian voters in swing states like Florida, Michigan, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.
Biden’s new ads will air on Christian and Catholic television radio stations across 14 states – Arizona, Florida, Georgia, Iowa, Maine, Michigan, Minnesota, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.
The campaign is comprised of three videos. Cristina Traina, a professor of theology at Fordham University, surmised in a call Thursday the audience each of these videos is intended to target.
The first of the three ads discusses how Biden’s Catholic faith has shaped his principles. According to Traina, this ad could appeal to liberal Catholics and nonreligious voters alike. It gives the message, she said, that voters “shouldn’t be scared that Biden will be too doctrinaire or too heavily guided by conservative Catholic principles.”
The second video focuses on how Biden’s faith has carried him through dark times, like the death of his wife and daughter in 1972 and the death of his eldest son Beau in 2015. This ad is meant to appeal more to evangelicals, Traina said, because it paints Biden as having a “more individualistic and more devotional view of religion.”
The third and final ad features a testimonial from one of Biden’s fellow Catholic parishioners about how the vice president has been a steady member of her church and regularly attends Mass.
Full story at Courthouse News.
Whichever way one’s choice is, be sure to vote. If voting by mail, follow instructions exactly and meet deadlines. If voting in person, check the poll location. Ours changed since the spring primary.
Choose life or death. Your choice exactly.
Abortion all the way through to infanticide at birth, transgenderism “is THE civil rights issue of our time,” forcing nuns to pay for birth control, embryonic stem cell research, assisted suicide, same-sex “marriage,” refusing to speak out for religious liberty, sexual harassment of women, opposed to school choice, refusing to be honest about who he’d appoint to the Supreme Court, etc. are clearly not principles of Mr. Biden’s shaped by his Catholic faith. I’m not endorsing anyone. Just saying.
And, asking a question, “How stupid and gullible are Catholics?”
If Biden is Catholic, I’m not.
Biden is a Catholic, which means he should know better than to support abortion or any killing of anyone except in the extreme case of self-defense.
Still a Catholic, but Joe’s behavior sure reflects so poorly on the rest of us!
I’m opposed to abortion. But I also am fully aware that I am in a small minority in the US. Nationwide 61% of Americans think abortion should be legal, 56% of Catholics think it should be legal, 60% of women think it should be legal, 70% of people under 30 years old think it should be legal, and 65% of people over 65 years old think it should be legal. This according to the latest PEW poll. Interestingly, of course, 64% of GOP’ers think it should be illegal and 82% of Dems think it should be legal. A large majority of college-educated folks think it should be legal. None of this makes it right, but it shows the uphill battle to outlaw the practice. I know several very liberal people who worry that Biden is “too catholic, too religious.”
If you are Catholic, how could you forget the violent, acidic and bloody attacks on Kavenaugh and Buescher, the two nominees for judges? These attacks were the most vitriolic and hateful in the history of our country, extremely anti-Catholic, as these two men were slandered and attacked for days. Now one of the parties responsible for this slavering hatred, has suddenly awakened, and realized she needs the Catholic vote, and immediately, she is now Ms. Goody Sweetness to Catholics.
Don’t believe this for a second. If you as a Catholic, vote for these people, and they get elected, they will immediately turn on you, and tear the Church, and you, to shreds. Nuns will be forced to proclaim gay marriage to Children, and the legality of abortion to young girls. Priests will be forced to perform gay marriage in their Parishes. We have seen here in SF, how the Political establishment has attacked the Church, and closed it down, legally, for months. If you are Catholic, you had best be aware of this – that the Democratic establishment wants to control the Church, and will exert every effort to control YOU, for being Catholic. You had best wake up out there. If you value your life, and your Church, do not vote for these people!
Bob One, most people favor keeping abortion legal but having restrictions on it. Only about 13% of Americans agree with the Catholic Church that it is always wrong. About 20% want abortion legal at any time for any reason, no restrictions. Most people fall between those two positions. Often people don’t want it made illegal because of situations where the health of the mother is at stake. Other people don’t want it made illegal simply because they don’t think it is the government’s business. Most people support restrictions such as 24 hour waiting period, ultrasound viewing, and requiring the abortionist to have hospital admitting privileges.
It is never necessary to rip a child apart by abortion to save a mother’s life if doctors are trained, and people are willing to help her. The parents and/or other people involved are just not willing to have the child delivered but want to abort him/her for one reason or another, often to keep the result of affairs, or even statutory rape, secret.
As one abortionist said of all the abortions he did, not one was necessary to save a mother’s physical life. The complications present themselves when the child is old enough in the womb to be delivered, either by caesarian or regular delivery.
After the 2016 election how can we ever trust polls again. A clear majority of Catholics, and those who are faithful to the Sacraments and Mass, attending more than once a week or more, support making abortion illegal. As for the others, the majority (by the way, the answer affects the way you ask the question) support making most abortions illegal except for the hard cases, rape, incest or the life of the mother. So these other polls are just more of the same propaganda to keep child killing legal. And beside do polls determine right and wrong now? I’m sure support for slavery, segregation, Hitler, Mussolini, etc. were in the favorable majority at their time.
C’mon, when he was VP he officiated at a faux marriage for two homosexuals. Biden can be called a lot of things, but Catholic ain’t one of them.
Thank goodness Joe is a “Catholic”….why, following his example, we can do anything we want,
hang out on Castro Street, or pick up a gal in a bar,
and don’t have to even bother to go to Confession anymore.
So good that Joe is strutting his virtue about for all to see….
But that’s the Democratic party and the Media for you.
One minute condemning and damning Catholics for daring to join the Supreme Court
The next minute, polishing up Joe’s halo, trying to get that Catholic vote.
One hates that word, “Hypocrites” – it’s overused, but what better describes them?
Why isn’t anyone asking questions about the state of his marriage to Jill? For crying out loud, it’s a known fact that she is a divorced woman! Yes, Biden was a widower when he married her and that they married a couple of years after her divorce, but unless there was an annulment or for some reason her first marriage was not valid, then both of them are in a state of sin! I’d really like to know whether Joe and Jill Biden are in a sacramental marriage! Why isn’t anyone talking about THAT????
It is said that patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel. Nuh-uh, it’s religion.
the weeds and the wheat
and the winnowing fan is in His hand
It might be in his hand but he’s not using it.
He is being patient with you. You should stop putting Him to the test, though.
Biden is more of a Christian than Trump ever has been. Remember Two Corinthians? How about grabbing women by their genitalia? No way will I vote for bully Trump.
Officiating at a sodomite wedding, being denied Holy Communion for his support of abortion, against religious liberty, making excuses for terrorists groups like BLM and Antifa, China’s friend, and bailing out Iran with a payoff using our tax dollars to support more terrorism. Oh, yea Biden is a real Christian you think?
There have been accusations of lecherous conduct by BOTH men! Only God can read hearts and only HE knows what is in the heart of each man. But as believers, we are to judge a tree by its fruits… Joe Biden? Sour, rotten apples!
False advertising!
My father would say “the cardinal sin of all sins is the abuse of power.” Whether it is a man raising his hand to a woman or whether it is the government abusing its power, Basic essential elements of what constitutes Catholicism; the idea that everyone is entitled to dignity, that you have an obligation to reach out and be inclusive-it was just basic principles.
The first of the three ads.
What Catholic Church did he go to?
What greater abuse of power is there than abortion?
It is incumbent on each of us to research the candidates for national, statewide, and local offices to see if their stance on
issues are in keeping with our values and the teachings of our Church. Do they, in word and policy, uphold the dignity of
every human person? As Catholics, our preeminent priority is to protect the right to life. Do they support the restriction of,
and ultimately bringing to an end, the destruction of unborn children through abortion; and strongly oppose euthanasia
and the death penalty? Do they show care for the poor, sick, and marginalized that reflect Gospel values? Are they open
to choice in education to help underprivileged children break the cycle of poverty? Do they attack racial bias, hatred, and
injustice? Do they support religious freedom in all matters, especially in health care?
Bishop of Wilmington Francis Malooley (Biden’s ordinary)
[Biden’s pastor at St. Joseph of the Brandywine Monsignor] Joseph R. Rebman said one barrier between Biden and Catholic voters is the Senator’s pro-choice stance.
“We’re in dialogue about that,” Rebman said….
From 2008 Whispers in the Loggia
http://whispersintheloggia.blogspot.com/2008/08/hail-columbia-hello-controversy.html
Trump sinned in the past. We know that.
Biden is pushing sin now. We know that too.
Do we focus on past sins from years ago or on what someone believes and publicly states now?
Past sins? There are at least 30 people who got infected with a deadly virus while attending Trump ralies and receptions, with at least one dead already. Why? Because this man decides masks and distancing are to be discouraged in his view. He continues to wantonly infect others who are there to serve him, including several White House valets. He puffs up his chest and rips off his mask for all the world to see…even while gasping for air.
Is there proof that he caught the virus at any of these rallies or the reception. Just read that 11 people were infected with the virus and they were in charge of pre-debate procedures and set-up so could it have been there. Instead of blaming (and hating) Trump for everything why not let all the facts come out first.
It is certainly true that Trump was the person who caused those spreading events to happen and has certainly discouraged distancing and masking. Personally. You think that 30 people just randomly walked into the White House one day all getting infected at roughly the same time, but from 30 different locations that weren’t the Trump gathering places they shared in common?
When there is head lice outbreak in a school, do you really think that a hundred kids brought the bug from a hundred different locations and just happened to go to school together?
Now, hopefully, they will sequence the RNA from each of those people’s viruses and we will make a very good guess about who spread it to whom. That is as close to proof as we will get. But were those samples frozen away for later sequencing? I doubt it. The Campaign and WH took days to give lists of people who attended those events so that contract tracing could begin.
Forget those sins, abortion and gay marriage. Only Catholics think they are sins.
Who cares? Bring something much more substantial. Yes! Bugs!!
Yes!! Let’s bring head lice in to our consideration of who would make the best president.
(scratch scratch)
No YFC. We are all in this together. We are not going to start testing to see who gave a disease to whom. Contact tracing is important so that people can be notified that they have been exposed to the virus, not so that we can point fingers and blame. This is how hatred works. You start to think something you wouldn’t want done to you is acceptable to do to another.
Proof please.
Just wondering YFC if you support gay marriage. Biden officiated at one, that’s not Catholic.
Fellow Catholic… what do we know about the spread of Covid-19 by shouting rampaging looters and rioters??? I suppose we should expect that they were equipped with the kinds of masks that are impervious to any kind of virus… and buying them made them all so poor that they needed to loot to eat!
C S Lewis in the Last Battle [Chronicle of Narnia] wrote something like this: “by mixing a little truth with the lie, the strength of the lie is much greater.” Sadly this is what Biden and others like him are doing: holding on to the form of their religion, and denying the power. We are all sinners and need reconciliation, but is Biden and company going to confession?
In the Chronicles of Narnia — among some of the multitudinous items this prolifer gave new to a public elementary school, and without tax deductions — the dwarves are on the side of Aslan, the lion Christ-like creature. Need we wonder why? Without the Churches teaching on abortion, it is doubtful any such people would even exist any more. Most, or all, would have been aborted.
At a prolife Birthright convention I attended, there was a convention of dwarves at the same time. That was when it “hit me like a brick” as to what I, myself 5′ 3″, who often needs the help of a taller person to reach that top shelf, needed to do.
I know I “sounded a horn before me” somewhat in that last post about my donations, but it was for the benefit of the many who say pro life people do not care about women and children once they are born when nothing could be further from the truth.
Amen! I’d like to recommend to readers that they support the “Gabriel Project” that gives practical assistance to pregnant women of any race or creed!
Will President Trump get equal time on this site?
Abortion, Not here to judge, but if the candidate supports Abortion, I’m voting for the other. It’s clear that life doesn’t matter.
Absolutely must judge when the issue is life or death. Must!
Biden’s hypocrisy is stunning. Abortion for any reason up to the moment of birth.
Biden’s diocesan bishop isnt buying it. He’s banned Biden from receiving Holy Communion.
Expect more lies (and slander) about his wife and daughter’s fatal car accident.
like chapaquidick
Joe Biden is not following the teaching of the Catholic Church concerning abortion. When the bishops (diocese of San Bernardino) remain silent, not shepherding the flock in truth, the sheep will scatter. Any Catholic who casts their vote for the Biden/Harris ticket is deaf to the cries of the most vulnerable and innocent among us, the unborn child through the atrocity of abortion on demand. That’s the Democratic party’s stance. Seriously, I will never support such an agenda even should my bishops remain mute, even fearful. I respect EWTN as the clergy speak truth, not watered down pablum.
THE DEMOCRAT AGENDA
•Open borders.
•Welfare state.
•Sanctuary cities.
•Abolish ICE.
•Defund the Police.
•Sympathy for MS-13.
•Free Health Care For Illegals In California (Gavin Newsom 08/28/18).
•Blame Whites for the country’s problems.
•Gun Confiscation – Eliminate the right to self defense.
•Resist Trump no matter how much it hurts the country.
•Elimination of male and female gender.
•Kill unborn babies through Planned Parenthood.
•Take away the tax cuts.
•Brett Kavanaugh automatically guilty until proven innocent.
•Eliminate the Electoral College. Only the coastal elites will elect the President.
•05/08/2019, Los Angeles, CA Joe Biden: The United States is obligated to give free health care to illegal aliens.
•05/12/19, Kamala Harris: Free health care to illegal aliens.
•Kill private health insurance (Wake up union members).
•Climate Change Agenda: Kill every coal job, kill every oil job, kill every natural gas job.
•Tolerance and Diversity, but only toward those who agree with the above democrat agenda.
Mohave (above) said it…
Biden is not a Catholic
Biden thinks he is a Priest – He “married” same-sex partners
Biden supports abortion up to birth (infanticide)
If this is the America you want for yourself and you children, Vote Biden/Harris. Vote Democratic
* Restricted Freedom of Speech and Freedom of Worship
*Unrestricted Abortions / infanticide – organ harvesting, taxpayer funded
*Loss of conscience protections for Doctors, hospital and clinic workers.
*Loss of parental notification and consent
*Extreme / unacceptable sex ed for children as young as 5
*Dumbing down education – lowest common denominator – Answer Doesn’t have to be correct….
Comments disappearing… is that what this ‘dubious’ Catholic site considers ‘moderation?’ Looks like a case of ‘Cali-fornication!’