MARIO CUOMO - THE CINOP BRAIN - 5 OF 5

MARIO CUOMO – THE CINOP BRAIN – 5 of 5
In pursuit of the truth – cinops be gone – Friday, January 16, 2009

Here is a biographical note on the author of Appendix IV titled The Father of Catholic Excuses – “MARIO CUOMO AT NOTRE DAME” in your next book to read, “Can a Catholic be a Democrat.” Sophia Institute Press, 2006.

A lifelong Democrat, David Carlin was a Rhode Island state senator from 1981 to 1992, serving as senate majority leader in 1989 and 1990. In 1992 he was his district’s Democratic candidate for the U.S. House of Representatives.

For over twenty years he has been a professor of philosophy and sociology at the Community College of Rhode Island.

Carlin’s previous book, The Decline and Fall of the Catholic Church in America, is available from Sophia Institute Press….

# 4 The decency of pro-choicers. Not everyone, Cuomo points out, agrees with the Catholic view of abortion: P. 207-8

And those who don’t – those who endorse legalized abortions – aren’t a ruthless alliance of anti-Christians determined to overthrow our moral standards. In many cases, the proponents of legal abortion are the very people who have worked with Catholics to realize the goals of social justice set out in papal encyclicals: the American Lutheran Church, the Central Conference of American Rabbis, the Presbyterian Church in the United States, B’nai B’rith Women, the Women of the Episcopal Church.

These are just a few of the religious organizations that don’t share the church’s position on abortion.

Only two brief comments are necessary here. One is that the religious organization listed here are all “liberal”: some liberal Christian, others liberal Jewish. And liberal religion, if the argument I made earlier in the book is sound, is an ally of secularism, a fellow-traveler assisting secularism in its opposition to all forms of traditional Christianity, including Catholicism.

The other comment is this: I grant that those who endorse legalized abortion are not “ruthless” and “callous.” For the most part, they’re well-educated, well mannered, upper-middle-class people who make for pleasant company if you happen to find yourself in their midst. But as I’ve argued throughout this book and contrary to what Cuomo told his audience at Notre Dame, THEY DO CONSTITUTE AN “AN ALLIANCE OF ANTI-CHRISTIANS DETERMINED TO OVERTHROW OUR [CATHOLIC] MORAL STANDARDS.” THIS WASN’T AS CLEAR IN 1984 AS IT IS TODAY, BUT IT’S SURPRISING THAT A SHREWD OBSERVER LIKE MARIO CUOMO WOULDN’T HAVE SEEN THIS EVEN THAT EARLY IN THE DAY.
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“It is now time for Mario Cuomo to write or debate his position in the public arena. As the Patron Saint of so-called Catholic pro-choice politicians who have now morphed into pro same-sex marriage, embryonic stem-cell research, and even assisted suicide and euthanasia advocates.

Mario Cuomo, you screwed up the Democratic Party and the Catholic Church in America. You duped the staff at the US. Conference of Catholic Bishops and all the bishops for decades. How can you look yourself in the mirror? You ought to be ashamed of yourself! YOU ARE A COWARD IF YOU DO NOT WRITE OR DEBATE THIS MATTER!” ghk
George H. Kubeck