Sometimes I can’t believe the way some conservative talk show hosts, bloggers, on-line news hounds and website owners underrate President Obama. Folks, he’s not dumb, or careless, or naïve. He would be if he had core American values, but he doesn’t. Why does the right continue to fall for this, putting out insipid cartoons, wringing their hands, and thus taking their eyes off the November 2014 prize?
It’s no coincidence that we’re having this flurry of gay marriage law suits and gay coming out parties. Obama was firmly in the traditional marriage camp until he found out the U.S. Catholic Bishops finally got a spine and were going to hold the line on just who created this universe. The Catholics are leading the fight on abortion and the HHS mandate--compulsory contraceptives in insurance forced on religious agencies despite the assurances of the first amendment. I guess they figured out from closing their adoption agencies that the thugs in government meant business, and they’d better not concede another inch.
Compulsory abortions and euthanasia in government health plans are not outside the realm of possibility if the social thugs just use the same tactics--a few cute TV shows to soften the brain and conscience, celebrities yukking it up with Bill Maher, ridiculing people on Twitter who want to save mama or the disabled, and then calling anyone a bigot or racist who disagrees.
The Roman Catholic Church is the largest provider of social services in the world, the only organization/entity that can compete with a government—any government. The Protestants, totally fractured and disorganized into thousands of competing groups, are a push over for Obama. He talks and walks their language. Learned it in Chicago. They’ve already got divorced pastors, gay choir directors and “committed partners” teaching Sunday School. They are not even worth worrying about in the social/cultural battle. He will have to take on the only church that still stands for something and has some power—and unfortunately there are enough squabbling, petty Christians around who will help him do it.
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Solid truth.
I hate to tell you this Norma but. Saul Alinsky worked for the Catholic Archdiocese of Chicago. That is where he developed and spread his message. Dear Leader highlighted Cardinal Bernadin of Chicago who also drank the Alinsky Kool Aid. He was the fool who came up with Seamless Garment argument in the 1980s ie that social justice can offset abortion and contraception.
Anon 4:18: Yes, the Catholics, who led the way in social care for Americans and had many of those programs incorporated into the government as a way to control the government, have had a wake up call. I think, or hope, the Bishops have wised up.
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