Question of the day: How is that we find Catholics coming down on both sides of virtually every major political issue?
Answer: About 50% of Catholics are liberal democrats. The other 50% of Catholics actually believe in God.
Unholy alliance: Catholics and Democrats in Chicago.
Over the span of 50 years the Democratic Party and the archdiocese arrived at a mutual understanding. Each would protect and support the other. Each would deal with scandals and corruption by looking the other way. The sheepskin of civil rights hid the wolf of minority segregation.
As the Church became more insular, the Democrats became more liberal. The passage of same-sex marriage in Illinois demonstrated the price the Church paid for the marriage of convenience between Catholics and Democrats.
In spite of this duplicity, many Democrats like those in the group “Catholics for Obama” still believe that the most anti-Catholic president in U.S. history is something other than what he is.
The Democratic Party now stands against what Catholics should believe.
Let’s make a list: abortion on demand, the contraceptive mandate, continued urban segregation, same-sex marriage, and unending illegal immigration. The list goes on.
“Sacred” abortions, offered in homage to the god of loveless autonomy and sexual freedom
This should bother you, a lot. It is the elevation to “holy” of what we were once assured was to be “safe, legal and rare” – a very provocative, pro-active and non-neutral move. It is the proud revelation that Planned Parenthood’s stirrups and exam table is the sacrificial altar of the new liberal faith and its increasingly captive Democratic Party.
The “sacred” moniker gives lie to the purported neutrality, innocence and victimlessness of cultural libertinism and is a confession that destruction of the innocent is the far left sacrament.
And so Pelosi, Davis and the delegates to the 2012 Democratic National Convention join the ritualistic child-sacrificing ranks of the Incas, Aztecs, Ammonites, Carthaginians and modern Ugandans – all of whom elevated child murder not only to a good, but to a holy and sacred good.
Chicago homosexual politics: Just a handful of paid lunatics.
How the Left Uses Gays to Dismantle, Undermine, and Toxify the Catholic Church.
Archbishop Chaput on Catholic philosophy and elections, along with some recommended reading.
Any committed Christian might be tempted to despair. But the truth is that it’s always been this way. As the author of Hebrews wrote, “here we have no abiding city” (Heb 13:14). Augustine admired certain pagan Roman virtues, but he wrote the City of God to remind us that we’re Christians first, worldly citizens second. We need to learn—sometimes painfully—to let our faith chasten our partisan appetites.
In the United States, our political tensions flow from our cultural problems. Exceptions clearly exist, but today our culture routinely places rights over duties, individual fulfillment over community, and doubt over belief. In effect, the glue that now holds us together is our right to go mall-crawling and buy more junk. It’s hard to live a life of virtue when all around us, in the mass media and even in the lives of colleagues and neighbors, discipline, restraint, and self-sacrifice seem irrelevant.
Brad Gregory, the Notre Dame historian, seeks to show how we got this way in his recent book The Unintended Reformation: How a Religious Revolution Secularized Society. His answers are surprising, and for some readers, controversial. But his book is also important—and in its explanatory power, brilliant.
Caution: The Democrats commitment to “Our bodies, our choice,” begins and ends with abortion.
Far from being the natural outgrowth of a broad philosophical commitment to the idea of self-ownership and control of our own bodies, the Democrats stance on the right to abortion is the sole and glaring exception to an ideology that otherwise treats the bodies of women like the bodies of government owned cattle.
Talk is cheap and actions speak louder than words. Despite their rhetorical stances about respecting women’s control of their own bodies, the policy actions Democrats take in all areas except abortion clearly demonstrate they believe the opposite. For Democrat’s, abortion is the exception that proves the rule.
Chaput: “We just have to be insistent. Catholic identity takes precedence over everything.”
Abortion, Archbishop Chaput says, “is very serious issue that requires absolute adherence on the part of Catholics,” Chaput explains. “And if we don’t stand united on this issue, we’re bound to failure — not only in the area of protecting unborn human life but in maintaining our religious freedom,” he continues.
And lest you worry he’s forgotten he’s a spiritual shepherd and become a canvasser for the Grand Old Party in the latter-days of a presidential election, he cautions: “You cannot trust Republicans to be pro-life twenty years from now,” Chaput says. “You can’t let any party take your vote for granted. That’s unfortunately what’s happened. . . . That’s why the position of the Democrats has gotten worse and worse and worse . . . Catholics haven’t abandoned them.”
Obama is desperately hoping that Planned Parenthood and the Democrat Party’s penchant for spilling the blood of innocent babies will (somehow) get him reelected, in spite of his dismal economic performance.
You know that a Democrat campaign is on the ropes when the focus is placed on abortion.
Democrats, at least most of them, aren’t idiots. They understand that focusing on abortion is going to hurt them as much as it helps them, and, in most states, probably hurt them more.
However, when a Democrat campaign is headed south abortion is often invoked in an attempt to rally the true believers in the right to slay their offspring. It is a sign of desperation.
Yesterday, Obama had the head of Worse Than Murder, Inc, aka Planned Parenthood, Cecile Richards introduce him at a rally in Virginia.
She also cut this video for Obama that was released yesterday
A telephone script worthy of “The Father of Lies”
You are of your father the devil: and the desires of your father you will do. He was a murderer from the beginning: and he stood not in the truth, because truth is not in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father thereof. (John 8:44)
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The (allegedly Catholic) Obama supporter said,
“Planned Parenthood helps children
get health care and prenatal care
and does not promote abortion.”
Stunning, isn’t it? The lies people are willing to tell….
Editor’s note: Those who are dedicated to promoting the wanton killing of innocent babies think nothing of telling a lie for the cause!
Any attempt at reasoning with dedicated individuals from the pro death side typically leads them to deploy one of many different preplanned scripts … series of “talking points” … which were prepared in advance, by experts … in order to blunt the arguments and change the minds of the weak and unprepared.
Death means nothing to them. The shedding of innocent blood means nothing to them. Natural justice means nothing to them. The only thing the pro death side cares about is their twisted and fatal ideology.
The only defense against these kinds of people is to know the truth … and stick to it … without fail. The light of God’s truth … properly deployed … typically makes them scurry quickly away … like vermin!
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Here’s the truth … directly from God’s written Word:
Wherefore, God gave them up to the desires of their heart, unto uncleanness: to dishonor their own bodies among themselves. Who changed the truth of God into a lie and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen.
For this cause, God delivered them up to shameful affections. For their women have changed the natural use into that use which is against nature. And, in like manner, the men also, leaving the natural use of the women, have burned in their lusts, one towards another: men with men, working that which is filthy and receiving in themselves the recompense which was due to their error.
And as they liked not to have God in their knowledge, God delivered them up to a reprobate sense, to do those things which are not convenient. Being filled with all iniquity, malice, fornication, avarice, wickedness: full of envy, murder, contention, deceit, malignity: whisperers, Detractors, hateful to God, contumelious, proud, haughty, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents, Foolish, dissolute: without affection, without fidelity, without mercy. Who, having known the justice of God, did not understand that they who do such things, are worthy of death: and not only they that do them, but they also that consent to them that do them. (Romans 1:24-32)
Main takeaway from the DNC: Government is God, and abortion is a sacrament.
A recent twit from Kevin Eder.
Main takeaway from the DNC:
Government is God, and abortion is a sacrament.
Cardnal Dolan now invited to pray at BOTH conventions
(CNN)–-Cardinal Timothy Dolan has accepted an invitation to give the closing prayer at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, North Carolina, next week, which will also feature a nun in a speaking role.
Dolan, the archbishop of New York and president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, also will give the closing benediction at the Republican National Convention in Tampa, Florida, on Thursday.
When he accepted that invitation, Dolan said his appearance would be prayerful, not political, a sentiment reiterated by his spokesman in announcing his appearance at the DNC.
Editor’s note: Now, all we need is a good speech at the RNC by a faithful, traditional Catholic nun or sister.
North Carolina Marriage Amendment just in time for Democrat’s National Convention
As pointed out by “Daily Show” host Jon Stewart on Wednesday, one group of people who will most certainly be visiting the state this summer are the Democrats–for the 2012 Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, N.C., in September.
Makes you wonder how Obama would feel if his daughter (and grandchild) was “punished” by an abortion…
“It’s appalling. It’s offensive. It’s out of touch. And when it comes to what’s going on out there, you’re not going to close your eyes,” Obama said. “Women across America aren’t closing their eyes. As long as I’m president, I won’t either.”
The president explained that as a husband and father of two daughters he has a “vested interest” in advancing rights for women, and would fight efforts to “turn back the clock to the ’50s or the ’40s or the ’30s or maybe further than that.”
If pro-life Republicans are at war with women, how are we supposed to characterize the Democrat’s penchant for the unrestrained, in-womb destruction of both sexes?
by Doug Lawrence
Because they rightly discern the immorality of abortion and attempt to place limits upon the decrepit and totally destructive procedure, Republicans are being characterized as at war with women.
But it’s the Democrats who openly and officially continue to support abortion on demand, with virtually no limits … where both men and women are routinely dismembered … have deadly poison injected into their hearts … are burned-up by saline infusion … have their brains (literally) sucked out of their skulls … and/or suffer personal, fatal, chemical weapon (drug) attacks … under the false guise of caring and compassionate women’s health care.
If working to save the lives of innocent babies is defined as making war on women, how is one supposed to characterize the position of the Democrats, who are firmly committed to the unrestrained, willful and wanton, in-womb destruction of both sexes?
In Illinois’ Democratic Supreme Court race, only Aurelia Pucinski is pro-life
Abortion is front and center in the Illinois Supreme Court race thanks to a federal court ruling Tuesday that gave the bipartisan, pro-choice Personal PAC a giant victory. And opened the way for unlimited fund-raising for pro-choice candidates.
Democrats always lie. Democrats declare Romney pro-life. Republicans take note.
Mitt Romney’s not a flip-flopper on abortion after all, a top Democratic campaign group said Saturday.
Priorities USA, the pro-President Obama political organization led by a former White House press aide, argued in a memo that the Republican presidential candidate has been pro-life all along — throughout his time as governor of Massachusetts and as a two-time presidential candidate.
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