“Catholic” Obama supporters, and now “Catholic” Sebelius supporters, like Chris Korzin’s “Catholics United” for Satan, keep repeating Obama’s’ buzzwords–which were the Clintons’ buzzwords 16 years ago–about “reducing” abortion and finding “common ground.”
Usually, when you read the fine print, their “common ground” is contraception.
Kathleen Sebelius only has two kids. She comes from a wealthy and powerful family. Her father was a Congressman; her husband is a federal judge. Even Natural Family Planning requires grave reasons. This woman apparently has none (Unless you count her obvious mental defects). And the fact that she is an ardent supporter of birth control indicates that she is not a supporter of NFP.
The fact that Sebelius’ bishop has told her to refrain from Communion doesn’t even faze Chris Korzen and his cohorts. His hatred of Deal Hudson is so all-consuming that he’s willing to sacrifice as many babies to Moloch as he can if it means making Hudson look bad.
It infuriates me that groups like “Catholics United” claim so deceptively to be pro-life, then viciously attack true pro-life groups like American Life League, Operation Rescue and Human Life International. (BTW, it also disgusts me that the NRLC and the USCCB claim to be pro-life organizations when they say the same things).
Recently, 26 alleged “Prominent Catholics” wrote an open letter endorsing Sebelius as being “pro-life.” Now, the only three names I recognize are this list are Korzen himself, Douglas Kmiec and Fr. Thomas Reese, SJ, who is himself an avid supporter of both abortion and contraception. The rest I’ve never heard of.
Apparently, all these “prominent Catholics” are ignorant of _Evangelium Vitae_ or the follow-up statement John Paul II issued five years later. So, let’s summarize: abortion and contraception are both wrong; Catholics are supposed to fight to make both of them illegal; there is no such thing as compromise on these issues.
Evangelium Vitae:
John Paul II on “common ground”:
“we need now more than ever to have the courage to look the truth in the eye and to call things by their proper name, without yielding to convenient compromises or to the temptation of self-deception” (paragraph 58.2; my emphasis bold).
“In the proclamation of this Gospel, we must not fear hostility or unpopularity, and we must refuse any compromise or ambiguity which might conform us to the world’s way of thinking (cf. Rom 12:2)” (82.3; my emphasis).
Two wrongs do not make a right: contraception is not “abortion prevention”
Section 13
“It is frequently asserted that contraception, if made safe and available to all, is the most effective remedy against abortion. The Catholic Church is then accused of actually promoting abortion, because she obstinately continues to teach the moral unlawfulness of contraception. When looked at carefully, this objection is clearly unfounded. “
Section 91
“It is therefore morally unacceptable to encourage, let alone impose, the use of methods such as contraception, sterilization and abortion in order to regulate births.”
Incrementalism and compromise constitute the sin of despair:
In February, 2000,Pope John Paul II gave an address to commemorate the fifth anniversary of _Evangelium Vitae_, in which he says (my emphasis bold),
“there is no reason for that type of defeatist mentality which claims that laws opposed to the right to life – those which legalize abortion, euthanasia, sterilization and methods of family planning opposed to life and the dignity of marriage – are inevitable and now almost a social necessity. On the contrary, they are a seed of corruption for society and its foundations. The civil and moral conscience cannot accept this false inevitability, any more than the idea that war or interethnic extermination is inevitable” (Address at theCommemoration of the Fifth Anniversary of the Encyclical “Evangeliumvitae”, 14 February, n. 4; L’Osservatore Romano English edition, 23February 2000, p. 4).
Here’s what Fr. Thomas Euteneuer had to say about these “prominent Catholics”:
“There’s another prominent Catholic they may have heard of, and his name is Pope
Benedict XVI,” said Fr. Euteneuer. “And he has clearly taught that endorsing,
and even worse, signing into law, legislation that directly results in
the destruction of innocent human life, as Governor Sebelius has done, is a
formal cooperation with evil, and therefore itself a grave evil.”
The Lewis Crusade 