Elizabeth Bruenig

Elizabeth Bruenig @ebruenig

lol well technically he said that lust must be involved in sex, even for procreation, because lust is what causes the erection. he thought that if lust weren't required to move the, uh, male organ then you would just be able to move the pannus around with your will, like your arm — PolitiTweet.org

Elizabeth Bruenig @ebruenig

@LilaGraceRose Again, you screencapped the very paragraph in which I discussed the event as a tragedy! — PolitiTweet.org

Elizabeth Bruenig @ebruenig

@LilaGraceRose Evil is threaded into everything. Right? Even creation groans under the weight of sin. Augustine would argue no human person would be born if not for the sin of lust. The question before us is whether we can, as the Church directs, distinguish the good from the evil. — PolitiTweet.org

Elizabeth Bruenig @ebruenig

@LilaGraceRose The comparison is not between the circumstances of their deaths, it's between the feelings of those of us who have stood to benefit from the good that came of the aftermath of their deaths. — PolitiTweet.org

Elizabeth Bruenig @ebruenig

you can frame arguments any way you want. you can frame them so as to maximally piss off people you don't like, which feels fucking amazing, or you can frame them to try to help people who disagree genuinely understand what's going on with one another, which is labor intensive — PolitiTweet.org

Elizabeth Bruenig @ebruenig

@LeahLibresco that is *extremely* noble — PolitiTweet.org

Elizabeth Bruenig @ebruenig

@Dirtfarmr this single event happened one time in 1973 versus the ongoing murder of human beings for food, food being a consumable good you need more of on an ongoing basis. but i get it -- you disagree. noted! — PolitiTweet.org

Elizabeth Bruenig @ebruenig

@LilaGraceRose It's a piece about vaccines, not abortion tout court. The very paragraph you screencapped contains a sentence about tragedy; how does that not register as related to grief and sorrow to you? — PolitiTweet.org

Elizabeth Bruenig @ebruenig

@Mustard35389585 @TJOpp63 she was aborted in the 18th week of her mother's pregnancy, not killed at several months old — PolitiTweet.org

Elizabeth Bruenig @ebruenig

One can be grateful that something good was brought from something one would have preferred not to have happened. I don't know how this is lost on an entire religion built around the crucifixion of our own savior. — PolitiTweet.org

Elizabeth Bruenig @ebruenig

I don't see how any of those feelings are incompatible with a sense of gratitude. The research carried out with the cell line derived from this girl's kidneys produced the Ebola vaccine. Everyone who would turn that down in an Ebola outbreak is stronger than me. — PolitiTweet.org

Elizabeth Bruenig @ebruenig

@LilaGraceRose Lila, what the hell? I asked him how that particular individual arrived at his lab and he explained the teaching hospital asked on a general release form if women having abortions were alright releasing the remains for research. This woman had signed the release. — PolitiTweet.org

Elizabeth Bruenig @ebruenig

@Attica_Finch sax solo unbelievable — PolitiTweet.org

Elizabeth Bruenig @ebruenig

lost boys such an awesome movie — PolitiTweet.org

Elizabeth Bruenig @ebruenig

RT @eseajota: Tras un tiempo escribiendo sobre los hijos de familias que no creían en la vacunación, los casos de las familias católicas me… — PolitiTweet.org

Elizabeth Bruenig @ebruenig

@ProtecttheFaith Nick, how could it be the case that "babies murdered through abortion were experimented on" if your claim is that the cells had to be extracted from a living child to begin with? At any rate, van der Eb and his lab had tried to replicate all kinds of cells — not just fetal cells. — PolitiTweet.org

Elizabeth Bruenig @ebruenig

This is not true. van der Eb's laboratory received the remains after the abortion had already been performed, because the mother signed a release allowing the teaching hospital to use the remains for research purposes. A microbiologist, van der Eb was not performing surgeries. — PolitiTweet.org

Elizabeth Bruenig @ebruenig

RT @ErickaAndersen: “People really do hold complicated, challenging beliefs. Misguided views really do contain, at times, occasional thread… — PolitiTweet.org

Elizabeth Bruenig @ebruenig

RT @ebruenig: New @TheAtlantic: Catholic vaccine hesitancy & refusal are unique for their grounding in objection to research using tissue f… — PolitiTweet.org

Elizabeth Bruenig @ebruenig

@lesaboteur87 I just believe in the efficacy of the sacraments. If I didn't, I would already not be Catholic. The Church is a vessel for the delivery of the sacraments. This doesn't and has never meant that the clergy is purely good. — PolitiTweet.org

Elizabeth Bruenig @ebruenig

@ibsprincesss One of the things the faith teaches is that evil is real and imminent. — PolitiTweet.org

Elizabeth Bruenig @ebruenig

In particular, seminarians who've been sexually harassed or abused in seminary — I know there are a lot of you out there — remember me if you ever feel you want to talk about what happened to you. — PolitiTweet.org

Elizabeth Bruenig @ebruenig

People deserve to know the truth about what happened. Someone has to answer for it. Victims need to be heard. This is all to say that I will never stop reporting on it, and if you've got a story to tell, my email is in my bio. — PolitiTweet.org

Elizabeth Bruenig @ebruenig

To be clear, I don't mind questions like these. I don't like the implication that I personally support child sexual abuse, but I think it's fair to be continually appalled by the sex abuse crisis. I certainly am, and reporting on it is, for me, a fitting kind of atonement — PolitiTweet.org

Elizabeth Bruenig @ebruenig

Yeah, you can find my views on the sex abuse crisis in any of the many pieces I've written about it, including the ones featuring my reporting. Here's one of the bigger ones, on ex-cardinal Ted McCarrick: https://t.co/aHGzGKM7v9 — PolitiTweet.org

Elizabeth Bruenig @ebruenig

i want sandra bullock's entire wardrobe from practical magic — PolitiTweet.org

Elizabeth Bruenig @ebruenig

(i rarely suggest actually reading the article but in this one rare case pls actually read the article) — PolitiTweet.org

Elizabeth Bruenig @ebruenig

@MistyOnTap @TheAtlantic begging you to read the article — PolitiTweet.org

Elizabeth Bruenig @ebruenig

wishing chevy chase a happy being a place in maryland — PolitiTweet.org

Elizabeth Bruenig @ebruenig

@JohnsonHildy going to register as all my dead family members and vote for him 58 times — PolitiTweet.org