THE GOD-FATHER OF CATHOLIC PRO-ABORTION POLITICIANS IS DEAD! # 1 OF 2

THE GODFATHER OF CATHOLIC PRO-ABORTION POLITICIANS IS DEAD! # 1 of 2

In pursuit of the truth - http://www.cinopsbegoneblogspot.com - Saturday, Jan. 31, 2015

From the article by George J. Marlin in Human Life Review - Fall 2014 -

Cardinal O'Connor vs. Governor Cuomo  (June 15, 1932 - January 1, 2015)

   

      Shortly after John J. O'Connor became Archbishop of New York in March 1984, he found himself in a battle with the state's governor, Mario M. Cuomo, which not made national headlines but also had a profound impact on the abortion debate.

     
 It began when the archbishop said during a press conference: "I do not see how a Catholic, in good conscience, can vote for an individual expressing himself or herself as favoring abortion." That did not sit well with Cuomo.

     The governor, who in the early 1970's had been publicly pro-life, changed his position after losing a primary foe lieutenant governor in 1973 and then a race for mayor in 1977. To advance his career, Cuomo adopted the now familiar line that, as a Catholic, he was personally opposed to abortion. But as an elected official it would be wrong for him to impose his religious beliefs on the general public....

   On September 13, 1984, he flew to America's best known Catholic University, Notre Dame, to answer O'Connor in a talk titled "Religious Belief and Public Morality: A Catholic Governor's Perspective." ... "The Catholic Church," Cuomo said,"is my spiritual home." He added, "I accept the Church's teaching on abortion," but then asked, "Must I insist you do?"

     "Our public morality then - the moral standards we maintain for everyone, not just the ones we insist on in our private lives - depends on a consensus view of right and wrong. The values derived from religious belief will not and should not be accepted as part of the public morality unless they are shared by the pluralistic community at large by consensus.  He (Cuomo) evoked Cardinal Joseph Bernadin's "seamless garment" argument, saying that abortion "has a unique significance but not a preemptive significance ... [and] will always be a central concern of Catholics. But so will nuclear weapons. And hunger and homelessness and joblessness, all forces diminishing human life and threatening to destroy it." ...

    
 As historian Richard Brookhiser has written, "Cuomo had found, in consensus and prudence, a way of having religion when he wanted it to not having when he didn't." The consensus argument was even too much for the very liberal  Bishop of Albany, Howard Hubbard:

  

   "While I support wholeheartedly the governor's position on capital punishment, there is no consensus in our state or nation on this matter. Quite the contrary. The polls show that 60 percent to 70 percent of the population favors the death penalty.

  
   Also polls indicate that the vast majority of the citizens of New York are opposed to recent legislation about the mandatory usage of seat belts. Yet contrary to citizen consensus, the governor supports such legislation because it would save several hundred lives a year. Why not a similar concern about saving the thousands of human lives which are terminated annually through abortion on demand?

    And the renowned theologian, Msgr. William B. Smith, dean of St. Joseph's Seminary, agreed"

"The governor's style was smooth and slick, but the content was specious and misleading. He is obviously a competent man, but a couple of points were horrendous, one being the complete ignoring of the human rights issue. Human rights do not rest on consensus. Respect for the human rights  of blacks, Jewish people - any minority - does not rest on consensus. This is why we call them inalienable rights. He relied on the 15-year-old rhetoric of Planned Parenthood [that} we are trying to impose our morality on others. The Supreme Court didn't establish a consensus; it destroyed one. The laws in the 50 states weren't there because of the Catholic Church put them there." ...

 
  For many Catholics, John O'Connor became a national hero. After years of bishops sitting on the sidelines, finally here was someone standing up and challenging whether Catholic politicians could separate their personal convictions from their public stance and still remain Catholic...

The media's consensus that he was shilling for Ronald  Reagan re-election campaign... He told New Times reporter Joe Klein ... "he was saying what he'd always said:

 
  "In fact, when I was consecrated a bishop in Rome.... I vowed publicly that from that day on there would be some reference to the dignity of the human person and, in particular, to the defense of the most vulnerable - the unborn - in every public address I make. I  have done that scrupulously since the day I became a bishop. I am not saying anything new..."

GEORGE H. KUBECK,                                                                                                                                                                            

I WISH ALL BISHOPS HAD MADE CARDINAL O'CONNOR'S VOW!

GOV. BOBBY JINDAL - A BREADTH OF FRESH AIR

  GOV. BOBBY JINDAL - A BREADTH OF FRESH AIR! - VERITAS

In pursuit of the truth - http://www.cinopsbegoneblogspot.com - Wednsday, January 28, 2015

Ref. - http://thehill/.com/blogs/ballot-box/presidential-races/230661-jindal-leaders-dont-have-the-...

World News Videos - ABC World News:

     Gov. Bobby Jindal (R-La.) said on Sunday that the nation's leaders don't "have the courage to speak the truth to us."

     Jindal, speaking on ABC's "This Week," cited a speech he gave last week in London on threats of radical Islamic terrorism that drew criticism.

     "I know it made a lot of people upset, but we need leaders to tell us the truth," he said. "For example people coming to our country need to integrate, need to assimilate. So I think people are looking for leaders that are willing to take on the big challenges.

     " One of the biggest challenges facing us, I think, is the current administration's attempt to redefine the American dream. My parents came to this country over 40 years ago in search of freedom and opportunity. The American dream is not about redistribution or government spending or debt, it's about freedom and opportunity. I think the voters want us to restore the American dream for our children and grandchildren." he added.

     [From a personal note, as a legal immigrant from Canada, I did not join the U.S. Army to become an Obama European American. One legacy of President Obama is 46 million Americans on food stamps. Past U.S. Presidents would crawl underneath any dirty rug.]

     "Jindal who once called the GOP the "stupid" party, said "we've gotten better."

     "We have to be a party of solutions. Not only repeal but also replace Obamacare. We need to offer detailed plans for energy independence, manufacturing Renaissance, school choice - where the dollar follows the child, a stronger foreign policy where our friends trust us, our enemies respect and fear us, where we invest in our military."

     "We need to be a party of solutions. We need to be a party consistent with our conservative principles. We don't need to be a second liberal party. We need to be more than the party of no.

   "I think we are making progress, we've still got some work to do, especially in Washington, D.C."

     "Jindal who is mulling a White House run, also said he doesn't change his views based on polls.

     "I am proud that in Louisiana, we define marriage as between a man and a woman. If the Supreme Court would throw out our law, our constitutional amendment - I hope they wouldn't do that, if they were to do that, I certainly support Ted Cruz and others that are talking about making an amendment in the Congress and D.C., to allow states to continue to define marriage. "I think it should be between a man and woman," he said.... [Obama is forcing us legally to accept lies.]

     "We can't just elect a candidate and fix what ails our country," Jindal said at that rally. We can't just pass a law and fix what ails our country. We need a spiritual revival to fix what ails our country."

     "It is like God has given us the gift of life. He doesn't let us see the pages for today and tomorrow He doesn't promise us everything will go the way you want but He does let you see the last page in the book of life. And on the last page our God wins." he added.

     Jindal defended those comments on Sunday, saying it's "a time honored tradition for the nation's leaders to turn to God for guidance."

     George Washington did it, Abraham Lincoln did it, Harry Truman did it. I think that this idea of praying to God for wisdom is as old as our country," he said.

     "Secondly, look, we are a diverse country. Obviously, a majority of our people are Christian, but we don't discriminate against anybody, that is one of the great things of America we believe in religious liberty," he added.

    "Yesterday, was an amazing event. Thousands of people came together to worship and pray across racial lines, across political lines. I thought it was a great, great event. I hope you'll see more of these across the country."

GEORGE H. KUBECK,

JINHDAL WARNS OF ISLAMIC 'COLONIZATION, 'INVASION' OF US

http://www/breotbart.com/video/2015.01/27/jindal-warns-sharia-islamic-colonization -in.. 1-27-15

... WHAT'S NOT ACCEPTABLE IS PEOPLE THAT WANT TO COME AND CONQUER US.THAT'S NOT IMMIGRATION, BY THE WAY, THAT'S COLONIZATION... WANT TO SET UP THEIR OWN CULTURE AND VALUES THAT'S NOT IMMIGRATION... THE POLITICALLY CORRECT CROWD WHEN YOU SAY THINGS LIKE THEY CALL YOU RACIST - . ..BUT THIS IS  A PARTICULAR THREAT WE FACE...

THE UNKNOWN SPIRITUAL & RELIGIOUS BELIEFS OF ABE LINCOLN

  THE UNKNOWN SPIRITUAL & RELIGIOUS BELIEFS OF ABE LINCOLN

In pursuit of the truth - http://www.cinopsbegoneblogspot.com - Monday, January 5, 2015

A. Abraham Lincoln's struggle with the spiritual dimensions of the conflict that was tearing the nation asunder had assumed Herculean proportions. From his 1862 meditation: October 1

" I am almost ready to say this is probably true: that God wills this contest, and wills that it shall not end yet. By His mere great power on the minds of now contestants, he could either saved or destroyed the Union without a human contest. Yet the contest began. And, having begun, He could give the final victory to either side any day. Yet the contest proceeds." Johnson, Lincoln, 98

B. Speaking on this day in 1862 to group of Quaker headed by Eliza Gurney, Lincoln said: Oct. 6

"We are indeed going through a great trial - a fiery trial. In the very responsible position in which I happen to be placed, being a humble instrument in the hands of our Heavenly Father, as I am, and as well we all are, to work out Hi great purposes, I have desired that all my works and acts may be according to His will, and that it might be so, I have sought His aid." Johnson, Lincoln, 97

C. On this day in 1864, after the fall of Atlanta to Sherman's army, Abraham Lincoln issued a proclamation for a second annual day of Thanksgiving, on the last Thursday in November: Oct. 21

"And I do further recommend to my fellow-citizens aforesaid, that on that occasion they do reverently humble themselves in the dust, and from thence offer up penitent and fervent prayers and supplications to the great Disposer of events for a return of the inestimable blessings of peace, union, and harmony throughout the land which it has pleased Him to assign as a dwelling place for ourselves and for our posterity throughout all generations." Johnson, Lincoln, 159

D. Abraham Lincoln would seldom let his passion break forth in public utterance. But in private he would write: October 25, Lincoln, Works, I, 178

"Here without contemplating consequences, before High Heaven, and in the face of the world, I swear eternal fidelity to the just cause, as I deem it, of the land of my life, my liberty and my love ... Let none falter, who thinks he is right, and we may succeed."

E. In 1854, after the passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act, Lincoln could sense that the nation was sliding toward civil war: October 26, Lincoln, Works II, 276

"Our republican robe is soiled and trailed in the dust. Let us repurify it. Let us turn and wash it white, in the spirit, if not the blood of the revolution ... Let us re-adopt the Declaration of Independence, and with it, the practices, and policy, which harmonize with it... If we do this, we shall have so saved it, as to make, and to keep it, forever worthy of the saving."

F. On this date in 1872, J. A. Reed related in a letter to a friend what President Abraham Lincoln had said to him in late December, ten years before: November 14, Johnson, Lincoln, 102

"I hold myself in my present position and with the authority vested in me as an instrument of Providence. I have my own views and purposes. I have my convictions of duty, and my notions of what is right to be done. But I am conscious every moment that all I am and all I have is subject to the control of a Higher Power, and that Power can use me or not use me in any manner, and at any time, as in His wisdom and might may be pleasing to Him."

G. On this day in 1809, Abraham Lincoln was born. During the darkest days of he Civil War, a minister said to the sixteenth President that he hoped the Lord was on their side. Lincoln thought for a moment before replying: February 12, Carpenter, White House, 125

"I am not at all concerned about that, for I know that the Lord is always on the side of the right." He paused. " But it is my constant anxiety and prayer that I - and this nation - should be on the Lord's side."

H. In 1865, to a visiting delegation of Presbyterian ministers from Baltimore, Abe. Lincoln stated:

"I was early brought to living reflection that nothing in my power whatever ... would succeed without the direct assistance of the Almighty ... I have often wished that I was a more devout man than I am. Nevertheless, amid the greatest difficulties of my Administration, when I could not see any other resort, I would place my whole reliance in God, knowing that all would go well, and that He would decide for the right." Lincoln Works, VI, 536-37

GEORGE H. KUBECK

     THERE HAVE BEEN 12,000 BOOKS ON LINCOLN. TODAY, WHAT IS IMPORTANT FOR THIS NATION IS HOW MANY OF THE PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES RUNNING FOR OFFICE IN 2016 HAVE THE RELIGIOUS MAKE-UP OF ABE LINCOLN? THE REST ARE NOT WORTHY TO RUN FOR THE OFFICE OF U.S. PRESIDENT. BUT WAIT, OUR NATION HAS A JUDEO-CHRISTIAN HERITAGE. SENATOR JOSEPH LIBERMAN WOULD HAVE BECOME AN EXCELLENT PRESIDENT.