The Legacy of Senator Edward Kennedy - 5

The Legacy of Senator Edward Kennedy - 5
In pursuit of the truth – www.cinopsbegone.com - Monday, September 21, 2009

Ref: THE BIG CON – 6 LETTERS POSTED IN THE SEPT. BLOG

For 40 years, this deceased Kennedy was a leader of the Apostles of Dissent from the Catholic Faith on matters relating to the absolute evils of abortion, same-sex marriage, embryonic stem-cell research, assisted-suicide and euthanasia.

AND HERE IS WHAT WE GOT FROM THIS MAN!

“Consider the United States Religious Landscape Survey of 35,000 adult Americans by the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life. The results of this survey show that 31 percent of Americans were raised Catholic but only 24 percent of Americans still identify themselves as Catholics.

APPROXIMATELY 10 PERCENT OF ALL AMERICANS ARE FORMER CATHOLICS:

Further, while 2.6 percent of American converted to Catholicism, 10.1 percent of those born Catholic converted to another religion or no longer identify with any religion.

Catholics remain the largest religion in the United States, due in large part to Hispanic immigrants; almost half of all immigrants to the United States are Catholic, mostly Hispanic.” Homiletic & Pastoral Review, Cynthia Toolin, p. 18

Any Catholic who is close to the life issues, and particularly pro-life Protestant Christians believe the deceased Ted Kennedy was an abomination. At the same time, he brought a lot of converts from Catholicism into the Protestant Christian Faith. Yes, this is ALSO part of the legacy of Senator Edward Kennedy.

But wait! “An important chapter in our history has come to an end,” President Barack Obama said in a statement Aug. 26. “Our country has lost a great leader, who picked up the torch of his fallen brothers and became the greatest U.S. senator of our time.
“And the Kennedy family has lost their patriarch, a tower of strength and support through good times and bad,” he added.

But wait AGAIN! The Democratic Party of deceased President John F. Kennedy is dead. Dead as a door nail. President Obama is graciously thankful for the mindset of Ted Kennedy. Why? That PSUEDO-CATHOLIC mindset made possible his election as U.S. President.

Enter Mark Linton, a former staffer with Catholic Relief Services and aide to Obama in his days as U.S. Senator. Linton held the position of National Catholic Outreach Coordinator for Obama’s campaign as part of a campaign to convince Catholics that Obama was a candidate ACCEPTABLE to Catholics and even “pro-life” in some respects, touting a pledge from Obama to work to REDUCE the number of abortions in the U.S.A.

Denver Archbishop Charles Chaput had condemned last year’s efforts by Catholics like Linton, and especially law professor Doug Kmiec, to portray Obama as an acceptable Catholic candidate. In an October 2008 address entitled “Little Murders” Chaput stated, “To suggest – as some Catholics do – that Senator Obama is this year’s ‘real’ pro-life candidate requires a peculiar kind of self-hypnosis, moral confusion, or worse.”

But wait! Kennedy and Kerry got their revenge. Bush won the Catholic Vote over Kerry 52% to 47% in 2004. Obama won the Catholic Vote over McCain – 54% to 45%, 2008.
George H. Kubeck