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Kmiec: Barack Obama More Catholic Than Previous Pro-Life Presidents (Total Moron Alert)
Lifenews.com ^ | November 21, 2008 | Steven Ertelt

Posted on 11/21/2008 8:46:55 AM PST by St. Louis Conservative

Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- The Pepperdine law professor who calls himself a pro-life Catholic but was one of the leading apologists for perhaps the most pro-abortion presidential candidate in history is at it again. Douglas Kmiec is now saying Barack Obama is more Catholic than previous presidents who were pro-life.

Kmiec's comments come in response to some from Cardinal J. Francis Stafford, head of the Apostolic Penitentiary of the Holy See, who called Obama on the carpet on abortion in a speech at the Catholic University of America last Thursday.

In an address sponsored by the John Paul II Institute, Stafford called Obama's pro-abortion policies “aggressive, disruptive and apocalyptic" and that the senator campaigned on an “extremist anti-life platform.”

CNN conducted a follow-up interview with Cardinal Stafford, who stood by his remarks.

Stafford told the cable news network that he couldn't understand how any Catholic could support Obama because of his radical views in favor of taxpayer-funded abortions, unlimited abortions throughout pregnancy and overturning all of the hundreds of abortion reduction laws in all 50 states.

As a result, Stafford says Obama "is hostile to the life of an unborn child.“

(Excerpt) Read more at lifenews.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; Philosophy
KEYWORDS: abortion; bho2008; catholicvote; douglaskmiec; kmiec; obama; obamatransitionfile; prolife; religiousleft
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1 posted on 11/21/2008 8:46:56 AM PST by St. Louis Conservative
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To: St. Louis Conservative

“Nobody has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.” - Lincoln


2 posted on 11/21/2008 8:49:33 AM PST by choctaw man (choctaw man)
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To: St. Louis Conservative

Ah yes....

“Pacifism and Poverty Christianity” at its best.


3 posted on 11/21/2008 8:53:11 AM PST by TitansAFC (Sarah Palin/Mitt Romney 2012!!! Elway, Schwarzenegger, Ditka, Huckabee, and Hoeven for Senate 2010!)
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To: St. Louis Conservative
"God D*** America, U.S. to Blame for 9/11"
--Rev Dr. Jeremiah Wright, Obama's pastor for twenty years

Wright: "In the 21st century, white America got a wake-up call after 9/11/01. White America and the Western world came to realize that people of color had not gone away, faded into the woodwork or just 'disappeared' as the Great White West kept on its merry way of ignoring Black concerns."

"America’s chickens... are coming home... to ROOST!"


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Catholics for Marx
By Fr. Robert Sirico
FrontPageMagazine.com | Thursday, June 03, 2004

In the days when the Superpowers were locked in a Cold War, Latin America seethed with revolution, and millions lived behind an iron curtain, a group of theologians concocted a novel idea within the history of Christianity. They proposed to combine the teachings of Jesus with the teachings of Marx as a way of justifying violent revolution to overthrow the economics of capitalism.

The Gospels were re-rendered not as doctrine impacting on the human soul but rather as windows into the historical dialectic of class struggle. These "liberation theologians" saw every biblical criticism of the rich as a mandate to expropriate the expropriating owners of capital, and every expression of compassion for the poor as a call for an uprising by the proletarian class of peasants and workers.
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/Read.aspx?GUID=460782B7-35CC-4C9E-A2C5-93832067C7CD
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From the New York Times, April 28, 2008
Reverend Wright at the National Press Club
"In the late 1960s, when Dr. James Cone's powerful books burst onto the scene, the term 'black liberation theology' began to be used. I do not in any way disagree with Dr. Cone, nor do I in any way diminish the inimitable and incomparable contributions that he has made and that he continues to make to the field of theology. Jim, incidentally, is a personal friend of mine."
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/28/us/politics/28text-wright.html?_r=1&ref=politics&oref=sloginL
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From Jeff Head's website...
One notable quote from [James] Cone describing his Black Liberation Theology is as follows:

"Black theology refuses to accept a God who is not identified totally with the goals of the black community. If God is not for us and against white people, then he is a murderer, and we had better kill him. The task of black theology is to kill Gods who do not belong to the black community ... Black theology will accept only the love of God which participates in the destruction of the white enemy. What we need is the divine love as expressed in Black Power, which is the power of black people to destroy their oppressors here and now by any means at their disposal. Unless God is participating in this holy activity, we must reject his love." - "Divine Racism: The Unacknowledged Threshold Issue for Black Theology", in African-American Religious Thought: An Anthology, by William R Jones, ed Cornel West and Eddie Glaube (Westminster John Knox Press).
http://www.jeffhead.com/blacklibtheology.htm

African American Religious Thought: An Anthology (Paperback)
by Cornel West (Editor), Eddie S. Glaude Jr. (Editor)
http://www.amazon.com/African-American-Religious-Thought-Anthology/dp/0664224598
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HANNITY: But Reverend Jeremiah Wright is not backing down and has not for years and in his strong stance on the teaching of black liberation theology is nothing new. He had the same things to say last spring when he appeared on "Hannity & Colmes:"

WRIGHT: If you're not going to talk about theology in context, if you're not going to talk about liberation theology that came out of the '60s, systematized black liberation theology that started with Jim Cone in 1968 and the writings of Cone and the writings of Dwight Hopkins and the writings of womynist theologians and Asian theologians and Hispanic theologians, then you can't talk about the black value system.

HANNITY: But I'm a — reverend

WRIGHT: Do you know liberation theology, sir?

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,354158,00.html
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"Their founding document [the Weather Underground's] called for the establishment of a "white fighting force" to be allied with the "Black Liberation Movement" and other "anti-colonial" movements[1] to achieve "the destruction of US imperialism and the achievement of a classless world: world communism."..."-Berger, Dan (2006). Outlaws of America: The Weather Underground and the Politics of Solidarity. AK Press, 95.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weatherman_Underground#cite_ref-Berger_0-0

Outlaws of America: The Weather Underground and the Politics of Solidarity (Paperback) by Dan Berger
http://www.amazon.com/Outlaws-America-Underground-Politics-Solidarity/dp/1904859410
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From the New York Times, August 24, 2003

"they [the Weather Underground] employed revolutionary jargon, advocated armed struggle and black liberation and began bombing buildings, taking responsibility for at least 20 attacks. Estimates of their number ranged at times from several dozen to several hundred."

Article: Quieter Lives for 60's Militants, but Intensity of Beliefs Hasn't Faded
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F04E4DE1539F937A1575BC0A9659C8B63&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=2

4 posted on 11/21/2008 8:54:20 AM PST by ETL (Smoking gun evidence on ALL the ObamaRat-commie connections at my newly revised FR Home/About page)
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To: St. Louis Conservative

Who is this man’s bishop? Excommunicate Douglas Kmiec now.


5 posted on 11/21/2008 8:59:57 AM PST by frogjerk (Welcome|Goodbye to|from Free|Fairness Doctrine Republic!)
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To: St. Louis Conservative

Barack Obama knows NOTHING about the workings of the Catholic Church, his schooling in Indonesia and his acquaintance with Father Michael Pfleger notwithstanding.

Father Pfleger should have been defrocked long ago, except for the moral cowardice of the Archbishop of the Chicago Diocese, regardless of the “good works” Fr. Pfleger supposedly was responsible for in his parish. He is an evil man, consumed too much by the worldly passions, and intemperate of word and action.


6 posted on 11/21/2008 9:00:33 AM PST by alloysteel (Molon labe! Roughly translated, "Come and take them!" referring to personal weapons.)
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To: TitansAFC

Hasn’t the Pope condemned ‘Liberation Theology’?


7 posted on 11/21/2008 9:05:34 AM PST by griswold3
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To: St. Louis Conservative

Kmeic does an enormous amount of damage. Essentially, the bishops have handed over their teaching authority to a bunch of half-baked leftist lay theologians and politicians who think they are theologians. The longer the bishops remain silent and refuse to discipline these people, the more authority they lose.

Catholics are confused, and that was very well revealed by the voting patterns during the election.


8 posted on 11/21/2008 9:18:56 AM PST by livius
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To: griswold3

JPII condemned ‘Liberation Theology”, as did a certain Josef Cardinal Ratzinger (who has since been promoted).


9 posted on 11/21/2008 9:21:52 AM PST by ArrogantBustard (Western Civilization is Aborting, Buggering, and Contracepting itself out of existence.)
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To: St. Louis Conservative

ROTFLOL


10 posted on 11/21/2008 9:25:03 AM PST by freekitty (Give me back my conservative vote.)
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To: St. Louis Conservative

Doug Kmiec—the Kathleen Parker of abortion. The official “favorite ‘conservative’ to quote” to defend Obama.


11 posted on 11/21/2008 9:34:07 AM PST by montag813 (www.FreepShop.com)
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To: St. Louis Conservative
Translation:

"Please give me a federal judgeship! Please give me a federal judgeship! Please give me a federal judgeship! Please!!!"

There is no more craven individual on earth than Kmiec.

12 posted on 11/21/2008 9:50:19 AM PST by wideawake (Why is it that those who like to be called Constitutionalists know the least about the Constitution?)
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To: St. Louis Conservative

Maybe he has a brain tumor. Bless his heart.


13 posted on 11/21/2008 9:52:31 AM PST by Tax-chick ("I thank Thee, dear Jesus, that Thy will and not mine has been done." ~St. Frances Cabrini)
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To: montag813

Oh, Kathleen’s all about abortion, too (as well as certain other women’s being younger, prettier, more successful, and having a cute husband).


14 posted on 11/21/2008 9:53:25 AM PST by Tax-chick ("I thank Thee, dear Jesus, that Thy will and not mine has been done." ~St. Frances Cabrini)
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To: St. Louis Conservative

Cloning will be the next step for the Obama admin. Cloning can only be done with embryonic stem cells. Kimiec is s sucker.


15 posted on 11/21/2008 9:57:20 AM PST by Fred (The Democrat Party is the Nadir of Nihilism and BO is a WHINING marxist)
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To: St. Louis Conservative

And he’s more godly than God himself! * groans *


16 posted on 11/21/2008 10:06:24 AM PST by mancini
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To: St. Louis Conservative

Not only would MLK Jr. slap Obama for being a fake Christian, but I have a feeling Jesus might giggle at that, then of course forgive him.


17 posted on 11/21/2008 10:06:45 AM PST by Camaroguy84
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To: Camaroguy84
Jesus witnessed the profanation of the Temple, and fashioned a whip out of cords ...
18 posted on 11/21/2008 10:09:12 AM PST by ArrogantBustard (Western Civilization is Aborting, Buggering, and Contracepting itself out of existence.)
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To: St. Louis Conservative

Selling his soul for ink.


19 posted on 11/21/2008 10:43:10 AM PST by jmaroneps37 (Conservatism is truth. Liberalism is lies.)
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To: St. Louis Conservative

I guess 30 silver pieces weren’t enough.


20 posted on 11/21/2008 11:04:16 AM PST by Rutles4Ever (Ubi Petrus, ibi ecclesia, et ubi ecclesia vita eterna!)
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