President-elect Obama has named the executive director of Emily’s List — Ellen Moran — as White House communications director.
Yes the director of the pro-abortion PAC that since its founding in 1984 has raised over $240 million to elect 71 pro-choice Democratic women to the U.S. House, 13 to the U.S. Senate, and eight governors. Another pro-abortion “moderate” for the Obama administration.
I do find it interesting how much grief so-called single issue voters get, yet Emily’s list which is a single issue PAC for a single gender seems to be immune to this charge by the left. I guess you can be a single-issue type as long as you are on the right side of the single issue.
Plus we got pro-abortion Catholic Tom Daschle as the Secretary of Health and Human Services in Obama’s Cabinet. From the vice-president on down we are getting cafeteria Catholics galore. They will work quite well with Nancy “I still haven’t gotten around to speaking with my bishop yet” Pelosi.
None of this bothers me though. After all Catholic Obama supporters told us that Obama is really more pro-life and that his policies will reduce abortion. Strangely I had never come up with the idea of appointing a militantly pro-abortion women as White House Communication Directory or appointing others all on the same side of the pro-abortion deep end. Silly me I would have thought that this would have a negative effect on a policy to reduce abortion.
I guess I am just so politically naive that I don’t understand how promising to approve FOCA which removes every single state law restricting abortion will reduce abortion. I actually thought that it was parental notification and laws regarding ultrasounds that were mainly what have lead to a decline in surgical abortions in recent years. Hey maybe we need to get rid of laws regarding murder to reduce the murder rate. Let’s put fried chocolate candy bars at the top of the food pyramid to improve nutrition.
We have so much to learn from Obama Catholics in this non-intuitive way of being pro-life. I can hardly wait for Obama’s pro-Roe v Wade Supreme Court picks that will keep states from regulating abortion as a way to reduce abortion. Plus getting rid of the Mexico City Policy and the Hyde Amendment are more ways to reduce abortion.
I can hardly wait for President Obama’s message for the March for Life which occurs 2 days after his inauguration. It will surely be a cheery message about children being a punishment and how it is all above his paygrade.
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Yep, it’ll be simply amazing to watch how The One singlehandedly brings about a culture of life.
Noted.
Amen! What a breath of fresh air – – – a Catholic that sounds Catholic!
God bless you ~
Sadly, as reality sinks in and he realizes that he can’t deliver in any of his economic pie in the sky promises, he will have to toss a bone to some in his camp and it will likely be the death crowd.
I remember when I moved to the DC area at the end of 1992 that inaguration activities for Clinton at the Mall lasted about a week after the actual ceremony. This means that a lot of his lemmings…. er… followers will still be around during the March for Life. Looks like it may be interesting.
I’m not sure when being pro-life became optional for today’s priests, but many of them voted for O. I expected some of the laity to do it, but I’m not sure who we are as a Church if we (and our priests) are not clear about our opposition to abortion.
Don’t look now, and I hope I’m wrong, but it appears that for all the prayers of the faithful defenders of the unborn, God is leaning towards justice this time around. We seem to be getting exactly what the vote (sadly, even much of the Catholic vote) asked for, and more.
If you think about it, it would send quite a message if the Lord were to “reward” His people for voting for someone who rabidly defends the “right” to kill “unwanted” children, the least (smallest and most vulnerable) among us.
I continue to pray for the president elect daily, but I wonder if it’s ever right to recognize that our leader is our enemy and pray for his designs to be thwarted and his heart to be converted rather than praying for “God to be with him and guide him”, etc. There is much charity in the “77 Days of Prayer” but is it RIGHT to ignore justice when the lives of millions of unborn children are at risk?
While it is good to pray for those who are appointed to lead us, don’t the Letters of John warn us against deception and welcoming those “so progressive…” into our midst as if they were people of faith in Jesus? I don’t have time to find the exact line of Scripture that is bouncing around in my head, but I remember an instruction that we are not to pray for those separated from the faith “in the same way”…
I find there is something wimpy in my prayers at abortion sites, even, in that they do NOT particularly name evil as evil, but skirt around justice while asking for God’s mercy on ua all. Hmmmm…I guess my question is whether it is right to treat, in prayer, a foe as a brother rather than as an enemy we must love. There is little “tough love” in our prayer vocabulary.
Jeff, another great post, as usual.
As a Roman Catholic it is shameful that 54% of Catholics voted for Mr. Infanticide himself who apparently hasn’t had time to go back to Hawaii to bury his “typically white” grandmother, or by the way even attend mass since he won election…
“Yes we can” institute the culture of Death in America, “yes we can” overturn the Mexico City UN policy, “yes we can” created a health care systems where taxpayers pay for abortion in even trimester, “yes we can” impose FOCA, “yes we can” counteract the Hyde Amendment, “yes we can” force Catholic Hospitals to perform abortions and other procedures that violate our norms…
Where is Kmiec when we need him…the guy is an utter joke!!!
Joanne,
I am praying for the president elect. I am praying for the conversion of his heart. I am praying that he learn to see the unborn as humans who must be defended and protected, and that he turn his back on FOCA. I do pray that he will govern us wisely according to God’s will. I realize that he would then have to govern us differently than he promised, but I feel that the only hope for us to have a just and wise leader over the next four years is to pray that God changes his heart. The rosary is a powerful prayer and I intend to offer it often for the conversion of the President elect.
Thank you, Helen. I pray those same prayers privately, but it’s the public prayers I join that fail to mention conversion and the unborn that are needling my conscience. And I can’t help but observe that the enemies of life grow bolder daily.
My daughter just showed me a Priests For Life letter that begins, “Ten years ago, our bishops warned that ‘we get the public officials we deserve. Their virtue–or lack thereof–is a judgment not only on them, but on us’. There we go. That is just how the results of this election feel, thus far.
I’m going to seek out the relevant prayer vocabulary of Fr Pavone, Fr Euteneuer, and Fr Corapi (and, of course, our popes) while I beg our Lord to hasten my OWN conversion to a faithful Catholic with a spine.
My stomach turns when our prayers of the faithful pray for “President-Elect Obama to lead us to peace” or some nonsense like that.
I had the opportunity to write the prayers of the faithful for our closing 40 Days for Life liturgy a few weeks ago. I included one asking for conversion of Obama and Biden and one asking that God “spare us the punishment we deserve after 35 years of legal abortion.” When they were read, I was shocked to hear them–even though I wrote them. Perhaps we in the pews need to be shocked a little more. We can save the warm fuzzy prayers for a time when thousands a day are not being slaughtered.
If this is Obama’s plan is to supposedly reduce the number of abortions, I’d hate to think what his plan would be to increase them.
Nice post, Jeff. I think it’s shameful how many Catholics voted for Obama, not to mention the one that actively campaigned for him like Doug Kmiec and the useful idiots at vox-nova.com. Was McCain the perfect pro-life candidate? Of course not, but certainly better than the alternative. Personally, I’d throw away my vote on a third party before I voted for Mr. Infanticide
I think it’s shameful how many Catholics voted for Obama
But Michael – didn’t you hear? Obama was so much better on the war on Iraq. Forget all about those innocent babies killed in the womb, Obama is going to take us out of the war (that’s basically over) in Iraq. Oh. Wait. No, he’s basically just continuing the Bush policies. Ummm, but he’s like the candidate of change and stuff. Oh. Wait. No, he’s just appointing a whole bunch of people who worked for the Clinton administration.
When it comes down to it, certain Catholics are betting it all that Obama’s magical economic policies are going to make everything better. I mean, forget for the moment that there is not a full correlation between economic conditions and abortion, the Obamamessiah will somehow inaugurate the utopian conditions that will wipe out the need for abortion.
Boy, and left-wingers like to accuse conservatives of being illogical.
The BIGGEST problem with “Catholic” Daschle, “Catholic” Pelosi, “Catholic” Biden, “Catholic” O-bots,etc… is that people keep calling them “Catholic”.
They are guilty of Treason against God’s Kingdom. It is a desecration of truth to use the word “Catholic” to describe them.
Call them what they are; Traitors.
Romans 1:25
They exchanged God’s truth for a lie and worshipped and served the creation rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever. Amen.
1 John 2:21
…lies don’t come from truth.
Barack Obama is not president elect until the Electorial college votes on December 15th and only if the majority votes for him. With that being said on the blog “Some Have Hats” there is a post on Barack Obamma’s legitimacy to be president of The USA. There are links to Dr. Alan Keyes legal counsel and the Supremme Court conference case on December 5th regarding the birth certificate and the legitimacy of Barack Obama. The links are to three website radio programs with attorney’s involved with these cases. Check it out it is very informative! the link is
http://www.freedommarch.org/FreedomMarch_Radio.html
We are in for some tough times. I’m afraid it will get far worse before it gets better. But, we can’t be afraid:
http://salesianity.blogspot.com/2008/11/be-not-afraid-time-for-spiritual-battle.html
God wins in the end!
Thanks for your post, Jeff.
My stomach turns in knots about the reality of our culture of evil and the worms who wear the happy mask of moral relativism..
I’m with Joanne on the importance of praying for the conversion of Obama in regard to pro-life issues. I’m also praying that his plans to extend abortion in various ways will be blocked. I think that’s a perfectly legitimate prayer. If leaders pursue evil policies, we ought to pray that they will somehow be blocked from carrying them out.
We’re reading the book of Revelation at Mass these last two weeks of the liturgical year. It’s encouraging because in the end, the victory will be God’s. But in the meantime, lives are being lost and we can’t give up the fight.
Yes, we really need to get the human rights lingo down.
Abortion IS a human rights issue. It is a 100% denial of human rights to a significant part of the population – 50 million and counting in the USA, 2 billion and counting worldwide.
A slogan like “Human rights for all, not just for the chosen” would work.
“Pro-choice” means we only give human rights to those whose mother has chosen to give them such rights.
You said it all.
I warily anticipate what and how Ms. Ellen is going to ‘communicate’ as director of communications. Watch carefully; we’re in for a whole new level of ‘spin’ like never before. She will convince the nondiscerning that increasing access to abortion actually helps reduce abortion, (mis)applying words such as ‘prolife ethic,’ ‘freedom of conscience,’ ‘woman’s dignity,’ ‘individual’s judgment,’ etc.
The antidote? Calling a spade a spade, just like you did in your post. The time for niceties is past, way past. The truth must be told, and those who hear it shall hear it. And damned be the rest.