Say It Ain’t So Father

Notre Dame’s president honors Barack “FOCA” Obama

Sending the absolutely wrong message, at a critical turning point in America’s struggle to save our unborn, the president of America’s most renown Catholic University has awarded Abortion Incorporated’s most committed politician an honorary law degree and extended an invitation to speak at this year’s commencement ceremony.

Notre Dame (”Our Lady”) University president Father John Jenkins, confronting the ground swell of outrage provoked by the invitation extended to President Barack “Freedom Of Choice Act” Obama, is attempting to justify this thoughtless gesture with a platitude about opening a dialogue. “We hope … for this to be the basis of an engagement with him.”

At best, this is naiveté on the part of a Catholic priest, in a very prominent position, who should know better. This gesture will be manipulated by President Obama, and spun for every last ounce of propaganda by the abortion industry, to further cloud the Catholic Church’s once irrefutable position on abortion in the eyes of Catholic voters.

There is no room for dialogue about the rights of the unborn with Barack Obama. He has made that irrefutably clear in his campaign speeches, his state and national legislative record, and the pro-abortion fervor of his first month in office.

If the president mentions the slaughter of our innocent at all, it will be the usual lie about “working to reduce the number of abortions”.

What will you do then Father Jenkins? Will you challenge the president to explain how his passionate commitment to passage of the “Freedom Of Choice Act” could possibly be construed as “working to reduce the number of abortions”? Or his reinstatement of the Mexico City policy, by which American tax dollars are now funding abortions world-wide.

Will you ask Mr Obama what purpose was served by his executive order providing federal funding for embryonic stem cell research, despite overwhelming scientific evidence that it accomplishes nothing other than (1) the destruction of human embryos and (2) reinforcement of the abortion industry’s classification of God’s children in the womb as meaningless blobs of tissue, suitable for any use man sees fit?

Likely not. And actually such confrontations would be inappropriate during a college commencement. So there will not be any dialogue, or engagement. Everyone will sit, listen and applaud politely.

The result? Barack Obama will return to Washington and continue to relentlessly pursue his policy of completely unrestricted abortion. He, along with pro-abortion Catholic politicians, will publicly misconstrue the whole honor, sit, listen and applaud farce as further proof that the Catholic Church’s position on abortion, and when life begins, are nothing more than subjects for theological debate. More Catholics will be misled by the Pelosi-Biden-Kennedy-Kerry lie that Catholics are free to support pro-abortion policies and candidates. No foul, and certainly no sin. Just choice.

And our helpless unborn, threatened so gravely by Barack Obama, will lose even more defenders.

Some 55% of Catholic voters supported Barack Obama, a candidate who stated repeatedly that his “first priority” in office would be passage of the Freedom OF Choice Act, legislation which will restore partial birth abortion and invalidate all federal and state restrictions on abortion in America. Such support was, in no small part, the result of many prominent Catholic academics, in Catholic universities, distorting, or proclaiming non-existent ambiguities in, the Church’s complete opposition to pro-abortion candidates.

Since the election, the Catholic faithful, and the millions of others in America committed to ending the barbarous murder of infants in the womb, have asked in despair “Where Is The Catholic Church?”.

At this moment, Father Jenkins, with the Freedom Of Choice Act looming over our unborn, we are looking to you.

Rescinding this invitation would do a great deal to reinforce (1) the Catholic Church’s complete and unwavering commitment to sanctity of life, and (2) every Catholic’s duty to oppose abortion and those in politics and the judiciary who enable the abortions of millions of children each year.

And, perhaps above all, we can pray together that your polite, but firm, rebuke will open President Obama’s heart and mind to the horrible realities of abortion, and the power he holds over the most helpless citizens in America.

Father, we need ya to win one. Speak out in defense of Jesus’ “little ones”. Win one for Our Lady.