Posted on 11/05/2008 6:33:23 AM PST by cpforlife.org
The Most Pro-Abortion President in History: Barack Hussein Obama to Become 44th US President
Priests for Life: the pro-life movement has entered "a chapter of new strategy and determination"
By Kathleen Gilbert
WASHINGTON, D.C., November 5, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) - In a landslide victory fueled by what may have been the highest voter turnout in a century, Sen. Barack Obama last night collected over twice as many electoral votes as rival Sen. John McCain to secure his future as the 44th president of the United States.
The epic campaign rivalry came to an end when Sen. Obama unexpectedly secured the battleground state of Virginia just before 11 p.m. EST last night, pushing his electoral count above the requisite 270 votes. He ended the night having won such battleground states as Pennsylvania, Florida, Ohio, New Mexico, and Iowa while Sen. McCain managed to capture only a handful of the more volatile electoral votes.
Sen. Obama will be joined by the most Democratic Congress in fifteen years, as Republicans lost five seats to Democrats and made no gains of their own. However, the 56 seats Democrats are expected to fill falls short of the 60 required for a filibuster-proof majority. Democrats are also expected to take the largest share of the House of Representatives, with some expecting a net gain of 20 seats.
In his acceptance speech, Sen. Obama reflected on the historicity of his election to office. "Tonight, because of what we did on this day, in this election, at this defining moment, change has come to America," he told a gleeful, flag-waving crowd.
While the majority of Americans are happily greeting Sen. Obama's promised change, many others, particularly pro-life Americans, fear that the gospel of change offered by the most pro-abortion president-elect in history heralds an era of new struggles and challenges for the pro-life movement.
Fr. Frank Pavone of Priests for life issued a strongly-worded video statement putting Obama's victory in perspective with the future of the pro-life movement.
"This is one of the biggest mistakes that the American people have made in the entire history of our nation," said Fr. Pavone, "and the many reasons why that's true will come to light as the months go on. But the biggest reason why that's true is that here we have a president-elect who cannot tell the difference betweens serving the public and killing the public.
"If you don't know when human rights begin, then you're in no position to govern a country that was founded on the principle of human rights," said Fr. Pavone. Sen. Obama, when asked at the Saddleback Church forum when he thought a child gained human rights, infamously answered that the question was "above my pay grade."
"A lot changes with this," Fr. Pavone continued, noting that pro-lifers will no longer be able to work inside the White House, and will be forced to turn to defensive maneuvers in the U.S legislature.
However, "change" is far from the whole story, says Pavone, who reminds viewers of the many things that remain the same.
"The American people are pro-life," he affirmed. "The American people have never bought into the extreme abortion position of Obama and his party. And they never will. That is why the American people ... will continue to work with us.
Above all, Fr. Pavone declared, "What is never going to change is that this movement is headed for victory.
"We have started a movement on behalf of the unborn, and that movement enters a new chapter today, a chapter of new determination, of new vigor, of new strategy."
Pavone spoke words of comfort to pro-lifers struggling to accept the election news.
"Be encouraged! It's fine to be disappointed about the outcome of an election," he said. "But we can never walk away from the cause. Together we will work, we will protest, we will defend, we will intervene, we will educate, and we will win this struggle for the lives of our unborn brothers and sisters."
To see Fr. Pavone's video and statement, go to: http://www.priestsforlife.org
What this means is that it's not something that causes us pain on an hourly, daily or even weekly basis. Every January 22 we might get the odd pang or two but apart from that, we've blotted it out. It's a silent holocaust, so we don't see it and thus out of sight is likewise out of mind, too. We've come to accept that Roe v Wade, while repugnant, is probably here with us for the short and medium term and so we shrug and move on.
I'm convinced if people were confronted with the horror and violence of abortion and understood the harm it's doing to this country, they would never vote for Obama, but it's just not a burning issue for them. They're asleep at the wheel and so they vote their pocketbooks or whatever else about him attracts them.
Personally, I don't think we'll ever see the end of legalized abortion until we rediscover chastity, forsake fornication and turn our backs on our pornographic culture. It's unrealistic to expect abortion to go away while we're living in a hedonistic, carnal, self-indulgent culture, because abortion is the sacrament of this particular "church". However, I don't think we can do this voluntarily in our present condition. We're too weak. There has to be a spiritual re-awakening in this country for abortion to cease and that will likely only come after some great suffering or catastrophe which brings us back to our senses. I pray that's not the case but every day makes it appear more likely.
I am very disappointed in many Catholics I know who voted for OB only because they voted their wallet and not their moral convictions. That bothers me more than anything, the fact that it all came down to money. A tax break (if that ever happens) over a human life! If people won't take a stand for life, I'm afraid God will not bless America.
It’s a sad day for the pro-life movement, to be sure. Have no doubt that God is testing us as he tested our fathers. We will now have many opportunities to stand up and speak the truth to power. Will be have the courage to do so?
One election?
Where have you been since 1972?
In my opinion every Catholic that voted for Obama, or pro-abortion candidates is nothing but a Judas, selling out Christ for their 30 pieces of silver.
Judas’s... all of them.
It makes me sick that I just typed that out loud, but there ya go.
~ PRAYER ~
St. Michael, the Archangel, defend us in battle
Be our protection against the wickedness
and snares of the devil;
May God rebuke him, we humbly pray,
and do thou, O Prince of the heavenly host,
by the power of God,
Thrust into hell Satan and all evil spirits
who wander through the world seeking the ruin of souls.
Amen
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One has to ask: How much longer before God drops the hammer on America. “Ah,Assyria, the rod of my anger-—the club in their hands is my fury! Against a godless nation I send him,against the people of my wrath I command him,to take spoil and seize plunder, and to tread them down like mire in the streets.” (Isaiah 10:5-6) Who is modern day Assyria?
And: “...”Sovereign Lord, holy and true, how long will it be before you judge and avenge our blood on the inhabitants
of the earth?” (Revelation 6:10) Will God really Damn America?
Maranatha,Lord Jesus, Soon!
I’ve been on Fr. Pavone’s con-call for past hour, many prolife leaders. We lost a battle, NOT THE WAR. Keep fighting. First and foremost, stop FOCA. NEW WEBSITE:
FightFOCA.com
He doesn’t have to drop a hammer on us. All he has to do is withdraw his protection. Which I think he has. And we will consume ourselves.
Wrote an e-mail to my priest, he’s a good one. He was just as disappointed as me. He said he knew an older Friar who used to say “What this catholic church needs is some good old fashioned persecution.”
I think we’re gonna get it. I’m digging in, fortifying my position with prayer and fasting.
Amen. If FOCA is passed, every Bishop in this country better start formal, public excommunication of any CINO that votes to pass it. The Church can no longer refer to abortion as "intrinsically evil" and turn a blind eye to the men and women safeguarding and promoting the abomination. If they refuse, they should become former Bishops.
I'm as upset with the Church as I am with the GOP.
Formal, public excommunications.... Please God!
I’ve been disappointed as well. In fact, a catholic church in my city had a fund raiser for Obama, hosted by Herrod Brown and John Glenn. Posted in the local newspaper!
I wrote a letter to the diocese and called the church. The diocese contacted me and said the Bishop was ‘looking into it’ and contacted the church, but what came of it, I don’t know.
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