Meghan McCain decided to weigh in
on the Catholic Church decision
to vote on whether or
not President Joe Biden should
be offered communion due to his
views on abortion.
Now, on the campaign trail,
Biden went from being supportive of
the Hyde Amendment, which bans
any federal funding for abortions
to lightening up on that view.
He realized that, yeah,
maybe the Hyde Amendment actually
stands in the way of women who
might need that procedure for
health purposes, right?
So, he changed his view on that,
the Catholic Church apparently is
now getting together to vote
on whether to allow Biden to get
communion as a result of
the abortion issue.
In fact, last week, the US
Conference of Catholic Bishops
voted to proceed with drafting
a formal statement declaring what
the meaning of communion is,
and also clarifying that if
a politician supports abortion
rights, maybe they shouldn't be
allowed to get communion.
Now, Biden, of course,
is a devout Catholic, so
this would in fact affect him.
And Meghan McCain's take
on it is fascinating.
Let's hear what she has to say.
>> If you are a devout Catholic as
President Biden claims to be,
abortion is a cardinal sin that can
do deep spiritual harm to you.
And President Biden had been
supportive of the Hyde Amendment up
until 2019, when he decided
to run for president.
And the Hyde Amendment means that
the government would provide
federal funding for abortion, or
wouldn't, and now he is for it and
he's shown in this upcoming budget
that he is for it, and I think that
sort of has been the threshold.
I remember when it happened,
having a conversation
with a friend of mine who was
close to him saying, for me,
this is a deep paradigm shift for
how I view President Biden.
Because if he's for
the federal funding of abortion,
and I know the women on this show
disagree with me, but as far as I'm
concerned, abortion is murder and
that means the government funding
of killing of the unborn.
>> So, she now
believes that abortion is murder,
that wasn't always her take.
It was certainly different when I
knew her and
spoke to her about the topic.
But now, she thinks it's a giant
sin and Joe Biden shouldn't be able
to get communion as a result of his
take on.
We're supposed to live in a country
that separates church and state.
So, Biden has his own personal
views on abortion, and guess what.
In a country that separates church
and state, he has the right to his
religious liberty,
his religious beliefs, if he
doesn't want to support abortion,
personally, he has every right
to not support it personally.
But as the President of
the United States, as the leader of
the State, he doesn't get to
inject his religious views or
have his religious views dictate
the lives of ordinary citizens.
That's literally against what
the Constitution stands for, right?
So that's the thing that I don't
get about right-wingers in this
country, and people who at least
pretend to be against abortion when
privately they're actually in favor
of abortion.
They want to support
the Constitution, cherry-pick parts
of the Constitution that they like,
right?
The Second Amendment,
they love the Second Amendment.
They love the First Amendment but
only sometimes, only when it comes
to protecting their speech but
not the speech of others.
When it comes to the separation of
church and state,
I mean, they just completely reject
that as if it doesn't even exist.
That is part of
what this country is.
We're supposed to
have that separation.
So again,
if you want to have a baby,
if you get pregnant,
you don't want to get an abortion,
you have every right.
You want to fend off birth control.
You think that that's sinful due to
your religious beliefs, awesome.
You've get that right.
But why do they think that those
beliefs need to be
forced on everyone else?
>> Yeah, because they're on
un-American, so we'll get to that
in a second, first on religion.
Look, guys, I don't believe
in religion, and I know that
that really deeply offends people.
Why do you care?
If you're absolutely convinced of
your religion, how about it,
awesome.
You should just feel sorry for
me that Beelzebub is going to toss
me around on his pitchfork or
whatever, right?
And but Biden cares, right?
It's so silly, communion.
If you get communion,
you're going to go to heaven,
I guess, and if you don't, you're
going to be with Beelzebub and me?
Really, really, where does Thor and
Loki come out on this?
Anyways, so the whole conversation
is totally patently absurd, okay.
But now let's move to
the political end of it.
So, to Ana's point
about cherry-picking the Bible.
Well, look, you've heard me say
this many times if you watch
The Young Turks.
Number one,
right next to all those provisions
is the same provision on shellfish.
So if you've ever eaten shrimp or
lobster, you're going to hell.
It actually is a cardinal sin.
Abortion is not at all mentioned
in the Bible except one place I'm
going to get to in a second.
But eating shellfish is a cardinal
sin.
Now, why do they not say that?
because almost, look,
there's a great irony here.
My heroes are religious leaders.
Reverend Martin Luther King is
the person I've looked up to my
whole life.
Currently, I think the top leader
in the country is
Reverend William Barber.
So, some religious leaders
are the best people on earth.
But unfortunately the majority of
religious leaders are total
charlatans, and they've been
lying to you your whole life.
So they never tell you
about the Red Lobster Amendment and
how you are all going to burn in
hell because you like lobster,
because that's inconvenient, okay?
But they want you to hate
gay people.
They want you to control women's
bodies, so they'll make up parts
and cherry-pick, etc.
Now, Joe, I'm not going to get into
the whole thing again.
But the Bible is pro-abortion,
God is pro-abortion.
Read the Bible,
Numbers 5, 11 through 31, and
you will be shocked.
So, they're lying to you about
every part of it.
But the most important part is
the one that Ana mentions,
which is, why do I care what your
religious opinion is if you're
a political leader?
This is not a theocratic country.
This is not Saudi Arabia.
This is not Iran.
This is not the Vatican, okay?
Who cares who gets communion and
who doesn't?
That's totally and
utterly irrelevant.
If Meghan McCain thinks that her
religious views are, by the way,
totally wrong, 100% factually
incorrect, religious views should
guide my life and your life.
She's a joke.
But honestly,
a lot of people in politics and
media are a joke.
They all have this conversation.
What does the Bible say?
What do Christians think?
Well, how about the rest of us?
How about Jews, Muslims, Atheists,
Hindus, Buddhists,
why are we obsessed with what
do the Christians think?
It is not remotely a Christian
country.
And if you think it is,
you've never read the Constitution.
The Constitution clearly says,
we shall not establish a religion.
Are you dumb?
Can you not read?
Are you illiterate?
This is a secular country.
It's in the founding document.
If you love the Constitution,
you would never care what anybody
thinks about religion when it
comes to politics.
If you say that we should be guided
by your religion, you hate this
country, you're un-American,
just own up to it.