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Archdiocese gives $850,000 to fight marijuana bid [MA] 1
#23783417 - 10/29/16 06:19 PM (7 years, 3 months ago) |
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Archdiocese gives $850,000 to fight marijuana bid bostonglobe.com
The Boston Archdiocese is pouring $850,000 into a last-minute effort to defeat a state ballot measure to legalize marijuana, calling increased drug use a threat to the Catholic Church’s health and social-service programs.
The church’s contribution represents about a 50 percent increase over what the antimarijuana Campaign for a Safe and Healthy Massachusetts has collected so far. The total, however, is still less than half of what has been raised by the referendum’s proponents.
The church’s donation will likely help fund an existing advertising campaign. Archdiocesan officials have also sent materials to parishes and schools arguing against the ballot question.
“It reflects the fact that the archdiocese holds the matter among its highest priorities,” archdiocese spokesman Terrence Donilon said of the donation. “It’s a recognition that, if passed, the law would have significantly detrimental impacts on our parishes, our ministries.”
Just last week, convening a group of interfaith leaders around strategies to defeat the measure, Cardinal Sean P. O’Malley said the archdiocese would spend only a small amount in opposition.
But “within the last few days,” his thinking changed, Donilon said. “The more he thought about this and prayed about this, he thought this was the right thing to do because it directly impacts the people we’re trying to help,” he said.
Donilon said the money comes from a discretionary, unrestricted central ministry fund, not from parish collection baskets or other programs.
The prolegalization forces say they aim to create a regulated and taxed market, removing marijuana sales from the criminal sphere. They point to statistics showing that current marijuana laws disproportionately hurt people of color.
Opponents have cited the state’s opioid addiction crisis, warning that marijuana is a “gateway drug” that leads to more dangerous habits. And they argue that “edibles” — candy-like products infused with cannabis – could lure children into trying the drug.
“The archdiocese has come up with a position that, frankly, we think is based on unfounded assumptions and junk science,” said Jim Borghesani, a spokesman for the promarijuana group YES on 4. “But they can spend their money any way they wish.”
Borghesani added, “What I think the archdiocese is missing is the terrible harm that (marijuana) prohibition has done to people of color, to people who have chosen a substance that is less dangerous than alcohol and have had their lives ruined because they’ve been arrested.”
Voters on Nov. 8 will decide four statewide ballot questions. On marijuana — known as Question 4 — polls consistently show the legalization forces in the lead. A Suffolk University/Boston Globe poll released Thursday showed likely voters backing the proposal, 49 percent to 42 percent.
The marijuana referendum comes at a time when national opinion appears to be swinging starkly in favor of legalized recreational use. Four other states will vote on similar questions, with polls showing them also trending toward approval.
A recent Pew Research Center poll pegged national support for legalization at 57 percent, with 37 percent opposed — nearly the mirror image of public sentiment a decade ago. Increased acceptance in the states would likely ramp up pressure on the federal government to lift its decades-long ban.
Given the small window between the archdiocese’s financial involvement and the election, and with the airwaves crowded with presidential ads, it remains unclear what impact the investment will have.
The church’s recent record on ballot-question politics is mixed. In 2014, the state’s four Catholic bishops joined other religious leaders in pushing a repeal of the law permitting casinos here, but did not raise enough money to air TV ads. That measure floundered, and casinos remained.
In 2012, the church helped lead the fight against a ballot measure that would have allowed doctor-assisted suicides. The Boston Archdiocese and its affiliated entities contributed about $2.5 million, and the proposal failed.
This year, Donilon said, the Archdiocese has identified the legalization campaign as a threat to its sprawling umbrella of services — from antihomelessness programs, to food pantries, to parochial schools.
“We provide extensive programs, and the church has historically spoken out on issues that are both a public policy matter and also impact the wider society in terms of serving those who are truly in need,” Donilon said. “We’re convinced now more than ever that these programs will take a negative impact. It’s going to have a huge societal impact.”
Much of the state’s political establishment — including Governor Charlie Baker, Boston Mayor Martin J. Walsh, Attorney General Maura Healey, and House Speaker Robert DeLeo — has also spoken out against the measure.
The bishops’ contribution represents the largest single donation against marijuana legalization aside from the $1 million check written by casino magnate Sheldon Adelson, a Dorchester native and conservative political financier. The antilegalization campaign has raised more than $2.6 million, including the archdiocese’s contribution.
YES on 4 has raised $6.6 million so far, according to state campaign finance records.
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Re: Archdiocese gives $850,000 to fight marijuana bid [MA] [Re: Ythan]
#23783440 - 10/29/16 06:27 PM (7 years, 3 months ago) |
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If jesus was alive today he'd eat the weed
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Re: Archdiocese gives $850,000 to fight marijuana bid [MA] [Re: Konyap]
#23783464 - 10/29/16 06:37 PM (7 years, 3 months ago) |
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If Jesues was alive he would tell ya all to smoke the hash and go fuck your self. That is the basics of mystiscm right there.
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Re: Archdiocese gives $850,000 to fight marijuana bid [MA] [Re: Morel Guy] 1
#23783479 - 10/29/16 06:42 PM (7 years, 3 months ago) |
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He was sort of mysticism from training in probably what was borderline india "do not judge others less ye be judged"
but yeah spending that much money to block a fad is completely retarded
Edited by Konyap (10/30/16 09:30 AM)
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Re: Archdiocese gives $850,000 to fight marijuana bid [MA] [Re: Konyap]
#23784039 - 10/29/16 10:19 PM (7 years, 3 months ago) |
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Re: Archdiocese gives $850,000 to fight marijuana bid [MA] [Re: Konyap]
#23784295 - 10/30/16 01:42 AM (7 years, 3 months ago) |
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Re: Archdiocese gives $850,000 to fight marijuana bid [MA] [Re: Ythan]
#23784302 - 10/30/16 01:44 AM (7 years, 3 months ago) |
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Weed hasn't negatively effected my Christian beliefs at all. It hasn't effected it positively, either. It has simply had no effects on it.
I don't agree with spending $850,000 to fight weed legalization. That money could be spent helping people who actually need help.
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Re: Archdiocese gives $850,000 to fight marijuana bid [MA] [Re: lifeiswhatyoumake]
#23784711 - 10/30/16 08:55 AM (7 years, 2 months ago) |
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The Catholic Church does not like defiance. My Grandma left the church due to their stance on birth control.
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Re: Archdiocese gives $850,000 to fight marijuana bid [MA] [Re: Ythan] 3
#23784716 - 10/30/16 08:56 AM (7 years, 2 months ago) |
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How about they spend that money on therapy for all the kids their priests molested? Calling weed a threat when they allowed pedophilia to go unchecked within their walls for god knows how many decades.
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Re: Archdiocese gives $850,000 to fight marijuana bid [MA] [Re: Dark_Star]
#23784869 - 10/30/16 09:59 AM (7 years, 2 months ago) |
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It was possibly used, in the anointing oil, of Old Testament times.
Other things the state has deemed harmful, in modern times --
green grass, the bbq, lemonade stands, bake sales, farm animals, pharms when used as prescribed, countless consumer products, to collect rainwater in a barrel...
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Re: Archdiocese gives $850,000 to fight marijuana bid [MA] [Re: durian_2008] 1
#23787742 - 10/31/16 08:08 AM (7 years, 2 months ago) |
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if the church wants to enter politics they should loose their tax exempt status
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Re: Archdiocese gives $850,000 to fight marijuana bid [MA] [Re: longhair_Bri]
#23790967 - 11/01/16 10:55 AM (7 years, 2 months ago) |
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What ever happened too that little thing.....separation of religious beliefs and the gov/laws. Its real simple id say get your pushing beliefs out of society do it in your own life dont force that on others god would not want another forcing their ways onto another lol such hypocrites.
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Re: Archdiocese gives $850,000 to fight marijuana bid [MA] [Re: Ythan]
#23792584 - 11/01/16 07:14 PM (7 years, 2 months ago) |
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Man, I coulda bought so much weed with that $850,000
Seriously though I live in mass and I say 90% chance it passes, some last minute desperation anti weed thing isnt gonna do shit.
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Re: Archdiocese gives $850,000 to fight marijuana bid [MA] [Re: Konyap] 1
#23794135 - 11/02/16 10:16 AM (7 years, 2 months ago) |
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Quote:
Konyap said: If jesus was alive today he'd eat the weed 
Jesus is alive today. He sits at the right hand of the Father.
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Re: Archdiocese gives $850,000 to fight marijuana bid [MA] [Re: Ellis Dee]
#23795353 - 11/02/16 05:53 PM (7 years, 2 months ago) |
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Re: Archdiocese gives $850,000 to fight marijuana bid [MA] [Re: Ythan] 1
#23823234 - 11/11/16 02:44 PM (7 years, 2 months ago) |
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How about these ignorant motherfuckers focus on their own misinterpretation of the bible, rather than entering matters of politics and personal freedom?
PS--
Genesis 1:29, you ignorant motherfuckers:
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Then God said, "I give you every seed-bearing plant on the face of the whole earth and every tree that has fruit with seed in it. They will be yours for food.
Go ahead you smug assholes... tell me why your own bible, your own GOD is wrong.
I'll be waiting.
(But not holding my breath.)
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