Is This Why We Need To Go To Church?

As a former Catholic and I say former because I've left and am not going back, I find this display by a priest totally offensive.

Monsignor Lisante was giving the invocation at a New York State Republican Party dinner that was also host to Dick Cheney among others.
He obviously isn't taking the word invocation in the spiritual context that it was meant. How much of Father Lasante's personal message is ever preached from the pulpit? The quote below that comes straight from his web page certainly was not on display this night.



"Too often, I suspect, we think that because our point of view is sustainably right, we have the right to belittle and reduce people who don’t get it. And we don’t. Not by Jesus’ example, anyway. He would challenge, but always with respect for the other person. Rightness, He knew, doesn’t entitle us to cruelty." Monsignor Jim Lasante

Obama vs Clinton vs DNC vs DP of Michigan vs Disenfranchised Voters

Vladimir Kush print can be found at Paragon Fine Art

Is one's political ploy another's political strategy?
Should a candidate be tarred and feathered because they put together the team that could see the big picture when it came to the fight that was going to happen down the road between the Democratic National Party and the Democratic Party of Michigan over an early primary date and then a seating of delegates at the convention?

Shouldn't that candidate have a strategy in place to position him or herself into the best possible position to win the nomination in August? Is this scheming or some kind of illegal maneuvering by the candidate or just the feeling of sour grapes by the other party.

A political campaign is like a chess tournament and if you don't have the right players and a strategy, you lose.

Michigan Democratic Primary - 2008 at Wikipedia