Fatal Position

Just go for it! They deserve it for leaving their stupid signs laying around. It’s not like you’re ripping up a real baby or anything!

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Should Notre Dame Lose “Catholic” Status?

Take the poll in the right side bar at Faultline USA. Five days left on the poll. So far 72% of 100 polled say YES.

Despite the fact that Notre Dame University has a long tradition of extending graduation speaking invitations to sitting American Presidents, this invitation to President Obama is not about Obama, but about Notre Dame. The real issue is about what it means to be a “Catholic” University.

President Obama’s speech Sunday  to the 2009 graduating class of Notre Dame, and his award of an honorary degree, is a slap in the face of Roman Catholicism because of his strong outspoken pro-choice abortion beliefs and his support for federal funding of stem-cell research.

America, You Asked For It!, explains the dilemma this way:

The problem, of course, stems from Notre Dame’s Catholic roots and Obama’s position on the sanctity of human life in its embryonic stage. The Catholic Church “has always condemned abortion as a grave evil” and condemns stem cell research on the basis that “It is immoral to produce human embryos destined to be exploited as disposable ‘biological material.” These views are polar opposites of the President’s positions on abortion and stem cell research.

Moral Outcry explains it this way:

This is a travesty for a Catholic institution to be honoring the man behind some of the most liberal, pro-abortion agendas this nation has ever seen. In the spirit of intellectual openness, the powers-that-be have seen fit to acquiesce to the status quo of the pro-abortion agenda that’s steamrolling through the government right now.

It would appear that money, power, status, and untold legal entanglements would make it very, very difficult for the Catholic Church to punish Notre Dame for this affront to the churches’ basic teachings.

According to LifeSiteNews.com, “Fr. John Jenkins, President of Notre Dame University, sits on the board of directors of Millennium Promise, an organization dedicated to fighting poverty in Africa that promotes contraceptives and abortion, it has been revealed.”

The finding comes as the controversy over President Obama’s award and speech at the University reaches a fever pitch in the last week before the event. As the president of Notre Dame, Fr. Jenkins has received the majority of the heat for the scandal. However, despite the criticism of over 70 U.S. bishops and over 350,000 petitioners, Jenkins has steadfastly continued to defend the university’s honoring of the president. In a letter to graduating students dated this past Monday, Jenkins said that Obama is “a remarkable figure in American history and I look forward to welcoming him to Notre Dame.”

According to UPI, “Bishop John D’Arcy, who oversees the region’s diocese, said he would not attend Sunday’s ceremony.”

President Obama has recently reaffirmed, and has now placed in public policy, his long-stated unwillingness to hold human life as sacred,” D’Arcy said in a statement.

The latest Gallop poll shows that for the first time, more Americans see themselves as pro-life rather than pro-choice. Still I have to wonder what this really means in terms of walking the walk of faith?

Despite the fact that Fox news has been featuring this story for weeks, the actual fact that only hundreds of pro-life activist Catholics from across the country plan to attend a peaceful protest in South Bend, Ind. is a sign that belief in pro-life appears to be more virtual than real.

Pro-Life Action League members also will begin their civil disobedience effort off-campus and then join the Citizens for a Pro-Life Society at the prayer vigil on campus to coincide with the commencement ceremony. Additional arrests are possible, if not expected.

“We’re going have graphic pictures of abortion and what abortion does to babies and we’ll also have signs that will say ‘Obama = Abortion’ and ‘Shame on Notre Dame,’” Gura said.

Citizens for a Pro-Life Society will be carrying signs ranging from the “very graphic to very simple,” Parran told FOXNews.com.

According to ABC News, “Obama won the Catholic vote in last year’s election, 54-45 over Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz. Twenty-seven percent of voters identified themselves as Catholic, according to national exit polling.”

Note to the Pope, Cardinals, and Bishops: There are some Catholics, however, that understand the actual cost of walking the walk of their faith.

This year, for the first time in more than 100 years, Notre Dame will not present its most prestigious award, the Laetare Medal, because the Catholic scholar who won it, Mary Ann Glendon, turned it down.

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Catholic Priest Arrested at Catholic University for Upholding Catholic Values: Obama to Receive Honorary Ph.D. Later Today

The following is a video of Father Norman Weslin’s arrest at Notre Dame University on Friday May 15, 2009, for protesting abortion. Protesters have been going to Notre Dame this week to protest President Obama’s speech during the commencement ceremonies, and especially the conferment of an honorary doctorate on the President. Obama is the most pro-abortion President in our Nation’s history and has a record of supporting not only abortion on demand but also the procedure known as “partial birth abortion,” which is controversial even among “pro-choice” advocates.

 

(Hat-Tip Lisa Miller)

 

The Arrogant Obamanation: Abortionist-in-Chief

With the controvercial advent of Obama’s speech at the commencement ceremony of Catholic University Notre Dame on May 17, here is a reminder of the actions he has taken against American Christians…

• In 1997, Obama voted to allow live birth abortion (SB 230)
• In 2000, Obama voted to allow state funding of abortion and induced miscarriages (HB 709)
• In 2002, Obama voted against protecting newborns as a part of the Born Alive Infant Protection Package (SB 1661); he deems it proper to deny all care to a child who is born alive during abortion process and instead leave them to wither away and die on tables in special rooms

As President of the United states he has continued with his extremist position…

• November 19, 2008: Obama nominates pro-abortion former Senator Tom Daschle as his Health and Human Services Secretary.
• November 20, 2008: Obama adds former National Abortion Rights Action League (NARAL) legal director Dawn Johnsen to his Department of Justice Review Team and later appoints her Assistant Attorney General for the Office of the Legal Counsel.
• November 24, 2008: Obama appoints Ellen Moran, former director of the pro-abortion group Emily’s List, as his White House communications director.
• November 24, 2008: Obama puts former Emily’s List board member Melody Barnes in place as his director of the Domestic Policy Council.
• November 30, 2008: Obama names pro-abortion Senator Hillary Clinton as his Secretary of State.
• December 10, 2008: Obama selects pro-abortion former Clinton administration official Jeanne Lambrew as deputy director of the White House Office of Health Reform.
• December 10, 2008: Obama transition team publishes memo from dozens of pro-abortion groups listing the actions they want him to take.
• January 5, 2009: Obama picks pro-abortion Virginia Governor Tim Kaine as the Democratic National Committee chairman.
• January 6, 2009: Obama chooses Thomas Perrelli, the lawyer who represented Terri Schiavo’s husband Michael, as the third highest attorney in the Justice Department.
• January 22, 2009: Obama releases statement reiterating support for Roe v. Wade, the decision that has allowed 50 million abortions since 1973
• January 23, 2009: Obama overturns the Mexico City Policy, forcing taxpayers to fund pro-abortion groups that either promote or perform abortions abroad.
• January 26, 2009: Obama nominee for Deputy Secretary of State, James B. Steinberg, advocates taxpayer funding of abortion.
• January 29, 2009: Obama nominates abortionist David Ogden as Deputy Attorney General.
• February 12, 2009: Obama nominates pro-abortion Elena Kagan to serve as Solicitor General.
• February 27, 2009: Obama starts the process of overturning pro-life conscience protections put in place by President Bush.
• February 28, 2009: Obama nominates pro-abortion Kansas Governor Kathleen Sebelius to become Secretary of Health and Human Services.
• March 5, 2009: The Obama Administration shuts out pro-life groups from attending a White House sponsored health care summit.
• March 9, 2009: Obama signs an executive order allowing taxpayer money to fund embryonic stem cell research.
• March 10, 2009: Obama creates a new foreign policy position for women’s issues filled by abortionist Melanne Verveer.
• March 10, 2009: Obama reverses an executive order calling for research into obtaining embryonic stem cells without harming human life.
• March 11, 2009: Obama creates a new agency known as the White House Council on Women and Girls, led by abortion advocate Tina Tchen.
• March 11, 2009: Obama administration officials at the United Nations lie about the negative effects of abortion and demand an unlimited right to abortion.
• March 17, 2009: Obama names pro-abortion federal judge David Hamilton to serve on the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals.
• March 20, 2009: The White House announces that President Obama will give the commencement address at the University of Notre Dame.
• March 26, 2009: Obama announces $50 million for the UN Population Fund, aka. the Chinese forced abortions program.
• April 15, 2009: The Obamanation’s Department of Homeland Security labels pro-lifers potential terrorists.
• April 22, 2009: Obama administration’s Food and Drug Administration changes policy to allow 17-year-old girls to obtain Plan B contraceptive pills without a prescription
• Eusebius Beltran, the Catholic Archbishop of Oklahoma City, stated: “President Obama, by word and action, has approved of abortion and other atrocities against human life. Therefore he deserves no recognition at a Catholic institution.”

Currently Operation Rescue is working to put a stop to the upcoming debacle, and many Americans [such as I] plan to protest there.

Sometimes you reap what you sow. This is what America voted for, and what America must now work to correct.

Also see:

• Forgive us our Trespasses – Alan Keyes goes to Notre Dame to get Arrested
• Arrested at Notre Dame; Statement by Randall A. Terry