Sigh: ”President Obama not long ago told the American people that he would support policies to reduce abortions, but today he is effectively guaranteeing more abortions by funding groups that promote abortion as a method of population control,” said Douglas Johnson, legislative director of the National Right to Life Committee.

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The Obama Circus

Obama says we should do all we can to eliminate the need for abortions, then institutes policy to hand our tax dollars out in support of it.  We knew he’d say anything to get elected.  The people who voted for him aren’t important to him now.  Ironic, considering…

It’s been a rough start in more ways than one, too.  Let’s hope he can at least pull it together for the sake of national security.  He can be a failure at everything else as far as I’m concerned.

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Messianic Expectations

I am currently reading “Render Unto Caesar: Serving the Nation by Living our Catholic Beliefs in Political Life” by Archbishop Chaput of Denver.  I came across a very fitting two paragraphs, as they relate to events that are about to unfold in Washington D.C.

The Catholic Church has had many different relationships with many different states in many different eras.  What we’ve learned is this: We will never build God’s kingdom here on earth.  When people have messianic expectations about the state, when they ask politics to deliver more than it can, the story ends badly.

But neither will we ever be released from the duty to sanctify, humanize, and bring Jesus Christ to the public square in which we live.  And it is precisely because of this duty that the American experiment is so hopeful—and so important. (emphasis in original)

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More media bias: Walters showed footage of some of her dumb questions, such as asking Obama whether Wall Street executives should grant themselves a Christmas bonus. She also asked how he felt when he read that the three CEOs of the car companies took private planes to Washington to ask for a bailout. Naturally, Obama thought it was shockingly out of touch.

Stop the tape. Earth to Walters: Did it ever occur to you that Mr. Obama campaigned all over America by flying on a huge private 757 jet, painted as a vehicle of “Change” with a half-million dollar makeover for the general election, complete with Obama logos sewn into the headrests? And how do you suppose Ms. Walters travels? By carpool? What sheer hypocrisy — on both their parts. 
 Walters continued the gushing on her daytime show “The View.” Doing her usual tap-dance of faked objectivity, Walters cooed: “I’m supposed to be very neutral, but they are the most appealing couple, and so smart.” It’s easier to look smart when no one’s asking you a brainteaser. Walters shamelessly tried to sell the interview as super-substantive. Obama was asked about a range of matters foreign and domestic in the first 20 minutes, but all with a deeply deferential style.

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There is time to reconsider

The fact that it was a peaceful American Thanksgiving went unnoticed by most. The fact that this has been the case since the Al Qaida attacks on America of Sept. 11, 2001, also went little noticed. That all of this coincides with and is a result of President Bush’s prosecution of the war on Islamist extremism is never highlighted.

Our final editorial today notes general news media bias in favor of Barack Obama. Imagine what that media would have had to say, and where all the blame would have gone, had America been attacked at home again on Bush’s watch.

We aren’t suggesting that President Bush’s strategy is the sole reason for our relative safety here at home. But it has certainly contributed in great measure. And before the new President and his eager Congress get to work dismantling what Bush has built, they better think very carefully.

Amen.

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If you want to stand against the ultra-liberal agenda that President-elect Obama has promised, please join The Resistance, a grass-roots effort to oppose radical movements.

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Stop the presses: I agree with E.J. Dionne!!!

E.J. Dionne says Obama would be foolish to forget about his promise to try to end culture wars, particularly as it relates to abortion.

Once he assumes office, Obama might be tempted to forget that moment, issue pro-choice executive orders that the abortion rights movement expects, and move back to the sagging economy. But doing this would be both politically foolish and a breach of faith with the pro-life progressives who came to Obama’s defense during the campaign. They argued that Obama truly was committed to reducing the number of abortions. He shouldn’t turn them into liars.

Many pundits, Obama staff, and potential Obama staff have stated that it is the perogative of the President to do with these executive orders what they wish, and they are right.  However, if the first statement he makes is to reverse all restrictions on abortion, he is re-igniting the culture wars he claimed he would heal.  If he wants to fire up the conservative base just days into his presidency, that will be all he needs to do to lose half of the country, or more.

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“Material cooperation with intrinsic evil”

There have been several news reports about the priest who told Obama voters they should not take communion.  Turns out the priest also wrote the very best thing published in a church bulletin that Feast of St. John Lateran.

“Dear Friends in Christ,

We the People have spoken, and the 44th President of the United States will be
Barack Hussein Obama. This election ends a political process that started two
years ago and which has revealed deep and bitter divisions within the United
States and also within the Catholic Church in the United States. This division is
sometimes called a “Culture War,” by which is meant a heated clash between
two radically different and incompatible conceptions of how we should order our
common life together, the public life that constitutes civil society. And the chief
battleground in this culture war for the past 30 years has been abortion, which
one side regards as a murderous abomination that cries out to Heaven for
vengeance and the other side regards as a fundamental human right that must be
protected in laws enforced by the authority of the state. Between these two
visions of the use of lethal violence against the unborn there can be no
negotiation or conciliation, and now our nation has chosen for its chief executive
the most radical pro-abortion politician ever to serve in the United States Senate
or to run for president. We must also take note of the fact that this election was
effectively decided by the votes of self-described (but not practicing) Catholics,
the majority of whom cast their ballots for President-elect Obama.
In response to this, I am obliged by my duty as your shepherd to make two
observations:

1. Voting for a pro-abortion politician when a plausible pro-life alternative exits
constitutes material cooperation with intrinsic evil, and those Catholics who do
so place themselves outside of the full communion of Christ’s Church and under
the judgment of divine law. Persons in this condition should not receive Holy
Communion until and unless they are reconciled to God in the Sacrament of
Penance, lest they eat and drink their own condemnation.

2. Barack Obama, although we must always and everywhere disagree with him
over abortion, has been duly elected the next President of the United States, and
after he takes the Oath of Office next January 20th, he will hold legitimate
authority in this nation. For this reason, we are obliged by Scriptural precept to
pray for him and to cooperate with him whenever conscience does not bind us
otherwise. Let us hope and pray that the responsibilities of the presidency and
the grace of God will awaken in the conscience of this extraordinarily gifted man
an awareness that the unholy slaughter of children in this nation is the greatest
threat to the peace and security of the United States and constitutes a clear and
present danger to the common good. In the time of President Obama’s service to
our country, let us pray for him in the words of a prayer found in the Roman
Missal:

God our Father, all earthly powers must serve you. Help our President-elect,
Barack Obama, to fulfill his responsibilities worthily and well. By honoring and
striving to please you at all times, may he secure peace and freedom for the
people entrusted to him. We ask this through Our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son,
who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God for ever and ever.”

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S.C. priest tells parishioners to abstain from communion if they voted for Obama: A South Carolina Roman Catholic priest has told his parishioners that they should refrain from receiving Holy Communion if they voted for Barack Obama because the Democratic president-elect supports abortion, and supporting him “constitutes material cooperation with intrinsic evil.”

Amen, and congratulations.  People need to realize that they voted in favor of ideas worse than slavery.  We need more lay people, priests, and bishops to stop worrying about offending people and tell them the truth.

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Catholic Bishops are emboldening over abortion following Tuesday’s election: “I cannot have a vice president-elect coming to Scranton to say he’s learned his values there when those values are utterly against the teachings of the Catholic Church,” Martino said.

I think it is time the Church stop worrying about tax-exempt status and start telling people the way they should vote (or, at the very least, lay out exactly how they should NOT vote).  It is a grave, mortal sin to support any candidate who supports abortion, and souls are much more valuable than any dollar figure.

Here’s to hoping that the next four years sees a continuation of a newfound political passion by our Catholic Bishops.  Clearly, by the exit polling of Catholics, the message has not been getting through.

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