Rules of Engagement – 3
Planned Parenthood
cinops be gone Thursday, July 10, 2008
San Francisco Values Agenda is what the California legislature is shoving down our minds for brainwashing. What we have with AB 2010 is a bought-off legislature which includes Cinops? They don’t care about the health and safety of pregnant women, Planned Parenthood’s use of word clinic is false. It is not a healing place. It is a killing place. The correct word usage is mill, facility or site.
The California Right to Life has this urgent message and action needed.
STOP AUTHORIZATION OF BACK ALLEY ABORTION CLINICS.
Planned Parenthood has with the aid of Assemblyman Mark DeSaulner (D-Concord) slipped another one over on the unsuspecting public. Desaulnier, authored AB 2010 – Affiliate Clinics; Provisional License, which flew through both houses of the state legislature and Is on its way to the Governor.
AB 2010 WOULD ALLOW BRANCH CLINICS OF ALREADY ESTABLISHED ABORTION CLINICS TO BE OPENED & APPROVED WITHOUT ANY INSPECTION.
Basically this bill: “Amends existing law that regulates the licensure and opening of clinics, including community clinics and primary care clinics, and permits a primary care clinic to file an application to establish another clinic at an additional site which shall be known as an affiliate clinic, and a clinic or an applicant for a license that has not been previously licensed. Exempt an affiliate clinic from this program.”
TAKE ACTION; Communicate with Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and urge the veto of AB 2010 as a public health and safety issue. Abortion mills should not be allowed to bypass the health and safety laws of our state. Finally, I got to a Stacy who took my message. Also, I mailed a postcard to the Governor, State Capitol Building, Sacramento, CA. 95814. Tel. 916-445-2841 – Fax 916-558-3160
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Continue with Coral Ridge Ministries 10 Truths about Christians and Politics:
Billy Graham stated, “Christianity grew because its adherents were not silent … They stormed against the evils of their day until the very foundation of decadent Rome began to crumble.” “Is the Church doing that today?” Graham asked that question in 1962.
Three years later, one prominent pastor answered it with an unqualified “No.” “Believing the Bible as I do, I would find it impossible to stop preaching the pure saving gospel of Jesus Christ and begin doing anything else – including fighting communism or participating in civil rights reforms….Preachers are not called to be politicians but to be soul winners…. Nowhere are we commissioned to reform the externals. The gospel does not clean up the outside but regenerate the inside.” That was Jerry Falwell in 1965. By 1979, when he formed the Moral Majority with D. James Kennedy and other Christian leaders, he had come to a dramatically different understanding of the Christian’s civic responsibilities. P. 4
George H. Kubeck, P.O. Box 865, Stanton, Ca. 90680 - 9998
Thursday, July 10, 2008
Wednesday, July 9, 2008
The Rules of Engagement - 2
The Rules of Engagement – 2
Two good guys’ politicians
cinops be gone Wednesday, July 9, 2008
One of the reasons President George Bush is hated is because he is a Christian pro-life politician. (I believe that is a badge of honor.) During the National Right to Life Conference in Arlington, Virginia on July 3rd, the audience was honored by the President with a video address.
LifesSiteNews.com July 4/08 reports that the president commended the audience for their “commitment to protecting the unborn.” He exclaimed, “The nations Declaration of Independence exists to give the right to live to the unborn.”
“I have proudly stood with you to make sure this nation stands up for this noble promise,” continued Bush, joining himself with the crowd. “For eight years we have stood together to defend the principle that every human life has value.”
Bush fought to keep taxpayers’ dollars from funding abortions and reminded them that he had signed the Unborn Victims of Violence Act, which “allows prosecutors to charge those who harm a pregnant woman and who harm or kill her unborn child as well.” He described the importance of the Born Alive Protection Act, which forces health care facilities to protect those babies who have survived botched abortions. He also went on to advocate stem-cell research, provided it does not terminate human life.
Presidential candidate John McCain also gave a video address:
“More than 200 years ago our nation’s founder declared that we are endowed with certain inalienable rights and among these is the right to life.” “It was no accident that they cited life as the first and most basic right. Without exception of the right to life, we are not guaranteed any other rights.”
“I have been pro-life my entire public career and I am pro-life because I know what it’s like to live without human rights and where life is accorded no value.” McCain’s votes supported the banning of partial-birth abortions and opposed the Roe v. Wade decision.
“Wisdom suggests we should be willing to give an unborn child the same chance our parents gave us,” McCain added. “We can’t fail to respect the inherent dignity of all human life born and unborn.”
“I will appoint Supreme Court nominees who have a proven record of excellence in the law and a proven commitment to strictly interpreting the Constitution,” McCain said.
McCain widened his focus to encompass all those at risk from the culture of death, saying American needs to “protect the lives of the most vulnerable whether they are unborn, the elderly or disabled.”
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Continue with Coral Ridge Ministries’ 10 Truths about Christians & Politics.
An early Christian Tetramachus, stepped in to the Roman gladiator arena around 400 A.D. in an attempt to end the Roman blood sport. He was cut down as he tried to pull the combatants apart, but this courageous and lonely example prompted Emperor Honorius to abolish the games.
Into the Arena: Christians, today, however, are none to eager to follow Tetramachus into the arena. Billy Graham wrote many years ago that in the face of our culture’s social problems, Christians are too often “afflicted with moral laryngitis.” P. 1
George H. Kubeck. P.O. Box 865, Stanton, Ca. 90680-9998
Two good guys’ politicians
cinops be gone Wednesday, July 9, 2008
One of the reasons President George Bush is hated is because he is a Christian pro-life politician. (I believe that is a badge of honor.) During the National Right to Life Conference in Arlington, Virginia on July 3rd, the audience was honored by the President with a video address.
LifesSiteNews.com July 4/08 reports that the president commended the audience for their “commitment to protecting the unborn.” He exclaimed, “The nations Declaration of Independence exists to give the right to live to the unborn.”
“I have proudly stood with you to make sure this nation stands up for this noble promise,” continued Bush, joining himself with the crowd. “For eight years we have stood together to defend the principle that every human life has value.”
Bush fought to keep taxpayers’ dollars from funding abortions and reminded them that he had signed the Unborn Victims of Violence Act, which “allows prosecutors to charge those who harm a pregnant woman and who harm or kill her unborn child as well.” He described the importance of the Born Alive Protection Act, which forces health care facilities to protect those babies who have survived botched abortions. He also went on to advocate stem-cell research, provided it does not terminate human life.
Presidential candidate John McCain also gave a video address:
“More than 200 years ago our nation’s founder declared that we are endowed with certain inalienable rights and among these is the right to life.” “It was no accident that they cited life as the first and most basic right. Without exception of the right to life, we are not guaranteed any other rights.”
“I have been pro-life my entire public career and I am pro-life because I know what it’s like to live without human rights and where life is accorded no value.” McCain’s votes supported the banning of partial-birth abortions and opposed the Roe v. Wade decision.
“Wisdom suggests we should be willing to give an unborn child the same chance our parents gave us,” McCain added. “We can’t fail to respect the inherent dignity of all human life born and unborn.”
“I will appoint Supreme Court nominees who have a proven record of excellence in the law and a proven commitment to strictly interpreting the Constitution,” McCain said.
McCain widened his focus to encompass all those at risk from the culture of death, saying American needs to “protect the lives of the most vulnerable whether they are unborn, the elderly or disabled.”
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Continue with Coral Ridge Ministries’ 10 Truths about Christians & Politics.
An early Christian Tetramachus, stepped in to the Roman gladiator arena around 400 A.D. in an attempt to end the Roman blood sport. He was cut down as he tried to pull the combatants apart, but this courageous and lonely example prompted Emperor Honorius to abolish the games.
Into the Arena: Christians, today, however, are none to eager to follow Tetramachus into the arena. Billy Graham wrote many years ago that in the face of our culture’s social problems, Christians are too often “afflicted with moral laryngitis.” P. 1
George H. Kubeck. P.O. Box 865, Stanton, Ca. 90680-9998
Tuesday, July 8, 2008
The Rules of Engagement - 1
The Rules of Engagement – 1
Against the Culture of Death
cinops be gone Tuesday, July 8, 2008
The above title reminds us that the culture of death advocates have been at war with traditional America for years. We are in a state of war and the hottest places in hell are reserved for those who remain neutral during this moral crisis.
Our spiritual role model is Pope John Paul the Great. In his encyclical the “Gospel of Life” the pope coined what is happening in America: a culture of death.
There is nothing in the writings of our Founding Fathers that support the two A’s, the two E’s and the two SS’s. The evils of Abortion on demand, Assisted-Suicide, Euthanasia, Embryonic Stem Cell Research, and Same-Sex Marriage:
We have a secular elitist aristocracy that looks down on ordinary folks and people of faith. It was best expressed by Obama’s comment to the San Francisco value elitists that Middle Americans have turned to God and guns and against immigrants because they are “bitter” about their economic lot.
Our norm is truth, common sense, right reason, natural law & nature’s God.
The Trojan Horses that support the culture of death are numerous. ACLU, Planned Parenthood, NARAL,Billionaire George Soros, CINOP Nancy Pelosi, Many CEOs of Corporations, the corrupt News Media including Orange County Register.
The ACLU is the most dangerous and powerful anti-Christian organization in the U.S.A, We defeated Dukakis as a card carrying member of the ACLU. It wouldn’t surprise me that Obama is also a card-carrying member of the ACLU.
Pope Benedict XVI has written, “The truth was available to them, but they did not want the obligation it would entail… People oppose the truth that would place demands upon them – demands such as the worship of God and the giving of thanks. (Rom.1-21) … When we place our own will, our own pride, our own comfort above the demands of truth, it is inevitable that everything will fall ultimately into decay. God to whom worship is due, will not longer be worshipped; instead, images, appearances, the prevailing point of view will hold humanity in thrall. This universal distortion will spread to all walks of life. What is contrary to nature will become the norm; the individual who lives contrary to truth, lives contrary to nature. (July 3rd entry, Co-Workers of the Truth, Ignatius Press, 1992)
To win we will need a lot of prayer and all the gifts of the Holy Spirit. We work with other Christians to pass Proposition 8, the constitutional California marriage amendment. Resolve to make it the focus of attention in each state of the union. It is also on the ballot in Florida and possibly Arizona. It was stolen from the ballot in Iowa and Massachusetts. There is a lot of precinct work to do.
In the rules of engagement, we have the heritage of documents from the Catholic Church, the writings and talks by Dr. James Dobson of Focus on the Family, Coral Ridge and Associate Ministries and many others.
There is a classic book which I want to share with you within the next 50 engagements. It is titled “10 Truths about Christian and Politics” Coral Ridge Ministries, P.O. 1920, Fort Lauderdale, Florida 33302, 1-800-988-7884
Introduction: Christianity is a revolutionary religion. It not only changes individuals. It changes cultures. In the first century, it did not take long before the shift in the moral universe introduced by Christ and his followers had struck a nerve. An angry mob at Thessalonica called for the arrest of Christian missionaries, Paul and Silas, charging that “These who have turned the world upside down have come here too” (Act 17:6) We will do the same in America.
George H. Kubeck, Duplicate and or translate into Spanish or Vietnamese.
Against the Culture of Death
cinops be gone Tuesday, July 8, 2008
The above title reminds us that the culture of death advocates have been at war with traditional America for years. We are in a state of war and the hottest places in hell are reserved for those who remain neutral during this moral crisis.
Our spiritual role model is Pope John Paul the Great. In his encyclical the “Gospel of Life” the pope coined what is happening in America: a culture of death.
There is nothing in the writings of our Founding Fathers that support the two A’s, the two E’s and the two SS’s. The evils of Abortion on demand, Assisted-Suicide, Euthanasia, Embryonic Stem Cell Research, and Same-Sex Marriage:
We have a secular elitist aristocracy that looks down on ordinary folks and people of faith. It was best expressed by Obama’s comment to the San Francisco value elitists that Middle Americans have turned to God and guns and against immigrants because they are “bitter” about their economic lot.
Our norm is truth, common sense, right reason, natural law & nature’s God.
The Trojan Horses that support the culture of death are numerous. ACLU, Planned Parenthood, NARAL,Billionaire George Soros, CINOP Nancy Pelosi, Many CEOs of Corporations, the corrupt News Media including Orange County Register.
The ACLU is the most dangerous and powerful anti-Christian organization in the U.S.A, We defeated Dukakis as a card carrying member of the ACLU. It wouldn’t surprise me that Obama is also a card-carrying member of the ACLU.
Pope Benedict XVI has written, “The truth was available to them, but they did not want the obligation it would entail… People oppose the truth that would place demands upon them – demands such as the worship of God and the giving of thanks. (Rom.1-21) … When we place our own will, our own pride, our own comfort above the demands of truth, it is inevitable that everything will fall ultimately into decay. God to whom worship is due, will not longer be worshipped; instead, images, appearances, the prevailing point of view will hold humanity in thrall. This universal distortion will spread to all walks of life. What is contrary to nature will become the norm; the individual who lives contrary to truth, lives contrary to nature. (July 3rd entry, Co-Workers of the Truth, Ignatius Press, 1992)
To win we will need a lot of prayer and all the gifts of the Holy Spirit. We work with other Christians to pass Proposition 8, the constitutional California marriage amendment. Resolve to make it the focus of attention in each state of the union. It is also on the ballot in Florida and possibly Arizona. It was stolen from the ballot in Iowa and Massachusetts. There is a lot of precinct work to do.
In the rules of engagement, we have the heritage of documents from the Catholic Church, the writings and talks by Dr. James Dobson of Focus on the Family, Coral Ridge and Associate Ministries and many others.
There is a classic book which I want to share with you within the next 50 engagements. It is titled “10 Truths about Christian and Politics” Coral Ridge Ministries, P.O. 1920, Fort Lauderdale, Florida 33302, 1-800-988-7884
Introduction: Christianity is a revolutionary religion. It not only changes individuals. It changes cultures. In the first century, it did not take long before the shift in the moral universe introduced by Christ and his followers had struck a nerve. An angry mob at Thessalonica called for the arrest of Christian missionaries, Paul and Silas, charging that “These who have turned the world upside down have come here too” (Act 17:6) We will do the same in America.
George H. Kubeck, Duplicate and or translate into Spanish or Vietnamese.
Sunday, July 6, 2008
Between Man and Woman - 2 of 2
Between Man and Woman 2 of 2
cinops be gone Sunday, July 6, 2008
(Talking points on Marriage: check out the month of May in the blog – cinops be gone.)
5.) Why is it so important to society that marriage be preserved as the exclusive union of a man and a woman?
Across times, cultures, and very different religious beliefs, marriage is the foundation of the family. The family in turn is the basic unit of society. Thus, marriage is a personal relationship with public significance….
The marital union also provides the best conditions for raising children: namely, the stable, loving relationship of a mother and a father present only in marriage. The state rightly recognizes this relationship as public institution in its laws because the relationship makes a unique and essential contribution to the common good. (Publication No 5-626 USCCB Publishing, 1-800-235-8722)
6.) Does denying marriage to homosexual person demonstrate unjust discrimination and a lack of respect for them as person?
It is not unjust to deny legal status to same-sex unions because marriage and same-sex unions are essentially different realities. In fact, justice requires society to do so.
To uphold God’s intent for marriage, in which sexual relations have a proper and exclusive place, is not to offend the dignity of the homosexual persons. Christians must give witness to the whole moral truth and oppose as immoral both homosexual acts and unjust discrimination against homosexual persons.
The Catechism of the Catholic Church urges that homosexual persons “be accepted with respect, compassion, and sensitivity” (no. 2358). It also encourages chaste friendships. “Chastity is expressed notably in friendship with one’s neighbor. Whether it develops between persons of the same or opposite sex, friendship represents a great good for all” (no. 2347).
7.) Should persons who live in same-sex relationships be entitled to some of the same social and economic benefits given to married couples?
The state has an obligation to promote the family, which is rooted in marriage. Therefore, it can justly give married couples rights and benefits it does not extend to others,… the stability and flourishing of society is dependent on the stability and flourishing of healthy family life.
The legal recognition of marriage, including the benefits associated with it, is not only about personal commitment, but also about the social commitment that the husband and wife make to the well being of society. IT WOULD BE WRONG TO REDEFINE MARRIAGE FOR THE SAKE OF PROVIDING BENEFITS TO THOSE WHO CANNOT RIGHTFULLY ENTER INTO MARRIAGE….
8.) In the light of the Church’s teaching about the truth and beauty of marriage, what should Catholics do?
There is no separation between one’s faith and life in either public or private realms. All Catholics should act on their beliefs with a well-formed conscience based on Sacred Scripture and Tradition. They should be a community of conscience within society. By their voice and their vote they should contribute to society’s welfare and test its public life by the standards of right reason and Gospel truth. Responsible citizenship is a virtue. Participation in the political process is moral obligation. …
In closing America will never accept same-sex marriage. If it does, it will not be America anymore. California’s Proposition 8 on Marriage is a do or die measure.
George H. Kubeck (Immigrant –Canada)Duplicate and or in Spanish or Vietnamese
cinops be gone Sunday, July 6, 2008
(Talking points on Marriage: check out the month of May in the blog – cinops be gone.)
5.) Why is it so important to society that marriage be preserved as the exclusive union of a man and a woman?
Across times, cultures, and very different religious beliefs, marriage is the foundation of the family. The family in turn is the basic unit of society. Thus, marriage is a personal relationship with public significance….
The marital union also provides the best conditions for raising children: namely, the stable, loving relationship of a mother and a father present only in marriage. The state rightly recognizes this relationship as public institution in its laws because the relationship makes a unique and essential contribution to the common good. (Publication No 5-626 USCCB Publishing, 1-800-235-8722)
6.) Does denying marriage to homosexual person demonstrate unjust discrimination and a lack of respect for them as person?
It is not unjust to deny legal status to same-sex unions because marriage and same-sex unions are essentially different realities. In fact, justice requires society to do so.
To uphold God’s intent for marriage, in which sexual relations have a proper and exclusive place, is not to offend the dignity of the homosexual persons. Christians must give witness to the whole moral truth and oppose as immoral both homosexual acts and unjust discrimination against homosexual persons.
The Catechism of the Catholic Church urges that homosexual persons “be accepted with respect, compassion, and sensitivity” (no. 2358). It also encourages chaste friendships. “Chastity is expressed notably in friendship with one’s neighbor. Whether it develops between persons of the same or opposite sex, friendship represents a great good for all” (no. 2347).
7.) Should persons who live in same-sex relationships be entitled to some of the same social and economic benefits given to married couples?
The state has an obligation to promote the family, which is rooted in marriage. Therefore, it can justly give married couples rights and benefits it does not extend to others,… the stability and flourishing of society is dependent on the stability and flourishing of healthy family life.
The legal recognition of marriage, including the benefits associated with it, is not only about personal commitment, but also about the social commitment that the husband and wife make to the well being of society. IT WOULD BE WRONG TO REDEFINE MARRIAGE FOR THE SAKE OF PROVIDING BENEFITS TO THOSE WHO CANNOT RIGHTFULLY ENTER INTO MARRIAGE….
8.) In the light of the Church’s teaching about the truth and beauty of marriage, what should Catholics do?
There is no separation between one’s faith and life in either public or private realms. All Catholics should act on their beliefs with a well-formed conscience based on Sacred Scripture and Tradition. They should be a community of conscience within society. By their voice and their vote they should contribute to society’s welfare and test its public life by the standards of right reason and Gospel truth. Responsible citizenship is a virtue. Participation in the political process is moral obligation. …
In closing America will never accept same-sex marriage. If it does, it will not be America anymore. California’s Proposition 8 on Marriage is a do or die measure.
George H. Kubeck (Immigrant –Canada)Duplicate and or in Spanish or Vietnamese
Saturday, July 5, 2008
Between Man and Woman - 1 of 2
Between Man and Woman 1 of 2
cinops be gone Saturday, July 5, 2008
Talking Points:
The primary election issue is marriage. Same-sex marriage is not normal and contrary to the laws of nature. It is a made-up dictatorship of modern relativism. The definition of marriage has always been between a man and a woman. Same-sex marriage will cause an identity crisis in young children.
A.) Questions and Answers about Marriage and Same-Sex Unions: This is from US Confer. Of Catholic Bishops – Publication No. 5-626 – Call toll free- 800-235-8722
A growing movement today favors making those relationships commonly called same-sex unions the legal equivalent of marriage. This situation challenges Catholics – and all who seek the truth – to think deeply about the meaning of marriage, its purposes, and its value to individuals, families, and society….
1.) What is Marriage?
Marriage, as instituted by God, is a faithful, exclusive, lifelong union of a man and a woman joined in an intimate community of life and love. They commit themselves completely to each other and to the wondrous responsibility of bringing children into the world and caring for them. The call to marriage is woven deeply into the human spirit. Man and woman are equal. However, as created, they are different from but made for each other….
These truths about marriage are present in the order of nature and can be perceived by the light of human reason. They have been confirmed by divine Revelation in Sacred Scripture.
2.) What does our faith tell us about marriage?
Marriage comes from the loving hand of God, who fashioned both male and female in the divine image (see Gn 1:27). The man recognizes the woman as “bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh” (Gn 2:23) God blesses the man woman and commands them to “be fertile and multiply.”…
Marriage is both a natural institution and a sacred union because it is rooted in the divine plan for creation. In addition, the Church teaches that the valid marriage of baptized Christians is a sacrament – a saving reality, Jesus Christ made marriage a symbol of his love for his Church (see Eph 5: 25-33) … A true marriage in the Lord with his grace will bring the spouses to holiness.
3.) Why can marriage exist only between a man and a woman?
The natural structure of human sexuality makes man and woman complementary partners for the transmission of human life. Only a union of male and female can express the sexual complementarity willed by God for marriage….
(See CCC, nos. 1639-1640)
In marriage, husband and wife give themselves totally to each other in their masculinity and femininity. (See CCC, no. 1643)
4.) Why is a same-sex union not equivalent to a marriage?
For several reasons a same-sex union contradicts the nature of marriage. It is not based on the natural complementarity of male and female; it cannot cooperate with God to create new life; and the natural purpose of sexual union cannot be achieved by a same-sex union. Persons in same-sex unions cannot enter into a true conjugal union. Therefore, it is wrong to equate their relationship to a marriage. Continued tomorrow
George H. Kubeck (immigrant-Canada) Duplicate and in Spanish or Vietnamese.
cinops be gone Saturday, July 5, 2008
Talking Points:
The primary election issue is marriage. Same-sex marriage is not normal and contrary to the laws of nature. It is a made-up dictatorship of modern relativism. The definition of marriage has always been between a man and a woman. Same-sex marriage will cause an identity crisis in young children.
A.) Questions and Answers about Marriage and Same-Sex Unions: This is from US Confer. Of Catholic Bishops – Publication No. 5-626 – Call toll free- 800-235-8722
A growing movement today favors making those relationships commonly called same-sex unions the legal equivalent of marriage. This situation challenges Catholics – and all who seek the truth – to think deeply about the meaning of marriage, its purposes, and its value to individuals, families, and society….
1.) What is Marriage?
Marriage, as instituted by God, is a faithful, exclusive, lifelong union of a man and a woman joined in an intimate community of life and love. They commit themselves completely to each other and to the wondrous responsibility of bringing children into the world and caring for them. The call to marriage is woven deeply into the human spirit. Man and woman are equal. However, as created, they are different from but made for each other….
These truths about marriage are present in the order of nature and can be perceived by the light of human reason. They have been confirmed by divine Revelation in Sacred Scripture.
2.) What does our faith tell us about marriage?
Marriage comes from the loving hand of God, who fashioned both male and female in the divine image (see Gn 1:27). The man recognizes the woman as “bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh” (Gn 2:23) God blesses the man woman and commands them to “be fertile and multiply.”…
Marriage is both a natural institution and a sacred union because it is rooted in the divine plan for creation. In addition, the Church teaches that the valid marriage of baptized Christians is a sacrament – a saving reality, Jesus Christ made marriage a symbol of his love for his Church (see Eph 5: 25-33) … A true marriage in the Lord with his grace will bring the spouses to holiness.
3.) Why can marriage exist only between a man and a woman?
The natural structure of human sexuality makes man and woman complementary partners for the transmission of human life. Only a union of male and female can express the sexual complementarity willed by God for marriage….
(See CCC, nos. 1639-1640)
In marriage, husband and wife give themselves totally to each other in their masculinity and femininity. (See CCC, no. 1643)
4.) Why is a same-sex union not equivalent to a marriage?
For several reasons a same-sex union contradicts the nature of marriage. It is not based on the natural complementarity of male and female; it cannot cooperate with God to create new life; and the natural purpose of sexual union cannot be achieved by a same-sex union. Persons in same-sex unions cannot enter into a true conjugal union. Therefore, it is wrong to equate their relationship to a marriage. Continued tomorrow
George H. Kubeck (immigrant-Canada) Duplicate and in Spanish or Vietnamese.
Thursday, July 3, 2008
The Challenge of Forming Consciences For Faithful Citizenship
The Challenge of Forming Consciences
For Faithful Citizenship
cinops be gone Thursday, July 3, 2008
Preface: A July 4th Salute to America: For immigrants there is no country in the world greater than America. That alone tells us how great America is! And that a traditional Judeo-Christian America is worth fighting for. GHK – immigrant
Now for the U.S. bishops’ reflection: A print version of titled document is free at www.faithfulcitizenship.org. What follows are excerpts from each section.
Our nation faces political challenges that demand urgent moral choices…
A culture built on families, where some now question the value of marriage and family life. We pride ourselves on supporting human rights, but we fail even to protect the fundamental right to life, especially for unborn children.
We bishops seek to help Catholics form their consciences in accordance with the truth, so they can make sound moral choices in addressing these challenges. We do not tell Catholics how to vote. The responsibility to make political choices rests with each person & his or her properly formed conscience.
1.) Why Does the Church Teach About Issues Affecting Public Policy?
The Church’s obligation to participate in shaping the moral character of society is a requirement of our faith, a part of the mission given to us by Jesus Christ. Faith helps us to see more clearly the truth about human life and dignity that we also understand through human reason.
2.) Who in the Church Should Participate in Political Life?
In the Catholic Tradition, responsible citizenship is a virtue, and participate in political life is a moral obligation. As Catholics, we should be guided more by our moral convictions than by our attachment to a political party or interest group.
3.How Does the Church Help Catholics to Address Political and Social Questions?
“Conscience is a judgment of reason whereby the human person recognizes the moral quality of a concrete act…. {Every person} is obliged to follow faithfully what he {or she} knows to be just and right” (Catechism of the
Catholic Church, no. 1778). We Catholics have a lifelong obligation to form our consciences in accord with right human reason, enlightened by the teaching of Christ as it comes to us through the Church.
4.) The Virtue of Prudence:
The Church also encourages Catholics to develop the virtue of prudence, which enables us “to discern our true good in every circumstance and to choose the right means of achieving it.” (Catechism of the Catholic Church, no. 1806)…
A good end does not justify an immoral means. At times Catholics may choose different ways to respond to social problems, but we cannot differ on our obligation to protect human life and dignity and help build through moral means a more just and peaceful world.
5.) Doing Good and Avoiding Evil:
A preeminent example is the intentional taking of human life through abortion. It is always morally wrong to destroy innocent human beings. A legal system that allows the right to life to be violated on the grounds of choice is fundamentally flawed. Similarly, direct threats to the dignity of human life such as euthanasia, human cloning, and destructive research of human embryo are also intrinsically evil and must be opposed. …
George H. Kubeck, Duplicate and or translate into Spanish and Vietnamese
For Faithful Citizenship
cinops be gone Thursday, July 3, 2008
Preface: A July 4th Salute to America: For immigrants there is no country in the world greater than America. That alone tells us how great America is! And that a traditional Judeo-Christian America is worth fighting for. GHK – immigrant
Now for the U.S. bishops’ reflection: A print version of titled document is free at www.faithfulcitizenship.org. What follows are excerpts from each section.
Our nation faces political challenges that demand urgent moral choices…
A culture built on families, where some now question the value of marriage and family life. We pride ourselves on supporting human rights, but we fail even to protect the fundamental right to life, especially for unborn children.
We bishops seek to help Catholics form their consciences in accordance with the truth, so they can make sound moral choices in addressing these challenges. We do not tell Catholics how to vote. The responsibility to make political choices rests with each person & his or her properly formed conscience.
1.) Why Does the Church Teach About Issues Affecting Public Policy?
The Church’s obligation to participate in shaping the moral character of society is a requirement of our faith, a part of the mission given to us by Jesus Christ. Faith helps us to see more clearly the truth about human life and dignity that we also understand through human reason.
2.) Who in the Church Should Participate in Political Life?
In the Catholic Tradition, responsible citizenship is a virtue, and participate in political life is a moral obligation. As Catholics, we should be guided more by our moral convictions than by our attachment to a political party or interest group.
3.How Does the Church Help Catholics to Address Political and Social Questions?
“Conscience is a judgment of reason whereby the human person recognizes the moral quality of a concrete act…. {Every person} is obliged to follow faithfully what he {or she} knows to be just and right” (Catechism of the
Catholic Church, no. 1778). We Catholics have a lifelong obligation to form our consciences in accord with right human reason, enlightened by the teaching of Christ as it comes to us through the Church.
4.) The Virtue of Prudence:
The Church also encourages Catholics to develop the virtue of prudence, which enables us “to discern our true good in every circumstance and to choose the right means of achieving it.” (Catechism of the Catholic Church, no. 1806)…
A good end does not justify an immoral means. At times Catholics may choose different ways to respond to social problems, but we cannot differ on our obligation to protect human life and dignity and help build through moral means a more just and peaceful world.
5.) Doing Good and Avoiding Evil:
A preeminent example is the intentional taking of human life through abortion. It is always morally wrong to destroy innocent human beings. A legal system that allows the right to life to be violated on the grounds of choice is fundamentally flawed. Similarly, direct threats to the dignity of human life such as euthanasia, human cloning, and destructive research of human embryo are also intrinsically evil and must be opposed. …
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Tuesday, July 1, 2008
Catholic Excuses 5 -23
Catholic Excuses 5 – 23
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(Correction: yesterday’s “Catholic Social Studies Principles” s/b Cath. Soc. Justice Pr.)
It is an honor to have David Carlin’s book, Can a Catholic Be a Democrat? on this blog for the 23rd time. We are in Chapter 5 section, Catholic Excuses, p. 115-125. It’s about voting for a political party of abortion, same-sex marriage and embryonic stem cell research. These are not prudential issues but absolutely intrinsically evil issues. Catholics can disagree on the prudential issues.
What follows are direct excerpts which will help for instance, explain the mind-set of Obama’s National Catholic Advisors today and their supporters.
44. The Primacy of Conscience: “Nothing is right or wrong, but thinking makes it so,”
“And of course, since average human nature has a great capacity for self-deception, this Catholic politician will find that his “honest” feelings can be strongly influenced by those who hold the key to his political future. He won’t heed Natural Law or the pronouncements of the popes, but he will heed the wishes of the constituents – and especially the wishes of his major campaign contributors.
Cardinal Newman held that the voice of conscience was the voice of God within us. It’s obvious, then, that Newman never had the privilege of meeting a twenty-first century Catholic Democratic member of Congress. For if he had, he would have realized that sometimes the “voice of conscience” is the voice of ideologues, usually those with deep pockets.”
45. The Seamless Garment: “We must be concerned with all life issues.”
“Another method Catholics use to validate their membership in the Democratic Party, despite the party’s anti-Christian moral agenda, goes like this: they concede that abortion for example, is morally wrong and that it’s tragically wrong for the Democratic Party to support it; but then they talk about what they need for “balance” and the importance of not taking a single-issue approach to politics. “The Democrats,” they say, “might be wrong on a few issues, such as abortion and same-sex marriage – but they are right about so many other important issues: race, poverty, peace, education, health care, the environment” …
46. “At all events, in the end, Bernadin’s “consistent ethic of life” proposal came to nothing of significance. Its only lasting consequence can be found in the Catholics who misunderstood it (deliberately, in more than a few cases), invoking the seamless to rationalize their support for liberal Democratic politicians. “I’m sorry to have to admit that Sen. X is wrong on abortion,” they said, “But please note that he’s right on everything else that the late, great Cardinal Bernardin was concerned about: taxes, health care, education, welfare, racism, sexism, war, capital punishment, and anything else you can mention. His consistent ethic-of-life record is eighty or ninety percent – not perfect, but far better than the record of his so-called ‘pro-life’ Republican opponent.”
“This superficially persuasive line of reasoning could have been used to support the Nazis in the 1930s. A pro-Nazi Catholic could say, “Oh yes, it’s too bad – the policy of the Fuehrer toward the Jews. We deplore the firing of Jewish professors, we deplore the Nuremberg laws, we deplore Kristellnacht. But anti-Semitism, while a great evil, isn’t the only evil. Far from it. We have to balance the evil done by the National Socialists against the good they’ve accomplished. Hitler has revived the economy, has restored law and order, has built autobahns and VW… Are they better than the available alternatives – namely, socialist and communists? The answer to this question is, without doubt, yes.”
George H. Kubeck, Duplicate and or translate into Spanish and Vietnamese.
Your family access to the blog is: cinops be gone Tuesday, July 1, 2008
(Correction: yesterday’s “Catholic Social Studies Principles” s/b Cath. Soc. Justice Pr.)
It is an honor to have David Carlin’s book, Can a Catholic Be a Democrat? on this blog for the 23rd time. We are in Chapter 5 section, Catholic Excuses, p. 115-125. It’s about voting for a political party of abortion, same-sex marriage and embryonic stem cell research. These are not prudential issues but absolutely intrinsically evil issues. Catholics can disagree on the prudential issues.
What follows are direct excerpts which will help for instance, explain the mind-set of Obama’s National Catholic Advisors today and their supporters.
44. The Primacy of Conscience: “Nothing is right or wrong, but thinking makes it so,”
“And of course, since average human nature has a great capacity for self-deception, this Catholic politician will find that his “honest” feelings can be strongly influenced by those who hold the key to his political future. He won’t heed Natural Law or the pronouncements of the popes, but he will heed the wishes of the constituents – and especially the wishes of his major campaign contributors.
Cardinal Newman held that the voice of conscience was the voice of God within us. It’s obvious, then, that Newman never had the privilege of meeting a twenty-first century Catholic Democratic member of Congress. For if he had, he would have realized that sometimes the “voice of conscience” is the voice of ideologues, usually those with deep pockets.”
45. The Seamless Garment: “We must be concerned with all life issues.”
“Another method Catholics use to validate their membership in the Democratic Party, despite the party’s anti-Christian moral agenda, goes like this: they concede that abortion for example, is morally wrong and that it’s tragically wrong for the Democratic Party to support it; but then they talk about what they need for “balance” and the importance of not taking a single-issue approach to politics. “The Democrats,” they say, “might be wrong on a few issues, such as abortion and same-sex marriage – but they are right about so many other important issues: race, poverty, peace, education, health care, the environment” …
46. “At all events, in the end, Bernadin’s “consistent ethic of life” proposal came to nothing of significance. Its only lasting consequence can be found in the Catholics who misunderstood it (deliberately, in more than a few cases), invoking the seamless to rationalize their support for liberal Democratic politicians. “I’m sorry to have to admit that Sen. X is wrong on abortion,” they said, “But please note that he’s right on everything else that the late, great Cardinal Bernardin was concerned about: taxes, health care, education, welfare, racism, sexism, war, capital punishment, and anything else you can mention. His consistent ethic-of-life record is eighty or ninety percent – not perfect, but far better than the record of his so-called ‘pro-life’ Republican opponent.”
“This superficially persuasive line of reasoning could have been used to support the Nazis in the 1930s. A pro-Nazi Catholic could say, “Oh yes, it’s too bad – the policy of the Fuehrer toward the Jews. We deplore the firing of Jewish professors, we deplore the Nuremberg laws, we deplore Kristellnacht. But anti-Semitism, while a great evil, isn’t the only evil. Far from it. We have to balance the evil done by the National Socialists against the good they’ve accomplished. Hitler has revived the economy, has restored law and order, has built autobahns and VW… Are they better than the available alternatives – namely, socialist and communists? The answer to this question is, without doubt, yes.”
George H. Kubeck, Duplicate and or translate into Spanish and Vietnamese.
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