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The Baby Killer Gets to Work

Officials: Obama to reverse abortion policy

AP – Friday, January 23, 2009 8:22:50 AM

By LIZ SIDOTI and MATTHEW LEE

President Barack Obama plans to sign an executive order ending the ban on federal funds for international groups that promote or perform abortions, officials told The Associated Press on Friday.

The move, long expected in the Democratic president’s first week in office, will be welcomed by liberals and criticized by abortion rights foes.

The policy bans U.S. taxpayer money, usually in the form of U.S. Agency for International Development funds, from going to international family planning groups that either offer abortions or provide information, counseling or referrals about abortion. It is also known as the “global gag rule,”

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because it prohibits taxpayer funding for groups that even talk about abortion if there is an unplanned pregnancy.

Also known as the “Mexico City policy,” it has been reinstated and then reversed by Republican and Democratic presidents since GOP President Ronald Reagan established it in 1984. President Bill Clinton ended the ban in 1993, but President George W. Bush re-instituted it in 2001 as one of his first acts in office.

The Democratic official and senior U.S. official who disclosed the plans did so on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to pre-empt Obama’s announcement.

Obama was expected to sign the executive order at a low-key event, one day after the 36th anniversary of the landmark Supreme Court ruling in Roe v. Wade that legalized abortion.

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You’ve got to be kidding me

Merry Christmas from the purveyors of death:

Planned Parenthood Offers “Lethal” Gift Certificates for Holiday Season

Indianapolis, Dec 2, 2008 (CNA).- The Indiana affiliate of Planned Parenthood is offering gift certificates for birth control and other services, including abortion. While an announcement of the program encourages customers to purchase the certificates to “give the gift of health this holiday season,” one critic characterized the effort as “lethal.”Indiana Planned Parenthood is offering the certificates in $25 increments through its web site or at its 35 locations in the state. Prospective customers are advised that the gift certificates could be used as co-pays in conjunction with partial insurance coverage.

“Why not buy a loved one a gift this holiday season that they really need and one that will contribute to their health throughout the year?” Indiana Planned Parenthood President and CEO Betty Cockrum said in a statement on the state affiliate’s web site. “The gift certificates are also a wonderful idea for that person in your life who puts everyone else first and has been putting off taking care of her or his own health. Now, there’s no excuse for those people in your life not to get the basic health care that they need.”

The certificates may be used for breast exams and Pap smears, but may also be applied to defray the cost of an abortion, the Associated Press reports.

“I certainly don’t think anyone would consider giving it for that purpose,” Planned Parenthood of Indiana spokeswoman Kate Shepherd said.

Cockrum reported that Planned Parenthood in Indiana performs abortions on about 5,000 of the 92,000 patients it sees each year.

In Indiana the organization operates abortion clinics in Indianapolis, Merrillville and Bloomington.

Sister Diane Carollo, director of the Office for Pro-Life Ministry for the Catholic Archdiocese of Indianapolis, criticized the program.

“They deserve coal in their stocking, not money for lethal gift certificates,” she told the Associated Press.

Mike Fichter, president and CEO of Indiana Right to Life, was also critical.

“The tragedy is that almost 6,000 fewer children will be celebrating a first Christmas this year because they were aborted in Planned Parenthood’s Indiana clinics,” he remarked.

A note from the Bishop

I recently wrote to His Excellency, Bishop Hermann to thank him for his speaking out. I wanted to know what we as the laity could do to help out, and he asked that we say the rosary daily for an end to abortion, and to ask all of our friends to do so as well. This is great advice from the Bishop, and I will be trying my best to say a rosary daily to end abortion, and I hope that anyone who reads this may do so as well.

Bishop Hermann, American Hero

Bishop Explains His Willingness to Die to End Abortion

St. Louis, Nov 25, 2008 / 04:16 am (CNA).-At the recent fall assembly of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, Bishop Robert J. Hermann, the administrator for the Archdiocese of St. Louis, declared that for any bishop it would be a “privilege to die tomorrow to bring about an end to abortion.” He has further explained that Catholics’ response to abortion in our country should be proportionate to the scale of the tragedy.

At the bishops’ meeting in Baltimore, Bishop Hermann had said:

“We have lost 50 times as many children in the last 35 years as we have lost soldiers in all the wars since the Revolution.

“I think any bishop here would consider it a privilege to die tomorrow to bring about an end to abortion.”

“If we are willing to die tomorrow, then we should be willing to, until the end of our lives, to take all kinds of criticism for opposing this horrible infanticide.”

Speaking with the archdiocesan newspaper the St. Louis Review, the bishop commented:

“I think that the way abortion has been presented over the past 35 years so often is that this is something that’s horrible, and we need to stop it. But it seems to me that people do not realize that it is 50 million children that we have killed. We have campaigned to save the baby whales, and yet we vote in pro-abortion politicians — which doesn’t make any sense whatsoever.”

Bishop Hermann also described how bishops can look to the example of soldiers.

“If American youth are willing to go to war and lay their life down to defend our freedoms, then every bishop should be willing to give up his life, if it meant putting an end to abortion. And if we’re willing to do that, then we should be totally fearless of promoting this cause without being concerned about political correctness, without trying to build coalitions with pro-choice people,” the bishop said in an apparent reference to those Catholics who have recently begun to give up the fight to outlaw abortion.

He proposed an “awareness- raising campaign” to help people realize “the destruction that we’ve brought about” and “the atrocities that we’re committing.”

“There should be 50 more million Americans in our midst, and anyone under 35 can look around and say, ‘Where are they?’ And, ‘I’m very lucky to be alive.’”

Bishop Hermann reported that after he made his comments one or two bishops started clapping, but the meeting then moved on to other business. Bishop Robert Finn of Kansas City-St. Joseph, Archbishop Joseph Naumann of Kansas City, and Archbishop Charles J. Chaput of Denver, along with other bishops, personally thanked him afterwards.

He reported that about 95 percent of the popular responses to his remarks have been positive, with some people consulting him about how they ought to deal with past voting habits. Bishop Hermann said many people have been conditioned to act as if God does not exist.

“I have great empathy and great compassion for people who are influenced by society and are taken in by the big lie that God does not exist. My job is to raise their awareness to, yes He does (exist), and it does make a difference what you believe. It makes a big difference in what you do.

“We also have to be aware that our warfare is not against flesh and blood, but against the principalities and the powers and the spirits of this world of darkness, as Paul tells us in Ephesians.

“Therefore, behind Planned Parenthood, behind the abortion issue, is the evil one,” Bishop Hermann stated. “I often see human beings caught up in this as victims of the evil one who need my prayers and who need my compassion and who need my love. We don’t only want to save our children from destruction; we also want to save our adult brothers and sisters from eternal destruction.”

The bishop expressed concern about President-elect Barack Obama’s support for Planned Parenthood, which he claimed targets blacks with abortion information and facilities in their neighborhoods.

Turning to possible problems under a pro-abortion rights Obama presidency, he called the proposed Freedom of Choice Act “dangerous” because “it would be undermining all the efforts for the past 35 years of trying to limit the destructive effects of abortion.” He also noted the possibility Obama could appoint two more Supreme Court justices, which he claimed could secure the Roe vs. Wade Supreme Court decision “for many, many years.”

Responding to a common criticism that bishops and priests place such importance on abortion, he noted that other rights and political issues “mean nothing if the fundamental right to life is not guaranteed.”

“When someone is denied life, then all the other rights don’t mean anything. That’s the reason the Church places such a high priority on that.

“For an individual to have a proportionate reason to vote for a candidate who supports abortion would be very hard to come by. The only way I could see that happening is if we had one candidate who supports abortion and another one who may mandate abortion … as they do in China.”

Bishop Hermann closed his interview with the St. Louis Review by encouraging Catholics to study Church documents such as Pope John Paul II’s encyclical Evangelium Vitae and Paul VI’s encyclical Humanae Vitae, “so they can clearly understand the nature of man and woman and the sacredness of God’s calling for man and woman.”

“The more they study that and begin to live those teachings, the more they’re going to come into freedom to promote the Gospel of Life,” he concluded.

Welcome to Gethsemane

To Cardinal Stafford: Amen Brother

Cardinal Stafford Criticizes Obama as “Aggressive, Disruptive and Apocalyptic”

Washington DC, Nov 17, 2008 (CNA).- Cardinal James Francis Stafford, head of the Apostolic Penitentiary of the Holy See, delivered a lecture on Thursday saying that the future under President-elect Obama will echo Jesus’ agony in Gethsemane. Criticizing Obama as “aggressive, disruptive and apocalyptic,” he went on to speak about a decline in respect for human life and the need for Catholics to return to the values of marriage and human dignity.Delivered at the Catholic University of America, the cardinal’s lecture was titled “Pope Paul VI and Pope John Paul II: Being True in Body and Soul,” the student university paper The Tower reports. Hosted by the Pontifical John Paul II Institute for Studies on Marriage and Family, his words focused upon Paul VI’s encyclical Humanae Vitae, whose fortieth anniversary is marked this year.

Commenting on the results of the recent presidential election, Cardinal Stafford said on Election Day “America suffered a cultural earthquake.” The cardinal argued that President-elect Obama had campaigned on an “extremist anti-life platform” and predicted that the near future would be a time of trial.

“If 1968 was the year of America’s ‘suicide attempt,’ 2008 is the year of America’s exhaustion,” he said, contrasting the year of Humane Vitae’s promulgation with this election year.

“For the next few years, Gethsemane will not be marginal. We will know that garden,” Cardinal Stafford told his audience. Catholics who weep the “hot, angry tears of betrayal” should try to identify with Jesus, who during his agony in the garden was “sick because of love.”

The cardinal attributed America’s decline to the Supreme Court’s decisions such as the 1973 ruling in Roe v. Wade, which imposed permissive abortion laws nationwide.

“Its scrupulous meanness has had catastrophic effects upon the unity and integrity of the American republic,” Cardinal Stafford commented, according to The Tower.

His theological remarks centered upon man’s relationship with God and man’s place in society.

“Man is a sacred element of secular life,” he said, arguing that therefore “man should not be held to a supreme power of state, and a person’s life cannot ultimately be controlled by government.”

Cardinal Stafford also touched on the state of the family, saying that the truest reflection of the relationship between the believer and God is the relationship between husband and wife, and that contraceptive use does not fit within that relationship

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Here we go…

Thanks for serving your country, but according to the communist news network (cnn), Obama is now considering allowing sodomites to serve openly in our military.  “Thanks for your service, now here’s a one way ticket to Sodom and Gomorrah.”  In an increasingly unstable and dangerous world where we really need to rely on our brave soldiers, undermining moral with this non-sense is not too smart.

Further demonstating lack of intelligence, or perhaps just pure evil, the president elect has stated that he will remove a moratorium on using federal dollars to conduct embryonic stem cell research.  Perhaps he doesn’t know that they can now create these cells from adult skin cells thereby eliminating the need to destroy innocent emybryos.  Perhaps he just likes killing babies.  So there you have it, either ignorant or evil, pick your poison.  Lord have mercy on him and on the United States of America.

Catholics and Politics

My Mom had some problems with her parish priest supporting Obamunism, so I wrote her a letter to give to him, and I got a little carried away.  I think I included some good information though so I thought that I would post it here as well.

I read through some of the bishops’ statement titled “forming consciences for faithful citizenship,” and the document has many elements of a liberal pile of crap.  They call on such things as the United States banning anti-personel landmines as if that were an important moral issue.  If there were 100 million commie chinese troops comming towards me you can bet I am 100% morally justified in using land mines.  However, they are clear in their opposition to the culture of death.

 

Anyways as to father Peter’s statement, he would be advised to see point 37 of the same document which states, ”In making these decisions, it is essential for Catholics to be guided by a well-formed conscience that recognizes that all issues do not carry the same moral weight and that the moral obligation to oppose intrinsically evil acts (emphasis mine) has a special claim on our consciences and our actions. These decisions should take into account a candidate’s commitments, character, integrity, and ability to influence a given issue.”

 

The bishops have defined “intrinsically evil acts” in their document under point 22:   “There are some things we must never do, as individuals or as a society, because they are always incompatible with love of God and neighbor. Such actions are so deeply flawed that they are always opposed to the authentic good of persons. These are called “intrinsically evil” actions. They must always be rejected and opposed and must never be supported or condoned. A prime example is the intentional taking of innocent human life, as in abortion and euthanasia. In our nation, “abortion and euthanasia have become preeminent threats to human dignity because they directly attack life itself, the most fundamental human good and the condition for all others” (Living the Gospel of Life, no. 5). It is a mistake with grave moral consequences to treat the destruction of innocent human life merely as a matter of individual choice. A legal system that violates the basic right to life on the grounds of choice is fundamentally flawed.”

 

Finally, he would be wise to read point 31: “This exercise of conscience begins with outright opposition to laws and other policies that violate human life or weaken its protection. Those who knowingly, willingly, and directly support public policies or legislation that undermine fundamental moral principles cooperate with evil.”  In light of this, I hope for his soul that he is in outright opposition to laws and policies that violate human life, and I hope that he is not in a position of cooperating with those who “cooperate with evil.”

 

As an aside, you can tell all of those idiots who believe that Obama’s socialist method of redistributing wealth is more “Christian,” or more fair to read Pope Leo XIII’s encyclical Rerum Novarum.  He states explicitly that socialism is wrong.  “To remedy these wrongs the socialists, working on the poor man’s envy of the rich, are striving to do away with private property, and contend that individual possessions should become the common property of all, to be administered by the State or by municipal bodies. They hold that by thus transferring property from private individuals to the community, the present mischievous state of things will be set to rights, inasmuch as each citizen will then get his fair share of whatever there is to enjoy. But their contentions are so clearly powerless to end the controversy that were they carried into effect the working man himself would be among the first to suffer. They are, moreover, emphatically unjust, for they would rob the lawful possessor, distort the functions of the State, and create utter confusion in the community.”  Pope John Paul II went on to back this statement up commenting on it in his encyclical Centesimus Annus stating that, “It would appear that, on the level of individual nations and of international relations, the free market is the most efficient instrument for utilizing resources and effectively responding to needs.”

 

I hope this helps.  Print it out and give it to Father Peter, or any other Catholics who think that they can justify voting for Obama, or almost any liberal or democratic politician.  Not only can we not vote for them, but it is the duty of the laity now to oppose them in any and every way possible, in order to hinder their nefarious goals.  If he has a problem with this, tell him to email me or call me and I will show him how he is wrong in other ways.  Let him know also that it is unwise to take the Holy Father out of context as he did, hopefully not to willfully lead the faithful astray.  In his doctrinal note of November 24 2002, Pope Benedict, then Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger stated that ”well-formed Christian conscience does not permit one to vote for a political program or an individual law which contradicts the fundamental contents of faith and morals.”  The statement that father Peter quotes from Cardinal Ratzinger states that “remote material cooperation, can be permitted in the presence of propotionate reasons.”  There are no proportionate reasons.  He is referring to a hypothetical case in whice there are two pro-abortion candidates.  The Catholic may then vote for one if he believes that candidate will somehow lessen the evil, for example not funding it with federal dollars.  I will close with an excellent quote from Cardinal Ratzinger from the above quoted note, “When political activity comes up against moral principles that do not admit of exception, compromise or derogation, the Catholic commitment becomes more evident and laden with responsibility. In the face of fundamental and inalienable ethical demands, Christians must recognize that what is at stake is the essence of the moral law, which concerns the integral good of the human person. This is the case with laws concerning abortion and euthanasia (not to be confused with the decision to forgo extraordinary treatments, which is morally legitimate). Such laws must defend the basic right to life from conception to natural death. In the same way, it is necessary to recall the duty to respect and protect the rights of the human embryo. Analogously, the family needs to be safeguarded and promoted, based on monogamous marriage between a man and a woman, and protected in its unity and stability in the face of modern laws on divorce: in no way can other forms of cohabitation be placed on the same level as marriage, nor can they receive legal recognition as such. The same is true for the freedom of parents regarding the education of their children; it is an inalienable right recognized also by the Universal Declaration on Human Rights.”

 

I must reiterate that it is now the duty of the faithful to resist this government and to hinder all of its immoral plans in whatever way we can.

Let’s start the revolt!

I have created this sticker to excercise our first amendment rights.  I urge any freedom loving American to feel free to copy it and show their anger over socialism, and that socialism will not be tolerated!

Censored!

I’ve just tried to create a sticker featuring obama’s neo-leninist campaign add featuring his own art deco image in a style that would make Vladimir Lenin proud.  Cafe press dot com decided not to make it for me.  Yet they make all kinds of pro-commie stuff.  The media-industrial complex will try to silence us and make us feel like a small minority.  Remember the commies in Russia called their opponents the “mensheviks,” meaning “minority party,” while calling themselves the “bolsheviks,” meaning majority party.  In reality, the commies were always the minority as they are here as well.  http://www.usatoday.com/news/politicselections/vote2004/countymap.htm

We are the silent majority.  Do not let the media make you feel like a small minority.  We are the real America.

God Bless You.