Posted by Jill Hussein C., Brilliant at Breakfast
Because
Nuns. Kick. Ass.

Surely, our
majority-Catholic Supreme Court should have known better than to get on the
wrong side of the Sisters. As we wrote earlier, the
first victims of the new ruling on Voter ID were elderly nuns in Indiana. This just in,
in my emailbox: The nuns of Missouri
rap the Supreme Court's knuckles with a great big ruler:

Nun of the Franciscan Sisters of Mary comments on Voter ID
disenfranchisement

WHO: Missourians for Fair Elections

WHAT: Press Conference on the impact of legislation to
require government-issued photo ID to vote

WHEN: 1:00 PM, Thursday, May 8, 2008

WHERE: League of Women Voters, 8706 Manchester,
Jefferson City, MO 63144

JEFFERSON CITY, MO – On Thursday, May 8, three Missouri voters who lack government-issued
photo IDs as well as Secretary of State Robin Carnahan and community leaders
will discuss the potential impacts of legislation currently being pushed
through the Missouri General Assembly. The proposed legislation would make Missouri one of the
toughest states in the country for eligible citizens who want to vote by
requiring voters to present a government-issued photo ID at the polls. If
passed, these changes could be in place by the November general election and
could put the voting rights at risk for up to 240,000 registered Missouri voters.

"This may sound like a good idea at first," stated
Sister Sandy Schwartz of the Franciscan Sisters of Mary regarding voter ID
requirements, "but once you stop to think about who would really be
affected, this is going to keep a lot of our loved ones from being able to
vote." Yesterday in Indiana
twelve nuns in their 80s and 90s were turned away from the polls because they
lacked the needed IDs to vote. Sister Schwartz and others are concerned about
the difficulties the policy change would create for elderly Missouri nuns, as well as other senior
citizens, the poor, and minorities.
Awesome.