Medal of Honor Recipent - Henry Hyde

Medal of Honor Recipient - Henry Hyde
Sunday, Dec, 23, 2007
Congressman Henry Hyde was the hero to the pro-life movement in America. He was an American statesman of great renown.

In announcing Hyde as the recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom which was awarded November 5th, President George Bush noted his pro-life stance first. “Henry Hyde has served America with distinction. During his career in the House of Representatives, he was a powerful defender of life and a leading advocate for a strong national defense and for freedom around the world,” said the announcement.

Hyde was the first person to win a political victory for the pro-life cause since Roe vs. Wade, with his Hyde Amendment in 1976 banning federal public spending on abortions.

While in public office Hyde was often described as "U.S. Roman Catholicism’s most distinguished laymen.”

He believed that the tendency to equate issues such as poverty and healthcare with abortion provides Catholic-in-name-only politicians with the cover they seek to maintain their Catholic affiliation and at the same time pander to Planned Parenthood.

He believed that the Church needs to maintain its moral authority and condemn those who want to receive Holy Communion while not in the state of sanctifying grace.

Hyde remained a crucial pro-life advocate throughout his career in Congress. He retired last year after honorably serving for 32 years.

Henry Hyde is a role model, a torch and a road map for the pro-life movement’s victory in 2008 for a pro-life President and Congress.

Perhaps Henry Hyde’s best remembered commentary on the issue of abortion is this quote:

“When the time comes as it surely will, when we face the awesome moment, the final judgment. I’ve often thought, as Fulton Sheen wrote, that it is a terrible moment of loneliness. You have no advocates, you are there alone standing before God – and a terror will rip through your soul like nothing you can imagine.

“But I really think that those in the pro-life movement will not be alone. I think there will a chorus of voices that have never been heard in this world but are heard beautifully and clearly in the next world – and they will plead for everyone who has been in this movement. They will say to God, ‘Spare him because he loved us.’
That day has come for Henry Hyde. He died a couple of weeks ago. There is no doubt that the chorus of voices is in full tune.

A Blessed Christmas and a Joyous New Year to all readers of this Blog, Cinops Be Gone.
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