Giuliani: Don't Cast Stones At Me
Republican Front-Runner Compares Controversies Over Personal Life To Biblical Tale
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In an interview posted online Friday, Giuliani was questioned about his family and told the Christian Broadcasting Network, “I think there are some people that are very judgmental.”
Giuliani has a daughter who indicated support for Democrat Barack Obama and a son who said he didn't speak to his father for some time. Giuliani's messy divorce from their mother, Donna Hanover, was waged publicly while Giuliani was mayor of New York.
“I'm guided very, very often about, `Don't judge others, lest you be judged,”' Giuliani told CBN interviewer David Brody. “I'm guided a lot by the story of the woman that was going to be stoned, and Jesus put the stones down and said, 'He that hasn't sinned, cast the first stone,' and everybody disappeared.
“It seems like nowadays in America, we have people that think they could've passed that test,” he said. “And I don't think anybody could've passed that test but Jesus.”
In the New Testament story, related in the Gospel of John, Jesus does not actually hold stones. The Pharisees bring Jesus a woman charged with adultery, reminding him the punishment for adultery is stoning. They are testing Jesus in an effort to charge him with breaking the law.
The Gospel reads: “But when they continued asking him, he straightened up and said to them, 'Let the one among you who is without sin be the first to throw a stone at her.'
“... And in response, they went away one by one, beginning with the elders.”
Giuliani has insisted his family relationships are private. In 1968, he married his cousin, Regina Peruggi. They divorced 14 years later, and Giuliani obtained an annulment from the Catholic Church on the grounds that as second cousins, they should have received a dispensation to marry.
Giuliani married Hanover in 1984 and they divorced in 2002. He has been married to Judith Nathan since 2003.
Likewise, he says his faith is private, although he evokes his Catholic upbringing on the campaign trail.
He told CBN he believes in God and prays to Jesus for guidance and help.
“I have very, very strong views on religion that come about from having wanted to be a priest when I was younger, having studied theology for four years in college,” he said. “It's an area I know really, really well academically.
“... And my personal view of it is I need God's help for everything, and I probably feel that the most when I'm in crisis and under pressure, like Sept. 11, when I was dealing with prostate cancer, or (when) I'm trying to explain death to people, which unfortunately I've had to do so often.
“So it's a very, very important part of my life,” he said. “But I think in a democracy and in a government like ours, my religion is my way of looking at God, and other people have other ways of doing it, and some people don't believe in God. I think that's unfortunate. I think their life would be a lot fuller if they did, but they have that right.”
Giuliani also addressed a cell phone call he took from his wife, Judith, last week during his speech to the National Rifle Association, an important appearance because Giuliani clashed with the group when he argued for tougher gun control as mayor of New York.
“And quite honestly, since Sept. 11, most of the time when we get on a plane, we talk to each other and just reaffirm the fact that we love each other,” he said.
“Sometimes if I'm in the middle of a very, very sensitive meeting, I don't take the call right then; I wait. But I thought it would be kind of nice if I took it at that point, and I'd done that before in engagements, and I didn't realize it would create any kind of controversy,” he said.
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With your dubious past, I say you haven''t got a snowball''s chance of becoming president.
Not often enough.
During his tenure as a federal prosecutor, Rudy Giuliani claimed that veteran stock trader Richard Wigton, of Kidder, Peabody & Co. was guilty of insider trading. In February, 1987, he had officers handcuff Wigton and march him through the company''s trading floor, with Wigton in tears. Giuliani had his agents arrest Tim Tabor, a young arbitrageur and former colleague of Wigton, so late that he had to stay overnight in jail before posting bond.
However, in three months, charges were dropped against Wigton and Tabor.
On that ocasion, Giuliani said, "We''re not going to go to trial. We''re just the tip of the iceberg." CNN correspondent Allan Chernoff said, "There was no iceberg."
However, their careers as financial analysts and traders were ruined.
Source:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Controversies_of_Rudy_Giuliani
Giuliani responded, "What kind of little hole are you in there, John? It sounds like you are in a little hole. JOHN! Are you okay there? You''re breathing funny."
Hynes replied: "No, I''m not okay. I''m sick, and you cut me off my food stamps and Medicaid several times; but I suppose you don''t give a *** about that either."
Giuliani replied, "There''s something really wrong with you there, John. I can hear it in your voice... Now, why don''t you stay on the line. We''ll take your name and your number and we''ll send you psychiatric help, ''cause you seriously need it."
After Hynes hung up, Giuliani continued, "Man! Look, it''s a big city, and you get some real weirdos who hang out in this city..."
[Same source as previous]
Hynes said, "Mr. Giuliani showed a total lack of respect for all disabled people when he mocked me after I revealed that I was sick."[122]
The good news is he''s so transparantly phoney that he will get thrashed if the GOP is dumb enough to nominate him.
But it looks and sounds so real. He even inhales during the conversation.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=G2_fZDuUUhY
And how do we know that wasn''t Monica Lewinsky on the phone ?
He knows Catholicism very well too. That''s why he''s been divorced so often.
I wonder if the Vatican will go after him like they did Kerry or turn the other cheek like they did with Kennedy when he divorced.
No, Jesus was writing something on the ground. No knows what He was writing. Perhaps it was, "2,000 years from now a phony New York adulterer will be throwing stones at sweet Hillary Clinton."
By the way, dutchfarmer is right, this episode in the Gospel of John is regarded by most modern scholars as a later addition, a fabrication. Anyone reading it, knows it sounds way too good to be true.
Anything to woo that Southern vote.
Geeze...
In more ways than one.
He netted $11 million in 2006, in book income and in speaking fees, usually on the September 11 theme.
Source:
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/22/opinion/22tue4.html
My rule: They keep it private, I respect their privacy. They pander, they open the door.
I''m loading my bucket with rocks.
1.. Profiteers from 9/11
2.. Ignores his duty to country to serve on the Iraq Study Group
3.. Cross-dresses
4.. Married 3 times
5.. His own children don''t talk to him
6.. Married his own cousin
You forgot to mention that he''s a flip-flopping, hypocrite, who opposed gun control right after he supported!
- Posted by toldyouso21 at 04:44 PM : Sep 28, 2007
I believe you''ll find that in Chapter 13 of the Epistle to the Politically Bankrupt.
Didn''t the Mafia consider themselves good christians?
He must get pretty disgusted at the way his name is so carelessly thrown around when you bunch of political liars are trying to impress someone!!
WELL STOP SINNING, f@got! LOL
Guiliani has been having problem with women because he''s a closet homosexual, just like that child sodomizing pervert christian priest friend of his.
Posted by liberalme at 09:13 PM : Sep 28, 2007
If I saw him, I might throw a stone at him!
- Posted by Agnim at 11:14 PM : Sep 28, 2007
Well, shouldn''t they be represented in politics too ?
[Just kidding]
Rudy Giuliani must never have sinned.
He has cast so many stones at Hillary Clinton she could pave her driveway with them.
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-from The Onion
Rudy says:
%u201CI''m guided a lot by the story of the woman that was going to be stoned, and Jesus put the stones down and said, ''He that hasn''t sinned, cast the first stone,'' and everybody disappeared.
(Rolling my eyes)
Be careful the Lord might drop a boulder on your head one day and scatter you like WTC dust!
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by prinzowhales
October 1, 2007 9:19 AM PDT
- Mafiosi garbage! He has the same Neo-Con godfather as the Chimp--Norman Podhoretz. This is one of those mass murderers who send other people to do their dirty work...Another Israel-firster like Douglas Feith, Senator Lieberman and Representative IDF''er Rahm Emmanuel of Illinois...Israel-first with American blood and treasure paying for it all.
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