Hello Minnesota with Tony and Leona

Today we're going to discuss an article from the Atlantic titled "Evangelicals Made a Bad Bargain with Trump." We're also going to discuss the principles of Catholic Social Teaching we use when determining how to vote. Even if you're not Catholic, Christian or religious, please stay with us. As you heard me say in previous episodes, the tenets of Catholic Social Teaching are ways of relating with others that will resonate with any person striving for an ethical society. This will be interesting even to our listeners who are not Catholic.

In this show, we address a listener letter on immigration, announce Leona's continued battle against covid19 in El Centro, discuss a brief timeline of suppression and expansion of voter rights in America, share what we learned about the electoral college and briefly introduce the emerging debate regarding national popular vote. Thank you for listening to our show and following, liking and sharing our podcast with your friends and family.

We dive deep into a serious and controversial question pertinent to the 2020 election: Who is more racist: Biden or Trump? We discuss our research into serious claims of racism leveled against each candidate including President Trump calling Mexicans rapists, Joe Biden using the “N” word in a US Senate hearing, Biden's close ties to Southern segregationists, The Central Park 5 case, Biden’s anti-crime and anti-drug policies, the Proud Boys and more. Sources Amnesty International on violent crime against immigrants ==> http://tinyurl.com/c6x6hc5 Biden: "Lock the S.O.B.s Up" ==> http://tinyurl.com/y2867oes Biden using the "N" word ==> http://tinyurl.com/y686nboq Biden - Fact Check of "N" word ==> http://tinyurl.com/yy769d3y  Biden on "racial jungle" in schools and school busing ==> http://tinyurl.com/y6gnvt5b Bureau of Justice Incarceration Stats 2003 ==> http://tinyurl.com/ydaa5mu6 Children at border in TX facility ==> http://tinyurl.com/y4wx3o72 Deportations compared by Pew Research ==> http://tinyurl.com/y2jhwonj Did 1994 Crime Bill cause mass incarceration? ==> http://tinyurl.com/ycyf2uhr LA Times on cost for immigrants to hire a "coyote" escort ==> http://tinyurl.com/y4u4gchl Mexico City Policy (Obama) ==> http://tinyurl.com/y5r6vyr7 Mexico City Policy (Trump) ==> http://tinyurl.com/y6t8f3fs "Muslim Ban" ==> http://tinyurl.com/yylcgthp Murder of Heather Heyer ==> http://tinyurl.com/y43lyaku NPR on "coyotes," drug trafficking, etc. ==> http://tinyurl.com/y3crsvap Trump and the Central Park 5 ==>  http://tinyurl.com/y4ovayt6 Trump after Charlottesville ==> http://tinyurl.com/y27g8gq5 Trump on Mexicans in 2016 Announcement ==> http://tinyurl.com/y3n55po4

In this episode, we address some of your comments and suggestions from our first show. We discuss considerations for those thinking about voting third party this election year and the huge news of Judge Amy Coney Barrett’s nomination to the Supreme Court. Sources How Elections Work Voting Third Party ==> https://www.sos.state.mn.us/elections-voting/how-elections-work/political-parties/ Ballot Access for Political Parties in MInnesota https://ballotpedia.org/Ballot_access_requirements_for_political_parties_in_Minnesota Presidential Candidates on Minnesota Ballot https://www.sos.state.mn.us/election-administration-campaigns/become-a-candidate/presidential-candidates/

Welcome to our very first broadcast of Hello Minnesota with Tony and Leona. Thank you for joining us! On today’s show, we’ll talk about what we have been up to thus far in this crazy year we call 2020. And we’ll breach our first controversial topic: Is Father Altman right? Will you go to hell if you vote Democrat? Sources: Father Altman's video link ==> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-7eoTN2vNM U.S. Abortion Rate Continues to Decline, Reaching Historic Low in 2017 ==>https://www.guttmacher.org/news-release/2019/us-abortion-rate-continues-decline-reaching-historic-low-2017 Pope Benedict on remote material cooperation, proportionate reasons, etc. https://www.ewtn.com/catholicism/library/worthiness-to-receive-holy-communion-general-principles-2153 Catechism of the Catholic Church on abortion: CCC 2273: "As a consequence of the respect and protection which must be ensured for the unborn child from the moment of conception, the law must provide appropriate penal sanctions for every deliberate violation of the child's rights." "The inalienable right to life of every innocent human individual is a constitutive element of a civil society and its legislation" Catechism of the Catholic Church on Catholic Social Teaching: 2423 The Church's social teaching proposes principles for reflection; it provides criteria for judgment; it gives guidelines for action: CCC 1857 For a sin to be mortal, three conditions must together be met: "Mortal sin is sin whose object is grave matter and which is also committed with full knowledge and deliberate consent."1Catechism of the Catholic Church on sin: Trump's Record (original sources are linked within this article): https://www.dailysignal.com/2020/09/09/restoring-a-culture-of-life-how-the-trump-administration-is-stopping-abortion-and-infanticide/ (not mentioned in this article: Trump upholding the Hyde Amendment while the Democratic Party added repealing it to their platform in 2016)