Report Card # 6 on Bill Press's Book

Report Card # 6 on Bill Press’s Book
How the Republicans Stole Christmas
Posted on this blog Sat. July 9, 2011 – written - Dec. 18, 2005
Chapter 1 – Separation of Church and State (cont’d)

For about 170 years, we had a great respect for the Supreme Court’s interpretation of the Constitution. Then something happened in the 1960’s and 1970’s. Political correctness, relativism and judicial activism became part of the Court with its decisions on prayer, ten commandments, abortion etc. This is not the America I joined the Army for three years and thereupon became a U.S. citizen, April 2, 1962.

On the other hand, Bill Press believes in the wall of separation between Church and State. Yet no where is this found in the Constitution. It is a myth.

Bill Press promotes this myth and it bothers him when President George Bush did the following: The Bush administration approved a federally funded health plan for Catholics only; it excludes insurance coverage for contraceptives, abortion, sterilization, or artificial insemination. 36

To understand the why and the serious nature of the above permit Richard Thompson, President and Chief Counsel of the Thomas More Law Center explain it: A wave of persecutions is coming upon Christians but more specifically the Catholic Church in America.

It is sponsored by left-wing anti-religious groups like the American Civil Liberties Union the ACLU, and they are doing this especially against Catholics because it is clear that the Catholic Church is the main stumbling block to their agenda to de-Christianize, to remove all moral and religious foundations upon which this nation was built. And the way they are doing it is through the courts. That is the primary instrument that the other side, the ACLU is using to silence the Catholic Voice.

Maybe you heard about a year ago where there was a case brought by the Catholic Charities against the State of California because the State of California had some laws that mandated all organizations provide contraceptive and abortifacient prescription coverage for their employees.

And the Catholic Church said, ‘Wait a minute, that’s against our doctrine, we cannot do that.’ They brought the case to the Supreme Court of California and the Supreme Court of California said, ‘If you want to cover all of your employees with any kind of insurance that has prescriptive coverage, then you have to include contraceptive drugs and abortifacient.’ There was only one dissenting judge and that dissenting judge Justice Janice Brown said it is clear that this law was specifically designed to attack the religious freedom of the Catholic Church….

The Catholic Charities lawyers appealed to the Supreme Court of the United States, and the Supreme Court refused to hear it. And what Planned Parenthood and the ACLU are saying now. This is the model we are going to use in other states to ram down the throat of Catholics the very doctrine that the Catholic Church opposes. So what we have today is the ACLU using the courts to redesign American society....

The above was a keynote talk given at the Cardinal Mindszenty Foundation 26th Annual Conference Faith, Family, Freedom, and April 9, 2005 at Oakbrook Terrace. Ill. The title of the talk was, “The Catholic Answer to the ACLU.” www.Mindszenty.org

George H. Kubeck [Posted on this blog – www.cinopsbegone.com – Sat. July 9/11]