Catholic Values in a Hostile Political Climate

08 May

WILL THE AFFLUENT NATIONS AND THE 3RD WORLD COUNTRIES REVERSE ROLES?

I am seeing indications that the great nations of the world that have experienced great success in producing advancing technologies, wealth, high standards of living, and generally comfortable living conditions for all human kind and those countries that have suffered poverty and poor living conditions may be reversing roles.

As countries like the United States that have produced exceptional entrepreneurs, willing workers, and great wealth for themselves continue to penalize these entrepreneurs and workers for their success, and reward those who produce nothing and expect others to take care of them; they are seeing greater numbers of people expecting others to take care of them and fewer entrepreneurs and workers willing to take the financial risks and effort required to achieve success when the payback is not worth the effort.

Soon these countries reach the point of diminishing returns and the number of free loaders exceeds the willing workers and elects leaders who will continue to soak the producers to support the free loaders. I am not speaking of normal aid for those who truly need assistance, however, once the government takes over this role of determining from who and how much is to be taken from some to support others, it becomes like a snowball rolling down hill and impossible to stop. This is why charity and support for the needy should and must be left to the individual and faith based groups. To see why this is true, one only needs to observe the mess the various governments have made out of their attempts to control this. We have reached the point in the United States where corrupt individuals live in extreme decadence off the tax payers and sit comfortably back and decide that the only groups that do a decent job of providing charity to the needy (religious groups) need to relinquish this responsibility to the government. Catholic orphanages, hospitals, and organizations that provide valuable services to the needy are threatened with closure because the government does not want competition in this area and uses the guise that it is because Catholic organizations insist on living their moral truths which conflicts with the governments’ ideology of relativism.

This is a very conclusive indicator of a government gone totally out of control and one that exists solely for itself and not for its citizens. Looking back in history we see how our government stepped into this role in the 1930’s with social security under the guise again of being for the people. This was later expanded into Medicare and Medicaid in the sixties. The trillions of dollars paid into these programs by the citizens of the United States has for the most part been wasted by those entrusted to run these programs. Now 40, 50, 60, and 70 years later those who have paid into these programs their entire lives are made to feel like beggars and told the government cannot afford to take care of their medical needs as they grow older and they should (as our current president suggests) avoid expensive lifesaving surgery and take a pain pill instead. Now because the social security, Medicare, and Medicaid programs are broke, the government instead of responsibly facing the issue and developing a reasonable plan to work our way out of this mess; again expands this failed program and attempts to drive the private suppliers of health care out of business and grab the insurance premiums for themselves so they can continue to operate like there is no tomorrow and continue to feed their enormous appetite for luxury for themselves.

Now the question is; how long will the wealthy remain subject to these oppressive governments? The government leaders have carefully put in place safe guards against corporations and citizens taking their wealth and leaving the country. Programs such as the 401’s, IRA’s, etc. that severely punish financially anyone who closes out one of these accounts to acquire liquidity and leave the country. However, corporations and individuals are not stupid; like the government they can also find loopholes and means of taking the money and run. We are currently seeing this happen in France where they recently elected another socialist that will bleed the rich to support the enormous give away programs to which the citizens there have become accustomed. Reports recently state that many of the affluent in France are moving to the UK and other more friendly locations.

This leads me to the reason for this article; how far will this trend go? Will it also happen in the United States? I believe it already has to some extent; many of the rich have purchased homes in other countries and undoubtedly have moved money to of shore accounts. I do not see how this will not grow in the future based on the direction of our current government.

What will governments do next to stem this tide? That is a very serious question; communist governments of the past have made a practice of nationalizing private property; is this the next step of our government? Another very disturbing thing currently being reported (reported only by the conservative media, not the mainstream media) is that the current administration is negotiating with the United Nations in attempts to bring the United States into a global agreement that would virtually neutralize our internal congress and courts and make them subject to the United Nations. This could be a plan devised by those pushing for more government control to insure that no place on earth will be a sanctuary for innovation and individual success.

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15 Feb

An open letter to all Americans regardless of your politics, race, religion, social position, rich, poor, likes, dislikes, sexual preference, men, women, etc.

Every American needs to reexamine what is going on in America from an open and honest prospective.

We can all get so parochial in our politics and religion that we become intolerant of any opposing views. We tend to label a person very quickly as republican, democrat, conservative, liberal, etc. as soon as they begin to speak. We then either tune them out or become angry at them. Our country has become so polarized that we are in danger of overlooking important issues that are taking place behind the façade that is being put in front of agendas that none of us would approve of.

One of the devils most powerful tools is divide and conquer. We are indeed in danger of losing America’s soul.

The current battle going on between our government and Catholic / Christian Churches is much more than religious rights. It is a battle for all our rights as individuals. If the government succeeds in this power grab, we of all political and religious persuasions will very shortly regret it. I was amazed and disheartened recently to see how we are being played by forces we do not even see behind the scene. These forces have rallied union, pro-choice, pro-gay marriage, and anti-religion people to support a major assault on individual and religious rights which is clearly a violation of our constitution. I could not believe the support that these union, pro-choice, pro-gay marriage, and anti-religion groups were giving to the current administration in their efforts to break down the barriers our founding father put in place to protect us all from a government run amok.

We must all step back and observe what is happening; then become more tolerant of each other’s individual preferences and come together to stop this invasion of our individual freedoms. If we don’t, yes the Catholic and Christians will be the first to suffer, however, it will not be long before other groups find that this new government with its new powers will step on their rights as well. This government is using the prejudices we all have to drive a deeper wedge between us and there-by accomplish their goal of destroying the constitution and our American way of life.

Catholic and Christian teaching has always promoted that we all love one another, we are taught to hate the sin but love the sinner and we are all sinners. Let us all attempt to learn from past mistakes and rebuild the Country that our immigrant ancestors built for us with their faith and dedication to God, family, Neighbor, and country.

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11 Feb

Two very simple points for those supporting and arguing for the HHS mandate for all employers being required to provide contraceptives as part of their health plans; even when it is against their beliefs and consciences.

I am amazed at the number of supposedly intelligent people arguing that because a large percentage of Catholic women use artificial contraception (according to polls) that this somehow implies that the Catholic Church should bend to the will of the majority and that they have no right to object to the HHS ruling for this reason. Hello, would you use this same criteria for determining the legality or morality of ethnic cleansing for incidence? The majority of many groups of people in some parts of the world would agree with the annihilation of other entire groups of people. The point being that morality is not determined by popular vote; right is right and wrong is wrong no matter how many people wish it not to be so. Our society has fallen into the trap of believing that whatever the issue (such as abortion) if a majority of the people approve, then it must be alright. Morality is not a democratic issue; we do not get to vote on what we wish to be moral and immoral.

Also, on this same point, I have heard many supposedly intelligent people (Barbara Boxer of California the most recent) proclaim that the Catholic Church needs to “look at the calendar” and see it is 2012 and not the middle ages. Does Ms Boxer and others of her ideology believe that morality changes with the times? With the rapid decline of our society’s morals, thank God we have Christ’s Church here in its unwavering moral teachings to help us stem the tide of the progressives.

The second point relates to the logic that seems to escape these statists as to why contraception is wrong in the first place. The Catholic Church did not come up on this idea just recently to burden their followers or to annoy the progressives. Artificial contraception always has and always will be immoral; not because the Catholic Church says so, but because it is inherently wrong and logic proves it if dissenters are honest enough to look at all the data on the subject with an open mind. Before 1900 artificial contraception was taught as immoral by ALL Christian religions. Because of pressure from the changing culture of relativism many protestant religions began to submit to the cries to change their teaching. This pressure has continued for the last 100 years plus on all religions and most have buckled to the pressure. The Catholic Church however, remains true to its purpose and continues to teach what has always been true.

Simple logic tells us why this is so; if everyone lived the truth of Catholic teaching, there would not be any sexually transmitted diseases or need for abortion. Contraception has created the ability for people to ignore the purpose for God’s plan of procreation. It has decoupled the marital sex act from procreation. God’s purpose was to provide a joyful act between husband and wife for the purpose of procreation. Contraception has distorted this act into a selfish act for satisfaction without the responsibility.

This denial of truth by our culture has led us to this sorry point. Our schools teach our youth that sex at their young ages is unavoidable and freely pass out contraceptives inviting them to expose themselves to immorality, STD’s, and unwanted pregnancies. How did it happen that the majority of our youth 50 years ago was able to control their urges and avoid all of these risks and become better husbands and wives as a result, yet now (according to these progressives) our youth are no longer capable of self-control.

If these progressives were honest with themselves instead of clinging to their false ideology, they would open their eyes and see the obvious results of this approach.

1. Loss of expectation that our young are able to live up to a higher standard.
2. Explosion of sexually transmitted diseases.
3. Huge increase in unwanted pregnancies.
4. Pornography has become acceptable and a huge business which fuels this obsession with sex and sex crimes such as rape.
5. Greatly increased divorce rates and break up of couples who live together.
6. Normalization of homosexuality.
7. Devaluation of the family and human life.
8. Attacks on faith and religion.

And on top of all of this there is overwhelming evidence that oral contraceptives and abortions cause a greater risk to women of contracting breast cancer. To add evil on top of evil those who profit from contraceptives and abortion spend millions of dollars burying, denying, and contradicting this strong evidence to the detriment of all women who use contraceptives or have abortions. Ironically, these progressives who promote this attack on women claim to be the ones concerned about women’s rights. I fail to see how their attempts to turn women into men, is in women’s best interest.

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07 Feb

How does the veto of the UN resolution to impose sanctions on Syria by China and Russia relate to the recent attacks by the Obama administration on religious rights?

For a clearer understanding of what the ideology of many individuals in high positions of our current government in the United State is; one must attempt to understand why the governments of China and Russia recently vetoed a resolution in the UN to sanction Syria in an attempt to stop the slaughter of thousands of Syrians by their own government. Most of us in America have not had to live under the oppressive governments that so many citizens of countries such as Syria, China, Russia, Cuba, and Viet Nam have had to live under; so we have a difficult time understanding how any individual or government could be so insensitive to the mass murder of thousands of human beings.

The answer is; in these countries human life has been so devalued by their governments that their government considers their relationship with other likeminded governments more important than the lives of thousands of human beings. The devaluation of human life by a government begins with attempts by the government to control or manage the population. This starts with birth control by contraception. The governments’ encouragement of contraception and the acceptance of it by the population gives the government a solid foot hold for further controls on the population. Contraception has been widely accepted by the population of the United States for the last 50 years. This has led to increases in sex between unmarried individuals, which in turn has led to unwanted and unintended pregnancies which has led to massive increases in abortions. The increase in sex between multiple and unmarried partners has led to massive increases in sexually transmitted diseases. The governments answer to resolve the increase in STD’s, ironically is to push for more contraceptives. As the population becomes complacent about contraception and abortion, the government begins the next step of taking control of health care and denying expensive health care to older less productive people. Since human life by this point has been so devalued by the government, their only concern is for efficiency and cost. I recently heard a neurosurgeon speaking of a meeting he attended with HHS regarding implementation of the new Obamacare health plan. He stated that he was told by HHS that if a patient comes into his emergency hospital with a stroke or other bleeding brain disorder and the patient is over 70 years of age, they are to provide “comfort” care only. In other words the government controlled health care will not pay for life saving medical care for anyone over 70 years of age and suffering from a stroke or other bleeding of the brain complications (unless of course they are part of the ruling class). This is just the beginning unless we the people arise and throw these elitist / statist out of our government. It is still our government for now, however, if we continue to sit on our hands or make wrong choices it will not long be our government and we will be slaves of the government.

In my opinion, many citizens of the United States today are oblivious to what is happening in our government. The forces that are changing America have been extremely successful in convincing individuals of both parties that only extreme right wing forces oppose the changes they are making. They label movements such as the “Tea Party” as right wing extremist because they oppose these changes. This has been a strategy successfully used by these elitist / statist against any and all dissenters for many years. As a result individuals that would also oppose these changes if they truly understood what these changes will mean for America and its future generations, join in with these government leaders in opposing the “Tea Party” and others who want to save our American form of government because they believe these leaders lies about wanting a better life for them. In reality these leaders are out only for a better life for themselves. By dividing the Country into classes of peoples, by inciting the poor against the rich they begin the process of establishing a “ruling class” (themselves) and the rest of the population (“the ruled”). Sound familiar, one need look no farther then Cuba, China, Viet Nam, etc. The class of “ruled” individuals has little or no value to the rulers. The lives of the “ruled” becomes more and more expendable as the rulers impose more and more restrictions and penalties on the “ruled”. The devaluation of the lives of the “ruled” begins with contraception and expands to abortion and euthanasia. These activities have been growing like a cancer in the United States for many years; most obviously in the 1960’s and 70’s. We have now advanced to the point where the government is taking control of our health care and rationing expensive health care to the “productive” and denying it to the old and feeble in the name of “for the good of society”.

We the people had better wake up very soon and cast off the erroneous perception that “this could not happen here in America”. It can happen here and most certainly will unless all people of good will stand up against it. We are seeing unprecedented attacks on religion and especially the Catholic religion in the United States now. This administration has given the Catholic Church one year to accept the intrinsic evil of providing contraceptives and abortifacients in our Catholic hospitals. The Bishops of the United States have informed this administration that it does not need a year to decide whether to abandon its 2000 year old teaching from Christ Himself. The answer would be the same a year from now as it is now, NO we will not violate our conscience, principles, or the teaching of Jesus Christ to adopt your anti life ideology. Isn’t it strange that the Catholic religion was also the target in cultures such as the USSR, Eastern Europe, China, Viet Nam and every other country that seeks to suppress the individual? These secular, elitists, statists know that the Catholic Church stands between them and their tyrannical plans just as it did in the USSR and Eastern Europe for so many years. The Catholic Church still stands strong after 2000 years of attacks by generation upon generation of proponents of this ideology and will still be standing after these leaders are gone from the face of the earth just as their predecessors of the past.

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22 Jan

Will America as we have known it survive?

If ever there was a time for prayer and action for our Country this is it. I have watched the ever more rapid decline of America since my retirement 14 years ago. I just completed reading Mark Levine’s new book “Ameritopia” the unmaking of America. This book provides a good outline of the individuals and influences that formed our Country 236 years ago. It also provides insight into the ideologies that are being followed by the current administration and are contrary to our founding fathers ideals. I highly recommend this book to all thinking Americans those who support the current administration and those who do not.

For too long most of us have been silent bystanders in the events of our government. We now however, have reached a critical point in our history. Barack Obama and his administration have kept at least one of his campaign promises; to fundamentally transform America. Even though this transformation has been going on slowly for many year’s (as explained in the above referenced book; starting with Woodrow Wilson at the turn of the 20th century, continuing with FDR’s new deal, LBJ’s great society, and now Obama’s government controlled health care) it has increased in speed dramatically in the last three years and certainly will continue that pace for the next year. Given four more years this administration will surely have transformed America so completely that America as we have known it will no longer exist.

For me and my generation, for the most part we will not feel the result of this transformation except possibly for a premature death because of denied and available health care, however, I am uncertain of how tolerant my final judgment maybe because of the pain and suffering caused to the next generations because of my inaction. My generation for the most part has sat back and “observed” the legalization of abortion and watched it grow in acceptance by our society for almost 40 year now. Pope Paul VI warned us in 1968 of the dangers of devaluing human life by use of contraception and the inevitable result of pre-marital sex, homosexuality, divorce, pornography, abortion, euphanasia etc.The time to pay the piper seems to be upon us, unfortunately it will be future generations, our children, grandchildren, and beyond that will pay the price. The price will be huge; not only in the financial category caused by the illogical deficit spending on those of current generations that future generation must pay, but even worse, the loss of the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. In other words we will be condemning our future generations to live as those do today in Cuba, Viet Nam, China, and other tyrannical nations.

It is our moral duty to become well informed about our current condition. Regardless of how well we think we understand what is happening in our Country today, we must become better informed and then become involved in every way possible to insure that future generations have at least an opportunity to enjoy the same quality of life those of us currently living have enjoyed.

Study the issues; assign values to each issue based on moral law, and vote for the individuals that most closely mirror your values. Hopefully your values will mirror natural (moral law).

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07 Jan

A True Catholic for President?

I watched O’Reilly interview Rick Santorum on Fox last night and was surprised to hear Santorum announce that he has read and agrees with Pope Paul VI’s Humanae Vitae. I knew that he was pro-life and Catholic but did not realize he is not Catholic in name only like most Catholic politicians but truly a Catholic living his faith as taught by the Church.

This caused me to think about his chances of winning the Republican nomination and the office of POTUS. While people do not seem to worry about Romney imposing his Mormon beliefs upon the American people, they do seem to worry about a Catholic (any Catholic) imposing his/her beliefs upon the American people. Is this merely a long held prejudice against Jews and Catholics or is there a deeper cause?

I tend to believe there is a deeper cause; our Country and Culture have eroded so badly and a large percentage of our citizenry so adapted to acceptance of pornography, contraception, homosexual depravity, sex outside of marriage, and abortion that they fear someone who does not go along with these lifestyles.

While our Country is in sore need of a leader such as Rick Santorum, I am afraid we no longer have a moral majority in our nation and therefore will not elect a leader such as Rick Santorum. 54% of Catholics voted for Barack Obama in the last presidential election and I fear that will not change in this upcoming election (at least not for moral reasons, some may switch for economic reasons).

PRAY FOR OUR COUNTRY’S FUTURE AND THAT OF OUR CHILDREN AND GRANDCHILDREN.

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23 Oct

HHS Ends Contract With Church

The current administration in Washington continues to exhibit their commitment to their ideology at the expense of those they purport to help. To any clear thinking individual, it seems apparent that victims of human sex trafficking do not need condoms or other barrier birth control devices, sterilizations, or abortions. It seems intuitively obvious that these are an advantage to the perpetrators of these crimes and not to the victims. See article in the National Catholic Register.

The proponents of this left wing ideology consistently down play or totally dispute the over whelming evidence that their insistence on artificial contraception and abortion are harmful to women. They are willing to kill unborn humans to “help” women so they claim; however, all scientific evidence shows that women are not helped but hurt by these practices; women develop all kinds of physical and mental diseases because of these practices. So, why do they lie to protect their ideology? So they can dominate those they claim to be helping. Just like the poor that they claim to help with their out of control welfare programs which keep people subservient to the government. The last thing they seem to want is for individuals to become not only self-sufficient but able to help others in turn. Have we not seen this already in Russia, Cuba, China, etc. Can we not learn from those countries?

This administration continues in their efforts to drive Catholic Hospitals, orphanages, colleges, etc. out of what this administration seems to believe is a domain that belongs to them exclusively.

This should scare our freedom loving populous into action, however, in spite of the over whelming evidence that this administration is determined to attack every Catholic institution because they believe it stands in the way of their ideology’s domination in our society; the vast majority of our electorate remain asleep at the switch. Let us pray that the 54% of Catholics who voted for this administration in the last election have now awakened or soon will. We have one last chance to save our country and keep it one nation under God instead of (as stated by Ronald Reagan) “a nation gone under.”

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26 Aug

An election is approaching in America and we MUST understand the ramifications of its result.

The low income Americans who are buying into the current administration’s tactic of promoting class envy to push through their socialistic agenda need to study this action and determine whether the end result is really what is best for them and for America.

Equal wealth redistribution may on the surface seem like a great deal for low income families and individuals, however, there isn’t any free lunches regardless of the empty promises being proposed by our current administration. One of the best ways to determine whether a move is a good move is to put yourself in the other individuals shoes for a moment. Not only the rich person in the low income or poor individual’s shoes; but also the low income or poor individual in the so called rich persons shoes. The low income and middle class in our country far outnumber the rich; even if it were possible to gather all wealth into one place and then redistribute it evenly to everyone in the country, what would that accomplish? There would be a short term hardship for the rich, a short term windfall for the poor, and long term misery for everyone. Why? Because the rich who were basically the wealth creators no longer have the capitol required to build revenue generating businesses. Job movement from the private to the public (Government) sector would accelerate. Our Country which has enjoyed great success as a capitalist society would move quickly toward the socialist society that the current administration seems to want.

Why would this be a bad thing for our Country and ALL of its citizens? Because while socialism looks good in theory, it simply does not work in the real world; we have many real world examples of this. Socialism has been tried over and over again and ALWAYS fails. We are fortunate that others have proven this for us if we are smart enough to learn from their mistakes. We only need to look to modern societies such as Russia, Cuba, Viet Nam, and many more.

Once we study the history of these countries it becomes very obvious why they failed and why if we continue down this road we will also fail. Human nature is such that we all expect some reward for our contributions to society. If we work we expect payment commensurate with our contribution. Whether this is a flaw in human nature or by God’s design we may never know in this world, however, because of this fact socialism will never work in this world. As proven in the Eastern bloc communist countries during the cold war years and in Cuba today; human nature is such that if we are not given the opportunity to excel at something and be rewarded for our successful efforts we will do what we must do to get by. Innovation, improvement in productivity, growth of wealth, excelling at one’s special talent, etc.; all of these things necessary for a successful society just stop. This is probably why one of the few things USSR excelled at during this period was their sports programs. This is one of the few areas where their citizens could become highly skilled and be recognized for it.

It is important at this point in our history that we all become informed about where this country is headed and regardless of our current status in this country; whether we are rich, poor, or middle class, realize that all of us are far better off than anyone in Cuba and if we want to avoid becoming like Cuba, we need to change course.
As the rich and middle class of this Country need to (without government intervention) do a better job of giving a hand up to those who need it and a hand out to those who need THAT. The poor and low income of this Country who are physically capable need to step up and accept responsibility for their own development; this Country is still the land of great opportunity for those willing to put forth the effort to succeed. If our Country is to continue its success we need to stop encouraging able bodied citizens to live off of entitlement programs because they are more lucrative then being a productive member of society. Not only does this kill our nation’s economy, it also destroys the individual’s self-esteem.

And, everyone should ask themselves, are you better off now than the day Obama took office? Has he delivered on his promises? Has the change been the change you voted for (if you voted for Obama)? I believe most of us, rich, poor, or in between are not better off and the outlook is bleak if we do not change direction.

All of this is very serious; however, it pales in comparison to Obama’s position on the Catholic principles regarding Abortion, Artificial Birth Control, and Sanctity of Marriage. Let us all pray that Catholics will be true to their faith in the upcoming election (54% of us voted for Obama in the last election). Let us not continue to contribute to the moral decay of our Country regardless of the politics of it. Vote for LIFE.

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07 Aug

Do 92% of Americans really believe in God?

According to a USA Today / Gallup poll, 92% of Americans believe in God.

Can this be true? If 92% of Americans truly believed in God would a large percentage of us (maybe a majority)

• Approve of abortion
• Approve of Homosexual lifestyles
• Approve of multiple sexual partners
• Approve of divorce on demand
• Approve of pornography

Obviously not; so what is going on here in America? 92% of us claim to believe in God, we are traditionally a Judo-Christian nation which means that our belief system has its roots in the bible (both the old and new testaments). The bible very clearly tells us, all of the above issues that we approve of are against God’s commandments and His will. (These issues are also condemned by virtually every religion)

So, are the 92% who say they believe in God lying? Do they actually not believe in God but say they do for some unknown reason? Do they actually believe in God but do not know these issues are against his will? Do they believe in God, know these issues are against his will, but also believe that God is so understanding and forgiving that we can have it both ways? We can disobey and dishonor God by doing our own wills in direct conflict of God’s will and He will forgive us in the end regardless of our regret or lack thereof?

If we truly believed in God; even those of us who think we are following His will most of the time, would we spend one second doing things contrary to His will? Would we not spend every waking moment trying to please Him who will be our final judge?

The most obvious answer to these questions is that most of us believe in a merciful and generous God who will forgive us in the end. But this raises the issue of a “Just” God. Like the biblical story of the rich man who ignored the poor beggar who laid outside of his door during his lifetime and did nothing to help him and when the rich man died and went to his eternal life he saw the beggar (Lazarus) in the lap of luxury and he himself was in torment (Luke 16:19-31) God is Merciful AND Just. Does it seem reasonable that God will treat those who sacrificed to please Him during this life the same as those who spent their lives pleasing themselves?

Maybe 92% of us need to rethink how we are living our lives and make some much needed adjustments.

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26 Jun

Are people finally awakening to the horrors and immorality of Abortion?

In spite of the powerful abortion lobby, their puppets in congress, the executive branch, and the Supreme Court; the pro-life movement’s prayers and actions seem to be gaining ground.

More and more, people are becoming aware of the reasons for abortion and the reality of it. The abortion industry has been successful in its growth by concealing its true nature. They have operated on the theory of “out of sight, out of mind”; abortion has been presented as a nice safe clean medical procedure on women to remove an unwanted growth. This message has been beaten into Americans for 40 years and as long as the average person does not have to witness the actual abortion and its results they have been able to perpetuate the lie. If anyone raised an objection to abortion, its proponents would immediately launch into an argument about how legal abortion prevents the back alley abortionist with coat hangers and unclean instruments. Then they would launch into justification of millions of abortions because of a small number of rapes and life threatening illnesses of the mother. Now because of the efforts of pro-life groups the truth is coming out. The only thing making abortion legal did was greatly increase the number of abortions but the dirty instruments and unqualified abortionist have remained and increased. In the forty years since abortion was made legal it has grown into one of the most profitable businesses in the world; thousands if not millions of individuals derive their livelihood from the taking of the life of others born and unborn. Many have become extremely wealthy and many maintain power in our government by accepting blood money donations from this immoral industry.

Through the prayers and actions of the pro-lifers things appear to be changing and there is new hope for the unborn. Many Church leaders who have previously been silent are beginning to speak out against this atrocity. More and more new pro-life groups are becoming active in spreading the truth about the abortion industry. Groups such as;

• Priests for life – http://www.priestsforlife.org/images/index.aspx
• Knights of Columbus – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VR4aXIqV98c
• Rachel’s Vineyard – http://www.rachelsvineyard.org/aboutus/ourstory.htm
• Silent No More – http://www.silentnomoreawareness.org/

And many others have been working diligently for years to bring an end to the lies, the murder of innocents, and the destruction of the lives of the mothers, fathers, and families of the aborted.

The Knights of Columbus for instance has launched a program they call the “Ultra Sound Initiative”, this program provides through the contributions and fund raising efforts of the 1.8 million members Ultra Sound machines to pregnancy centers that do not currently have Ultra Sound capability. Surveys and polling have indicated that if a pregnant woman is considering an abortion and has an opportunity to see an Ultra Sound image of her baby, 90% of the time she “chooses” life.

For more information on process of how the abortion industry works, visit this website and obtain a copy of the movie “Blood Money” which the abortion industry has worked very hard at keeping out of the theaters http://bloodmoneyfilm.com/.

The more people become aware of the truth and horror of abortion the less they want to be involved in it; recently the pro-life movement was successful in bringing to the attention of the Ryder System, a group that had been leasing trucks to “Stericycle” a company that removes the dead babies from abortion clinics; that their trucks were being used for this purpose. As a result Ryder has stated that their trucks will no longer to be used for this purpose. See the news article here. http://www.wnd.com/?pageId=315189

One of the biggest challenges the pro-life groups currently face is the defunding of Planned Parenthood. This would be a tremendous win for the unborn; no longer could our government use our tax dollars to support Planned Parenthood and their evil mission. Once Planned Parenthood lost this money they could no longer feed it back to the campaigns of their supporters of abortion in congress. Obviously, this is not something the pro-abortion congress legislators want passed, so it remains an uphill battle, however, the House now supports this measure, in the next election it is critical that we remove all of those who continue to support abortion.

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