Posted on 10/01/2012 6:05:57 PM PDT by Morgana
This past weekend, a pro-life protestor was booed – at a D.C. church – for attempting to ask Kathleen Sebelius a question regarding the HHS contraception mandate at a forum following the church service.
From WorldNetDaily:
Brandi Swindell [pictured right], National Director of Generation Life, a pro-life group dedicated to mobilizing activists, students, artists, musicians and young professionals to end abortion and spread the message of sexual integrity, told WND that she had a “divine appointment” in Washington today.
“Three of us chose to attend church at St. John’s this morning,” Swindell said, “and at the last minute found out that Kathleen Sebelius, the architect of the HHS Mandate, was holding an adult forum between services.”
Swindell told WND that she got the secretary’s attention, and in front of a packed auditorium asked her, “Why are you forcing the American people to pay for abortion-inducing drugs that harm women? It’s a severe violation of religious freedom.”
The secretary ignored the question and left the stage….
Discuss the issues all you want, but do not make it personal.
That is indeed all, which no more makes them that in truth than it makes Sebelius a Catholic to you. Except that no church i would be part of is one that considers such 'Episcopagans" to be Christian, thus the evangelical movement began, but as seen with Teddy K, souls like Sebelius are typically treated as members in life and in death, as said.
And you have nowhere to go (to be consistent with RC OTC doctrine ), while from what i have seen, there would be far more alarm over a soul like Sebelius becoming a conservative evangelical than if she remained as a Catholic, or even if she became an Episcopalian.
Why? Not because evangelical overall evidence fruits of regeneration, for which all should rejoice, but because evangelicals are a threat to Rome, whose predominance is the priority.
That seems to be more predominate with RCs (but not exclusively: http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/by:religionmoderator/index?tab=comments;brevity=full;options=no-change), but nothing compared to our rounds with a certain disciple of Masters.
They do meet resistance among traditional type RCs, who understandably consider them CINOS (and some appear to yearn for the old Inquisitions), but as said, it seems there is more angst among most at the conversion of such to conservative evangelicalism, and more rejoicing when professed evangelicals convert to Rome than when other types convert.
They meet resistance but it isn't enough, apparently, to make any difference in the way they think or make rulings. I know that my pro-life Evangelical church would NEVER have permitted Sebelius to have an opportunity to have her say in the church in the first place. Now we hear that Notre Dame has invited Obama for a second time to address the student body. One would think that after all the hoopla the last time, someone would have nixed the idea this time. Are they going to allow him to cover or remove all the crosses again?
Does anyone stop to think the kind of message this sends out to not only Catholics but the entire world? It is no wonder the stats you posted show such a disconnect between what is officially stated and what is actually believed and practiced by the members. It is also not surprising the resistance that comes from the "faithful" FRoman Catholics here who have more heartburn, it seems, from anyone talking about the disconnect than the fact that there IS such a huge one.
So much for the argument that "no real Catholic would vote for Obama"!
Rev
17:4
And the woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet colour, and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls, having a golden cup in her hand full of abominations and filthiness of her fornication:
17:5
And upon her forehead [was] a name written, MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.
17:6
And I saw the woman drunken with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus: and when I saw her, I wondered with great
17:7
And the angel said unto me, Wherefore didst thou marvel? I will tell thee the mystery of the woman, and of the beast that carrieth her, which hath the seven heads and ten horns.
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