Paul "Ayn" Ryan unveiled the GOP budget proposal this morning, and religious leaders were quick to point out its inherent heartlessness. From Think Progress:
Hours after Ryan’s announcement, a diverse group of faith leaders condemned the budget as “unacceptable” and “immoral.” “Today we are convinced more than ever that the voices of the people must be heard and that Rep. Ryan’s cuts to vital human-needs programs to benefit the wealthy must be defeated,” wrote Sister Simone Campbell, a Catholic nun and executive director of NETWORK, a Catholic social justice lobby. “We are a nation for the 100 percent, and his budget cuts are both immoral and counter to our values.”
Other faith leaders echoed Campbell in a statement from the Center for American Progress and Faith in Public Life:
Bishop Minerva G. Carcaño, The United Methodist Church, Los Angeles area: The House Republican budget cuts away at vital social services that affect the poor and those who are barely able to meet the basic needs of their families...
Rev. Bruce Reyes-Chow, former moderator of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.): This budget, if pursued and passed, will send a message, in both tone and tactic, that our government is more concerned with protecting those who control wealth and privilege than supporting those upon whom that wealth and privilege has been built...
Bishop Gene Robinson, Senior Fellow, Center for American Progress: Every world religion describes a God who will judge us by the way we treat the most vulnerable among us. The prophets of the Jewish scriptures, and certainly Jesus, would have much to say about the impending cuts to the most vulnerable brought on by the Ryan budget. And it wouldn’t be pretty! People of faith need to stand up to a Congress that would “save” the economy on the backs of the poor, the disabled, and the vulnerable.
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If this feels like Groundhog Day all over again, it should -- Ryan's draconian budget ideas were criticized by Faith leaders in 2011:
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And again in 2012:
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Just keep on f***ing that chicken, Paul.