Breaking News: Doug Kmiec to become US Ambassador to Malta

Catholic Online ^ | 7/3/09 | Deacon Keith Fournier

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I was one of those who went “toe to toe” with my colleague during the last hotly contested Presidential campaign in the United States of America. For me, it was never about my being an enthusiastic supporter of the other major candidate - I was not. It was about the threshold foundational concern that reveals the very heart of Catholic Social Justice thought, the inviolable dignity of every human life. This is the key to the whole social justice teaching of the Catholic Church. I contended then and now that it must also be the door through which we proceed in making every important voting decision.

The inviolable dignity of every human person at every age and stage is more than an issue for Catholics. It is the hermeneutic, the lens, through which our entire social justice analysis proceeds. After all, our call to give a preferential love for the poor in Catholic Social teaching is rooted in our absolute insistence on their human dignity as created in the Image of God. Our call to promote peace and always resist war is rooted in our recognition of the human dignity of even those whom we consider “enemies.” Every procured abortion is the taking of an innocent human life, the life of our first neighbor in the first home, and an act of unspeakable evil.

The "Right to Life" is not some “single issue”, it is the entire framework within which we are called to help build a just society. Allowing our positive law to continue to be used to protect the taking of any innocent human life as a “choice” and then placing the police power of the State behind such an evil act threatens the entire infrastructure of human rights.

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When Kmiec endorsed Obama, and then Sibelius,and the rest of them, he made a bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad mistake. Obama and the secular, pro-abortion liberal Democrats are playing him for the useful idiot. I don’t wonder if that ever occurred to him. I know it occurred to him. I just wonder what he said to himself to convince himself it wasn’t true (or wasn’t important...)

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http://www.collinsreport.net/2009/05/19/obama%e2%80%99s-jenkinsist-catholics-scheme/

I was in Malta a few years ago. Our guide was a lovely lady who went out of her way to make the point of how Roman Catholic Malta is. She first said “Malta is a Catholic country because that's the way we want it.” Next she said “If you want to get a divorce you must leave Malta to get it because that's the way we want it.”

Finally she said “If you want an abortion you have to get off of Malta to get it.” Then she very deliberately waited until everyone was looking at her and cupped her ear with her right hand and using her left hand like a baton, coaxed us to join her in finishing the sentence. We all shouted “...because THAT'S the way we want it.”

The bus was full of fellow conservatives from a Freedom Cruise. We all cheered afterward.