May 02, 2009
Protecting the unborn is always difficult in a 1st world nation, which is technologically advance and as well as enlightened society, isn’t it?
The holy war over Kathleen Sebelius
Catholic leaders' threats to deny Communion to the Health and Human Services nominee have serious ramifications.
By Tim Rutten
April 25, 2009
“When Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius this week vetoed another in the seemingly unending series of restrictive abortion bills her state's Legislature churns out, it guaranteed that her confirmation as secretary of Health and Human Services would become a battleground in the increasingly nasty campaign being waged against officeholders who are both Catholic and Democratic.â€
As far as I can figure it, this kind of action by the Catholic Church is overdue, and not new. What is happening is another step to rein in those who call themselves Catholic only as part of their political rhetoric.
The Church’s actions are a re-action to the kind of behavior, which began prior to the 2008 election with Nancy Pelosi:
(August 27, 2008)
Pelosi on Sunday on NBC's "Meet the Press" was asked when human life begins. She said:
I would say that as an ardent, practicing Catholic, this is an issue that I have studied for a long time. And what I know is over the centuries, the doctors of the church have not been able to make that definition …
Her response, however, mangled Catholic doctrine, charges a new letter from 19 Catholic members of Congress.
"We are compelled to refute your error," the letter said.
And then VP candidate Joe Biden:
Senator Biden did not claim that Catholic teaching allows or has ever allowed abortion. He said rightly that human life begins “at the moment of conception,†and that Catholics and others who recognize this should not be required by others to pay for abortions with their taxes.
However, the Senator’s claim that the beginning of human life is a “personal and private†matter of religious faith, one which cannot be “imposed†on others, does not reflect the truth of the matter. The Church recognizes that the obligation to protect unborn human life rests on the answer to two questions, neither of which is private or specifically religious.
In short all this was started by those not faithful to their Faith.
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