OP-ed Article by Joe Feuerherd - 1 of 2

OP-ed Article by Joe Feuerherd – 1 of 2
cinops be gone Saturday, March 29, 2008
Dear Joe Feuerherd,

Dissent is like driving your car often ten miles over the legal speed limit in any town or city. You become intoxicated with that selfish power of doing it my way. But sooner than later you will have an accident or kill yourself and others.
Thinking American Catholics are not like sheep. They study a presidential candidate from a historical point of view. Obama is today an inspirational orator. But he is no Colin Powel or Condi Rice. He is a liberal, a socialist and a leftist. At times he has the soundings of a Pied Piper. Catholic have been swing voters.
As Catholics, we live in the world but we do not promote the spirit of the world particularly when it is evil. And there is an abyss between prudential issues and absolute evil issues. It is a false, false seamless garment idea to weave them together in any way. We have such a rich Catholic heritage. It has buried all of these contemporary evils generations ago.

As a former Washington correspondent for the National Catholic Reporter let us read an excerpt of your article Joe, in the February 24th issue of The Washington Post. The piece is titled “I Voted for Obama. Will I Go Straight to …?”

“This fire-and-brimstone approach to the ballot box is the long term bequest of a conservative pope, John Paul II, enacted by a U.S. hierarchy appointed during his 27-year tenure and now by his successor, Pope Benedict XVI. John Paul’s key criterion in choosing the men who lead the United States’ 194 dioceses was their vocal support for church teachings that have been rejected in whole (birth control) and in part (women’s ordination and abortion) by many Catholics in the pews and the broader American culture. John Paul gave little weight to management or pastoral experience, as evidenced by the bishops’ handling of the clergy sex-abuse crisis.
So what’s a pro-life, pro-family, antiwar, pro-immigrant, pro-economic-justice Catholic like me supposed to do in November? That’s an easy one. True to my faith, I’ll vote for the candidate who offers the best hope of ending an unjust war, who promotes human dignity through universal health care and immigration reform, and whose policies strengthen families and provide alternatives to those in desperate situations. Sounds like I’ll be voting for the Democrat – and the bishops be damned.”

Let’s begin by stating that we all love our Catholic faith equally. Firstly, those like yourself cafeteria Catholics . Secondly, traditional Catholics who adhere to the Magisterium, Thirdly, Catholics who believe we do not have a legitimate Pope in Rome.
I have some questions for cafeteria Catholics? When you have exceptions to the Ten Commandments where do you stop? Can you make an exception for fornication, adultery and pornography? How can you call yourself pro-life and pro-family when the Democratic Party that you are endorsing with your vote is directly and indirectly promoting the absolute evils of not only abortion on demand; (infanticide), but assisted-suicide, euthanasia, embryonic stem-cell research, and same-sex marriage? You’re damming your Catholic faith and not the bishops.
(continued tomorrow)
George H. Kubeck, Duplicate and or translate into Spanish and Vietnamese.