The Quiet Conservative November 10, 2008
The Culture of Death Plans the Holocaust. Catholic Voters Help it Happen
As if you couldn't see it coming. Did you expect president elect Obama not to be true to his
ideals? For the 52% of Catholic voters who pulled the lever for Senator Obama, they also pulled the
lever for unrestricted abortion protected by the U.S. Government and promoted as official policy
world wide.
Lifenews.com has reported the following: “Cecile Richards, the president of Planned
Parenthood, the nation's largest abortion business, told the Post that she expects Obama to rescind
the protections on taxpayer-funded abortions and abortion counseling immediately after his
inauguration.
"We have been communicating with his transition staff" almost daily, Richards said. "We
expect to see a real change."
The Catholic pull of the lever is going to cost millions their lives. Senator Obama may evade and
refuse to answer when life begins, but anyone who has entered the Catholic Church knows the
answer. Life begins at conception. 52% of Catholics just said it was OK to kill that life by voting for
a hard core dedicated abortion supporter.
Meanwhile, Kathleen Sebelius, notorious in Kansas for her abortion support while publicly claiming
to be Catholic, is seen as a potential appointee for the new Obama Administration. The web is
reporting she is being considered for the head of Health and Human Services. Here she would be
“tasked with shepherding FOCA through Congress.”
Hadn't heard of the Freedom of Choice Act? You should have. One of its cosponsors in the
Senate is our newly elected president. Senator Obama signed on as a cosponsor May 11, 2007.
Here is the Senate’s version of a lead in:
(S.1173) SUMMARY AS OF: 4/19/2007--Introduced.
Freedom of Choice Act - Declares that it is the policy of the United States that every woman has
the fundamental right to choose to: (1) bear a child; (2) terminate a pregnancy prior to fetal viability;
or (3) terminate a pregnancy after fetal viability when necessary to protect her life or her health.
Prohibits a federal, state, or local governmental entity from: (1) denying or interfering with a
woman's right to exercise such choices; or (2) discriminating against the exercise of those rights
in the regulation or provision of benefits, facilities, services, or information. Provides that
such prohibition shall apply retroactively.
Authorizes an individual aggrieved by a violation of this Act to obtain appropriate relief, including
relief against a governmental entity, in a civil action.
Farther down in the text of the act lists the following provision:
SEC. 6. RETROACTIVE EFFECT.
This Act applies to every Federal, State, and local statute, ordinance, regulation,
administrative order, decision, policy, practice, or other action enacted, adopted, or
implemented before, on, or after the date of enactment of this Act.
It is important to note the act seeks to strip away any state laws on abortion. Like Roe v. Wade,
the act seeks to mandate abortions nationwide. The lie of the left has been, and continues to be, that
abortion was illegal before Roe v. Wade. Far from it. Individual states made their own laws
concerning the legality or illegality of abortion. Just like states made up their own laws on what
constituted murder, rape, robbery, and theft. What Roe did was usurp the state’s right to make their
own laws and replaced it with the fiat of murder by the left nationwide. Here, thirty five years later,
they seek to reassert and reinforce the lack of authority of the people and maintain the rigid ideology
of the culture of death. The act strips any restrictions on abortion from all laws up to and including
partial birth. It also has the explicit threat of civil lawsuits against any opposition. Oppose abortion
on moral grounds and you get ruined financially. The culture of death plays for keeps.
For fifty two percent of Catholics voting for Obama, it should be made abundantly clear what that
choice meant. They are complicit in any future abortions that are promoted, protected, or funded by
President Obama’s executive orders or laws signed by his pen. Should they try and fool themselves
that there were other issues and abortion was only one component, the following pastoral letter from
the Kansas City metro bishops should destroy that self absolving view:
“There are, however, some issues that always involve doing evil, such as legalized abortion,
the promotion of same-sex unions and ‘marriages,’ repression of religious liberty, as well as
public policies permitting euthanasia, racial discrimination or destructive human embryonic
stem cell research. A properly formed conscience must give such issues priority even over
other matters with important moral dimensions. To vote for a candidate who supports these
intrinsic evils because he or she supports these evils is to participate in a grave moral evil. It
can never be justified.
In 2004 a group of United States Bishops, acting on behalf of the USCCB and requesting counsel
about the responsibilities of Catholic politicians and voters, received a memo from the office of
Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, the future Pope Benedict XVI, which stated:
“A Catholic would be guilty of formal cooperation in evil, and so unworthy to present himself for
Holy Communion, if he were to deliberately vote for a candidate precisely because of the candidate’s
permissive stand on abortion and/or euthanasia. When a Catholic does not share a candidate’s stand
in favor of abortion and/or euthanasia, but votes for that candidate for other reasons, it is considered
remote material cooperation, which can be permitted in the presence of proportionate reasons.”
Could a Catholic in good conscience vote for a candidate who supports legalized abortion when there
is a choice of another candidate who does not support abortion or any other intrinsically evil policy?
Could a voter’s preference for the candidate’s positions on the pursuit of peace, economic policies
benefiting the poor, support for universal health care, a more just immigration policy, etc. overcome
a candidate’s support for legalized abortion? In such a case, the Catholic voter must ask and answer
the question: What could possibly be a proportionate reason for the more than 45 million children
killed by abortion in the past 35 years? Personally, we cannot conceive of such a proportionate
reason.
Most Reverend Joseph F. Naumann,
Archbishop of Kansas City in Kansas
Most Reverend Robert W. Finn,
Bishop of Kansas City-St. Joseph”
So, for fifty two percent of Catholics, Sunday has a whole new wealth of options. Sleep in, take
a walk, watch the game, volunteer at an abortion clinic, pretend the expanded worldwide support of
abortion had nothing to do with your vote. But scratch going to church off your list. After all, why
go to church when you don’t agree with one of the core precepts of your faith? Don’t you have
better things to do?
Plus, it is probably better not to think about religion anymore. Because somewhere, deep down
inside, in the very core of your conscience, you would start to wonder if the future millions of tiny
children murdered in their wombs will be weighing on your soul when you face your final judgment.