Let's start with a blast from the morally superior:
Notre Dame's Betrayal of Faith
[ Norte Dame is asking President Obama to deliver its commencement address ] This is despite the fact that Obama has distinguished himself as the most militantly anti-life president in American history. In fact, his support of abortion extends to the point of infanticide [1], and I speak of his, at best, indifference to the Born Alive Infants Protection Act. In opposing the Illinois version of this legislation - thereby signaling his willingness to allow newborn babies to die in soiled store rooms - he showed his true colors. That is to say, it's not so much that the matter of when a baby gets human rights is above his pay grade; it's that he is morally degraded.
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But it isn't just on life issues that Obama is found wanting. He also supports special rights for homosexuals (euphemistically called "gay rights"). Additionally, he apparently was a member of Chicago's socialist New Party in the 1990s, an association he has never adequately disowned. This is relevant because socialism seems incongruent with Catholic teaching. As Pope Pius XI said plainly in 1931, "No one can be at the same time a sincere Catholic and a true Socialist." (In fact, the Church has long condemned socialism - here [2] and here [3], for instance).
Don't you love how they tie together being anti-abortion, anti-socialist, and being truly Catholic or Christian or whatever? This cutting is, of course, seeped in moral absolutism. Everything in politics, in life , is either 100% right or 100% wrong. This kind of absolutism has made Democrats cringe and allowed Republicans to fraudulently steal the Moral high ground for a very long time.
Until Obama. Is there anything Texas Progressives/Democrats can learn about attracting rural, "values voters" from the Obama victory? I am not sure, but I try to work out my thoughts in this posting. I invite your ideas as well.
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