Gingi Edmonds ProLife Opinion Pro-Choice "Christians" Drink the Kool-Aid
You may or may not have heard of the University of Notre Dame scandal going on in Indiana right now. The whole brouhaha is rather oxymoronic, where the pro-life school is seeking to honor the radically pro-death B! O! with their 2009 commencement address and an honorary degree. I say you may not have heard of it simply because the mainstream media - along with being scared of Catholics -- wants to give O! a spotless image where everyone agrees with his messianic political worldview. Reporting on the thousands of college kids protesting his presence might shatter the image of O! blessing the masses with his presence, riding bareback on a unicorn with wildflowers of hope popping up in his wake. (Go to Google image search and type in 'O! Unicorn'. And you thought I was joking.) The invitation that was extended to O! by the university president, Rev. John Jenkins, has created quite a stir in Christian and pro-life circles. A group of Notre Dame alumni and financial supporters have stated they are withholding over $8.2 million in donations from the school. Former U.S. ambassador to the Vatican, Mary Ann Glendon turned down a prestigious Notre Dame medal because she was to have shared the stage with O!. And dozens of students are refusing to receive their credentials at the graduation ceremony, requesting that as long as O! is being honored, they would prefer to receive their diploma in the mail. This Notre Dame scandal is big news. It hits at the heart of O!'s hypocritical pseudo-Christian pro-abortion stance. Yet so effective is media censorship that The Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life found that from April 23 to 27 only about half of Catholics had even heard about the controversy. Interestingly enough, the poll also found that people who attend Mass frequently (aka, real Catholics) were more likely to have heard of - and oppose - the university's stance on inviting O!. The U.S. Bishops' 2004 mandate in "Catholics in Political Life" states that, "The Catholic community and Catholic institutions should not honor those who act in defiance of our fundamental moral principles. They should not be given awards, honors or platforms which would suggest support for their actions." I can hear it now. "But, but, but! B! O! doesn't stand in defiance of fundamental moral principles of Christianity! He is a religious guy! He said so himself!" Well folks, it is true. B! O! does profess to be a religious man. He did attend Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago for nearly 20 years. And the pastor of this church, Rev. Jeremiah Wright, was outspoken in his assertion that yes, you can be both religious and pro-choice. O!'s personal spiritual mentor was so determined in this belief that he conducted a "Youth Sexuality Project" in his church's youth group -- teaching kids aged 13 to 18 about sex, STDs and the 'right' to abortion as spiritual and sexual beings through music, media and 'role playing' exercises. The church of B! O! took abortion activism quite seriously and even went so far as to align itself with the non-profit organization Religious Coalition of Reproductive Choice and included in their church bulletins calls to volunteer at local abortion mills. The Religious Coalition of Reproductive Choice is a faith-based organization that seeks to reconcile the gap between religion and abortion. They brag that before abortions were made legal in 1973, members of the organization helped women to obtain illegal abortions. (So much for the scary, evil back-alley practitioners they pretend to loathe...) But more importantly they assert - like O! and his spiritual mentor - that yes, you can be pro-abortion and religious. Now I can totally agree with that. There are a lot of wacky religions out there with an endless array of justifications for their deadly beliefs and actions. Some religions advocate flying planes into buildings. Some religions advocate feeding children poisoned Kool-Aid. Some religions advocate stabbing kids in the back of the neck and suctioning their brains out. So yeah, obviously you can be both religious and pro-suicide bombing missions / pro-cult suicide / pro-choice. And yeah, I understand, you gotta be a martyr for Allah. Hale-Bopp only comes around every 2000 years or so. And yeah, children with beating hearts and measurable brain waves are just a 'choice' to you and your nutty faith. Got it. There is a popular slogan that, "Abortion is between a woman and her God", and considering that some people subscribe to religions that worship rocks, dirt, and sitting presidents as deities, that's fair enough. But I'm not here to debate the crackpot views of religious extremist lunatics and anti-science wackos. What I'm here to talk about are the sputtering masses who can't seem to wrap their heads around why the Christian community is so outraged that O! is being honored at a Christ-centered school like Norte Dame. While you can be religious and pro-choice, you simply cannot be both Christian and pro-choice. To be a Christian literally means to be "Christ-like". And guess what? The historical Jesus Christ of Nazareth was not pro-fetal murder. (For my delightful pagan readers who have never cracked open a page of the Bible and are already impatiently whining about proof of Christ's stance on the issue of the unborn, here is your homework: Genesis 25:22-24; Job 31:15; Psalm 22:9-10; Psalm 139:13-16; Jeremiah 1:5; Hosea 12:2-3; Luke 1:15; Luke 1:41; and Exodus 21:22-24) Now I know there are a lot of idiots walking around proclaiming Christ and baby butchery. But they are phonies. They are frauds. They are not Christians because their beliefs do not align with those of Christ. Sure, there are plenty of churches out there who preach absurdities in the name of Christianity. But their mere existence doesn't legitimize them. It's like that episode of Family Guy where Peter Griffin starts his own religion, "The First United Church of the Fonz" based on Henry Winkler's character in Happy Days. Concluding church services with calls to volunteer at the local baby butchering mill down the street is just as laughable as Peter Griffin concluding with prayers to, "The Father, the Son, and the Holy Fonz. Aaay-men!" Men and women celebrating the act of a young child being decapitated and dismembered can say, "I'm a Christian." But that pulls about as much weight as a little white girl saying, "I'm black". And just as I shouldn't be awarded any African-American grants over my lily white skin, pro-murder activists like O! should not be awarded any honors among pro-life, Christ-centered schools. And that is what has inspired the outrage over Notre Dame. The few mainstream media sources who have discussed this issue in whispered tones refer to the student-led protests against O! as being 'disrespectful' to the President. You know what is truly disrespectful? Honoring a man who seeks to shape a society that is considered an abomination to Christians and moral individuals alike. O! is standing in direct and flagrant opposition to the precepts of the Catholic Church and is violating and dishonoring time-honored school regulations. Even if Rev. Jenkins has lapsed into a religiously void senility, the students of Notre Dame know that child sacrifice is condemned all throughout Scripture. According to medical science, elementary biology, and Jehovah - the omnipotent and omniscient Living God and Creator of the Universe - a child is defined from the moment of conception. Abortion indisputably kills children. Only the most degraded societies tolerated such evil, and the worst societies were the ones that celebrated it as though it were a virtue. Not only does O! celebrate abortion, he promotes it, he funds it, he advances it and worst of all he professes to do it all in the name of Jesus Christ. It doesn't take a Christian to know that that is sinful and despicable. B! O! is showing the beliefs and convictions of the faith-based majority at Notre Dame about as much respect as he does to innocent children in the womb. That is to say, no respect at all. That, my friends, is a scandal indeed. Visit my friends at http://notredamescandal.com/ for more information. - Gingi Edmonds www.gingiedmonds.com © 2009 Gingi Edmonds ProLife Opinion This email was sent by Gingi Edmonds ProLife Opinion, ., Hanford, California 93230, using Express Email Marketing. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Please note that I do not send or open attachments sent to this list. You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Catholics on Fire" group. 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