I dare you!
Posted on 03/02/2009 5:53:22 AM PST by jmaroneps37
Agreed.
When this happens, I hope the bishops shut the doors.
My wife’s OB/GYN is a devout Christian, and refuses to give the pill (even though required by law in Illinois). She has said she will quit if she has to.
And if the state decides to force the issue, this is one big German Lutheran who will stand in the gap as needed.
I agree, the time has come when devout Christians, be they Protestant or Catholic, need to draw a line in the sand and stand firm.
I fully believe that the day is rapidly approaching when many of us will be jailed for obeying His Commandments. I would rather rot in prison than support the murder of the innocent.
I believe that EVERYTHING we need to know about how to live as Believers is contained in the last portion of Matthew Chapter 25 and there is nothing in there that even remotely suggests that we should do anything other than love one another.
a target="_blank" href="http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2141753/posts">Catholic Bishop: "Go Right Ahead and Arrest Me" Rather than Obey Freedom of Choice Act
I love it!
I suspect a debt default by the federal government would result in a severe and negative reaction from the bond holders. Those bond holders are represented by nations that are or will become very hostile to the US if debt default becomes a possibility.
Do you think the US federal government would offer to ignore Taiwan’s pleas for defense as a partial recompense? You bet it would. And, I suspect that is not all. Which would become more vulnerable—NK or SK? SK would become vulnerable to the starving 19th century dictatorship in NK.
Treasury bills are in effect bonds. Right now, other major bond issuers are in trouble because so much liquidity has been snapped up with the purchase of T-bills.
With a default in US T-bills, international trade comes to a halt. But this doesn’t mean a complete cessation of US activities around the globe.
While Asian creditor nations would become upset, there is very little they could do about it directly. To a great extent, this is because the credit default would be an international crisis.
Taiwan might agree for a peaceful reunification with the mainland in such a crisis, because they might be able to get excellent terms. However, North Korea may be less inclined to invade South Korea than vice versa. They would be wise to hold their tongues, because China might be less supportive of North Korea than it is currently, and see the South Korean government as a less troublesome neighbor.
But back to the US, even though it would no longer be importing because of the default, it would still likely export food to the many nations we feed. Perhaps in exchange for some pro-rated debt.
The US military can “run on vapor” for quite a while, because many of its expenditures are for future activities a decade out. By contracting these and slashing pay, it can extend operations for a year or more with minimal funding.
From my email from Father Pavone of Priests for Life:
“As we suspected, abortion supporters aren’t trying to pass the Freedom of Choice Act in one fell swoop.
Their plan is to break it into pieces and pass it incrementally.
And the recent proposal to make taxpayer funding of “family planning” part of the economic stimulus package shows, we were right. Although not specifically part of FOCA, “family planning” is a key element in the plan to enshrine abortion-on-demand as the law of the land for generations to come.
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It’s critically important that you do this right now .... before you move on to your next email.
Make no mistake. The only reason federal funding for “family planning” was removed from the stimulus bill was due to the massive outcry of protest from you and your fellow pro-life activists.
That in itself demonstrates what the people of life can do when we make our voice heard in Washington!”
I want Obama and the dims out of office NOW.
Headline off Drudge today about this situation.
0 is looking more and more like an antichrist to me. Don’t know if he is THE antichrist but he sure fits the description closer than any other political leader in a long time.
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