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Catholics at the Voting Booth and the Test of Fire

Posted in Catholic Church, Catholics, Christian, Conservatism, Constitution, Culture Clash, Ethics, First Amendment, Morality, Persecution, Politics, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on May 24, 2012 | 10 Comments »

This video highlights that the cornerstone of the rights and our most cherished freedoms  - the Constitution – is under attack more pervasively than ever, openly being targeted by the Obama administration.  This is the first time in American history that our constitutional rights have been put in as grave jeopardy as they are now.  One of these most cherished rights is the right to religious freedom and the Obama admin is trying to nullify these rights which are guaranteed by our Creator, specifically the right for Catholics to believe and actively live out the tenets of the Catholic Church, by using coercion to force the faithful to abandon our non-negotiable doctrinal beliefs effectively saying to hell with your conscience.

This Catholic political ad promotes pro-life values such as refraining from voting for those politicians which support abortion and euthanasia which are in accordance with Catholic precepts.  The video does not focus on those issues where a Catholic may use their prudential judgement, such as how we assist the poor whether we believe the private sector or government does it best, environmental concerns, immigration policy or those facets which involve war.  These matters are not obligatory so therefore these issues should not be allowed to carry undue weight when considering whether to for vote for a particular candidate at the expense of the non-negotiable issue of life.   Unfortunately, we have laity these days who treat matters of prudential judgement as if they were doctrine and vice versa.

Question: How could any Catholic morally justify voting for Obama, the Democratic candidate, when his administration has consistently attacked the Catholic Church, and is threatening to undermine Her core beliefs via the HHS mandate, and when he is the most pro-abortion president in the history of our Republic who supports gay “marriage”,  and has been thumbing his nose at the Constitution at every turn?   Wouldn’t a vote for Obama be a vote against the Catholic Church?  Our rights are crumbling from the inside out due to policies being initiated by the Obama administration, just as Alexis de Toqueville warned this nation to avoid so many years ago, so how any person of sound mind but especially Catholics of conscience could possibly think that it is morally licit to vote for Obama (or any Democrat) is beyond me.

If Catholics can actually justify in their minds that it is okay to vote for Obama when he supports unjust laws, pure unadulterated evil, and is openly attacking the Church then what we have is a sad state of affairs regarding the Church my friends.  I wonder if these people would have justified voting for a certain WWII German Chancellor because he was a friend to organized labor, being the candidate of the National Socialist German Worker’s Party?   Would they have been “Personally Opposed But” about the Final Solution?

Here in America the systematic slaughter of unborn babies has by far surpassed the number of people who were killed during the Holocaust.  Even with the knowledge of that fact Catholics keep on voting for Democrat candidates who support the murder of innocent human beings.  Many citizens treat abortion as a side issue, as almost nonexistent since they are unable to see and tangibly touch these human beings in the physical here and now since they are hidden away within another human’s body but instead they give the visible,tangible poor much more consideration when they step into that voting booth.  Since quite a few Catholics today have followed a moral relativistic Hear No Evil See No Evil mentality I wonder had these same people been alive during the 1930′s and 1940′s would they have ignored those Holocaust victims who were also hidden away from public viewing?

TO ALL CITIZENS, ESPECIALLY CATHOLICS: Are you going to sit idly by and allow our sacred rights to drift off into the sunset, or even worse vote for the Party of Death, the tyrannical anti-freedom party, the party which has displayed anti-Catholic bigotry through their various policies or are you going to be a light in this period of darkness, a soldier in St. Michael the Archangel’s army and stand up for the Catholic Church with all of Her goodness stand up to the test of fire?

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Pamela Geller Exposes New York Times Double Standard on Religion

Posted in Catholic, Catholic Church Doctrine, Catholicism, Conservatism, Culture War, Islam, Politics, Religion, tagged , , , , , , , , , , on March 20, 2012 | 1 Comment »

From Atlas Shrugs:

NYT Accused of Double Standard on Religion; Claims to Be Protecting Troops Christian Post

The New York Times recently published an advertisement purchased by an atheist organization called “It’s Time to Consider Quitting The Catholic Church.” But when another organization tried to buy a similar advertisement against Islam, the newspaper decided not to immediately publish the ad, causing some to question whether or not the newspaper has a double standard on religion.

On Mar. 9 the Times published an anti-Catholic ad purchased by the Freedom From Religion Foundation (FFRF) which challenged Roman Catholic beliefs and pointed to the church’s past sex scandals, among other things, as reasons for Catholics to leave their faith behind.

The FFRF’s ad challenges the “pernicious doctrine that birth control is a sin,” and says, “It’s a disgrace that U.S. health carereform is being held hostage to your church’s irrational opposition to medically prescribed contraception. No political candidate should have to genuflect before the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops.”

“As a member of the ‘flock’ of an avowedly antidemocratic Old Boys Club, isn’t it time you vote with your feet? Please, exit en Mass,” the ad, which is signed by FFRF Co-Presidents Annie Laurie Gaylor and Dan Barker, says.

Taking a cue from the FFRF, Pamela Geller, president of Stop Islamization of Nations, decided to have a similar ad published in the Times titled, “It’s Time To Quit Islam.” She told The Christian Post via email on Friday that her ad was created in response to the “anti-Catholic smear ad” of the FFRF, and she “wanted to see if the New York Times would run a mirror ad that told the truth about Islam and jihad.”

Geller’s ad, which was published in its entirety on The Daily Caller’s website, is addressed to “moderate Muslims” who she says should leave their mosques.

“If you imagine you can change the mosque from within it – to lighten up on Jew-hatred, hatred of women, hatred of non-Muslims, hatred of gays – you are deluding yourself…You’re kidding yourself if you think the mosque is ever going to expunge the Qur’an of its violent texts that inspire jihad, or interpret them out of existence,” the ad says.

But The New York Times hasn’t run Geller’s ad as of yet, leading some to wonder if the newspaper is showing itself to be biased against some religious groups.

Bill Donahue, president of the Catholic League, told FoxNews.com he believes the actions of the Times reveal the newspaper’s agenda.

“It shows the disparate treatment and the duplicity of The New York Times,” said Donohue. “You can trash some religions, like Roman Catholicism, with impunity, but you cannot trash Islam?”

Eileen Murphy, vice president of corporate communications for the Times, said the decision not to run the ad immediately has nothing to do with fairness, but safety. She told CP via email that the newspaper has decided to delay publishing the ad temporarily to protect U.S. citizens who are currently in the Middle East.

“We made a decision to postpone publishing it in light of recent events in Afghanistan, including the Koran burning and the alleged killings of Afghani civilians by a member of the U.S. military,” Murphy said. “It is our belief that fallout from running this ad now could put U.S. troops and civilians in the region in danger and we would like to avoid that.”

But Geller still believes the Times has been unfair, and doesn’t think her ad will ever be published.

“In the first place, Afghan jihadis want to kill Americans regardless. It isn’t as if there would be peace if not for this ad,” she said.

“And the Times’ position is inconsistent. They have done more to jeopardize the safety of our troops than any mainstream media outlet, with the possible exception of Newsweek,” Geller added. “How many front page stories ran on Abu Ghraib? Who leaked the NSA wiretaps under FISA, jeopardizing not just troops but American citizens, or the highly classified Pentagon order authorizing special ops to hunt for al-Qaeda in the mountains of Pakistan?”

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