Denver, Colo., Feb 20, 2009 / 06:39 am (CNA).- In a startling defense of legal abortion supporter Gov. Kathleen Sebelius, Catholics United has attacked Archbishop Joseph Naumann of Kansas City, accusing him being more interested in trying to score political points against the governor than in crafting effective abortion policy within the reality of politics.
The salvo from Catholics United comes as advisors to President Obama have told the press that he has decided on Sebelius as his next secretary of Health and Human Services nominee.
Kathleen Sebelius, who professes to be Catholic, has a problematic record on abortion.
Although Catholics United mentions the Kansas governor’s “tireless support for children’s health care and education, and her efforts to provide public financing for adoption and pregnancy support centers,” the group fails to mention her 30 years of simultaneously advocating to keep abortion legal.
In the Spring of 2008, Archbishop Naumann met with Gov. Sebelius to ensure that she understood the gravity of her position. After meeting with her, Archbishop Naumann asked her to stop receiving Communion.
As Archbishop Naumann explained to CNA, he requested that Gov. Sebelius stop receiving Communion because of her “30-year history of advocating and acting in support of legalized abortion.”
The Thursday statement by Catholics United, which is mostly dedicated to rebuffing the president of the Catholic League, Bill Donohue, marks the first time that the organization has targeted a specific Catholic bishop by name.
“Like Kansas City Archbishop Joseph Naumann – who often seems more interested in scoring political points against Gov. Sebelius than crafting effective abortion policy within the reality of politics – Mr. Donohue is doing a disservice to those Americans who will benefit from Gov. Sebelius’s leadership as Health and Human Services Secretary.” article
Catholics United is not a front group for the Democratic Party. They are a front group for Moloch.
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Even Moloch would have been more circumspect.
Catholics United: Solidarity in Sin
Yes, the Bishop wants to score “political points” by opposing abortion – which was a teaching of the Church from her inception – but Sebelius and “Catholics United” have absolutely no political motivation whatsoever. They’re totally, like, worried about women and children!!!
I’m so sick of this. To the point where counseling the sinners is moot. Boot Sebelius and the rest to the curb.
I’m curious. All these articles and posts reference that Archbishop Naumann asked Governor Sebelius to stop receiving Communion. Did she do so? Has she presented herself and been denied since? Has she stopped presenting herself? Or has she continued receiving? That detail never shows up.
“more interested in […] than crafting effective abortion policy within the reality of politics…”
That’s so backwards! Politics is the debate over how well policy (i.e. positive law) conforms to reality.
Dakota, that line caught my eye as well, but for a different reason. “The reality of politics” is trumped by God’s reality.
This is the modern-day equivalent of the critics of abolitionists, those who believed that if slaves states were left alone, eventually their political climate would change. You know, just wait a few generations.
Or, to go waaaaay back, those whiners in the desert who told Moses that the “reality of politics” was that they were better off in Egypt with a Pharoah who only murdered a relatively few Israelites. After all, the political reality was that overpopulation was threatening Egypt, so it was a necessary evil.
Killing children is not exactly providing health care for them.
Not directly related to Sebelius, but did anyone catch the following today from Sec’y Clinton?
“Human rights cannot interfere with the global economic crisis, the global climate change crisis and the security crises,” Clinton said in talks with China’s foreign minister.
Can one imagine what the press would be doing had President Bush or Secretary Rumsfeld said such a thing?
Human rights cannot interfere with security crises? So, they now favor water boarding?
Human rights cannot interfere with economics? With global warming?
The implications are staggering.
Her mirror needs to be smashed into tiny pieces.
She needs to be rebuked for her complete hatred of the unborn.