First Amendment to the Constitution
Freedom of Religion and Conscience: Defend it! – www.cinopsbegoneblogspot.com – Sat. Mar. 31/12
On Friday, March 23rd at noon to 1 P.M., there were rallies throughout the country protesting AN UN-AMERICAN Obama Health and Human Service Mandate. This mandate violates our freedom of religion and conscience protected by the First Amendment to the Constitution. The first three lines read: “Congress shall make no law respecting the establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof;”
I attended a small rally at the busy corner of Harbor Blvd. and Katella in Orange County, California. There was a Catholic Conference going on at the Convention Center and a lot of tourists attending Disneyland. It was a positive experience and lessons to be learned. My corner had a two-faced sign on a pole which read: “Life – The First Inalienable Right” and “Defend Religious Freedom/Conscience- First Amendment to the Constitution.”There were other signs. Our corner did not pass out any literature. Next time or wherever, educational materials must be passed out.
Why? Do you remember pro-life had great rallies in January in Washington, D.C. and San Francisco? Over all, these gatherings of 300,000 and 50,000 were unreported by the news media. We are dealing with two-faced doubled standard news outlets and in their template Christian news goes unreported. The Hollywood inspired secular religion will receive all kinds of promotion.
"We are focusing on fundamental issues and most people are uninformed. We need to educate ourselves. Our Sunday Visitor pamphlet, “Religious Liberty and Catholics” may help us.
“First, the concerns of religious liberty transcend the immediate controversy over the funding of contraceptives. There are many disparate threats that impact Catholic and religious organizations. Second, contraception is an issue only because the regulations would force Catholic organizations and individuals to violate their own beliefs and the teachings of their Church. THIS IS A RELIGIOUS LIBERTY ISSUE FIRST AND FOREMOST…
“To explain the position of religious believers, one must know a bit about what religious liberty means for Americans. When the framers of the U.S. Constitution adopted the Bill of Rights, they sought to protect a series of rights not until then explicitly guaranteed in the Constitution. THE VERY FIRST OF THESE RIGHTS IS FREEDOM OF RELIGION… The founders of our country were insistent that the government should never establish an official religion. [That includes a secular religion.] This was the case in many European countries.
"In addition they had the highest regard for the freedom of conscience. Our first president, George Washington, said, “The conscientious scruples of all men should be treated with great delicacy and tenderness; and it is my wish and desire, that the laws may always be extensively accommodate to them…” [FYI – the movie “October Baby” is a must see.]
George H. Kubeck – We can discuss all these matters further when we meet on the first and third Thursday of each month from 9 to 10 A.M. at McDonalds, below Valley View and Ball Rd., Cypress. Also we need to make hard choices. You may like Ben & Jerry Ice Cream, but that corporation is financing the OCCUPY Movement. In like manner delicious and expensive Star Buck’s Coffee is promoting and financing fake same-sex marriage.
Saturday, March 31, 2012
Friday, March 30, 2012
Planned Parenthood Kills the Unborn!
Planned Parenthood Kills the Unborn
The relentless pursuit of the truth – www.cinopsbegoneblogspot.com – Friday, March 30, 2012
WHY? – MONEY!!! Yesterday, I received some info from American Center for Law*and Justice, P.O. Box 90555, Washington, D.C. 20090-0555 titled, “Bringing down America’s Pro-Abortion Giant.”
The Bad News: More than 53 million abortions have been performed since Roe v. Wade.
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Total Planned Parenthood abortions performed so far: 5,649,058 – more than the population of the entire Washington, D.C., metropolitan area – per Planned Parenthood’s 2010 report.
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Of all the women who seek pregnancy care at Planned Parenthood outlets, 98% are sold abortions. For every pre-natal care client, Planned Parenthood performs about 69 abortions – a 69:1 death-to-life ratio. Planned Parenthood also performs 392 abortions for every one adoption referral.
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Government funding today accounts for 46.5% of Planned Parenthood’s income, to the tune of $1.3 million per day: a total of nearly half a billion dollars a year.
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Planned Parenthood’ annual report indicates the organization has a total budget of 1.04 billion and excess revenue of $18.5 million.
The Good News: The ACLJ has been committed to the cause of life for more than two decades. The number of Planned Parenthood affiliates is in decline – only 86 affiliates, down from a high of 191 – thanks largely to strong grassroots activism targeting Planned Parenthood, and a legal and legislative counter-offensive against government funding.
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From 2009 to 2010, Planned Parenthood experienced a 5 % decline in income, a 70% decline in profit, a 27% decline in contributions, and decline in the number of abortions performed.
•Attendance at Planned Parenthood sex education programs was down 8%.
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All of this represents the first decline in Planned Parenthood’s abortion business in 16 years.
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The ACLJ continues to fight. WE BATTLED STRENOUSLY IN SUPPORT OF A TEXAS LAW REQUIRING ABORTION CLINICS [MILLS] TO SHOW THE MOTHER A SONOGRAM AND LET HER HEAR HER BABY’S HEARTBEAT BEFORE PERFORMING AN ABORTION – AND A FEDERAL APPEALS COURT HAS NOW UPHELD THAT LAW. [WISH WE HAD THAT IN CALIFORNIA!
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ACLJ is working to cut off federal funding for Planned Parenthood.
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The New Hampshire House of Representatives also passed a bill steering state-controlled family planning funds away from abortion businesses like Planned Parenthood.
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Illinois unanimously passed a law requiring everyone working in an abortuary to report suspected sexual abuse.
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IN 2011 ALONE, A TOTAL OF 83 PRO-LIFE INITIATIVES BECAME LAW. [YES, AND INDIRECTLY WE CAN THANK THE TEA PARTY FOR THIS. AND ITS HOGWASH BY U.S. CATHOLIC MAGAZINE FOR ITS NEGATIVE ARTICLE ON “CATHOLICS AND THE TEA PARTY” IN THE APRIL 2012 ISSUE.]
George H. Kubeck - *your gift will be doubled to help fight and bring down America’s pro-abortion giant!
The relentless pursuit of the truth – www.cinopsbegoneblogspot.com – Friday, March 30, 2012
WHY? – MONEY!!! Yesterday, I received some info from American Center for Law*and Justice, P.O. Box 90555, Washington, D.C. 20090-0555 titled, “Bringing down America’s Pro-Abortion Giant.”
The Bad News: More than 53 million abortions have been performed since Roe v. Wade.
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Total Planned Parenthood abortions performed so far: 5,649,058 – more than the population of the entire Washington, D.C., metropolitan area – per Planned Parenthood’s 2010 report.
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Of all the women who seek pregnancy care at Planned Parenthood outlets, 98% are sold abortions. For every pre-natal care client, Planned Parenthood performs about 69 abortions – a 69:1 death-to-life ratio. Planned Parenthood also performs 392 abortions for every one adoption referral.
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Government funding today accounts for 46.5% of Planned Parenthood’s income, to the tune of $1.3 million per day: a total of nearly half a billion dollars a year.
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Planned Parenthood’ annual report indicates the organization has a total budget of 1.04 billion and excess revenue of $18.5 million.
The Good News: The ACLJ has been committed to the cause of life for more than two decades. The number of Planned Parenthood affiliates is in decline – only 86 affiliates, down from a high of 191 – thanks largely to strong grassroots activism targeting Planned Parenthood, and a legal and legislative counter-offensive against government funding.
•
From 2009 to 2010, Planned Parenthood experienced a 5 % decline in income, a 70% decline in profit, a 27% decline in contributions, and decline in the number of abortions performed.
•Attendance at Planned Parenthood sex education programs was down 8%.
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All of this represents the first decline in Planned Parenthood’s abortion business in 16 years.
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The ACLJ continues to fight. WE BATTLED STRENOUSLY IN SUPPORT OF A TEXAS LAW REQUIRING ABORTION CLINICS [MILLS] TO SHOW THE MOTHER A SONOGRAM AND LET HER HEAR HER BABY’S HEARTBEAT BEFORE PERFORMING AN ABORTION – AND A FEDERAL APPEALS COURT HAS NOW UPHELD THAT LAW. [WISH WE HAD THAT IN CALIFORNIA!
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ACLJ is working to cut off federal funding for Planned Parenthood.
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The New Hampshire House of Representatives also passed a bill steering state-controlled family planning funds away from abortion businesses like Planned Parenthood.
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Illinois unanimously passed a law requiring everyone working in an abortuary to report suspected sexual abuse.
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IN 2011 ALONE, A TOTAL OF 83 PRO-LIFE INITIATIVES BECAME LAW. [YES, AND INDIRECTLY WE CAN THANK THE TEA PARTY FOR THIS. AND ITS HOGWASH BY U.S. CATHOLIC MAGAZINE FOR ITS NEGATIVE ARTICLE ON “CATHOLICS AND THE TEA PARTY” IN THE APRIL 2012 ISSUE.]
George H. Kubeck - *your gift will be doubled to help fight and bring down America’s pro-abortion giant!
Wednesday, March 28, 2012
Excerpts - 2 - Defending a Higher Law
Excerpts – 2 – Defending a Higher Law
The relentless pursuit of the truth – www.cinopsbegoneblogspot.com – Wednesday, March 28, 2012
“TFP’s book clearly and accurately spells out the key issue and arguments exposing the pro-gay movement from both the Catholic and scientific perspective.” Joseph Nicolosi, PhD President, National Association for Research & Therapy of Homosexuality (NARTH)
“For the First Time Society Faces A Homosexual Movement: For the first time in the history of the Christian West, and perhaps humanity, society faces not just scattered groups of influential homosexuality, but an organized, visible movement of avowed homosexuals who not only boast of their habits but unite in an attempt to impose their ideology on society. [Ref. Excerpts – 1 – 3-26-12]
“This is the homosexual movement – a vast network of organizations, pressure groups, radical intellectuals and activists who strive to impose changes in laws, customs, morals and mentalities, so that homosexuality is not only tolerated but also accepted as good and normal. Hence, movement activists pressure society to legalize both the practice and public manifestations of homosexuality, such as same-sex “marriage,” while relentlessly assailing those who defend traditional morals.
“Not a Civil Rights Movement, But a Moral Revolution: Writing in the Chicago Free Press, homosexual activist Paul Varnell affirms: ‘The fundamental controverted issue about homosexuality is not discrimination; hate crimes or domestic partnership, but the morality of homosexuality. Even if gays obtain non-discrimination laws, hate crimes law and domestic partnership benefits, those can do little to counter the underlying moral condemnation which will continue to fester beneath the law and generate hostility, fuel hate crimes, support conversion therapies, encourage gay suicide and inhibit full social acceptance that’s our goal.’
“Chapter 2 – Making the Link No One Wants to Make: Chastity, modesty and temperance – distinctive signs of Christian civilization – have given way to an unbridled quest for carnal pleasure and an unimaginable display of the human body… Detaching Sentiment from Reason: The sexual revolution of the sixties was prepared by a century of cultural developments where sentiment was detached from reason… In so doing, romance and love became the highest ideal. In the name of love and passion, every rule and social convention could be broken. When applies to morality, this mentality was devastating, since adultery and even prostitution could be rationalized and even acclaimed.
“The Sexual Revolution: From Sentiment to Carnal Sensation: In 1953, Hugh Hefner founded Playboy. Unabashedly hedonistic, this magazine “was a seminal influence on the ‘sexual revolution’ of the sixties… In May 1960, the FDA approved the sale of a pill that arguably would have a greater impact on American culture than any drug in the nation’s history.
“The Hippie Movement and Student Revolt Serve as Standard-Bearers: The separation of sexual activity from procreation, facilitated by contraceptive pill, sparked a sexual revolution… At the heart of the sexual revolution is a revolt against all norms of morality that temper or restrain man’s disordered passions.
“New Standard-Bearers for the Sexual Revolution: To counter the homosexual offensive without also combating the sexual revolution is to disregard a most important part of this battle. Thus, we must struggle all the more against abortion, pornography and promiscuity. We must wage a spiritual crusade to bring chastity back to society & restore modesty as the necessary guardian of purity & expression of human dignity & honor…”
G.H.K.
The relentless pursuit of the truth – www.cinopsbegoneblogspot.com – Wednesday, March 28, 2012
“TFP’s book clearly and accurately spells out the key issue and arguments exposing the pro-gay movement from both the Catholic and scientific perspective.” Joseph Nicolosi, PhD President, National Association for Research & Therapy of Homosexuality (NARTH)
“For the First Time Society Faces A Homosexual Movement: For the first time in the history of the Christian West, and perhaps humanity, society faces not just scattered groups of influential homosexuality, but an organized, visible movement of avowed homosexuals who not only boast of their habits but unite in an attempt to impose their ideology on society. [Ref. Excerpts – 1 – 3-26-12]
“This is the homosexual movement – a vast network of organizations, pressure groups, radical intellectuals and activists who strive to impose changes in laws, customs, morals and mentalities, so that homosexuality is not only tolerated but also accepted as good and normal. Hence, movement activists pressure society to legalize both the practice and public manifestations of homosexuality, such as same-sex “marriage,” while relentlessly assailing those who defend traditional morals.
“Not a Civil Rights Movement, But a Moral Revolution: Writing in the Chicago Free Press, homosexual activist Paul Varnell affirms: ‘The fundamental controverted issue about homosexuality is not discrimination; hate crimes or domestic partnership, but the morality of homosexuality. Even if gays obtain non-discrimination laws, hate crimes law and domestic partnership benefits, those can do little to counter the underlying moral condemnation which will continue to fester beneath the law and generate hostility, fuel hate crimes, support conversion therapies, encourage gay suicide and inhibit full social acceptance that’s our goal.’
“Chapter 2 – Making the Link No One Wants to Make: Chastity, modesty and temperance – distinctive signs of Christian civilization – have given way to an unbridled quest for carnal pleasure and an unimaginable display of the human body… Detaching Sentiment from Reason: The sexual revolution of the sixties was prepared by a century of cultural developments where sentiment was detached from reason… In so doing, romance and love became the highest ideal. In the name of love and passion, every rule and social convention could be broken. When applies to morality, this mentality was devastating, since adultery and even prostitution could be rationalized and even acclaimed.
“The Sexual Revolution: From Sentiment to Carnal Sensation: In 1953, Hugh Hefner founded Playboy. Unabashedly hedonistic, this magazine “was a seminal influence on the ‘sexual revolution’ of the sixties… In May 1960, the FDA approved the sale of a pill that arguably would have a greater impact on American culture than any drug in the nation’s history.
“The Hippie Movement and Student Revolt Serve as Standard-Bearers: The separation of sexual activity from procreation, facilitated by contraceptive pill, sparked a sexual revolution… At the heart of the sexual revolution is a revolt against all norms of morality that temper or restrain man’s disordered passions.
“New Standard-Bearers for the Sexual Revolution: To counter the homosexual offensive without also combating the sexual revolution is to disregard a most important part of this battle. Thus, we must struggle all the more against abortion, pornography and promiscuity. We must wage a spiritual crusade to bring chastity back to society & restore modesty as the necessary guardian of purity & expression of human dignity & honor…”
G.H.K.
Tuesday, March 27, 2012
Loretta Sanchez and Obama's HHS Mandate
Loretta Sanchez and Obama’s H.H.S. Mandate
The relentless pursuit of the truth – www.cinopsbegoneblogspot.com – Tuesday, March 27, 2012
“There is something weird and incomprehensible in having Congresswoman Loretta Sanchez represent us in Congress. She is on the Obama team and represents the cities of Anaheim, Garden Grove and Santa Ana right in the heart of conservative Orange County.
“She is for the Federal Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Mandate that forces Catholic and other Christian organizations and companies be required to provide contraception, sterilization and abortion- inducing drugs to their employees. It’s like in your face voters of Orange County! Sanchez is a member of the Obama regime. Here are several other regulations she supports.
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A Justice Department decision to characterize the Defense of Marriage Act (a law signed by President Bill Clinton in 1996 that defined marriage as the legal union of one man and one woman) as an act of bigotry, and those who support such a law a being motivated by bias, prejudice, homophobic and racist.
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A Justice Department legal brief calling for the elimination of the “ministerial exception” that allows religious groups to choose their own ministers without government interference.
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Legislative efforts in certain states to require all adoption and foster-child agencies to give children to unmarried and/or same-sex couples, and proposals that would impact the conscience rights of doctors and nurses, and even impact the administration of parishes.
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New federal rules stipulating that agencies helping migrants must provide the “full range” of reproductive services (including abortion and contraception) for refugees.
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New federal requirements that organizations like Catholic Relief Services provide condom distribution for overseas anti-AIDS programs and other “reproductive services.
“Cardinal Timothy Dolan condemned these proposed regulations: “To force American citizens to choose between violating their conscience and forgoing their health care is literally unconscionable.”
Congresswoman Loretta Sanchez is attacking, “The First Amendment to the Constitution: Freedom of Religion and Conscience.” Recall the thoughts of now Bishop Jaime Soto, “Loretta Sanchez (D-Orange) has consistently chosen to vote with her party rather than represent her district on this fundamental issue of life. Her votes against the ban on Partial-Birth Abortions perpetuate an ethic that can undermine many other issues affecting her community, placing families and the most vulnerable among us at risk.” [For more info check out “Religious Liberty and Catholics” Our Sunday Visitor]
“Who does Sanchez represent? Is it Planned Parenthood, the ACLU, and the Homosexual Agenda? She must believe voters are duped and stupid. Add to this is her 3 time vote for partial-birth abortions, same-sex marriage, and the passage of Obama-Care. Now we find out it’s a dollar monthly from everyone to pay for abortions. It is hard to understand how anyone can support her or her political party in this election cycle.
For example, we will have an initiative on the ballot for Californians to vote on. “Prohibits abortion for females under 18 without Parental Notification:” It was passed in Texas with about 60% of the vote. Loretta’s party will vote against it. It’s a shame to have her in Congress… “ George H. Kubeck
The relentless pursuit of the truth – www.cinopsbegoneblogspot.com – Tuesday, March 27, 2012
“There is something weird and incomprehensible in having Congresswoman Loretta Sanchez represent us in Congress. She is on the Obama team and represents the cities of Anaheim, Garden Grove and Santa Ana right in the heart of conservative Orange County.
“She is for the Federal Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Mandate that forces Catholic and other Christian organizations and companies be required to provide contraception, sterilization and abortion- inducing drugs to their employees. It’s like in your face voters of Orange County! Sanchez is a member of the Obama regime. Here are several other regulations she supports.
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A Justice Department decision to characterize the Defense of Marriage Act (a law signed by President Bill Clinton in 1996 that defined marriage as the legal union of one man and one woman) as an act of bigotry, and those who support such a law a being motivated by bias, prejudice, homophobic and racist.
•
A Justice Department legal brief calling for the elimination of the “ministerial exception” that allows religious groups to choose their own ministers without government interference.
•
Legislative efforts in certain states to require all adoption and foster-child agencies to give children to unmarried and/or same-sex couples, and proposals that would impact the conscience rights of doctors and nurses, and even impact the administration of parishes.
•
New federal rules stipulating that agencies helping migrants must provide the “full range” of reproductive services (including abortion and contraception) for refugees.
•
New federal requirements that organizations like Catholic Relief Services provide condom distribution for overseas anti-AIDS programs and other “reproductive services.
“Cardinal Timothy Dolan condemned these proposed regulations: “To force American citizens to choose between violating their conscience and forgoing their health care is literally unconscionable.”
Congresswoman Loretta Sanchez is attacking, “The First Amendment to the Constitution: Freedom of Religion and Conscience.” Recall the thoughts of now Bishop Jaime Soto, “Loretta Sanchez (D-Orange) has consistently chosen to vote with her party rather than represent her district on this fundamental issue of life. Her votes against the ban on Partial-Birth Abortions perpetuate an ethic that can undermine many other issues affecting her community, placing families and the most vulnerable among us at risk.” [For more info check out “Religious Liberty and Catholics” Our Sunday Visitor]
“Who does Sanchez represent? Is it Planned Parenthood, the ACLU, and the Homosexual Agenda? She must believe voters are duped and stupid. Add to this is her 3 time vote for partial-birth abortions, same-sex marriage, and the passage of Obama-Care. Now we find out it’s a dollar monthly from everyone to pay for abortions. It is hard to understand how anyone can support her or her political party in this election cycle.
For example, we will have an initiative on the ballot for Californians to vote on. “Prohibits abortion for females under 18 without Parental Notification:” It was passed in Texas with about 60% of the vote. Loretta’s party will vote against it. It’s a shame to have her in Congress… “ George H. Kubeck
Monday, March 26, 2012
Excerpts from "Defending a Higher Law"
Excerpts from “Defending a Higher Law
In pursuit of the truth – www.cinopsbegoneblogspot.com – Monday, March 26, 2012
“My people are destroyed from a lack of knowledge and false information.” – “EUREKA! Finally a thoroughly objective, rational, logical and factual analysis of the homosexual myth currently permeating modern society,” Rev. Fr. John Trigilio, Jr., PhD. ThD. Pres., Confraternity of Cath. Clergy
“Preliminary Remarks: In writing this book, we have no intention to defame or disparage anyone… As practicing Catholics, we are filled with compassion and pray for those who struggle against unrelenting and violent temptation to sin be it toward homosexual sin or otherwise… We will also not use the word gay as a synonym of homosexual, except when quoted, because the universal acceptance of this usage is a victory for the homosexual movement… The indiscriminate use of the word homosexual and it synonyms has generated much confusion in the public, Many times, it is unclear if it refers to someone with same-sex attraction only or if it refers to someone who practices homosexual acts.
“Introduction: The Supreme Court’s June 26m 2003 decision in Lawrence v. Texas effectively denied the existence of God’s Eternal Law and natural law, and established its own atheistic and anarchic “morality.” The 6-3 majority recognized liberty as the supreme norm of human thought and action. “At the heart of liberty is the right to define one’s own concept of existence, of meaning, of the universe, and of the mystery of human life.” In the name of this absolute freedom, the Court established a constitutionally protected right to the private practice of sodomy… the bench erected the legal constructs for a future decision granting constitutional protection to same-sex “marriage” …
“A Clash of Two Americas: Justice Scalia further observed in his dissent that the Supreme Court had taken “sides in the culture war.” This Culture War divides America. On one side, there is a large sector of the American public which has long grieved over the abandonment of God’s moral laws… For this Ten Commandments America, it is only too obvious that if America turns its back on God and His law, God will turn His Back on America. On the other side, there is a liberal America that subscribes to the philosophical principle of absolute liberty. This leads to the establishment of an atheistic and anarchic “morality,” which shows increasing intolerance for what still remains of Christian civilization and the natural order in our culture and society. Among these precious remnants are the sacred institution of marriage and family.
“Same-Sex “Marriage,” A Decisive Step in the Homosexual Offensive: Citing Lawrence as precedent, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court ruled Nov. 18, 2003, in Goodridge v. Department of Public Health, that two men or two women have a right to marriage under the constitution o the Bay State… Both decisions were of vital importance to the homosexual movement. Indeed, the movement must persuade public opinion that homosexuality is normal, albeit different. However, homosexuality will never be fully accepted as normal as long as homosexual partners cannot “marry.”...
“Strategies for Victory: The successful defense of traditional marriage and the family by Ten Commandments America will halt the homosexual offensive… the broad coalition now defending marriage and the family in this Cultural War must work hard to dispel the confusion shrewdly spread around the issue by the homosexual movement. We must refute the sophisms, myths and doctrinal errors that psychologically hinder many Americans from joining us in the fray.
The American Society for the Defense of Tradition, Family and Property (TFP) is publishing this 2004 book as a contribution to the coalition’s overall effort…” P.O. Box 251, Spring Grove, PA 17362 – WHEN MY BOOK ARRIVES, I’LL SEND $14.95:
George H. Kubeck -
In pursuit of the truth – www.cinopsbegoneblogspot.com – Monday, March 26, 2012
“My people are destroyed from a lack of knowledge and false information.” – “EUREKA! Finally a thoroughly objective, rational, logical and factual analysis of the homosexual myth currently permeating modern society,” Rev. Fr. John Trigilio, Jr., PhD. ThD. Pres., Confraternity of Cath. Clergy
“Preliminary Remarks: In writing this book, we have no intention to defame or disparage anyone… As practicing Catholics, we are filled with compassion and pray for those who struggle against unrelenting and violent temptation to sin be it toward homosexual sin or otherwise… We will also not use the word gay as a synonym of homosexual, except when quoted, because the universal acceptance of this usage is a victory for the homosexual movement… The indiscriminate use of the word homosexual and it synonyms has generated much confusion in the public, Many times, it is unclear if it refers to someone with same-sex attraction only or if it refers to someone who practices homosexual acts.
“Introduction: The Supreme Court’s June 26m 2003 decision in Lawrence v. Texas effectively denied the existence of God’s Eternal Law and natural law, and established its own atheistic and anarchic “morality.” The 6-3 majority recognized liberty as the supreme norm of human thought and action. “At the heart of liberty is the right to define one’s own concept of existence, of meaning, of the universe, and of the mystery of human life.” In the name of this absolute freedom, the Court established a constitutionally protected right to the private practice of sodomy… the bench erected the legal constructs for a future decision granting constitutional protection to same-sex “marriage” …
“A Clash of Two Americas: Justice Scalia further observed in his dissent that the Supreme Court had taken “sides in the culture war.” This Culture War divides America. On one side, there is a large sector of the American public which has long grieved over the abandonment of God’s moral laws… For this Ten Commandments America, it is only too obvious that if America turns its back on God and His law, God will turn His Back on America. On the other side, there is a liberal America that subscribes to the philosophical principle of absolute liberty. This leads to the establishment of an atheistic and anarchic “morality,” which shows increasing intolerance for what still remains of Christian civilization and the natural order in our culture and society. Among these precious remnants are the sacred institution of marriage and family.
“Same-Sex “Marriage,” A Decisive Step in the Homosexual Offensive: Citing Lawrence as precedent, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court ruled Nov. 18, 2003, in Goodridge v. Department of Public Health, that two men or two women have a right to marriage under the constitution o the Bay State… Both decisions were of vital importance to the homosexual movement. Indeed, the movement must persuade public opinion that homosexuality is normal, albeit different. However, homosexuality will never be fully accepted as normal as long as homosexual partners cannot “marry.”...
“Strategies for Victory: The successful defense of traditional marriage and the family by Ten Commandments America will halt the homosexual offensive… the broad coalition now defending marriage and the family in this Cultural War must work hard to dispel the confusion shrewdly spread around the issue by the homosexual movement. We must refute the sophisms, myths and doctrinal errors that psychologically hinder many Americans from joining us in the fray.
The American Society for the Defense of Tradition, Family and Property (TFP) is publishing this 2004 book as a contribution to the coalition’s overall effort…” P.O. Box 251, Spring Grove, PA 17362 – WHEN MY BOOK ARRIVES, I’LL SEND $14.95:
George H. Kubeck -
Saturday, March 24, 2012
Bishop Lori Responds to the Editorial of "America"
Bishop Lori Responds to the Editorial of “America”
“The March 5th (Jesuit) America editorial (“Policy Not Liberty”) takes the United States bishops to task for entering too deeply into the finer points of health care policy as they ponder what slightly revised Obama administration mandate might mean for the Catholic Church in the U.S.A.
“These details, we are told, do not impinge on religious liberty. We are also told that our recent forthright language borders on incivility. What details are we talking about? For one thing, a government mandate to insure, one way or another, for an abortifacient drug called Ella. Here the “details” would seem to be fertilized ova, small defenseless human beings, who will likely suffer abortion, within the purview of a church-run health insurance program.
“What other details are at issue? Some may think the government is forcing the church to provide insurance coverage for direct surgical sterilizations such a tubal litigations is a matter of policy. Such force, though, feels an awful lot like an infringement on religious liberty.
“Still another detail is ordinary contraception. Never is ordinary conception. Never mind that the dire societal ills which Pope Paul predicted would ensue with the widespread practice of artificial contraception have more than come true. Government makes the rules and the rules are the rules.
“So, the bishops should regard providing (and paying for) contraception as, well, a policy detail. After all, it’s not like the federal government is asking bishops to deny the divinity of Christ. It’s just a detail in a moral theology – life and love, or something as that. And why worry about other ways the government may soon require the church to violate its teachings as a matter of policy?
“More details come to mind. Many if not most church entities are self-insured. Thus, Catholic social service agencies, schools, and hospitals could end up paying for abortifacients, sterilizations, and contraception’s.
"If the editorial is to be believed, bishops should regard it not as matter of religious liberty but merely policy that as providers they teach one thing but as employers they are made to teach something else. In other words, we are made to teach something else. In other works we are forced to be a countersign to church teaching and to give people plenty of reason not to follow it. The detail in question here is called “scandal.”
“Then there is the detail of religious insurers and companies that are not owned by the Church but which exist solely to serve the church’s mission. The new “accommodation” leaves them out in the cold. If I really wanted to get into the weeds … mention the conscience rights of individual employers.
“Have I forgotten any other details we bishops shouldn’t be attending to? Well, I guess we’re policy wonks for wondering if the government has a compelling interest in forcing the church to insure for proscribed services when contraception is covered in 90 percent health care plans, if free in Title X programs, and is available from Walmart (generic) for about $10., a month. Pardon me also for wondering whether the most basic freedom, religious liberty, isn’t being compromised, not by a right to health care, but by a claim to “services” which regard pregnancy and fertility as diseases. And didn’t President Obama promise adequate conscience protection in the reform of health care?”…
“March 19th issue (page 27) of America published by U.S. Jesuits” – letters@americamagazine.org – Most Rev. William E. Lori, Bishop of Bridgeport, Chairman, Ad Hoc Committee on Religion Liberty: [ghk- Sat. March 24/12]
“The March 5th (Jesuit) America editorial (“Policy Not Liberty”) takes the United States bishops to task for entering too deeply into the finer points of health care policy as they ponder what slightly revised Obama administration mandate might mean for the Catholic Church in the U.S.A.
“These details, we are told, do not impinge on religious liberty. We are also told that our recent forthright language borders on incivility. What details are we talking about? For one thing, a government mandate to insure, one way or another, for an abortifacient drug called Ella. Here the “details” would seem to be fertilized ova, small defenseless human beings, who will likely suffer abortion, within the purview of a church-run health insurance program.
“What other details are at issue? Some may think the government is forcing the church to provide insurance coverage for direct surgical sterilizations such a tubal litigations is a matter of policy. Such force, though, feels an awful lot like an infringement on religious liberty.
“Still another detail is ordinary contraception. Never is ordinary conception. Never mind that the dire societal ills which Pope Paul predicted would ensue with the widespread practice of artificial contraception have more than come true. Government makes the rules and the rules are the rules.
“So, the bishops should regard providing (and paying for) contraception as, well, a policy detail. After all, it’s not like the federal government is asking bishops to deny the divinity of Christ. It’s just a detail in a moral theology – life and love, or something as that. And why worry about other ways the government may soon require the church to violate its teachings as a matter of policy?
“More details come to mind. Many if not most church entities are self-insured. Thus, Catholic social service agencies, schools, and hospitals could end up paying for abortifacients, sterilizations, and contraception’s.
"If the editorial is to be believed, bishops should regard it not as matter of religious liberty but merely policy that as providers they teach one thing but as employers they are made to teach something else. In other words, we are made to teach something else. In other works we are forced to be a countersign to church teaching and to give people plenty of reason not to follow it. The detail in question here is called “scandal.”
“Then there is the detail of religious insurers and companies that are not owned by the Church but which exist solely to serve the church’s mission. The new “accommodation” leaves them out in the cold. If I really wanted to get into the weeds … mention the conscience rights of individual employers.
“Have I forgotten any other details we bishops shouldn’t be attending to? Well, I guess we’re policy wonks for wondering if the government has a compelling interest in forcing the church to insure for proscribed services when contraception is covered in 90 percent health care plans, if free in Title X programs, and is available from Walmart (generic) for about $10., a month. Pardon me also for wondering whether the most basic freedom, religious liberty, isn’t being compromised, not by a right to health care, but by a claim to “services” which regard pregnancy and fertility as diseases. And didn’t President Obama promise adequate conscience protection in the reform of health care?”…
“March 19th issue (page 27) of America published by U.S. Jesuits” – letters@americamagazine.org – Most Rev. William E. Lori, Bishop of Bridgeport, Chairman, Ad Hoc Committee on Religion Liberty: [ghk- Sat. March 24/12]
Thursday, March 22, 2012
Defend Religious Freedom !!
DEFEND RELIGIOUS FREEDOM !!
SIGN & FLAG WAVING
OPPORTUNITY IN O.C. *
Friday March 23rd
12:00 noon—1:00 PM
(same time as national rallies)
STOP THE MANDATE!
We are a group of loosely affiliated Constitution-Loving Americans!! Come on out and gather together, wave your signs, wave your flags and take a stand against the HHS Mandate.
WHERE
The Southwest Corner of Harbor and Katella in Anaheim. (This is the intersection of the Convention Center and Disneyland.)
PARKINGSeveral parking struc-tures are available in the Conven-tion Center complex and local ho-tel lots (parking can run up to $15/day) but the location is very high profile...worth the parking in-vestment!
Please bring your signs!! Positive messages only please. Families welcome!
"Whoever refuses to defend a conceived but unborn person is committing a serious violation of moral order. The death of an innocent can never be legitimized. To do so is to undermine the basis of society," Pope Benedict to Spain's Bishop Conference, January 10, 2012.
"Above all, the common outcry, which is justly made on behalf of human rights -- for example, the right to health, to home, to work, to family, to culture -- is false and illusory if the right to life, the most basic and fundamental right and the condition of all other personal rights, is not defended with maximum determination" (Pope John Paul II, 1988, The Vocation and the Mission of the Lay Faithful in the Church and in the World (Christifideles Laici), n.38).
*Orange County, California, U.S.A.
SIGN & FLAG WAVING
OPPORTUNITY IN O.C. *
Friday March 23rd
12:00 noon—1:00 PM
(same time as national rallies)
STOP THE MANDATE!
We are a group of loosely affiliated Constitution-Loving Americans!! Come on out and gather together, wave your signs, wave your flags and take a stand against the HHS Mandate.
WHERE
The Southwest Corner of Harbor and Katella in Anaheim. (This is the intersection of the Convention Center and Disneyland.)
PARKINGSeveral parking struc-tures are available in the Conven-tion Center complex and local ho-tel lots (parking can run up to $15/day) but the location is very high profile...worth the parking in-vestment!
Please bring your signs!! Positive messages only please. Families welcome!
"Whoever refuses to defend a conceived but unborn person is committing a serious violation of moral order. The death of an innocent can never be legitimized. To do so is to undermine the basis of society," Pope Benedict to Spain's Bishop Conference, January 10, 2012.
"Above all, the common outcry, which is justly made on behalf of human rights -- for example, the right to health, to home, to work, to family, to culture -- is false and illusory if the right to life, the most basic and fundamental right and the condition of all other personal rights, is not defended with maximum determination" (Pope John Paul II, 1988, The Vocation and the Mission of the Lay Faithful in the Church and in the World (Christifideles Laici), n.38).
*Orange County, California, U.S.A.
10 Questions about Campaign Managers*
10 Questions about Campaign Managers*
In pursuit of the truth – www.cinopsbegoneblogspot.com – Thursday, March 22, 2012
On The Issue of Etch the Sketch: About 12 years ago, I recall talk show hosts Medved and Hewitt promoting Schwarzenegger over Mclintock. They were deadly wrong. Likewise is their promotion of Romney vs. Santorium: If Santorium spent 1/2 of Romney’s campaign money, Santorium would lead.
1.)We handle CEO-worthy budgets … In 2000; President George W. Bush broke records raising $100 million before the primaries. But that is a drop in the bucket compared with the hefty 1.8 billion spent between the Republicans and Democrats in preparation for the 2008 presidential election – not to mention the $1 billion – plus the former Federal Election Commission Chairman Michael Toner predicts will go into Presidents Obama reelection campaign alone…
2.)…but we never took Accounting 101: Few campaign managers have a business background, yet some admit that, given their dual CEO-COO roles, they could use a crash course in accounting at the very least: … Well-known pundit James Carville, for one, worked as a litigator, high school teacher and military service member before running President Clinton’s winning 1992 campaign. “It’s a street-smart business,” says Schmidt, McCain’s aide.
3.)The Do Not Call Registry can’t touch us: The nonpartisan Pew Research Center reports that 47 percent of registered voters received automated call about the 2008 presidential campaign, and a whopping 69 percent received them during the 2010 midterms. Coming from most business, this kind of harassment is against the law – but the law doesn’t apply to candidates..
4.)We’d rather not discuss our past: Unlike candidates, campaign managers are expected to stay out of the spotlight. But as a candidate gets closer to being elected, senior staffers may find it increasingly difficult (and difficult) to keep to the shadows… And Dick Morris, the strategist on Pres. Clinton’s 1996 campaign resigned when tabloid reports of infidelity with a prostitute …
5.)We did well in the polls? We made the polls. Roughly 10 percent of a campaign’s budget goes to research , which, includes public polling and digging up dirt on the competitor…
6.)We like winning… cash bonus: Of course, many managers talk about wanting their candidate to win for the sake of the public good, … but the prize for winning can be a additional one or two month’s salary (salaries can run $2,000 to $15,000 a month, or around $100,00- a year)
7.)The money you send doesn’t reach us: … In the 2008 presidential election, the Obama campaign doled out nearly $46 million, or 6 percent of its total spending to those groups, according to the nonpartisan Center for Responsive Politics…
8.)Barely a month after Jon Huntsman formally began his bid for the Republican presidential nomination for instance, his campaign manager, Susie Wiles, resigned and several months later endorsed team Mitt Romney (she decided he would “be best at running against Barack.”)
9.)This job is a stepping-stone – to stardom”: Bob Beckel, co-host of the Five on Fox News, who ran Walter Mondale’s presidential campaign in 1984, says he doesn’t know of anyone getting out of politics who isn’t hoping to get into TV …
10.)The win-at-all-costs mentality of campaigns can wreak havoc with ethics…
George H. Kubeck, *Smart Money, 20th Anniversary Issue, “10 Things Campaign Managers Won’t Tell You”
In pursuit of the truth – www.cinopsbegoneblogspot.com – Thursday, March 22, 2012
On The Issue of Etch the Sketch: About 12 years ago, I recall talk show hosts Medved and Hewitt promoting Schwarzenegger over Mclintock. They were deadly wrong. Likewise is their promotion of Romney vs. Santorium: If Santorium spent 1/2 of Romney’s campaign money, Santorium would lead.
1.)We handle CEO-worthy budgets … In 2000; President George W. Bush broke records raising $100 million before the primaries. But that is a drop in the bucket compared with the hefty 1.8 billion spent between the Republicans and Democrats in preparation for the 2008 presidential election – not to mention the $1 billion – plus the former Federal Election Commission Chairman Michael Toner predicts will go into Presidents Obama reelection campaign alone…
2.)…but we never took Accounting 101: Few campaign managers have a business background, yet some admit that, given their dual CEO-COO roles, they could use a crash course in accounting at the very least: … Well-known pundit James Carville, for one, worked as a litigator, high school teacher and military service member before running President Clinton’s winning 1992 campaign. “It’s a street-smart business,” says Schmidt, McCain’s aide.
3.)The Do Not Call Registry can’t touch us: The nonpartisan Pew Research Center reports that 47 percent of registered voters received automated call about the 2008 presidential campaign, and a whopping 69 percent received them during the 2010 midterms. Coming from most business, this kind of harassment is against the law – but the law doesn’t apply to candidates..
4.)We’d rather not discuss our past: Unlike candidates, campaign managers are expected to stay out of the spotlight. But as a candidate gets closer to being elected, senior staffers may find it increasingly difficult (and difficult) to keep to the shadows… And Dick Morris, the strategist on Pres. Clinton’s 1996 campaign resigned when tabloid reports of infidelity with a prostitute …
5.)We did well in the polls? We made the polls. Roughly 10 percent of a campaign’s budget goes to research , which, includes public polling and digging up dirt on the competitor…
6.)We like winning… cash bonus: Of course, many managers talk about wanting their candidate to win for the sake of the public good, … but the prize for winning can be a additional one or two month’s salary (salaries can run $2,000 to $15,000 a month, or around $100,00- a year)
7.)The money you send doesn’t reach us: … In the 2008 presidential election, the Obama campaign doled out nearly $46 million, or 6 percent of its total spending to those groups, according to the nonpartisan Center for Responsive Politics…
8.)Barely a month after Jon Huntsman formally began his bid for the Republican presidential nomination for instance, his campaign manager, Susie Wiles, resigned and several months later endorsed team Mitt Romney (she decided he would “be best at running against Barack.”)
9.)This job is a stepping-stone – to stardom”: Bob Beckel, co-host of the Five on Fox News, who ran Walter Mondale’s presidential campaign in 1984, says he doesn’t know of anyone getting out of politics who isn’t hoping to get into TV …
10.)The win-at-all-costs mentality of campaigns can wreak havoc with ethics…
George H. Kubeck, *Smart Money, 20th Anniversary Issue, “10 Things Campaign Managers Won’t Tell You”
Tuesday, March 20, 2012
Andrew Breitbart: Down with Political Correctness # 3 of 3 of 2
Andrew Breitbart: Down with Political Correctness # 3 of 3
# 2 of 3 is posted only on the website: www.cinopsbegoneblogspot.com – Tuesday, March 20, 2012
“Frankfurt school moves to U.S.: after the Brown socialists took over Germany, the Red socialist at the Frankfort School had to get out of there. And they had nowhere to go except the United States. Breitbart goes on: “We welcomed the Frankfurt School. We accepted them with open arms. They took full advantage. They walked right into our cultural institutions, and as they started to put into place their leadership, their language and their lexicon, too many chose to ignore them. And the most dangerous thing you can do with a driven leftist clique is to ignore.” [http://www.renewamerica.com/columns/vernon/120312 ]
“The tentacles spread: Upon arriving on our shores, Horkheimer, Theodor Adorno, and other Frankfurt School icons initially took up new quarters in Southern California, where they “were disturbed by consumer culture and Gospel of relentless cheeriness.” As Breitbart opines, “These Marxist were here trying to destroy the best lifestyle has ever created. If I could go back in a time machine… I would kick these malcontents in their shins.”
“Ultimately in New York, Columbia University’s Sociology Department was dying and only too willing to take in new blood… Again quoting Breitbart: “With their tentacles affixed to the institutions of American higher education, the Frankfurt School philosophy began eking its way into every crevice of American culture. Horkheimer’s ‘critical theory’ became a staple of Philosophy, History, and English courses across the country.
“Herbert Marcuse: Andrew Breitbart identifies Herbert Marcuse as the most significant of what he defined as these “deranged soul [s] striving to deconstruct the good life.” Marcuse, a “major contributor to the Frankfurt School, “was the founder of what came to be known in the sixties as the “New Left.” Herbert Marcuse, a former student of future Nazi philosopher Martin Heidegger, “longed for the moment ‘when the spiritual strength of the West fails and its joints crack, when the moribund semblance of culture caves in and drags all forces into confusion and lets them suffocate in madness.”
“After becoming a U.S. citizen, Marcuse’s employment record included a stint for FDR in the Office of War Information (OWI) – a government-backed effort that also included Owen Lattimore, a key figure in steering U.S. policy toward aiding the Communists’ takeover of China, regime whose leaders today threatens us with military might, steal our weapons secrets through industrial and government espionage, and hold a massive debt over our heads in case we get any bright ideas about sassing them back.
“Marcuse served in the pre-CIA OSS (a hotbed of communist infiltrators), and in the State Department where he worked to prevent the U.S. from pushing post-war Germany always from socialism. He taught at Columbia, Harvard, Brandeis, and finally the University of California, San Diego.
“Today’s buzzwords no accident: Much of the intellectual poison in our society is traceable to Herbert Marcuse’s mission to dismantle American society by using “diversity” and “multiculturalism,” as “crowbars to pry the structure apart piece by piece.” He saw a part of his mission as to encourage black opposition to whites (way beyond the civil rights agenda, with its theme equality for all). In fact, Marcuse whipped up all “victim groups” in opposition to society in general. If you were a happy American who loved his country, you were part of the problem. One of his rallying cries was “Marx, Mao, and Marcuse. In his Breakthrough chapter, Breitbart goes on to trace the Frankfort School influence to Saul Alinsky the “community organizer so influential with Barack Obama.”We will deal with that next in the book.”
George H. Kubeck- Political correctness is a straightjacket on the normal mind.
# 2 of 3 is posted only on the website: www.cinopsbegoneblogspot.com – Tuesday, March 20, 2012
“Frankfurt school moves to U.S.: after the Brown socialists took over Germany, the Red socialist at the Frankfort School had to get out of there. And they had nowhere to go except the United States. Breitbart goes on: “We welcomed the Frankfurt School. We accepted them with open arms. They took full advantage. They walked right into our cultural institutions, and as they started to put into place their leadership, their language and their lexicon, too many chose to ignore them. And the most dangerous thing you can do with a driven leftist clique is to ignore.” [http://www.renewamerica.com/columns/vernon/120312 ]
“The tentacles spread: Upon arriving on our shores, Horkheimer, Theodor Adorno, and other Frankfurt School icons initially took up new quarters in Southern California, where they “were disturbed by consumer culture and Gospel of relentless cheeriness.” As Breitbart opines, “These Marxist were here trying to destroy the best lifestyle has ever created. If I could go back in a time machine… I would kick these malcontents in their shins.”
“Ultimately in New York, Columbia University’s Sociology Department was dying and only too willing to take in new blood… Again quoting Breitbart: “With their tentacles affixed to the institutions of American higher education, the Frankfurt School philosophy began eking its way into every crevice of American culture. Horkheimer’s ‘critical theory’ became a staple of Philosophy, History, and English courses across the country.
“Herbert Marcuse: Andrew Breitbart identifies Herbert Marcuse as the most significant of what he defined as these “deranged soul [s] striving to deconstruct the good life.” Marcuse, a “major contributor to the Frankfurt School, “was the founder of what came to be known in the sixties as the “New Left.” Herbert Marcuse, a former student of future Nazi philosopher Martin Heidegger, “longed for the moment ‘when the spiritual strength of the West fails and its joints crack, when the moribund semblance of culture caves in and drags all forces into confusion and lets them suffocate in madness.”
“After becoming a U.S. citizen, Marcuse’s employment record included a stint for FDR in the Office of War Information (OWI) – a government-backed effort that also included Owen Lattimore, a key figure in steering U.S. policy toward aiding the Communists’ takeover of China, regime whose leaders today threatens us with military might, steal our weapons secrets through industrial and government espionage, and hold a massive debt over our heads in case we get any bright ideas about sassing them back.
“Marcuse served in the pre-CIA OSS (a hotbed of communist infiltrators), and in the State Department where he worked to prevent the U.S. from pushing post-war Germany always from socialism. He taught at Columbia, Harvard, Brandeis, and finally the University of California, San Diego.
“Today’s buzzwords no accident: Much of the intellectual poison in our society is traceable to Herbert Marcuse’s mission to dismantle American society by using “diversity” and “multiculturalism,” as “crowbars to pry the structure apart piece by piece.” He saw a part of his mission as to encourage black opposition to whites (way beyond the civil rights agenda, with its theme equality for all). In fact, Marcuse whipped up all “victim groups” in opposition to society in general. If you were a happy American who loved his country, you were part of the problem. One of his rallying cries was “Marx, Mao, and Marcuse. In his Breakthrough chapter, Breitbart goes on to trace the Frankfort School influence to Saul Alinsky the “community organizer so influential with Barack Obama.”We will deal with that next in the book.”
George H. Kubeck- Political correctness is a straightjacket on the normal mind.
Monday, March 19, 2012
The Albatross around California's Neck
The Albatross around California’s Neck
A Public Service Notice: – website- www.cinopsbegoneblogspot.com – Monday, March 19, 2012
Thanks to Former RINO and CINO Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger
California ‘Cap and Trade’ Facts: Campaign for California Environmental Truth
1.)We have mounted an aggressive campaign to inform you about a California law, Cap and Trade, and the disastrous impact it will have on our state. All the rules and regulations associated with this law will do tremendous harm to an already faltering state-wide economy.
2.)The California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 was signed into law as Assembly Bill 32 (AB 32). It a blue print from the United Nations 1997 Kyoto Accord. Capt and Trade is a powerful component of that document. http://cfactsocal.org/2011.09/02/u-n-rehashi-the-california-global-warning-solutions-act-of-2006/ Climate rules and regulations are the entry points of global governance.
3.)By law, the California Air Resources Board, CARB, is directed to implement the Cap and Trade program. CARB’s chairman, Mary Nichols, and eleven board members are appointed by the Governor and operate outside any Legislative oversight.
4.)For six years, CARB has been holding hearings statewide and developing strict carbon emission standards, under their guidelines, for all California businesses, vehicles and homes. These pollution Caps are in effect as of 1-2012.
5.)Pollution is now a commodity (like gas, wheat, corn). The first California auction for carbon credits (Trade) will be held August 15, 2012.
6.)Global Warming, as a scientific theory, has been discredited by over 30,000 scientists worldwide including nearly 10,000 PhD’s who also dispute man-made pollution is the cause of “greenhouse gases”. The concept that Carbon Dioxide or Methane gases are pollutants is also widely debated. There is no scientific consensus authenticating the belief.
7.)CO-2 is produced by humans when they exhale. Although methane gas is produced naturally by cows and other farm animals. California cattle and dairy farmers are being taxed on those emissions from their herds.
8.)This is not the time to invest precious tax dollars into a program attempting to solve a problem, “Global Warming”, is not proven to exist.
9.)A “California Cap and Trade” program will have little impact on the Earth’s atmosphere. But, it is already proving poisonous to the California economy.
10.)Severe over regulations will cause California electric rates to “necessarily skyrocket”, gasoline prices at the pump to double and diesel trucks delivering goods incur faced with increased fees to implement these strict laws passing the added costs onto the consumer.
ACTION: Help stop this economy crushing program. Share with everyone personally, by social media, contact newspapers, radio programs, and legislators. Do not be fooled with campaigns waged through the mainstream media by active globalists. “SCAT” –
Stop California Cap and Trade! ”CAP” Energy – “Trade” Freedom! Restore California! Contact at 714.847.8835 or ladyduffy@duffyandcompany.net
A Public Service Notice: – website- www.cinopsbegoneblogspot.com – Monday, March 19, 2012
Thanks to Former RINO and CINO Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger
California ‘Cap and Trade’ Facts: Campaign for California Environmental Truth
1.)We have mounted an aggressive campaign to inform you about a California law, Cap and Trade, and the disastrous impact it will have on our state. All the rules and regulations associated with this law will do tremendous harm to an already faltering state-wide economy.
2.)The California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 was signed into law as Assembly Bill 32 (AB 32). It a blue print from the United Nations 1997 Kyoto Accord. Capt and Trade is a powerful component of that document. http://cfactsocal.org/2011.09/02/u-n-rehashi-the-california-global-warning-solutions-act-of-2006/ Climate rules and regulations are the entry points of global governance.
3.)By law, the California Air Resources Board, CARB, is directed to implement the Cap and Trade program. CARB’s chairman, Mary Nichols, and eleven board members are appointed by the Governor and operate outside any Legislative oversight.
4.)For six years, CARB has been holding hearings statewide and developing strict carbon emission standards, under their guidelines, for all California businesses, vehicles and homes. These pollution Caps are in effect as of 1-2012.
5.)Pollution is now a commodity (like gas, wheat, corn). The first California auction for carbon credits (Trade) will be held August 15, 2012.
6.)Global Warming, as a scientific theory, has been discredited by over 30,000 scientists worldwide including nearly 10,000 PhD’s who also dispute man-made pollution is the cause of “greenhouse gases”. The concept that Carbon Dioxide or Methane gases are pollutants is also widely debated. There is no scientific consensus authenticating the belief.
7.)CO-2 is produced by humans when they exhale. Although methane gas is produced naturally by cows and other farm animals. California cattle and dairy farmers are being taxed on those emissions from their herds.
8.)This is not the time to invest precious tax dollars into a program attempting to solve a problem, “Global Warming”, is not proven to exist.
9.)A “California Cap and Trade” program will have little impact on the Earth’s atmosphere. But, it is already proving poisonous to the California economy.
10.)Severe over regulations will cause California electric rates to “necessarily skyrocket”, gasoline prices at the pump to double and diesel trucks delivering goods incur faced with increased fees to implement these strict laws passing the added costs onto the consumer.
ACTION: Help stop this economy crushing program. Share with everyone personally, by social media, contact newspapers, radio programs, and legislators. Do not be fooled with campaigns waged through the mainstream media by active globalists. “SCAT” –
Stop California Cap and Trade! ”CAP” Energy – “Trade” Freedom! Restore California! Contact at 714.847.8835 or ladyduffy@duffyandcompany.net
Sunday, March 18, 2012
Andrew Breitbart: Down with Political Correctness # 2 of 3
Andrew Breitbart: Down with Political Correctness # 2 of 3
In pursuit of the truth – website- www.cinopsbegoneblogspot.com – Sunday, March 18, 2012
““Progressives” – Presidents Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson, according to Breitbart, were early U.S. progenitors of the Hegelian theory that drove the early 20th century’s so-called “progressive movement.” George Wilhelm Fredrich Hegel was a German philosopher who provide the dialectic argumentation for Karl Marx’s utopianism – i.e., that human nature could be changed only by destroying the surrounding society. [Ref. http://www.renewamerica.com/columns/vernon/120312 ]
“Of the people no more: As Breitbart informs us, Wilson “frowned on democracy,” and “rejected the idea of government by the people, “which he believed should be “replaced by elites who knew better than the masses.” Or, as he intoned, “Men as communities are supreme over men as individuals.”
“The Frankfurt school: Fortunately for America at the time, Wilson and progressivism in general were exceedingly unpopular by the time the former Princeton professor mercifully ended his White House tenure. But for the Marxists – not to worry: Some European Marxist imports would ultimately make their way into our society. The Brown socialists (Nazis) and the Red Socialists (Communists) had battled each other on the streets of Germany during the twenties. When one of these strains of socialism gained power, the other would have to flee. But that gets us ahead of our story.
“Changing Society: Prior to the Nazi takeover, Felix Weil, a young radical Marxist from Frankfort, Germany, organized the Institute for Social Research, quickly dubbed the Frankfort School. (Breitbart defines the group as “really a precursor to [Obama ally] John Podesta’s Center for American Progress.
“The central theme of the “school” was that tearing down society was a pre-condition for the eventual victory of global Marxism; that capitalism has rendered man “week,” which in turn explained why socialism had not come into existence already. (Remember, this was late twenties Europe and North America.) Further the Frankfort School taught that Judeo-Christian morality must be rejected; that “a worldwide overturning of values cannot take place without annihilation of the solid values and creation of new one by the revolutionaries”; and that “critical theory” reflected the Sch. Curriculum.
“Breitbart says Frankfurt School philosopher Max HorkHeimer coined the term “critical theory.” It meaning would “embody the whole corrupt philosophy whose mission was to destroy society and culture…” In fact, Breitbart says “critical theory,” as he taught at Tulane, was “quite literally, a theory of criticizing everyone and everything everywhere.”
“We might add here that “critical theory” as he was taught at Mercer Island High School in Washington State when President Obama’ mother, Stanley Ann Dunham attended it. Instapundit informs us the curriculum included 1 – “rejection of societal norms; 2 – attacks on Christianity, the traditional family; 3- [assigning the] readings of Karl Marx.” That Washington State High School also was “ hotbed of pro-Marxist radical teachers,” and had been cited in testimony before the House Committ. on Un-American Activities…”
George H. Kubeck – Andrew Breitbart’ book, “Righteous Indignation” is required reading for the counter revolution coming at the presidential election on Nov. 6th.
In pursuit of the truth – website- www.cinopsbegoneblogspot.com – Sunday, March 18, 2012
““Progressives” – Presidents Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson, according to Breitbart, were early U.S. progenitors of the Hegelian theory that drove the early 20th century’s so-called “progressive movement.” George Wilhelm Fredrich Hegel was a German philosopher who provide the dialectic argumentation for Karl Marx’s utopianism – i.e., that human nature could be changed only by destroying the surrounding society. [Ref. http://www.renewamerica.com/columns/vernon/120312 ]
“Of the people no more: As Breitbart informs us, Wilson “frowned on democracy,” and “rejected the idea of government by the people, “which he believed should be “replaced by elites who knew better than the masses.” Or, as he intoned, “Men as communities are supreme over men as individuals.”
“The Frankfurt school: Fortunately for America at the time, Wilson and progressivism in general were exceedingly unpopular by the time the former Princeton professor mercifully ended his White House tenure. But for the Marxists – not to worry: Some European Marxist imports would ultimately make their way into our society. The Brown socialists (Nazis) and the Red Socialists (Communists) had battled each other on the streets of Germany during the twenties. When one of these strains of socialism gained power, the other would have to flee. But that gets us ahead of our story.
“Changing Society: Prior to the Nazi takeover, Felix Weil, a young radical Marxist from Frankfort, Germany, organized the Institute for Social Research, quickly dubbed the Frankfort School. (Breitbart defines the group as “really a precursor to [Obama ally] John Podesta’s Center for American Progress.
“The central theme of the “school” was that tearing down society was a pre-condition for the eventual victory of global Marxism; that capitalism has rendered man “week,” which in turn explained why socialism had not come into existence already. (Remember, this was late twenties Europe and North America.) Further the Frankfort School taught that Judeo-Christian morality must be rejected; that “a worldwide overturning of values cannot take place without annihilation of the solid values and creation of new one by the revolutionaries”; and that “critical theory” reflected the Sch. Curriculum.
“Breitbart says Frankfurt School philosopher Max HorkHeimer coined the term “critical theory.” It meaning would “embody the whole corrupt philosophy whose mission was to destroy society and culture…” In fact, Breitbart says “critical theory,” as he taught at Tulane, was “quite literally, a theory of criticizing everyone and everything everywhere.”
“We might add here that “critical theory” as he was taught at Mercer Island High School in Washington State when President Obama’ mother, Stanley Ann Dunham attended it. Instapundit informs us the curriculum included 1 – “rejection of societal norms; 2 – attacks on Christianity, the traditional family; 3- [assigning the] readings of Karl Marx.” That Washington State High School also was “ hotbed of pro-Marxist radical teachers,” and had been cited in testimony before the House Committ. on Un-American Activities…”
George H. Kubeck – Andrew Breitbart’ book, “Righteous Indignation” is required reading for the counter revolution coming at the presidential election on Nov. 6th.
Blessed John Paul II and the Real Picture in your Mind
----- Original Message -----
't know why John Paul II wanted to hide this picture for years. The Vatican published this picture recently, for first time. This picture was taken by one of his security guards just when the Pope was attacked and was falling down in his Papamobil. You can see the pain in his face.
Take a look at the above picture. You can see Mother Mary holding John Paul II in Her arms when he was shot in 1981. This happened on May 13, 1981. Pope John Paul II was shot as he arrived in St. Peter's Square to speak to the people who had gathered there. When he was shot, he was holding the rosary, which he always carried. When he fell to the ground, out of nowhere, a woman rushed to his side and embraced him. That pic is shown above. The picture is said to have been taken by one of the gathered people who was busy taking Pope's pics with his camera. The woman vanished as quickly as she appeared.
The gunman was apprehended in the square and sentenced to life in prison. The pope was critically wounded but survived after surgery and a long recovery. The surprising fact is that all the bullets passed just past his vital internal organs. When he recovered finally, the first thing Pope asked for was his rosary. When he got it in his hands, he said that he felt Mother Mary directing the bullet's path through him. Sure, John Paul II was always in the habit of praying the rosary regularly. He had once said the best prayer I like is the Rosary.
Joaquin Navarro Valls, who is the one spokesman from The Vatican, said that they made a lot of studies for years of this incredible picture and of course about the quality of the developing of the picture because when it was developed nobody could see very well because the image was not clear. Finally, and after so many controls and by looking and checking by all the experts in photography (around the world), they decided that there were no tricks in it and today they give us this beautiful gift from our Mother of God. You can see the Mother of God holding John Paul IIin her arms. Beautiful right?
I don't know whether You will believe me or not. But many do.. and among those who believed, Bishop ThomasWenski recreated the picture on a glass window at his Florida residence. You can see that below.
PLEASE READ WITH FAITH.
This is an awesome prayer.
Believe it and you shall be blessed.
The problem with many of us is that we don't believe that God will open a window and pour out blessings that we won't have room to receive them. I dare anyone to try God. He is true to His word. God cannot lie and His promises are sure.
Three things will happen to you this coming week:
(1) You will find favor with someone you don't expect;
(2) You will be too relevant to be ignored;
(3) You will encounter God and you will never remain the same again..
My prayer for you today:
The eyes beholding this message shall not behold evil, the hands that will send this message to others shall not labor in vain, the mouth saying Amen to this prayer shall laugh forever. Remain in God's love as you send this prayer to everybody on your list. Have a lovely journey of life! Trust in the Lord with all your heart and He will never fail you because He is AWESOME !
If you truly need a blessing, continue reading this email:
Heavenly Father, most Gracious and Loving God, I pray to you that you abundantly bless my family and me. I know that you recognize, that a family is more than just a mother, father, sister, brother, husband and wife, but all who believe and trust in you. Father, I send up a prayer request for blessings for not only the person who sent this to me, but for me and all that I have forwarded this message on to.. And that the power of joined prayer by those who believe and trust in you is more powerful than anything. I thank you in advance for your blessings.
Father God, deliver the person reading this right now from debt and debt's burdens. Release Your Godly wisdom that I may be a good steward over all that You have given me Father, for I know how wonderful and mighty You are and how if we just obey You and walk in Your word and have the faith of a mustard seed that You will pour out blessings. I thank You now Lord for the recent blessings I have received and for the blessings yet to come because I know You are not done with me yet . In Jesus' name, I pray.
Amen.
TAKE 60 SECONDS and send this on quickly and within hours, you will have caused a multitude of people to pray to God for each other.
Then sit back and watch the power of God work in your life for doing the thing that you know He loves. Remain blessed!
't know why John Paul II wanted to hide this picture for years. The Vatican published this picture recently, for first time. This picture was taken by one of his security guards just when the Pope was attacked and was falling down in his Papamobil. You can see the pain in his face.
Take a look at the above picture. You can see Mother Mary holding John Paul II in Her arms when he was shot in 1981. This happened on May 13, 1981. Pope John Paul II was shot as he arrived in St. Peter's Square to speak to the people who had gathered there. When he was shot, he was holding the rosary, which he always carried. When he fell to the ground, out of nowhere, a woman rushed to his side and embraced him. That pic is shown above. The picture is said to have been taken by one of the gathered people who was busy taking Pope's pics with his camera. The woman vanished as quickly as she appeared.
The gunman was apprehended in the square and sentenced to life in prison. The pope was critically wounded but survived after surgery and a long recovery. The surprising fact is that all the bullets passed just past his vital internal organs. When he recovered finally, the first thing Pope asked for was his rosary. When he got it in his hands, he said that he felt Mother Mary directing the bullet's path through him. Sure, John Paul II was always in the habit of praying the rosary regularly. He had once said the best prayer I like is the Rosary.
Joaquin Navarro Valls, who is the one spokesman from The Vatican, said that they made a lot of studies for years of this incredible picture and of course about the quality of the developing of the picture because when it was developed nobody could see very well because the image was not clear. Finally, and after so many controls and by looking and checking by all the experts in photography (around the world), they decided that there were no tricks in it and today they give us this beautiful gift from our Mother of God. You can see the Mother of God holding John Paul IIin her arms. Beautiful right?
I don't know whether You will believe me or not. But many do.. and among those who believed, Bishop ThomasWenski recreated the picture on a glass window at his Florida residence. You can see that below.
PLEASE READ WITH FAITH.
This is an awesome prayer.
Believe it and you shall be blessed.
The problem with many of us is that we don't believe that God will open a window and pour out blessings that we won't have room to receive them. I dare anyone to try God. He is true to His word. God cannot lie and His promises are sure.
Three things will happen to you this coming week:
(1) You will find favor with someone you don't expect;
(2) You will be too relevant to be ignored;
(3) You will encounter God and you will never remain the same again..
My prayer for you today:
The eyes beholding this message shall not behold evil, the hands that will send this message to others shall not labor in vain, the mouth saying Amen to this prayer shall laugh forever. Remain in God's love as you send this prayer to everybody on your list. Have a lovely journey of life! Trust in the Lord with all your heart and He will never fail you because He is AWESOME !
If you truly need a blessing, continue reading this email:
Heavenly Father, most Gracious and Loving God, I pray to you that you abundantly bless my family and me. I know that you recognize, that a family is more than just a mother, father, sister, brother, husband and wife, but all who believe and trust in you. Father, I send up a prayer request for blessings for not only the person who sent this to me, but for me and all that I have forwarded this message on to.. And that the power of joined prayer by those who believe and trust in you is more powerful than anything. I thank you in advance for your blessings.
Father God, deliver the person reading this right now from debt and debt's burdens. Release Your Godly wisdom that I may be a good steward over all that You have given me Father, for I know how wonderful and mighty You are and how if we just obey You and walk in Your word and have the faith of a mustard seed that You will pour out blessings. I thank You now Lord for the recent blessings I have received and for the blessings yet to come because I know You are not done with me yet . In Jesus' name, I pray.
Amen.
TAKE 60 SECONDS and send this on quickly and within hours, you will have caused a multitude of people to pray to God for each other.
Then sit back and watch the power of God work in your life for doing the thing that you know He loves. Remain blessed!
Saturday, March 17, 2012
Andrew Breitbart: Down with Political Correctness # 1 of 3
Andrew Breitbart: Down with Political Correctness # 1 of 3
In pursuit of the truth – www.cinopsbegoneblogspot.com – Saturday, March 17, 2012
Reference: http://www.renewamerica.com/columns/vernon/120312
“The late Andrew Breitbart was initially alerted to the Democrat/media complex when that collaboration smeared Clarence Thomas as it fought to block the latter’s Supreme Court confirmation in 1991… His “sixth sense” prompted him to start digging for the machine’s roots or the “back story.” He just knew the Orwellian scenario (where dark is light and light is dark) could not have merged overnight. Breitbart’s scholarly research on that question emerges right in the middle of his memoirs.
The pivotal chapter: In his best-seller Righteous Indignation, Andrew Breitbart (who recently met his untimely death at age 43) traces the story of how communism came to America. Rivers of ink have been dispensed to document the many facets and subplots in the drama of the concerted 24/7 campaign to bring Western Civilization to its knees… Meanwhile, Breitbart has offered an abbreviated explanation that is about as concise as one can find with regard to the attack on America.
Beyond brute force: The conspiracy – in its metaphoric dimensions – represents nothing so much as a giant moving machine, never deviating from its decades-old goal of smashing America’s constitutional, cultural, economic, and political infrastructure. The take –down of America has been sought through more than one avenue, but arguably none so pivotal as the Frankfurt School. Breitbart focuses on that phenomenon in his 21-page chapter Breakthrough.
The author/activist discovered the long-term Marxist crusade to tear-down the United States did not end (as many Americans assumed) when the Berlin Wall came down. Aside from the Soviet empire and the 100 million people killed at the hands of Communist brutality, Marxism has always had its cultural warriors. Nothing impedes their advance so much as the United States of America. Our enemies long ago concluded that bringing the U.S. to its knees would involve control of the culture – the everyday lives, and the everyday thoughts, of the citizens.
“Breitbart saw those forces at work as a student at Tulane University – what he calls a cultural fascisti. What he saw was campus thought control: elites who decided “what was okay to think and what to write, what words meant, and who was allowed to say them. There were (and are) tribunals without oversight, as kids have thrown out of college for uttering the wrong sentiments.” But Tulane was a mere microcosm. Cultural Marxism was (and is) pervasive in the mainstream media, Hollywood, education (K-higher ed), and straight on into the government. America did not supply wake up in the mid-sixties and suddenly embrace the rebellious counter-culture that would define the era. No, those seeds had been planted decades earlier… to be continued.
George H. Kubeck – Political correctness is to America what the Iron Curtain was to Eastern Europe. Political correctness is a handicap for out of control Liberalism.
We are a nation 42% Conservatives, 21% Liberals, and 37% Moderates. Why should common sense, reason, and the natural law beliefs of our Founding Fathers submit to today’s elite liberal culture which is intellectually and morally bankrupt?
Let’s think out of the box which political correctness has put us in. Conservatives choose a presidential candidate particularly when one of them is an Arnold Schwarzen. over a McClintock. Informed Conservatives will not choose Arnold in Texas or California.
In pursuit of the truth – www.cinopsbegoneblogspot.com – Saturday, March 17, 2012
Reference: http://www.renewamerica.com/columns/vernon/120312
“The late Andrew Breitbart was initially alerted to the Democrat/media complex when that collaboration smeared Clarence Thomas as it fought to block the latter’s Supreme Court confirmation in 1991… His “sixth sense” prompted him to start digging for the machine’s roots or the “back story.” He just knew the Orwellian scenario (where dark is light and light is dark) could not have merged overnight. Breitbart’s scholarly research on that question emerges right in the middle of his memoirs.
The pivotal chapter: In his best-seller Righteous Indignation, Andrew Breitbart (who recently met his untimely death at age 43) traces the story of how communism came to America. Rivers of ink have been dispensed to document the many facets and subplots in the drama of the concerted 24/7 campaign to bring Western Civilization to its knees… Meanwhile, Breitbart has offered an abbreviated explanation that is about as concise as one can find with regard to the attack on America.
Beyond brute force: The conspiracy – in its metaphoric dimensions – represents nothing so much as a giant moving machine, never deviating from its decades-old goal of smashing America’s constitutional, cultural, economic, and political infrastructure. The take –down of America has been sought through more than one avenue, but arguably none so pivotal as the Frankfurt School. Breitbart focuses on that phenomenon in his 21-page chapter Breakthrough.
The author/activist discovered the long-term Marxist crusade to tear-down the United States did not end (as many Americans assumed) when the Berlin Wall came down. Aside from the Soviet empire and the 100 million people killed at the hands of Communist brutality, Marxism has always had its cultural warriors. Nothing impedes their advance so much as the United States of America. Our enemies long ago concluded that bringing the U.S. to its knees would involve control of the culture – the everyday lives, and the everyday thoughts, of the citizens.
“Breitbart saw those forces at work as a student at Tulane University – what he calls a cultural fascisti. What he saw was campus thought control: elites who decided “what was okay to think and what to write, what words meant, and who was allowed to say them. There were (and are) tribunals without oversight, as kids have thrown out of college for uttering the wrong sentiments.” But Tulane was a mere microcosm. Cultural Marxism was (and is) pervasive in the mainstream media, Hollywood, education (K-higher ed), and straight on into the government. America did not supply wake up in the mid-sixties and suddenly embrace the rebellious counter-culture that would define the era. No, those seeds had been planted decades earlier… to be continued.
George H. Kubeck – Political correctness is to America what the Iron Curtain was to Eastern Europe. Political correctness is a handicap for out of control Liberalism.
We are a nation 42% Conservatives, 21% Liberals, and 37% Moderates. Why should common sense, reason, and the natural law beliefs of our Founding Fathers submit to today’s elite liberal culture which is intellectually and morally bankrupt?
Let’s think out of the box which political correctness has put us in. Conservatives choose a presidential candidate particularly when one of them is an Arnold Schwarzen. over a McClintock. Informed Conservatives will not choose Arnold in Texas or California.
Friday, March 16, 2012
Listen to Bishop Lori on the HHS Mandate
Listen to Bishop Lori on the HHS Mandate
The relentless pursuit of the truth – www.cinopsbegone.com – Friday, March 16, 2012
“On Feb. 16th, the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform conducted a high-profile forum, which featured Bishop Lori, as Baptist, Lutheran and Jewish leaders and church-affiliated university administration who opposed the “accommodation” as unacceptable.
“The Senate’s Respect for Rights of Conscience Act of 2012 would have provided a broad exemption to employers and insurance carriers who oppose specific health services for moral or religious reasons. The Blunt amendment was attached to a critical highway bill… the “accommodation” had only injected more confusion and election-year spin into what was once a straightforward protections for religious liberty & conscience rights.
“Opponents of the mandate now must counter a strongly partisan effort to characterize their campaign as an attempt to bar access to contraception rather than a defense of the free exercise of religion, protected under the First Amendment.
“EVER SINCE THE MANDATE HAS BEEN ANNOUNCED, FAIR IS FOUL, AND FOUL IS FAIR.” STATED BISHOP LORI expressing his frustration with an often contradictory political and media debate, which presents established jurisprudence on First Amendment rights, was an intolerable threat to the provision of basic health care. “Choice’ suddenly means ‘force,” said Bishop Lori.
“I emphasize this word ‘force’ precisely because it is one of the key differences between a mere dispute over ‘reproductive health policy’ and a dispute over religious over religious freedom. Those who would try to conceal that religious-freedom aspect have done all in their power to conceal the key element of government coercion,” he stated.
“This is not a matter of whether contraception may be prohibited by the government…. Instead it is a matter of whether religious people and institutions may be forced by the government to provide coverage for contraception or sterilization, even if that violates their religious beliefs….
“The Bridgeport bishop, for his part, sought to inject a note of realism and urgency amid rhetorical attacks and political theatre. “We are crossing the Rubicon,” he stated, pointing out that established jurisprudence and health-care ethics of Catholic hospitals had served the nation well and should not be dismantled… Rep. Lamar Smith, R – Tenn., the committee chairman, asked Bishop Lori to explain what changes were needed to address the bishops’ chief objections.
“Rescission was “the real way out of this,” Bishop Lorie replied. As approved, the federal rule unjustly required Catholic institutions to provide contraception, including abortion-inducing drugs. The rule forced Catholic institutions to be “a counter witness to our own teaching… We could be fined,” he said with “severe and crippling” fees.” (National Catholic Register, March 11 – 24, 2012)
George H. Kubeck Bishop Lori’s objections were challenged by the Assoc., of Jesuit Colleges and Universities, the Catholic Health Assoc., Conf. of Women Religious, & Sisters of Mercy of America and Sister Carol Keehan who in 2010 received $962,467 in salary. These so-called Catholic leaders do not support Church/First Amendment to the Constitution.
The relentless pursuit of the truth – www.cinopsbegone.com – Friday, March 16, 2012
“On Feb. 16th, the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform conducted a high-profile forum, which featured Bishop Lori, as Baptist, Lutheran and Jewish leaders and church-affiliated university administration who opposed the “accommodation” as unacceptable.
“The Senate’s Respect for Rights of Conscience Act of 2012 would have provided a broad exemption to employers and insurance carriers who oppose specific health services for moral or religious reasons. The Blunt amendment was attached to a critical highway bill… the “accommodation” had only injected more confusion and election-year spin into what was once a straightforward protections for religious liberty & conscience rights.
“Opponents of the mandate now must counter a strongly partisan effort to characterize their campaign as an attempt to bar access to contraception rather than a defense of the free exercise of religion, protected under the First Amendment.
“EVER SINCE THE MANDATE HAS BEEN ANNOUNCED, FAIR IS FOUL, AND FOUL IS FAIR.” STATED BISHOP LORI expressing his frustration with an often contradictory political and media debate, which presents established jurisprudence on First Amendment rights, was an intolerable threat to the provision of basic health care. “Choice’ suddenly means ‘force,” said Bishop Lori.
“I emphasize this word ‘force’ precisely because it is one of the key differences between a mere dispute over ‘reproductive health policy’ and a dispute over religious over religious freedom. Those who would try to conceal that religious-freedom aspect have done all in their power to conceal the key element of government coercion,” he stated.
“This is not a matter of whether contraception may be prohibited by the government…. Instead it is a matter of whether religious people and institutions may be forced by the government to provide coverage for contraception or sterilization, even if that violates their religious beliefs….
“The Bridgeport bishop, for his part, sought to inject a note of realism and urgency amid rhetorical attacks and political theatre. “We are crossing the Rubicon,” he stated, pointing out that established jurisprudence and health-care ethics of Catholic hospitals had served the nation well and should not be dismantled… Rep. Lamar Smith, R – Tenn., the committee chairman, asked Bishop Lori to explain what changes were needed to address the bishops’ chief objections.
“Rescission was “the real way out of this,” Bishop Lorie replied. As approved, the federal rule unjustly required Catholic institutions to provide contraception, including abortion-inducing drugs. The rule forced Catholic institutions to be “a counter witness to our own teaching… We could be fined,” he said with “severe and crippling” fees.” (National Catholic Register, March 11 – 24, 2012)
George H. Kubeck Bishop Lori’s objections were challenged by the Assoc., of Jesuit Colleges and Universities, the Catholic Health Assoc., Conf. of Women Religious, & Sisters of Mercy of America and Sister Carol Keehan who in 2010 received $962,467 in salary. These so-called Catholic leaders do not support Church/First Amendment to the Constitution.
Thursday, March 15, 2012
Tea Party Patriots California - 405/605
TEA PARTY PATRIOTS CALIFORNIA - 405/605
CONSERVATIVE PATRIOTS FOR FREEDOM AND LIBERTY – CPFL – March 14th, 2012
VISION: Influence legislation and impact election of representatives to ensure that conservative values are returned to American politics. These include adherence to the Constitution, minimal government, and capitalistic approach to a free market for business, and a foundation on Judeo-Christian values.
MISSION: Build a group of like minded activists working energetically to bring adherence to the Constitution, minimal government, and capitalistic approach to a free market for business, and a foundation on Judeo-Christian values.
VALUES: 1.) The United States of America is a republic. 2.) Freedom and respect for life are essential to civil society. 3.) Each individual relinquishes a bit of freedom to the cooperative structure, allowing for interpersonal order, and this should be held to a minimum. 4.) Each of us has a duty to the republic to be informed and involved participants in government. 5.) Capitalism and a free market are vital to human dignity, economic order, and human progress. 6.) The purpose of government is to provide social order while allowing everyone to live with maximum freedom and the pursuit of happiness. 7.) The federal government should be limited to interfacing with other world governments and not involved in state and local issues. 8.) Charity should be the responsibility of the individual, not the state. 9.) Judeo-Christian values should underlie the social perception of family, education and morals. 10.) Question with boldness, hold the truth, and speak without fear.
OBJECTIVES: 1.) Join in the opposition to the current healthcare, cap and trade, counterproductive stimulus bills, and any bills encouraging or funding abortion. 2.) Support fiscally sound bills and would reduce the size, scope and spending of government. 3.) Actively support conservative candidates for Federal and State elective offices. 4.) Seek out vulnerable liberal and /or progressive candidates in other districts and support their opponents. 5.) Be vocal and communicate with government officials our sentiments on legislation. 6.) Expand the group and use power of multiple votes to convince officials to understand the wisdom of our positions. 7.) Identify and support local (i.e., city and county) candidates who share our conservative views. 8.) Learn how to influence or even secure positions on the party committees and act to regain control of the party machinery. 9.) Reach out and convince those voters less committed to conservative ideals of merits or our cause and the failings and inconsistencies of the progressive ideas polluting the American political environment. 10.) Progressive income taxes & other wealth redistribution ideas need to be removed from our law.
THOUGHT: “Wherever politics tries to be redemptive, it is promising too much. Where it wishes to do the work of God, it becomes, not divine, but demonic.” Pope Benedict XVI, “Truth & Tolerance” p. 16
Website for current info: www.teaparty405-605.org http://www.facebook.com/pages/405605-Tea-Party-Patriots/149155371846163 -
Next Meeting: April 11, 2012 – 7 P.M. Leisure World, Seal Beach Clubhouse # 2 13533 Seal Beach, Blvd. Seal Beach, Ca. 90740
www.cinopsbegoneblogspot.com 3/15
George H. Kubeck- Outline info for start-ups for the nation & future religious groups like “Catholic Tea Party.”
CONSERVATIVE PATRIOTS FOR FREEDOM AND LIBERTY – CPFL – March 14th, 2012
VISION: Influence legislation and impact election of representatives to ensure that conservative values are returned to American politics. These include adherence to the Constitution, minimal government, and capitalistic approach to a free market for business, and a foundation on Judeo-Christian values.
MISSION: Build a group of like minded activists working energetically to bring adherence to the Constitution, minimal government, and capitalistic approach to a free market for business, and a foundation on Judeo-Christian values.
VALUES: 1.) The United States of America is a republic. 2.) Freedom and respect for life are essential to civil society. 3.) Each individual relinquishes a bit of freedom to the cooperative structure, allowing for interpersonal order, and this should be held to a minimum. 4.) Each of us has a duty to the republic to be informed and involved participants in government. 5.) Capitalism and a free market are vital to human dignity, economic order, and human progress. 6.) The purpose of government is to provide social order while allowing everyone to live with maximum freedom and the pursuit of happiness. 7.) The federal government should be limited to interfacing with other world governments and not involved in state and local issues. 8.) Charity should be the responsibility of the individual, not the state. 9.) Judeo-Christian values should underlie the social perception of family, education and morals. 10.) Question with boldness, hold the truth, and speak without fear.
OBJECTIVES: 1.) Join in the opposition to the current healthcare, cap and trade, counterproductive stimulus bills, and any bills encouraging or funding abortion. 2.) Support fiscally sound bills and would reduce the size, scope and spending of government. 3.) Actively support conservative candidates for Federal and State elective offices. 4.) Seek out vulnerable liberal and /or progressive candidates in other districts and support their opponents. 5.) Be vocal and communicate with government officials our sentiments on legislation. 6.) Expand the group and use power of multiple votes to convince officials to understand the wisdom of our positions. 7.) Identify and support local (i.e., city and county) candidates who share our conservative views. 8.) Learn how to influence or even secure positions on the party committees and act to regain control of the party machinery. 9.) Reach out and convince those voters less committed to conservative ideals of merits or our cause and the failings and inconsistencies of the progressive ideas polluting the American political environment. 10.) Progressive income taxes & other wealth redistribution ideas need to be removed from our law.
THOUGHT: “Wherever politics tries to be redemptive, it is promising too much. Where it wishes to do the work of God, it becomes, not divine, but demonic.” Pope Benedict XVI, “Truth & Tolerance” p. 16
Website for current info: www.teaparty405-605.org http://www.facebook.com/pages/405605-Tea-Party-Patriots/149155371846163 -
Next Meeting: April 11, 2012 – 7 P.M. Leisure World, Seal Beach Clubhouse # 2 13533 Seal Beach, Blvd. Seal Beach, Ca. 90740
www.cinopsbegoneblogspot.com 3/15
George H. Kubeck- Outline info for start-ups for the nation & future religious groups like “Catholic Tea Party.”
Be Destroyed or Change: the 2 Faced, Double Standard Media
Be Destroyed or Change: The 2-Faced, Doubled Standard Media
The relentless pursuit of the truth – www.cinopbegoneblogspot.com – Thursday, March 15, 2012
Preface: There is exciting and honest news reporting going on Sean Hannity ‘s Talk Radio KABC 790 from 12 noon to 3 P.M. M-F. He is also doing it on Sean Hannity’s Fox news from 6-7 P.M. Pacific Time. He is focusing on the “Vetting of President Barrack Obama” but directly and indirectly the vetting of the mainstream media is occurring. Honest journalism is not dead anymore.
Sean’s American motto is: Stop the Obama express; taking our country back! 236 days to the election: This letter is focusing on America’s two-faced double-standard media. I view the drive-by-media as a type of rogue media like they had in Communist Russia with “Pravda” and in Germany with the Goebbels’s propaganda outfits. I look upon NBC News and George Soros’s “Media Matters” as that kind of smears against conservatives, propaganda and a mouthpiece for the reelection of Obama.
O’Reilly on the O’Reilly Fact stated that the rogue media can influence about 5 % of the vote in favor of Obama. On this website, I wrote three report cards on the book “Left Turn”- “How the Liberal Media Bias Distorts the American Mind” by Tim Groseclose. The first one was dated, “Left Turn – A Report Card – Wednesday, August 10, 2011. Here are a couple of excerpts: “In a typical presidential election Washington correspondents vote about 93-7 for the Democrats, while the rest of America votes 50-50.” “My (Tim Groseclose) results suggest that media bias aids Democratic candidates by about 8 to 10 percentage points in a typical election.”
I strongly disagree with Rush Limbaugh. He undresses and makes fun of the drive-by-media. This drives the liberal media up the wall. Rush says we have to live with this media. I beg to disagree.
Now let us reference this website, May 10, 2010 – “Hero Andrew Breitbart: On the Media”
“The bias of the liberal media is so deeply ingrained that it is an essential part of its structure – one that conservatives must fight hard to challenge effectively, according to conservative news media guru Andrew Breitbart. “The left, to me, in essence, is the media,” said Breitbart. “I am everything at attacking the media for its biases and holding them accountable for their biases, and the things that they report incorrectly, or the things they fail to report.*
“By aiming everything at the media I’ve pretty much done the one thing they ask you not to do. ‘Please accept the premise that we are fair, and let’s move on.’ No I am not going to accept that premise. “For these people to tell me for with a straight face that they don’t come to the media and their jobs from a political perspective, from a left-of-center perspective, IS JUST A BALD-FACED LIE.”
“While not strongly religious himself, said Breitbart, the attacks on Christians perpetrated by the mainstream media ‘angers me to no end.’ I consider myself to be Judeo-Christian … I relate to the world view that America has,” he said, “It’s a distinctly Judeo-Christian one and I think that it works.”
G. H. Kubeck: Andrew Breitbart was for same-sex marriage, he was wrong. Bless his work for honest journalism.
The relentless pursuit of the truth – www.cinopbegoneblogspot.com – Thursday, March 15, 2012
Preface: There is exciting and honest news reporting going on Sean Hannity ‘s Talk Radio KABC 790 from 12 noon to 3 P.M. M-F. He is also doing it on Sean Hannity’s Fox news from 6-7 P.M. Pacific Time. He is focusing on the “Vetting of President Barrack Obama” but directly and indirectly the vetting of the mainstream media is occurring. Honest journalism is not dead anymore.
Sean’s American motto is: Stop the Obama express; taking our country back! 236 days to the election: This letter is focusing on America’s two-faced double-standard media. I view the drive-by-media as a type of rogue media like they had in Communist Russia with “Pravda” and in Germany with the Goebbels’s propaganda outfits. I look upon NBC News and George Soros’s “Media Matters” as that kind of smears against conservatives, propaganda and a mouthpiece for the reelection of Obama.
O’Reilly on the O’Reilly Fact stated that the rogue media can influence about 5 % of the vote in favor of Obama. On this website, I wrote three report cards on the book “Left Turn”- “How the Liberal Media Bias Distorts the American Mind” by Tim Groseclose. The first one was dated, “Left Turn – A Report Card – Wednesday, August 10, 2011. Here are a couple of excerpts: “In a typical presidential election Washington correspondents vote about 93-7 for the Democrats, while the rest of America votes 50-50.” “My (Tim Groseclose) results suggest that media bias aids Democratic candidates by about 8 to 10 percentage points in a typical election.”
I strongly disagree with Rush Limbaugh. He undresses and makes fun of the drive-by-media. This drives the liberal media up the wall. Rush says we have to live with this media. I beg to disagree.
Now let us reference this website, May 10, 2010 – “Hero Andrew Breitbart: On the Media”
“The bias of the liberal media is so deeply ingrained that it is an essential part of its structure – one that conservatives must fight hard to challenge effectively, according to conservative news media guru Andrew Breitbart. “The left, to me, in essence, is the media,” said Breitbart. “I am everything at attacking the media for its biases and holding them accountable for their biases, and the things that they report incorrectly, or the things they fail to report.*
“By aiming everything at the media I’ve pretty much done the one thing they ask you not to do. ‘Please accept the premise that we are fair, and let’s move on.’ No I am not going to accept that premise. “For these people to tell me for with a straight face that they don’t come to the media and their jobs from a political perspective, from a left-of-center perspective, IS JUST A BALD-FACED LIE.”
“While not strongly religious himself, said Breitbart, the attacks on Christians perpetrated by the mainstream media ‘angers me to no end.’ I consider myself to be Judeo-Christian … I relate to the world view that America has,” he said, “It’s a distinctly Judeo-Christian one and I think that it works.”
G. H. Kubeck: Andrew Breitbart was for same-sex marriage, he was wrong. Bless his work for honest journalism.
Wednesday, March 14, 2012
The Moral Collapse of Marriage under Obama
The Moral Collapse of Marriage under Obama
In pursuit of the truth – Wednesday, March 14, 2012
This is a national tragedy occurring under the Obama regime. I reference the article by Carol E. Lee, dated March 11, 2012 titled, “Democrats Pressure President to Endorse Gay Marriage.” –(Wall Street Journal). More polls are necessary to verify the accuracy of the following results.
“More Americans are embracing gay marriage… Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, chairman of the Democratic National Convention, said last week that a gay-marriage plank be part of the platform, echoing recent comments from House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D., Calif.). [What a tragedy and scandal. We have two rogue Catholic politicians promoting this sham and fraud.]
•The most recent Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll suggest that views of gay marriage are shifting faster than for any other hot-button social issue in recent memory, pollster say.
•Forty-nine percent of Americans now say they approve of gay marriage, up from 40% shortly after Mr. Obama took office in 2009.
•The poll showed the biggest jump among blue-collar voters and African Americans, two key Democratic constituents. Support among blue collar voters jumped 20 percentage points to 49%. African-American support for gay marriage rose 32% to 50%.
•More than half of Hispanics voters aged 18 to 34 also voiced support gay-marriage.
•White House officials say they don’t feel intense pressure for Mr. Obama to endorse gay marriage before November, in part because the president has delivered on other gay-rights issues, such s the repeal of “don’t ask, don’t tell,” policy that banned gays and lesbians from openly serving in the military.
•Support for gay marriage among Democrats is strong up 12 percentage points from 2009 to 67%; according to the Journal NBC poll. Among independents 46% now support gay marriage, up from 37% in 2009.
•The poll also showed a nine percentage point increase in support for gay marriage among Republicans, to 31%.”
How can anyone believe that the relationship in marriage between a man and a woman is the same as that between two same-sex persons? And if you believe that marriage is only between a man and a woman; “You are biased and prejudiced person. Also, you are a racist and guilty of bigotry.” Sadly, we have Corporations promoting this mindset and fraud on the American people.
Dear Home Depot, Progressive Insurance, and Starbucks Coffee,
I believe that marriage is only between a man and a woman. I don’t want YOU to call me biased, prejudiced, a racist or a bigot. Your promotion of same-sex marriage is destructive to family, marriage and children. As a Corporation you have no business being involved in the promotion of same-sex marriage. Please change or self-destruct as a business!
Website: – George H. Kubeck or www.cinopsbegoneblogspot.com
In pursuit of the truth – Wednesday, March 14, 2012
This is a national tragedy occurring under the Obama regime. I reference the article by Carol E. Lee, dated March 11, 2012 titled, “Democrats Pressure President to Endorse Gay Marriage.” –(Wall Street Journal). More polls are necessary to verify the accuracy of the following results.
“More Americans are embracing gay marriage… Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, chairman of the Democratic National Convention, said last week that a gay-marriage plank be part of the platform, echoing recent comments from House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D., Calif.). [What a tragedy and scandal. We have two rogue Catholic politicians promoting this sham and fraud.]
•The most recent Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll suggest that views of gay marriage are shifting faster than for any other hot-button social issue in recent memory, pollster say.
•Forty-nine percent of Americans now say they approve of gay marriage, up from 40% shortly after Mr. Obama took office in 2009.
•The poll showed the biggest jump among blue-collar voters and African Americans, two key Democratic constituents. Support among blue collar voters jumped 20 percentage points to 49%. African-American support for gay marriage rose 32% to 50%.
•More than half of Hispanics voters aged 18 to 34 also voiced support gay-marriage.
•White House officials say they don’t feel intense pressure for Mr. Obama to endorse gay marriage before November, in part because the president has delivered on other gay-rights issues, such s the repeal of “don’t ask, don’t tell,” policy that banned gays and lesbians from openly serving in the military.
•Support for gay marriage among Democrats is strong up 12 percentage points from 2009 to 67%; according to the Journal NBC poll. Among independents 46% now support gay marriage, up from 37% in 2009.
•The poll also showed a nine percentage point increase in support for gay marriage among Republicans, to 31%.”
How can anyone believe that the relationship in marriage between a man and a woman is the same as that between two same-sex persons? And if you believe that marriage is only between a man and a woman; “You are biased and prejudiced person. Also, you are a racist and guilty of bigotry.” Sadly, we have Corporations promoting this mindset and fraud on the American people.
Dear Home Depot, Progressive Insurance, and Starbucks Coffee,
I believe that marriage is only between a man and a woman. I don’t want YOU to call me biased, prejudiced, a racist or a bigot. Your promotion of same-sex marriage is destructive to family, marriage and children. As a Corporation you have no business being involved in the promotion of same-sex marriage. Please change or self-destruct as a business!
Website: – George H. Kubeck or www.cinopsbegoneblogspot.com
Monday, March 12, 2012
What is Socialism?*
What is Socialism?*
In pursuit of the truth – www.cinopsbegoneblogspot.com – Monday, March 12, 2012
“What is socialism? Like many another a noun that ends in “-ism,” socialism does not lend itself to a crisp twenty-five-word-or-less definition. There are certain fundamental features … which identify it as socialistic. [Article in “Fraternity Newsletter”- Priestly Fraternity of St. Peter- Jan. 2012]
•First, socialism is a thoroughly materialistic philosophy: secondly, it is against private property and advocates monopolistic control of property and its distribution by the state; thirdly, it assumes a naturalistic view of man and the human condition, a specific consequence of which is its adamantly anti-Christian stance.
•Socialism is a thoroughly materialistic philosophy… Socialism is incapable of looking beyond the body. The soul is completely neglected, for the most logical of reasons according to the socialist’s way of thinking, and that is because the soul does not exist. All that matters, for the socialist, is matter, for matter is all there is… For the socialist, man does live by bread alone.
•One of the more pronounced ironies of socialism, given its dedicated materialistic outlook, is its obsessive antipathy toward private property… The ownership of private property, for him, is tantamount to a crime against humanity…
•The idea here is that the state having complete control of property, will then benevolently see to the equal distribution of goods, so that economic equality will prevail in society and the distinction between rich and poor will be obliterated… Rather than abolishing poverty and want, socialism has proven to be remarkably adept in exacerbating both.
•Socialism is a naturalistic philosophy in the sense that it systematically, in principle, ignores the whole supernatural order – indeed denies its very existence – while claiming that there is only a single reality, and that is natural reality.
•Socialism’s antagonism toward Christianity follows logically from its naturalism. It was to this particular aspect of socialism that Leo XIII and Pius XI called special attention. There have been parties and movements which have adopted the label of “Christian Socialism,” but Pope Pius XI makes clear that the label represents a contradiction in terms. Someone who calls himself a Christian Socialist is either (a) not really a Christian or (b) not really a socialist…
•Pope Pius XI called communism the more violent form of socialism… And so it happens that socialism, the archenemy of religion, becomes, for many of its devotees, a substitute religion…
•As emphasized by both Leo XIII and Pius XI, socialism is thus putting itself at odds with the natural law itself, for the ownership of property is not simply a privilege but a God-given right. To want to deny a family a plot of land and a house they can call their own is in a real sense to dehumanize them, to try to cancel them out as individual persons and make the little more than cogs in the vast machinery of the state. What socialism really wants to do is to supplant the ways of God with the ways of man…
•Socialism is indeed a deadly plague, the great enemy, and that is because in all essentials it is a godless political philosophy.”
G.H. Kubeck –*the author is D.Q. McInerny, Ph.D. Prof. of Philosophy, Our Lady of Guadadalupe Seminary
In pursuit of the truth – www.cinopsbegoneblogspot.com – Monday, March 12, 2012
“What is socialism? Like many another a noun that ends in “-ism,” socialism does not lend itself to a crisp twenty-five-word-or-less definition. There are certain fundamental features … which identify it as socialistic. [Article in “Fraternity Newsletter”- Priestly Fraternity of St. Peter- Jan. 2012]
•First, socialism is a thoroughly materialistic philosophy: secondly, it is against private property and advocates monopolistic control of property and its distribution by the state; thirdly, it assumes a naturalistic view of man and the human condition, a specific consequence of which is its adamantly anti-Christian stance.
•Socialism is a thoroughly materialistic philosophy… Socialism is incapable of looking beyond the body. The soul is completely neglected, for the most logical of reasons according to the socialist’s way of thinking, and that is because the soul does not exist. All that matters, for the socialist, is matter, for matter is all there is… For the socialist, man does live by bread alone.
•One of the more pronounced ironies of socialism, given its dedicated materialistic outlook, is its obsessive antipathy toward private property… The ownership of private property, for him, is tantamount to a crime against humanity…
•The idea here is that the state having complete control of property, will then benevolently see to the equal distribution of goods, so that economic equality will prevail in society and the distinction between rich and poor will be obliterated… Rather than abolishing poverty and want, socialism has proven to be remarkably adept in exacerbating both.
•Socialism is a naturalistic philosophy in the sense that it systematically, in principle, ignores the whole supernatural order – indeed denies its very existence – while claiming that there is only a single reality, and that is natural reality.
•Socialism’s antagonism toward Christianity follows logically from its naturalism. It was to this particular aspect of socialism that Leo XIII and Pius XI called special attention. There have been parties and movements which have adopted the label of “Christian Socialism,” but Pope Pius XI makes clear that the label represents a contradiction in terms. Someone who calls himself a Christian Socialist is either (a) not really a Christian or (b) not really a socialist…
•Pope Pius XI called communism the more violent form of socialism… And so it happens that socialism, the archenemy of religion, becomes, for many of its devotees, a substitute religion…
•As emphasized by both Leo XIII and Pius XI, socialism is thus putting itself at odds with the natural law itself, for the ownership of property is not simply a privilege but a God-given right. To want to deny a family a plot of land and a house they can call their own is in a real sense to dehumanize them, to try to cancel them out as individual persons and make the little more than cogs in the vast machinery of the state. What socialism really wants to do is to supplant the ways of God with the ways of man…
•Socialism is indeed a deadly plague, the great enemy, and that is because in all essentials it is a godless political philosophy.”
G.H. Kubeck –*the author is D.Q. McInerny, Ph.D. Prof. of Philosophy, Our Lady of Guadadalupe Seminary
Saturday, March 10, 2012
George Weigel: Update on the HHS Mandate
The relentless pursuit of the truth – www.cinopsbegoneblogspot.com – Saturday, March 10, 2012
George Weigel is the Distinguished Senior Fellow of Washington’s Ethics and Public Policy Center, where he holds the William E. Simon Chair in Catholic Studies – We have excerpts of his article in “National Review Online” – Mar. 5th – The Battle Continues, Beyond Rush-
“Despite the White House’s rather successful efforts to reframe the media and congressional debate over the HHS “contraceptive mandate” as a right-wing jihad against “women’s health” – cynical ploy aided and abetted by Rush^ Limbaugh’s one-man circular firing squad – the real battle against the mandate and in defense of religious freedom has continued.
“A March 2 letter from Cardinal Timothy Dolan… then described the difficulties of finding a legislative remedy to the problems caused by the mandate, noting that, in the recent Senate debate over the Blunt amendment, “our opponents* sought to obscure what is really a religious freedom issue by maintaining that abortion-inducing drugs and the like are ‘women’s health issue.’ We will not let this deception stand. (As a concrete expression of that commitment, the bishops’ conference is preparing and will soon distribute materials for use in parishes, which make clear that the issue is religious freedom.)
“But as attempts to find a legislative remedy continue, Cardinal Dolan noted that the judicial path to the defense of religious freedom is the likeliest to achieve success, given both the First Amendment and the Religious Freedom Restoration Act… Given the Supreme Court’s recent Hosanna-Tabor decision, it is not easy to see how the administration will successfully defend its latest attempt to erode the institutions of civil society and violate individual consciences… As one Catholic feminist blogger put it, “This is as much about birth control as the American Revolution was about tea.”
“The bishops have also, and at last, taken aim at those within the Catholic family urging an acceptance of the administration’s bogus “accommodation.” Cardinal Dolan’s letter took an unprecedented shot at the Jesuit magazine, America; Bishop Lori went even farther in a letter to that journal, noting that its disdain for the bishops allegedly getting lost in “details” of policy ignores every one of the mandate’s infringements on the religious freedom of both institutions and individuals. To which it might be added that it takes a special kind of moral blindness (or partisan besottedness) to suggest, as America did, that requiring Church’s institutions and employers of conscience to provide health insurance that includes abortifacients like Ella is a “detail.” … The issue is clear, and the bishops are all in."
George H. Kubeck *include 13 Catholic label Senators, Tom Harkin, Dick Durbin, Mary Landrieu, John Kerry, Barbara Mikulski, Bob Menendez, Patrick Leahy, Maria Cantwell, Patty Murray, etc. Thank you Obama care; we find out who the traitors to the “Catechism of the Catholic Church” are.
^A 30 year old Georgetown law student Sandra Fluk appeared before a Nancy Pelosi Committee in support for free tax payers funding of contraception (3 year cost of $3,000). Rush called her a “slut” and apologized for the remark.
The relentless pursuit of the truth – www.cinopsbegoneblogspot.com – Saturday, March 10, 2012
George Weigel is the Distinguished Senior Fellow of Washington’s Ethics and Public Policy Center, where he holds the William E. Simon Chair in Catholic Studies – We have excerpts of his article in “National Review Online” – Mar. 5th – The Battle Continues, Beyond Rush-
“Despite the White House’s rather successful efforts to reframe the media and congressional debate over the HHS “contraceptive mandate” as a right-wing jihad against “women’s health” – cynical ploy aided and abetted by Rush^ Limbaugh’s one-man circular firing squad – the real battle against the mandate and in defense of religious freedom has continued.
“A March 2 letter from Cardinal Timothy Dolan… then described the difficulties of finding a legislative remedy to the problems caused by the mandate, noting that, in the recent Senate debate over the Blunt amendment, “our opponents* sought to obscure what is really a religious freedom issue by maintaining that abortion-inducing drugs and the like are ‘women’s health issue.’ We will not let this deception stand. (As a concrete expression of that commitment, the bishops’ conference is preparing and will soon distribute materials for use in parishes, which make clear that the issue is religious freedom.)
“But as attempts to find a legislative remedy continue, Cardinal Dolan noted that the judicial path to the defense of religious freedom is the likeliest to achieve success, given both the First Amendment and the Religious Freedom Restoration Act… Given the Supreme Court’s recent Hosanna-Tabor decision, it is not easy to see how the administration will successfully defend its latest attempt to erode the institutions of civil society and violate individual consciences… As one Catholic feminist blogger put it, “This is as much about birth control as the American Revolution was about tea.”
“The bishops have also, and at last, taken aim at those within the Catholic family urging an acceptance of the administration’s bogus “accommodation.” Cardinal Dolan’s letter took an unprecedented shot at the Jesuit magazine, America; Bishop Lori went even farther in a letter to that journal, noting that its disdain for the bishops allegedly getting lost in “details” of policy ignores every one of the mandate’s infringements on the religious freedom of both institutions and individuals. To which it might be added that it takes a special kind of moral blindness (or partisan besottedness) to suggest, as America did, that requiring Church’s institutions and employers of conscience to provide health insurance that includes abortifacients like Ella is a “detail.” … The issue is clear, and the bishops are all in."
George H. Kubeck *include 13 Catholic label Senators, Tom Harkin, Dick Durbin, Mary Landrieu, John Kerry, Barbara Mikulski, Bob Menendez, Patrick Leahy, Maria Cantwell, Patty Murray, etc. Thank you Obama care; we find out who the traitors to the “Catechism of the Catholic Church” are.
^A 30 year old Georgetown law student Sandra Fluk appeared before a Nancy Pelosi Committee in support for free tax payers funding of contraception (3 year cost of $3,000). Rush called her a “slut” and apologized for the remark.
Wednesday, March 7, 2012
Abortion Mill Closed: Obama's HHS Mandate Opened
Abortion Mill Closed: Obama’s HHS Mandate Opened
In pursuit of the truth – www.cinopsbegoneblogspot.com – Wednesday, March 7, 2012
We have good news and bad news. The good news is that the abortion mill in the city of Orange, California has vacated the site. This facility also did abortions on Sunday. The site is situated at 2345 E. Chapman or the northeast corner of Chapman and the 57 Freeway. A blessing to expel the evil spirits has been arranged. Father Al Baca, Pastor of St. Cecilia Parish will bless the facility this Thursday, March 8th, at 1:30 P.M.
Thanks to the many parishes Catholic and Protestant in Orange County and one or more in Los Angeles County who participated in prayers at this site. Also special thanks to sidewalk counselors Joan Hosek and Walt Hill and others who prayed the rosary and passed out information. Many mothers-to-be changed their minds over the years. We won a great victory for life.
Now with respect to Obama’s HHS Mandate a.k.a. (Hell's Human Sex Mandate) we have the following three news reports. [The Wanderer – www.wanderpress.com – Feb. 23, 2012]
“Over 200 college presidents, academics, religious leaders, and journalists have signed a letter that denounces President Obama’s “accommodation” to the contraceptive mandate for failing to “remove the assault on religious liberty.”
“It is an insult to the intelligence of Catholics, Protestants, Eastern Orthodoxy Christians, Jews, Muslims, and other people of faith and conscience to image that they will accept an assault on their religious liberty if only it is covered up by a cheap accounting trick.” The letter stated…
"More than 50 members of Congress banded together at a February 15 press conference to demand legislation to stop the new mandate President Obama put in place, forcing religious employers to pay for insurance coverage of birth control and abortion-inducing drugs…
“The church’s enemies use divisions within the Church to advance their agendas, resulting in scandal and the further scattering of the flock through confusion. Graver is the jeopardy to the salvific mission of Christ made possible by dissent and disobedience within the Church that give rise to these exploitations. The president’s drive to arrogate power to himself was advanced in the HHS mandate battle with the Church because he used Sister Carol Keehan, president of the Catholic Health Association to drive a wedge between the bishops and members of the faithful. The so-called compromise proposed by Obama on Feb. 10 is nothing but a shell game and as Donald Cardinal Wuerl commented, changes nothing. Archbishop Joseph Chaput termed the ruse “insulting.” - Fr. K.M. Cusick
George H. Kubeck –
Sadly, the Respect for Conscience Act (S.1467) amendment sponsored by Senator Roy Blunt (R-MO) and 37 other senators was defeated by a narrow vote in the Senate 51-48. Thirteen senators who call themselves Catholic voted against the amendment. They seem to have no respect for the first amendment to the Constitution. We have a constitutional & a freedom of religion crisis and by Nov. 6th parishioners will be educated in this matter.
In pursuit of the truth – www.cinopsbegoneblogspot.com – Wednesday, March 7, 2012
We have good news and bad news. The good news is that the abortion mill in the city of Orange, California has vacated the site. This facility also did abortions on Sunday. The site is situated at 2345 E. Chapman or the northeast corner of Chapman and the 57 Freeway. A blessing to expel the evil spirits has been arranged. Father Al Baca, Pastor of St. Cecilia Parish will bless the facility this Thursday, March 8th, at 1:30 P.M.
Thanks to the many parishes Catholic and Protestant in Orange County and one or more in Los Angeles County who participated in prayers at this site. Also special thanks to sidewalk counselors Joan Hosek and Walt Hill and others who prayed the rosary and passed out information. Many mothers-to-be changed their minds over the years. We won a great victory for life.
Now with respect to Obama’s HHS Mandate a.k.a. (Hell's Human Sex Mandate) we have the following three news reports. [The Wanderer – www.wanderpress.com – Feb. 23, 2012]
“Over 200 college presidents, academics, religious leaders, and journalists have signed a letter that denounces President Obama’s “accommodation” to the contraceptive mandate for failing to “remove the assault on religious liberty.”
“It is an insult to the intelligence of Catholics, Protestants, Eastern Orthodoxy Christians, Jews, Muslims, and other people of faith and conscience to image that they will accept an assault on their religious liberty if only it is covered up by a cheap accounting trick.” The letter stated…
"More than 50 members of Congress banded together at a February 15 press conference to demand legislation to stop the new mandate President Obama put in place, forcing religious employers to pay for insurance coverage of birth control and abortion-inducing drugs…
“The church’s enemies use divisions within the Church to advance their agendas, resulting in scandal and the further scattering of the flock through confusion. Graver is the jeopardy to the salvific mission of Christ made possible by dissent and disobedience within the Church that give rise to these exploitations. The president’s drive to arrogate power to himself was advanced in the HHS mandate battle with the Church because he used Sister Carol Keehan, president of the Catholic Health Association to drive a wedge between the bishops and members of the faithful. The so-called compromise proposed by Obama on Feb. 10 is nothing but a shell game and as Donald Cardinal Wuerl commented, changes nothing. Archbishop Joseph Chaput termed the ruse “insulting.” - Fr. K.M. Cusick
George H. Kubeck –
Sadly, the Respect for Conscience Act (S.1467) amendment sponsored by Senator Roy Blunt (R-MO) and 37 other senators was defeated by a narrow vote in the Senate 51-48. Thirteen senators who call themselves Catholic voted against the amendment. They seem to have no respect for the first amendment to the Constitution. We have a constitutional & a freedom of religion crisis and by Nov. 6th parishioners will be educated in this matter.
Tuesday, March 6, 2012
Obama's War on Religious Liberty
Obama’s War on Religious Liberty
In pursuit of the truth – www.cinopsbegoneblogspot.com – Tuesday, March 7, 2012
The above is the headline in the Westminster Herald by Phyllis Schlafly dated Mar. 1, 2012
“Welcome to the real ObamaCare, whereby a handful of leftists in Washington, D.C., impose the views of their big-money donors on more than 300 million Americans. If the Obama mandate for contraception remains intact, then liberals will next demand that Americans pay for other objectionable items that are not really medical care.
“We can expect future mandates under the guise of “health care,” to include sex-change operations, late-term abortions, embryonic stem-cells use and a variety of other procedures that many Americans do not support and certainly do not want to be compelled to foot the bill for Obama directive for abortifacient drugs opens a slippery slope that would erode the moral authority of religious institutions in America.
“Obama and the liberals have overplayed their hand. By baring their teeth, these lackeys of the left have awakened Democratic voters to the real contempt that liberals hold for religious values. All 181 U.S. Catholic bishops oppose Obama’s mandate and Rasmussen polling estimates that 65 percent of Catholic Americans also oppose it. There are about 75 million American Catholics, most of whom have been traditionally been Democratic voters but wouldn’t hesitate to cross party lines to defend their Church leaders…
“Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius’s congressional testimony made clear that the Obama administration is dug in permanently to enforce the regulation that religiously affiliated institutions must offer their employees health insurance that includes abortion drugs, sterilization and contraceptives…
•Dick Morris exposed how George Stephanopoulos outed the Obama strategy behind this outrageous action. Knowing that abortion is no longer a winning issue for Democratic, Obama wanted to shift the debate to contraception.
•The religious liberty issue is definitely not confined to Catholic hospitals, schools, colleges and charities. It opens up the whole attack on religion and on Christianity that is now going on in the Obama administration, the courts and even the military…
•Just recently, the Obama administration forced the Air Force’s Capabilities Office to strike the Latin word for “God” from its logo…
•At the Veterans Affairs Department, Obama’s agents banned Military Honor Details from reciting the significance of each fold of the American Flag during the burial services of our heroic men and women who gave their lives for our country…
•Obama gave a speech at Georgetown University, a Catholic college. But he ordered his staff to cover up a crucifix with a giant black tarp… he didn’t want anybody to see a religious symbol while he was speaking…
George H. Kubeck – It is a tragedy. What Obama says and what he does are two different things. He calls himself a Christian and is for partial-birth abortion (Infanticide), same-sex marriage, and now the Health and Human Services Mandate a.k.a. (Hell’s Human Sex Mandate).
In pursuit of the truth – www.cinopsbegoneblogspot.com – Tuesday, March 7, 2012
The above is the headline in the Westminster Herald by Phyllis Schlafly dated Mar. 1, 2012
“Welcome to the real ObamaCare, whereby a handful of leftists in Washington, D.C., impose the views of their big-money donors on more than 300 million Americans. If the Obama mandate for contraception remains intact, then liberals will next demand that Americans pay for other objectionable items that are not really medical care.
“We can expect future mandates under the guise of “health care,” to include sex-change operations, late-term abortions, embryonic stem-cells use and a variety of other procedures that many Americans do not support and certainly do not want to be compelled to foot the bill for Obama directive for abortifacient drugs opens a slippery slope that would erode the moral authority of religious institutions in America.
“Obama and the liberals have overplayed their hand. By baring their teeth, these lackeys of the left have awakened Democratic voters to the real contempt that liberals hold for religious values. All 181 U.S. Catholic bishops oppose Obama’s mandate and Rasmussen polling estimates that 65 percent of Catholic Americans also oppose it. There are about 75 million American Catholics, most of whom have been traditionally been Democratic voters but wouldn’t hesitate to cross party lines to defend their Church leaders…
“Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius’s congressional testimony made clear that the Obama administration is dug in permanently to enforce the regulation that religiously affiliated institutions must offer their employees health insurance that includes abortion drugs, sterilization and contraceptives…
•Dick Morris exposed how George Stephanopoulos outed the Obama strategy behind this outrageous action. Knowing that abortion is no longer a winning issue for Democratic, Obama wanted to shift the debate to contraception.
•The religious liberty issue is definitely not confined to Catholic hospitals, schools, colleges and charities. It opens up the whole attack on religion and on Christianity that is now going on in the Obama administration, the courts and even the military…
•Just recently, the Obama administration forced the Air Force’s Capabilities Office to strike the Latin word for “God” from its logo…
•At the Veterans Affairs Department, Obama’s agents banned Military Honor Details from reciting the significance of each fold of the American Flag during the burial services of our heroic men and women who gave their lives for our country…
•Obama gave a speech at Georgetown University, a Catholic college. But he ordered his staff to cover up a crucifix with a giant black tarp… he didn’t want anybody to see a religious symbol while he was speaking…
George H. Kubeck – It is a tragedy. What Obama says and what he does are two different things. He calls himself a Christian and is for partial-birth abortion (Infanticide), same-sex marriage, and now the Health and Human Services Mandate a.k.a. (Hell’s Human Sex Mandate).
Monday, March 5, 2012
I (Cardinal Timothy Dolan) Owe You an Update!
I (Cardinal Timothy Dolan) Owe You an Update
In pursuit of the truth – www.cinopsbegoneblogspot.com – Monday, March 5, 2012
Ref. the Cardinal’s website http://blog.archny - March 3, 2012
“Over the last six months or so, the Catholic Church in the United States has found itself in some tension with executive branch of the federal government over a very grave issue: religious freedom. Can a government bureau, in this case the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), define for us or any faith community what is ministry and how it can be exercised? Can government also coerce the church to violate its conscience?
“This has not been a fight of our choosing. We’d rather not be in it… The Catholic Church in America has a long tradition of partnership with government and the wider community in the service of the sick, our children, our elders, and the poor at home and abroad. We’d sure rather be partnering than punching…
“And it is not just about sterilization, abortifacients, and chemical contraception. Pure and simple, it’s about religious freedom, the sacred right, protected by our constitution, of any Church to define its own teaching and ministry.
“When the President announced on January 20th that the choking mandates from HHS would remain – a shock to me, since he had personally assured me that he would do nothing to impede the good work of the Church in health care, education, and charity, and that he considered the protection of conscience a sacred duty – not only you, but men and women of every faith, or none at all, rallied in protest. The worry that we bishops had expressed – that such government control was contrary to our deepest political values – was eloquently articulated by constitutional scholars and leaders of every creed. Even newspapers editorials supported us! … Well, for one, we’ll keep up advocacy and education on the issue…
“The White House already notified Congress that the dreaded mandates are now published in the Federal Registry “without change.” The Secretary of HHS is widely quoted as saying, “Religious insurance companies don’t really design the plans they sell based on their own religious tenets,” which doesn’t bode well for a truly acceptable “accommodation.” And a recent meeting between staff and the bishops’ conference and the White House staff ended with the President’s people informing us that the broader concerns of religious freedom – that is, revisiting the straight-jacketing mandates, or broadening the maligned exemption – are all off the table…
“Congress offers more hope, with thoughtful elected officials proposing legislation to protect what should be so obvious: religious freedom… And the courts offer the most light. In the recent Hosanna-Tabor ruling, the Supreme Court unanimously and enthusiastically defended the right of the Church to define its own ministry and services, a dramatic rebuff to the administration…”
George H. Kubeck – Pray that the U.S. Jesuit Order will support the Bishops and the First Amendment to the Constitution.
In pursuit of the truth – www.cinopsbegoneblogspot.com – Monday, March 5, 2012
Ref. the Cardinal’s website http://blog.archny - March 3, 2012
“Over the last six months or so, the Catholic Church in the United States has found itself in some tension with executive branch of the federal government over a very grave issue: religious freedom. Can a government bureau, in this case the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), define for us or any faith community what is ministry and how it can be exercised? Can government also coerce the church to violate its conscience?
“This has not been a fight of our choosing. We’d rather not be in it… The Catholic Church in America has a long tradition of partnership with government and the wider community in the service of the sick, our children, our elders, and the poor at home and abroad. We’d sure rather be partnering than punching…
“And it is not just about sterilization, abortifacients, and chemical contraception. Pure and simple, it’s about religious freedom, the sacred right, protected by our constitution, of any Church to define its own teaching and ministry.
“When the President announced on January 20th that the choking mandates from HHS would remain – a shock to me, since he had personally assured me that he would do nothing to impede the good work of the Church in health care, education, and charity, and that he considered the protection of conscience a sacred duty – not only you, but men and women of every faith, or none at all, rallied in protest. The worry that we bishops had expressed – that such government control was contrary to our deepest political values – was eloquently articulated by constitutional scholars and leaders of every creed. Even newspapers editorials supported us! … Well, for one, we’ll keep up advocacy and education on the issue…
“The White House already notified Congress that the dreaded mandates are now published in the Federal Registry “without change.” The Secretary of HHS is widely quoted as saying, “Religious insurance companies don’t really design the plans they sell based on their own religious tenets,” which doesn’t bode well for a truly acceptable “accommodation.” And a recent meeting between staff and the bishops’ conference and the White House staff ended with the President’s people informing us that the broader concerns of religious freedom – that is, revisiting the straight-jacketing mandates, or broadening the maligned exemption – are all off the table…
“Congress offers more hope, with thoughtful elected officials proposing legislation to protect what should be so obvious: religious freedom… And the courts offer the most light. In the recent Hosanna-Tabor ruling, the Supreme Court unanimously and enthusiastically defended the right of the Church to define its own ministry and services, a dramatic rebuff to the administration…”
George H. Kubeck – Pray that the U.S. Jesuit Order will support the Bishops and the First Amendment to the Constitution.
Sunday, March 4, 2012
Thinking thru the Ethics, Legality of Abortion
Thinking thru the Ethics, Legality of Abortion
In pursuit of the truth – www.cinopsbegoneblogspot.com – Sunday, March 4, 2012
The Best Letter on the Topic by Charles N. Marrelli in the Orange County Register, Orange County, California, Sunday. Feb. 26, 2012 – submitted by Fred B.
“Letter-writer Kevin A. Capps is a critical thinker who asks the right question [“Abortion conundrum,” Feb. 21]. Abortion is the worst kind of hypocrisy; it kills an innocent preborn life, betrays our Declaration of Independence and our Constitution.
“Contrived hypocritical language is designed to distort or pervert truth. There are many more questions that expose the pro-choice cover-up. On what moral grounds does one person – the mother – have the right to have another person, the individuated fetus, killed?
“What effect does this premeditated death have on the common good of our nation, on our citizenry, and on heritage? Common sense tells us that the new life in uterus is a person, and to kill her is to defy science, reason and experience. Any moral or legal decision that counters what we know to be true should be challenged and exposed as contrived nonsense.
“Which brings us to more challenging core questions: Does an innocent preborn female fetus have an inherent moral right to be born once she has been launched into existence by the behavior of a person outside of herself? If not, why not?
“How does a pregnant woman suddenly become God-like with the supreme power and moral right to decide if a child will live, or a fetus will die? By what mysterious power does a “choice” create life where life actually exists? And if the mother’s choice is a fetus (destined to die) but during the abortion the baby girl manages to survive, as many have, by what creative power does the essence of this non-person fetus (with no rights) suddenly shift to the essence of a female baby person {with all rights)?
“And who has the burden of proof for the right to execute a preborn female fetus since there is no evidence that she is not a human person with all rights? How can we sentence this innocent life to a capital punishment, as though she had been proved guilty of a capital crime, beyond the shadow of a doubt, in a court of law? Why do we accept the premise that the life she carries is and is not a persona at the same time (a baby that will live or a fetus that will die)?
“This is a clear contradiction: To be pro-choice is to deny objective truth. Why don’t we challenge the obvious violation of the principle of non-contradiction; it is an axiom of thought, a law of reason, of greater certitude than any law of science.”
In pursuit of the truth – www.cinopsbegoneblogspot.com – Sunday, March 4, 2012
The Best Letter on the Topic by Charles N. Marrelli in the Orange County Register, Orange County, California, Sunday. Feb. 26, 2012 – submitted by Fred B.
“Letter-writer Kevin A. Capps is a critical thinker who asks the right question [“Abortion conundrum,” Feb. 21]. Abortion is the worst kind of hypocrisy; it kills an innocent preborn life, betrays our Declaration of Independence and our Constitution.
“Contrived hypocritical language is designed to distort or pervert truth. There are many more questions that expose the pro-choice cover-up. On what moral grounds does one person – the mother – have the right to have another person, the individuated fetus, killed?
“What effect does this premeditated death have on the common good of our nation, on our citizenry, and on heritage? Common sense tells us that the new life in uterus is a person, and to kill her is to defy science, reason and experience. Any moral or legal decision that counters what we know to be true should be challenged and exposed as contrived nonsense.
“Which brings us to more challenging core questions: Does an innocent preborn female fetus have an inherent moral right to be born once she has been launched into existence by the behavior of a person outside of herself? If not, why not?
“How does a pregnant woman suddenly become God-like with the supreme power and moral right to decide if a child will live, or a fetus will die? By what mysterious power does a “choice” create life where life actually exists? And if the mother’s choice is a fetus (destined to die) but during the abortion the baby girl manages to survive, as many have, by what creative power does the essence of this non-person fetus (with no rights) suddenly shift to the essence of a female baby person {with all rights)?
“And who has the burden of proof for the right to execute a preborn female fetus since there is no evidence that she is not a human person with all rights? How can we sentence this innocent life to a capital punishment, as though she had been proved guilty of a capital crime, beyond the shadow of a doubt, in a court of law? Why do we accept the premise that the life she carries is and is not a persona at the same time (a baby that will live or a fetus that will die)?
“This is a clear contradiction: To be pro-choice is to deny objective truth. Why don’t we challenge the obvious violation of the principle of non-contradiction; it is an axiom of thought, a law of reason, of greater certitude than any law of science.”
Friday, March 2, 2012
Andrew Breitbart: in his Memory and Spirit
Andrew Breitbart: – in his Memory and Spirit
In pursuit of the truth – www.cinopsbegoneblogspot.com – Friday, March 2, 2012
Preface: W can change a negative into a positive. If the Santorum or Gingrich supporters can pick up the spirit of Andrew Breitbart, they will win the Republican presidential nomination and the Presidency of the United States.
In Andrew’s Memory: Message from the California Republican Assembly, March 2, 2012
Like most Americans, the CRA Board of Directors, and its entire membership are sad and shocked at the sudden death of our friend and stalwart Conservative warrior Andrew Breitbart. He was so young, such a strong, passionate and true patriot. He accomplished so much in the last three years within the conservative movement. He was able to raise the conscience of millions of Americans with his great and accurate investigating reports.
I had the honor of knowing Andrew and getting a hug every time I saw him. Last year, at the Annual Jewish Republican Coalition Dinner at the Beverly Hilton Hotel, I reminded him that, with his salty curly gray hair and beard, he could replay the part of Moses. He told me there was only one Charleston Heston. Anyway, who could do it and part the Red Sea?
Once again this proves how fragile and limited life can be. May the Lord, rest his soul, keep him by his side and give comfort and peace to his beloved wife Susannah and their four small children. CRA give our deepest condolences to them and their friends for such a tragic loss.
Celeste Greig, President, California Republican Assembly*
•In Andrew’s Spirit: He fought against the institutional left and revolutionized the conservative movement.
•He was a courageous fearless warrior & constantly on the go for the cause of freedom.
•He cut right to the heart of things and made conservatives, hip and cool.
•It was a huge loss for our country but he attracted fighters on the internet and in the public arena. They will carry on his work. Do check it out.
•He showed leftist and liberals in their true colors and read their minds as good as or better than any of the talk show hosts on radio.
•“He had grit, guts and perseverance and pointed out a lot of truth.” Pat Buchanan
•He perceived the Tea Party as a peaceful and law abiding and fought media smears. The place was cleaner after they left any meeting or public gathering.
•He was a patriot par excellence and loved traditional America.
•He perceived and understood the deepest level of hypocrisy and master of disguises in a Bernadine Dornan and a Bill Ayers. The anti-war movement is now the Occupy Movement.
George H. Kubeck - *Anaheim Republican Assembly Meets 3rd Wednesdays of each month at Mimi’s Café – 1240 Euclid Avenue, Anaheim, Calif. – www.anaheimrepublicanassembly.com – for more info – 714-527-9313
In pursuit of the truth – www.cinopsbegoneblogspot.com – Friday, March 2, 2012
Preface: W can change a negative into a positive. If the Santorum or Gingrich supporters can pick up the spirit of Andrew Breitbart, they will win the Republican presidential nomination and the Presidency of the United States.
In Andrew’s Memory: Message from the California Republican Assembly, March 2, 2012
Like most Americans, the CRA Board of Directors, and its entire membership are sad and shocked at the sudden death of our friend and stalwart Conservative warrior Andrew Breitbart. He was so young, such a strong, passionate and true patriot. He accomplished so much in the last three years within the conservative movement. He was able to raise the conscience of millions of Americans with his great and accurate investigating reports.
I had the honor of knowing Andrew and getting a hug every time I saw him. Last year, at the Annual Jewish Republican Coalition Dinner at the Beverly Hilton Hotel, I reminded him that, with his salty curly gray hair and beard, he could replay the part of Moses. He told me there was only one Charleston Heston. Anyway, who could do it and part the Red Sea?
Once again this proves how fragile and limited life can be. May the Lord, rest his soul, keep him by his side and give comfort and peace to his beloved wife Susannah and their four small children. CRA give our deepest condolences to them and their friends for such a tragic loss.
Celeste Greig, President, California Republican Assembly*
•In Andrew’s Spirit: He fought against the institutional left and revolutionized the conservative movement.
•He was a courageous fearless warrior & constantly on the go for the cause of freedom.
•He cut right to the heart of things and made conservatives, hip and cool.
•It was a huge loss for our country but he attracted fighters on the internet and in the public arena. They will carry on his work. Do check it out.
•He showed leftist and liberals in their true colors and read their minds as good as or better than any of the talk show hosts on radio.
•“He had grit, guts and perseverance and pointed out a lot of truth.” Pat Buchanan
•He perceived the Tea Party as a peaceful and law abiding and fought media smears. The place was cleaner after they left any meeting or public gathering.
•He was a patriot par excellence and loved traditional America.
•He perceived and understood the deepest level of hypocrisy and master of disguises in a Bernadine Dornan and a Bill Ayers. The anti-war movement is now the Occupy Movement.
George H. Kubeck - *Anaheim Republican Assembly Meets 3rd Wednesdays of each month at Mimi’s Café – 1240 Euclid Avenue, Anaheim, Calif. – www.anaheimrepublicanassembly.com – for more info – 714-527-9313
Thursday, March 1, 2012
Orthodoxy and Homosexuality
Orthodoxy and Homosexuality
In pursuit of the truth – www.cinopsbegoneblogspot.com – Thursday, March 1, 2012
What were the traditional Jewish religious tradition and the Torah on Homosexuality?
The following abridged article is by Avid Shoran, director of public affairs for Agudath Israel of America. It was published in “Forward” on February 24, 2012.
“The chief rabbi of Amsterdam, Aryeh Ralbag, was suspended in January for signing a document that homosexuality is “treatable” and that one can be “healed” from it. Though he was eventually reinstated after apologizing to the community, the episode does provide an opportunity to consider exactly what the traditional Orthodox view on homosexuality is and whether Ralbag was really saying anything all that scandalous.
“Whether homosexuality is fixed or changeable remains an open question. There are well-informed people on either side of the issue, but as of yet no incontrovertible proof of “GAY GENE.” Whether the Jewish religious tradition is fixed or changeable, however, is not arguable – at least not for Torah-loyal Jews.
“The Torah explicitly prohibits homosexual contact (whether by the homosexually inclined or by anyone else). There have been Herculean efforts in recent years, even by some nominally “Orthodox” Jews, to cast the Torah’s explicit prohibitions of male homosexual activity as meaning something other than what Jewish tradition has understood it to mean several thousand years…
“The Torah does not command hatred of homosexuals or label people who engage in homosexual activity as inherently evil. People who transgress the Torah do not forfeit their humanity or, if Jewish, their membership in the Jewish people, … But there can be no denying that the Torah in no uncertain terms forbids homosexual acts and, with equal clarity, sanctions only the union of a man and a woman in matrimony…
“The document signed by Ralbag – along with scores of other rabbis and health professionals – counsels “love and compassion” toward those with homosexual inclinations, but also states clearly that the Torah forbids homosexual inclinations, but also states clearly that the Torah forbids homosexual activity. Moreover, it asserts, that homosexual inclinations can be “modified and healed,” which was apparently what brought the lay board of the Amsterdam Jewish community to initially suspend Ralbag…
“Procreation in its traditional form, moreover, is not only a mitzvah, a commandment, but also a Jewish high ideal. Understandably, a Torah-observant Jew challenged by same-sex attraction, even if he is successfully overcoming the urge to give vent to his desires, feels torn between what his emotional landscape is telling him and what his Torah is… And so it is only logical that he seek ways of alleviating that tension…
“Unfortunately, though, instead of receiving support and encouragement from the broader Jewish community, such Jews all too often face a barrage of cultural critics and media that is badgering them to give up on their goal of working to mitigate their homosexual orientation. Those critics and media begin with the premise that there is no reason for anyone to seek to change a sexual orientation. But the premise of someone dedicated to Torah is that God’s will matters most and has been committed to mankind...”
George H. Kubeck-
In pursuit of the truth – www.cinopsbegoneblogspot.com – Thursday, March 1, 2012
What were the traditional Jewish religious tradition and the Torah on Homosexuality?
The following abridged article is by Avid Shoran, director of public affairs for Agudath Israel of America. It was published in “Forward” on February 24, 2012.
“The chief rabbi of Amsterdam, Aryeh Ralbag, was suspended in January for signing a document that homosexuality is “treatable” and that one can be “healed” from it. Though he was eventually reinstated after apologizing to the community, the episode does provide an opportunity to consider exactly what the traditional Orthodox view on homosexuality is and whether Ralbag was really saying anything all that scandalous.
“Whether homosexuality is fixed or changeable remains an open question. There are well-informed people on either side of the issue, but as of yet no incontrovertible proof of “GAY GENE.” Whether the Jewish religious tradition is fixed or changeable, however, is not arguable – at least not for Torah-loyal Jews.
“The Torah explicitly prohibits homosexual contact (whether by the homosexually inclined or by anyone else). There have been Herculean efforts in recent years, even by some nominally “Orthodox” Jews, to cast the Torah’s explicit prohibitions of male homosexual activity as meaning something other than what Jewish tradition has understood it to mean several thousand years…
“The Torah does not command hatred of homosexuals or label people who engage in homosexual activity as inherently evil. People who transgress the Torah do not forfeit their humanity or, if Jewish, their membership in the Jewish people, … But there can be no denying that the Torah in no uncertain terms forbids homosexual acts and, with equal clarity, sanctions only the union of a man and a woman in matrimony…
“The document signed by Ralbag – along with scores of other rabbis and health professionals – counsels “love and compassion” toward those with homosexual inclinations, but also states clearly that the Torah forbids homosexual inclinations, but also states clearly that the Torah forbids homosexual activity. Moreover, it asserts, that homosexual inclinations can be “modified and healed,” which was apparently what brought the lay board of the Amsterdam Jewish community to initially suspend Ralbag…
“Procreation in its traditional form, moreover, is not only a mitzvah, a commandment, but also a Jewish high ideal. Understandably, a Torah-observant Jew challenged by same-sex attraction, even if he is successfully overcoming the urge to give vent to his desires, feels torn between what his emotional landscape is telling him and what his Torah is… And so it is only logical that he seek ways of alleviating that tension…
“Unfortunately, though, instead of receiving support and encouragement from the broader Jewish community, such Jews all too often face a barrage of cultural critics and media that is badgering them to give up on their goal of working to mitigate their homosexual orientation. Those critics and media begin with the premise that there is no reason for anyone to seek to change a sexual orientation. But the premise of someone dedicated to Torah is that God’s will matters most and has been committed to mankind...”
George H. Kubeck-
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