Report Card # 9 on Bill Press’s Book
How the Republicans Stole Christmas
[Posted Monday, July 11, 2011] Jan. 11, 2006
Chapter 1 – Separation of Church and State (cont’d)
We are going to move into territory which may be eye opening. The purpose is to understand the CINOP (Catholic in name only politician), like Bill Press, San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newson, Senators Kennedy, Leahy, Durbin, Dodd, Biden, Susan Collins, Congresswoman Loretta Sanchez and others. While anyone can call himself a Catholic in the public arena, is he or she a Catholic within the Catholic Church?
You decide on the following three excerpts relating to the CINOP’s behavior.
1) “On May 17, 2003, Francis Cardinal Arinze, prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments, delivered the address at the graduation ceremonies. (Georgetown) He stated: ‘In many parts of the world, the family is under siege. It is opposed by an anti-life mentality as is seen in contraception, abortion, infanticide and euthanasia. It is scorned and canalized by pornography, desecrated by fornication and adultery, mocked by homosexuality, sabotaged by irregular unions and cut in two by divorce.’
Part of the audience was quite upset with the reference to homosexuality, Students walked out and a theology professor stomped off the stage. Later, an official letter of protest was signed by nearly seventy faculty members.” 28
Defending a Higher Law, The American Society for the Defense of Tradition, Family and Property, 2004, www.tfp.org (800) 661-0272
2) “House Minority leader Nancy Pelosi of San Francisco, a Catholic, was one of 48 representatives who wrote a letter to the U.S. Bishops warning them that the ‘threat of withholding a sacrament will revive latent anti-Catholic prejudice.’ (A religion that can only avoid prejudice by refusing to take itself seriously is not long for this world.) San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom had already made headlines by issuing same-sex marriage licenses at City Hall. Newsom calls himself a Catholic, but, according to the Chronicle, said he ‘fundamentally disagrees with Catholic Church teachings on stem cell research, abortion rights, same-sex marriage and birth control.’ He had received Communion just the other day, he added, although he declined to say where. ‘I have lots of priests who are family friends.’ But his conscience was ‘clear.’” 21- Jan.06
New Oxford Review, Tom Bethel, Archbishop Levada: Advancing…Chessboard
3) “Thus, the proponents of the fundamental option theory posit three, rather than two, major categories of sin (in terms of their seriousness): venial sins, grave sins, and mortal sins. Mortal sins would include only those acts in which a person radically altered his fundamental option. … Pope John Paul II then explicitly rejects the notion that not all sins committed with free consent, full knowledge, and grave matter are mortal sins…in his rejection of the fundamental option theory …this theory is directly opposed to the teachings of the Church.” 28 Homiletic & Pastoral Review, A critical analysis of the fundamental option theory, Thomas J. Centrella, Jan. 2006
St. Thomas Aquinas is the holy patron of schools. Truth is the light. The CINOP prefers darkness. It’s time to put these phonies, and culture of death kissing Catholic politicians in their place, seriously counseled by their bishops, and voted out of office.
George H. Kubeck, [posted on the blog www.cinopsbegone.com – Mon. July 11, 2011]
Monday, July 11, 2011
Direct and Indirect Comments on S-S Marriage in New York # 1
Direct and Indirect Comments on S-S-Marriage in New York # 1
In pursuit of the truth – www.cinopsbegone.com – Monday, July 11, 2011
http://www.catholicvote.org/discuss/index/php?p=18773
Lopez: Why should anyone care about the debate anymore? A man and a man can legally get married in New York. The die is cast. Besides, who wants to be an intolerant civil-rights bigot… or so my inbox called me all weekend again. [An America with same-sex marriage is not America anymore!]
1. Professor Robert P. George: Well, people should care because the whole edifice of sexual-liberationist ideology is built on damaging and dehumanizing falsehoods. It has already done enormous harm – harm that falls on everybody, but disproportionately on those in the poorest and most vulnerable sectors of our society. [This reminds me of the Black American families in letter Monday, June 27th, “False Ideas are Killing America.”]
If you doubt that have a look at Myron Magnet great book “The Dream and Nightmare the Sixties Legacy to the Underclass” or some of the writings of Kay Hymowitz and other serious people who have examined the social consequences for the poor of the embrace of sexual liberalism by celebrities and other cultural elite. Marriage is a profound human and social good it weakening and loss is a tragedy from which affluent people can be distracted & protected by their affluence for only so long.
The institution of marriage has already been deeply wounded by divorce of nearly plague levels, widespread non-marital sexual cohabitation and other damaging factors. To redefine it out of existence in law is to make it much more difficult to restore a sound understanding of marriage on which a healthy marriage culture can be rebuilt for the good of all. It is to sacrifice the needs of the poor who are hurt the most when a sound understanding of marriage and sexual morality collapses. It is to give up on the truth that children need both a father and mother and benefit from the security of their love for each other… to be continued.
2. Comments by Ben Anderson: I am not keen enough of politics to judge whether Archbishop Dolan did enough beforehand. However, I do have a good understanding on 2 points I would like to make. # 1 the diocese of Rochester, N. Y. led by bishop Matthew Clark has created an environment where many Catholics feel that they are obliged to support legislation. Many outside New York find that a ridiculous statement, but nevertheless it is true. Homosexuality has been subversively (and even openly at times) by our local Church hierarchy. I’ve heard that the diocese of Albany is as bad with Bishop Hubbard. I can’t speak for the other dioceses as that is beyond by realm of understanding…
3. Comments by GHK: The following is a painful reality analysis: Read from the blog “Nancy Pelosi vs. the Knights of Columbus- Sunday, Oct. 24th, 2010.” Secondly, read the 8 to 10 letters on the blog within the last five days, titled, “Report Cards 1-10 on Bill Press’s Book.” This was posted on the blog and not e-mailed because you receive enough e-mails.
The evidence is absolutely conclusive that the mindset of CINO politicians was the driving force for same sex marriage in Mass., and N.Y. State. What do we do?
George H. Kubeck, Maybe Hugh Hewitt, Mr. John Keenan, O.P., J.D., and J. Peter Nixon can help us.
In pursuit of the truth – www.cinopsbegone.com – Monday, July 11, 2011
http://www.catholicvote.org/discuss/index/php?p=18773
Lopez: Why should anyone care about the debate anymore? A man and a man can legally get married in New York. The die is cast. Besides, who wants to be an intolerant civil-rights bigot… or so my inbox called me all weekend again. [An America with same-sex marriage is not America anymore!]
1. Professor Robert P. George: Well, people should care because the whole edifice of sexual-liberationist ideology is built on damaging and dehumanizing falsehoods. It has already done enormous harm – harm that falls on everybody, but disproportionately on those in the poorest and most vulnerable sectors of our society. [This reminds me of the Black American families in letter Monday, June 27th, “False Ideas are Killing America.”]
If you doubt that have a look at Myron Magnet great book “The Dream and Nightmare the Sixties Legacy to the Underclass” or some of the writings of Kay Hymowitz and other serious people who have examined the social consequences for the poor of the embrace of sexual liberalism by celebrities and other cultural elite. Marriage is a profound human and social good it weakening and loss is a tragedy from which affluent people can be distracted & protected by their affluence for only so long.
The institution of marriage has already been deeply wounded by divorce of nearly plague levels, widespread non-marital sexual cohabitation and other damaging factors. To redefine it out of existence in law is to make it much more difficult to restore a sound understanding of marriage on which a healthy marriage culture can be rebuilt for the good of all. It is to sacrifice the needs of the poor who are hurt the most when a sound understanding of marriage and sexual morality collapses. It is to give up on the truth that children need both a father and mother and benefit from the security of their love for each other… to be continued.
2. Comments by Ben Anderson: I am not keen enough of politics to judge whether Archbishop Dolan did enough beforehand. However, I do have a good understanding on 2 points I would like to make. # 1 the diocese of Rochester, N. Y. led by bishop Matthew Clark has created an environment where many Catholics feel that they are obliged to support legislation. Many outside New York find that a ridiculous statement, but nevertheless it is true. Homosexuality has been subversively (and even openly at times) by our local Church hierarchy. I’ve heard that the diocese of Albany is as bad with Bishop Hubbard. I can’t speak for the other dioceses as that is beyond by realm of understanding…
3. Comments by GHK: The following is a painful reality analysis: Read from the blog “Nancy Pelosi vs. the Knights of Columbus- Sunday, Oct. 24th, 2010.” Secondly, read the 8 to 10 letters on the blog within the last five days, titled, “Report Cards 1-10 on Bill Press’s Book.” This was posted on the blog and not e-mailed because you receive enough e-mails.
The evidence is absolutely conclusive that the mindset of CINO politicians was the driving force for same sex marriage in Mass., and N.Y. State. What do we do?
George H. Kubeck, Maybe Hugh Hewitt, Mr. John Keenan, O.P., J.D., and J. Peter Nixon can help us.
Sunday, July 10, 2011
Report Card # 8 on Bill Press's Book
The Destructive Influence of the CINOP - 8
Report Card # 8 on Bill Press’s Book
How the Republicans Stole Christmas
[Posted on Sun. July 10, 2011] Sunday, Nov. 4, 2007 - Friday, Jan. 6, 2006
Chapter 1 – Separation of Church and State (cont’d)
These are trying and confusing times for Christians. We are living with managed news and enduring the barnyard of the culture of death. It is hard to think of today’s media during World War II and the Korean conflict. We would have lost both wars. We did in Viet Nam and that is what they are trying to do in Iraq. As a ten year old, I recall Pearl Harbor, early afternoon. The elders were playing cards.
There is something about the culture of death as enunciated by Pope John Paul II that is suicidal not only for the person but for the nation. Think of a mindset that promotes abortion, infanticide, euthanasia, assisted suicide and wants to rewrite the definition of marriage via judicial activist judges. Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito is not a judicial activist. He will be attacked and smeared. Watch carefully the CINOP’s, as the Senate hearings begin. These are the dangerous Catholics in name only politicians.
In support of this absolute wall of separation of Church and State, Bill Press has four sections titled, “Our Founding Fathers Did Not Call Themselves Christians. We are not a Christian nation. The Founders clearly intended to build a wall of separation to protect Church from State – and to protect State from Church. American Law is not based on the Ten Commandments.” All of the above are half-truths with some pabulum and hogwash. Bill does have some common sense in the following which undercut his beliefs.
“Our system of laws is based, above all else, on the natural law: the universal standards of behavior our Founding Fathers recognized as necessary and obvious to all men and women in order to live together peacefully in community.” 64
The following are excerpts from Daniel L. Dreisbach book, Real Threat and Mere Shadow, Religious Liberty and the First Amendment, Crossway Books, 1987, p.47-52
The historical record indicates that foremost in the draftsmen’s minds was the construction of an amendment designed to prohibit restraints on the free exercise of religion and to proscribe the establishment of a national church….Writing for the Court in Everson v. Board of Education (1947) Justice Hugo Black, invoking a Jeffersonian metaphor, asserted that the First Amendment erected “a wall of separation between church and State which “must be kept high and impregnable”…Roger Williams articulation of the “wall of separation” is found in a tract entitled, ‘Mr. Cotton’s Letter…’
Williams’s evangelical view held that a “wall of separation” was necessary to safeguard religious truth from the rough and corrupting hand of the civil government.”…
Critics of the Everson opinion have contended that the history endorsed by the Everson Court is not only historical flawed, but, at times utterly unfounded. …In the words of Michel J. Malbin, the Supreme Court Justices “have been acting almost as if their recognition of their predecessors’ historical errors have liberated them from the need to consider what purposes the members of the First Congress may have meant the religious clauses to serve.”
… As historian Rousas John Rushdoony has argued, the concept of the secular state did not exist at the beginning of the War of Independence, nor was it recognized at the Constitutional Convention or in 1791 when the Bill of Rights was ratified by the states. Therefore, to interpret the Constitution as the “charter for a secular state is to misread history and to misread it radically…”
George H. Kubeck, [Posted on this blog – www.cinopsbegone.com – Sun. July 10, 2011]
Report Card # 8 on Bill Press’s Book
How the Republicans Stole Christmas
[Posted on Sun. July 10, 2011] Sunday, Nov. 4, 2007 - Friday, Jan. 6, 2006
Chapter 1 – Separation of Church and State (cont’d)
These are trying and confusing times for Christians. We are living with managed news and enduring the barnyard of the culture of death. It is hard to think of today’s media during World War II and the Korean conflict. We would have lost both wars. We did in Viet Nam and that is what they are trying to do in Iraq. As a ten year old, I recall Pearl Harbor, early afternoon. The elders were playing cards.
There is something about the culture of death as enunciated by Pope John Paul II that is suicidal not only for the person but for the nation. Think of a mindset that promotes abortion, infanticide, euthanasia, assisted suicide and wants to rewrite the definition of marriage via judicial activist judges. Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito is not a judicial activist. He will be attacked and smeared. Watch carefully the CINOP’s, as the Senate hearings begin. These are the dangerous Catholics in name only politicians.
In support of this absolute wall of separation of Church and State, Bill Press has four sections titled, “Our Founding Fathers Did Not Call Themselves Christians. We are not a Christian nation. The Founders clearly intended to build a wall of separation to protect Church from State – and to protect State from Church. American Law is not based on the Ten Commandments.” All of the above are half-truths with some pabulum and hogwash. Bill does have some common sense in the following which undercut his beliefs.
“Our system of laws is based, above all else, on the natural law: the universal standards of behavior our Founding Fathers recognized as necessary and obvious to all men and women in order to live together peacefully in community.” 64
The following are excerpts from Daniel L. Dreisbach book, Real Threat and Mere Shadow, Religious Liberty and the First Amendment, Crossway Books, 1987, p.47-52
The historical record indicates that foremost in the draftsmen’s minds was the construction of an amendment designed to prohibit restraints on the free exercise of religion and to proscribe the establishment of a national church….Writing for the Court in Everson v. Board of Education (1947) Justice Hugo Black, invoking a Jeffersonian metaphor, asserted that the First Amendment erected “a wall of separation between church and State which “must be kept high and impregnable”…Roger Williams articulation of the “wall of separation” is found in a tract entitled, ‘Mr. Cotton’s Letter…’
Williams’s evangelical view held that a “wall of separation” was necessary to safeguard religious truth from the rough and corrupting hand of the civil government.”…
Critics of the Everson opinion have contended that the history endorsed by the Everson Court is not only historical flawed, but, at times utterly unfounded. …In the words of Michel J. Malbin, the Supreme Court Justices “have been acting almost as if their recognition of their predecessors’ historical errors have liberated them from the need to consider what purposes the members of the First Congress may have meant the religious clauses to serve.”
… As historian Rousas John Rushdoony has argued, the concept of the secular state did not exist at the beginning of the War of Independence, nor was it recognized at the Constitutional Convention or in 1791 when the Bill of Rights was ratified by the states. Therefore, to interpret the Constitution as the “charter for a secular state is to misread history and to misread it radically…”
George H. Kubeck, [Posted on this blog – www.cinopsbegone.com – Sun. July 10, 2011]
Report Card # 7 on Bill Press's Book
Report Card # 7 on Bill Press’s Book
How the Republicans Stole Christmas
[Posted on Sunday, July 10, 2011] Sat. Dec. 31, 2005
Chapter 1 – Separation of Church and State (cont’d)
“In March 2005, Senator Rick Santorium (R-Pa.) organized a course on Catholic doctrine for Republican Catholic members of Congress. Classes were taught by a priest in Santorium’s capitol office.” 36
This has been a spiritually uplifting week not only for Catholic Christians but for all Christians. On Sunday, we had the birth of Jesus, then St. Stephen, the first Martyr, St. John the Evangelist, the Feast of the Holy Innocents, St. Thomas Becket, the Feast of the Holy Family, and today St. Sylvester.
What is this week for the Catholic-In Name-Only- Politician (CINOP) and his supporters? How was the mindset of these Catholics formed? Why are they blind to Life as the first inalienable right and to Pope John Paul’s Gospel of Life? We see few Baptist/ Evangelicals-In-Name-Only Politicians but many CINOP’S.
Patrick J. Reilly made a key point in his talk at the Cardinal Mindszenty Society Conference on Apr. 9th, 2005 at Oakbrook Terrace, Illinois, titled, Fighting the Catholic Campus Wars: A Success Story. “What are the greatest challenges that are facing the Catholic Church? Shortage of Priests, lack of faith, no instruction, lack of trust in God; I am also thinking of the priest-sex scandal, the Terri Schiavo case, abortion, euthanasia and the growth of the movement to euthanasia, and homosexual activism.
I want to make a point up front that every single one of these issues both the roots of the problem and the solutions are to be found largely in Catholic Higher Education. If we can reform Catholic Higher Education we can significantly address every one of these issues.”
All of the above should have been straightened out by the staff of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops years ago. There is also something very arrogant and egotistical about dissent literature like the National Catholic Reporter, America, and Commonweal. We need a breadth of fresh air with Catholic readings like National Catholic Register, First Things, Lay Witness, Inside the Vatican, Catholic World Report, Homiletic & Pastoral Review and New Oxford Review.
One would expect a Catholic to be for traditional America. But the first chapter of Bill’s book is like a primer for the ACLU. Of course, we have all kinds of Catholics in the halls of Congress and the State legislatures. But if they are for adultery, fornication and pornography, and the culture of death, we need to speak out. For the fellow travelers of Bill, we have a question.
What is the difference between the secular liberal ideology of the ACLU in America and the neo-pagan racist ideology of Hitler and the atheistic class warfare ideology of Stalin? All three have a superior social welfare program which have duped Catholic voters in Europe and today many in America.
This past week, Fox News had a report on the Catholic Church in Holland. One hundred years ago, 95% of Catholics went to Mass on Sunday, today it is only 8 %. The ex-Catholics there are now promoting all aspects of the culture of death and a suicide pill. The pro-life movement has the will to win for traditional America and you, Bill Press, are in the way as a Pied Piper Trojan horse Catholic for the Culture of Death!
Good Health and a Blessed and Joyful New Year,
George H. Kubeck, Posted on this blog www.cinopsbegone.com - Sun. July 10/11
How the Republicans Stole Christmas
[Posted on Sunday, July 10, 2011] Sat. Dec. 31, 2005
Chapter 1 – Separation of Church and State (cont’d)
“In March 2005, Senator Rick Santorium (R-Pa.) organized a course on Catholic doctrine for Republican Catholic members of Congress. Classes were taught by a priest in Santorium’s capitol office.” 36
This has been a spiritually uplifting week not only for Catholic Christians but for all Christians. On Sunday, we had the birth of Jesus, then St. Stephen, the first Martyr, St. John the Evangelist, the Feast of the Holy Innocents, St. Thomas Becket, the Feast of the Holy Family, and today St. Sylvester.
What is this week for the Catholic-In Name-Only- Politician (CINOP) and his supporters? How was the mindset of these Catholics formed? Why are they blind to Life as the first inalienable right and to Pope John Paul’s Gospel of Life? We see few Baptist/ Evangelicals-In-Name-Only Politicians but many CINOP’S.
Patrick J. Reilly made a key point in his talk at the Cardinal Mindszenty Society Conference on Apr. 9th, 2005 at Oakbrook Terrace, Illinois, titled, Fighting the Catholic Campus Wars: A Success Story. “What are the greatest challenges that are facing the Catholic Church? Shortage of Priests, lack of faith, no instruction, lack of trust in God; I am also thinking of the priest-sex scandal, the Terri Schiavo case, abortion, euthanasia and the growth of the movement to euthanasia, and homosexual activism.
I want to make a point up front that every single one of these issues both the roots of the problem and the solutions are to be found largely in Catholic Higher Education. If we can reform Catholic Higher Education we can significantly address every one of these issues.”
All of the above should have been straightened out by the staff of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops years ago. There is also something very arrogant and egotistical about dissent literature like the National Catholic Reporter, America, and Commonweal. We need a breadth of fresh air with Catholic readings like National Catholic Register, First Things, Lay Witness, Inside the Vatican, Catholic World Report, Homiletic & Pastoral Review and New Oxford Review.
One would expect a Catholic to be for traditional America. But the first chapter of Bill’s book is like a primer for the ACLU. Of course, we have all kinds of Catholics in the halls of Congress and the State legislatures. But if they are for adultery, fornication and pornography, and the culture of death, we need to speak out. For the fellow travelers of Bill, we have a question.
What is the difference between the secular liberal ideology of the ACLU in America and the neo-pagan racist ideology of Hitler and the atheistic class warfare ideology of Stalin? All three have a superior social welfare program which have duped Catholic voters in Europe and today many in America.
This past week, Fox News had a report on the Catholic Church in Holland. One hundred years ago, 95% of Catholics went to Mass on Sunday, today it is only 8 %. The ex-Catholics there are now promoting all aspects of the culture of death and a suicide pill. The pro-life movement has the will to win for traditional America and you, Bill Press, are in the way as a Pied Piper Trojan horse Catholic for the Culture of Death!
Good Health and a Blessed and Joyful New Year,
George H. Kubeck, Posted on this blog www.cinopsbegone.com - Sun. July 10/11
Saturday, July 9, 2011
The Repeal of N.Y.'s Same-Sex Marriage Law
The Repeal of N.Y.’s Same-Sex Marriage Law
In pursuit of the truth – www.cinopsbegone.com – Saturday, July 9, 2011
Ref. +++ http://catholicvote.org +++ http://americanpapist.com +++ http://CatholicTv.org – http://Nationalorganizationformarriage.org +++http://RaymondArroyo.org +++ [Reference his interview with ThomasPeters.]
“The family is the foundation of a society, the “domestic church” where we learn to be good citizens and disciples of love. Our public institutions have a responsibility to protect, affirm and encourage families and traditional institutions of marriage.”
On the Archdiocese of New York website, archbishop Timothy Dolan blogs: “For us in the Church not much changes. We continue to hold fast to the God-definition of marriage and acknowledge that no unfortunate legislative attempt can alter reality and morality…”
It’s a Wakeup Call! It’s a re-education for bishops and the staff at USCCB. For New York, it will take 4 years. The same thing should be done in Massachusetts. There is no other choice if you are a Shepherd or a practicing Catholic. Gay marriage has serious consequences. For California an ounce of prevention is worth of pound of cure. Vote out of office Catholic-in-name-only politicians.
The interview by Raymond Arroyo with Thomas Peters was enlightening. Thomas has the above American papist blog. His father is cannon lawyer Dr. Edward Peters of Detroit’s Sacred Heart Major Seminary and he has renewed his call for the state’s bishops to deny Communion to Catholic Governor Andrew Cuomo, due to his persistent campaign for same-sex “marriage,” in addition to his public cohabitation with girlfriend Sandra Lee, a host on the Food Network.
Also, upon ministers of Holy Communion to withhold that august sacrament from “those obstinately preserving in manifest grave sin” per Canon 915. It also warrants a canonical investigation under Canon 1717, which applies a “just penalty” to those who “in a public show or speech, published writings, or in other uses of the instruments of social communication … gravely injure[d] good morals.
Bishop DiMarzio insisted that political leaders “do not believe their own rhetoric.” “If they did, how in good conscience could they carve out any exemption for institutions that would be proponents of bigotry and prejudice?” he added. [Also, the vote in the Senate for passage was one of corruption.]
We have our own mess in California! ----SB 48 requires bringing the sexuality of gay, lesbian, transgender and bisexual people to the attention of students K-12 in social studies classes. Even the L.A. Times opposes this hogwash.
Archbishop Jose Gomez of L.A. “The family is God’s first beautiful gift to us. Because each one of us came into this world as the fruit of a mother and a father’s love… [SB 48] is also another example of the government interfering with the parents’ rights to be their children’s primary educators.” Telephone CINOP Gov. Jerry Brown to veto this bill. 916-445-2841.
Lastly, about a month ago I signed up to view Michael Voris’s CatholicTv.org. [Ten dollars monthly] He is a kind of Blessed John Paul II laity person. He will be speaking at 6:45 P.M. Wed.,July 20th at Farmers and Merchants Bank, 12535 Seal Beach Blvd. Seal Beach, Ca. Topic CCHD/Alinsky.
George H. Kubeck - We persist and turn negatives into positives. There are no neutrals or defeatists dissenters!
In pursuit of the truth – www.cinopsbegone.com – Saturday, July 9, 2011
Ref. +++ http://catholicvote.org +++ http://americanpapist.com +++ http://CatholicTv.org – http://Nationalorganizationformarriage.org +++http://RaymondArroyo.org +++ [Reference his interview with ThomasPeters.]
“The family is the foundation of a society, the “domestic church” where we learn to be good citizens and disciples of love. Our public institutions have a responsibility to protect, affirm and encourage families and traditional institutions of marriage.”
On the Archdiocese of New York website, archbishop Timothy Dolan blogs: “For us in the Church not much changes. We continue to hold fast to the God-definition of marriage and acknowledge that no unfortunate legislative attempt can alter reality and morality…”
It’s a Wakeup Call! It’s a re-education for bishops and the staff at USCCB. For New York, it will take 4 years. The same thing should be done in Massachusetts. There is no other choice if you are a Shepherd or a practicing Catholic. Gay marriage has serious consequences. For California an ounce of prevention is worth of pound of cure. Vote out of office Catholic-in-name-only politicians.
The interview by Raymond Arroyo with Thomas Peters was enlightening. Thomas has the above American papist blog. His father is cannon lawyer Dr. Edward Peters of Detroit’s Sacred Heart Major Seminary and he has renewed his call for the state’s bishops to deny Communion to Catholic Governor Andrew Cuomo, due to his persistent campaign for same-sex “marriage,” in addition to his public cohabitation with girlfriend Sandra Lee, a host on the Food Network.
Also, upon ministers of Holy Communion to withhold that august sacrament from “those obstinately preserving in manifest grave sin” per Canon 915. It also warrants a canonical investigation under Canon 1717, which applies a “just penalty” to those who “in a public show or speech, published writings, or in other uses of the instruments of social communication … gravely injure[d] good morals.
Bishop DiMarzio insisted that political leaders “do not believe their own rhetoric.” “If they did, how in good conscience could they carve out any exemption for institutions that would be proponents of bigotry and prejudice?” he added. [Also, the vote in the Senate for passage was one of corruption.]
We have our own mess in California! ----SB 48 requires bringing the sexuality of gay, lesbian, transgender and bisexual people to the attention of students K-12 in social studies classes. Even the L.A. Times opposes this hogwash.
Archbishop Jose Gomez of L.A. “The family is God’s first beautiful gift to us. Because each one of us came into this world as the fruit of a mother and a father’s love… [SB 48] is also another example of the government interfering with the parents’ rights to be their children’s primary educators.” Telephone CINOP Gov. Jerry Brown to veto this bill. 916-445-2841.
Lastly, about a month ago I signed up to view Michael Voris’s CatholicTv.org. [Ten dollars monthly] He is a kind of Blessed John Paul II laity person. He will be speaking at 6:45 P.M. Wed.,July 20th at Farmers and Merchants Bank, 12535 Seal Beach Blvd. Seal Beach, Ca. Topic CCHD/Alinsky.
George H. Kubeck - We persist and turn negatives into positives. There are no neutrals or defeatists dissenters!
Report Card # 6 on Bill Press's Book
Report Card # 6 on Bill Press’s Book
How the Republicans Stole Christmas
Posted on this blog Sat. July 9, 2011 – written - Dec. 18, 2005
Chapter 1 – Separation of Church and State (cont’d)
For about 170 years, we had a great respect for the Supreme Court’s interpretation of the Constitution. Then something happened in the 1960’s and 1970’s. Political correctness, relativism and judicial activism became part of the Court with its decisions on prayer, ten commandments, abortion etc. This is not the America I joined the Army for three years and thereupon became a U.S. citizen, April 2, 1962.
On the other hand, Bill Press believes in the wall of separation between Church and State. Yet no where is this found in the Constitution. It is a myth.
Bill Press promotes this myth and it bothers him when President George Bush did the following: The Bush administration approved a federally funded health plan for Catholics only; it excludes insurance coverage for contraceptives, abortion, sterilization, or artificial insemination. 36
To understand the why and the serious nature of the above permit Richard Thompson, President and Chief Counsel of the Thomas More Law Center explain it: A wave of persecutions is coming upon Christians but more specifically the Catholic Church in America.
It is sponsored by left-wing anti-religious groups like the American Civil Liberties Union the ACLU, and they are doing this especially against Catholics because it is clear that the Catholic Church is the main stumbling block to their agenda to de-Christianize, to remove all moral and religious foundations upon which this nation was built. And the way they are doing it is through the courts. That is the primary instrument that the other side, the ACLU is using to silence the Catholic Voice.
Maybe you heard about a year ago where there was a case brought by the Catholic Charities against the State of California because the State of California had some laws that mandated all organizations provide contraceptive and abortifacient prescription coverage for their employees.
And the Catholic Church said, ‘Wait a minute, that’s against our doctrine, we cannot do that.’ They brought the case to the Supreme Court of California and the Supreme Court of California said, ‘If you want to cover all of your employees with any kind of insurance that has prescriptive coverage, then you have to include contraceptive drugs and abortifacient.’ There was only one dissenting judge and that dissenting judge Justice Janice Brown said it is clear that this law was specifically designed to attack the religious freedom of the Catholic Church….
The Catholic Charities lawyers appealed to the Supreme Court of the United States, and the Supreme Court refused to hear it. And what Planned Parenthood and the ACLU are saying now. This is the model we are going to use in other states to ram down the throat of Catholics the very doctrine that the Catholic Church opposes. So what we have today is the ACLU using the courts to redesign American society....
The above was a keynote talk given at the Cardinal Mindszenty Foundation 26th Annual Conference Faith, Family, Freedom, and April 9, 2005 at Oakbrook Terrace. Ill. The title of the talk was, “The Catholic Answer to the ACLU.” www.Mindszenty.org
George H. Kubeck [Posted on this blog – www.cinopsbegone.com – Sat. July 9/11]
How the Republicans Stole Christmas
Posted on this blog Sat. July 9, 2011 – written - Dec. 18, 2005
Chapter 1 – Separation of Church and State (cont’d)
For about 170 years, we had a great respect for the Supreme Court’s interpretation of the Constitution. Then something happened in the 1960’s and 1970’s. Political correctness, relativism and judicial activism became part of the Court with its decisions on prayer, ten commandments, abortion etc. This is not the America I joined the Army for three years and thereupon became a U.S. citizen, April 2, 1962.
On the other hand, Bill Press believes in the wall of separation between Church and State. Yet no where is this found in the Constitution. It is a myth.
Bill Press promotes this myth and it bothers him when President George Bush did the following: The Bush administration approved a federally funded health plan for Catholics only; it excludes insurance coverage for contraceptives, abortion, sterilization, or artificial insemination. 36
To understand the why and the serious nature of the above permit Richard Thompson, President and Chief Counsel of the Thomas More Law Center explain it: A wave of persecutions is coming upon Christians but more specifically the Catholic Church in America.
It is sponsored by left-wing anti-religious groups like the American Civil Liberties Union the ACLU, and they are doing this especially against Catholics because it is clear that the Catholic Church is the main stumbling block to their agenda to de-Christianize, to remove all moral and religious foundations upon which this nation was built. And the way they are doing it is through the courts. That is the primary instrument that the other side, the ACLU is using to silence the Catholic Voice.
Maybe you heard about a year ago where there was a case brought by the Catholic Charities against the State of California because the State of California had some laws that mandated all organizations provide contraceptive and abortifacient prescription coverage for their employees.
And the Catholic Church said, ‘Wait a minute, that’s against our doctrine, we cannot do that.’ They brought the case to the Supreme Court of California and the Supreme Court of California said, ‘If you want to cover all of your employees with any kind of insurance that has prescriptive coverage, then you have to include contraceptive drugs and abortifacient.’ There was only one dissenting judge and that dissenting judge Justice Janice Brown said it is clear that this law was specifically designed to attack the religious freedom of the Catholic Church….
The Catholic Charities lawyers appealed to the Supreme Court of the United States, and the Supreme Court refused to hear it. And what Planned Parenthood and the ACLU are saying now. This is the model we are going to use in other states to ram down the throat of Catholics the very doctrine that the Catholic Church opposes. So what we have today is the ACLU using the courts to redesign American society....
The above was a keynote talk given at the Cardinal Mindszenty Foundation 26th Annual Conference Faith, Family, Freedom, and April 9, 2005 at Oakbrook Terrace. Ill. The title of the talk was, “The Catholic Answer to the ACLU.” www.Mindszenty.org
George H. Kubeck [Posted on this blog – www.cinopsbegone.com – Sat. July 9/11]
Report Card # 5 on Bill Press's Book
Report Card # 5 on Bill Press’s Book
How the Republicans Stole Christmas
[Posted on this blog Saturday, July 9/2011 – written Dec. 10th, 2005]
Chapter 1 - Separation of Church and State
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof. Would it not be wonderful if Bill had a prayerful conversion and became a public advocate of Pope John Paul’s Gospel of Life? He would be a hero of the pro-life movement. Instead as a wayward Catholic, he is a pain in the neck. He promotes the secular humanist judicial activist judge’s interpretation of the first amendment. Bill is very upset with the following:
Bush signed an executive order allowing churches that receive federal funds for so-called faith based programs to practice religious discrimination: hiring as staff members only those who belong to the same church. 36
Bush proposed a school voucher program, which would give parents federal tax dollars to use to pay tuition to private religious schools. 36
Bush instituted a “religious test” for judges, promising to appoint only “commonsense judges who understand that our rights were derived from God.” 36
Under Bush, employees in the White House, the Justice Department, and other federal agencies are under pressure to begin their workday by attending “voluntary” Bible study and prayer sessions. 36
In fact, tearing down the First Amendment’s historic wall of separation between church and state is the express aim of religious conservatives today, and they make no bones about it. After an October 2004 meeting with President Bush, Philadelphia’s Cardinal Justin Rigali issued a statement deploring “separation of church and state” as “A MISINTERPRETATION OF THE CONSTITUTION.” 38
In the Supreme Court’s 1985 Wallace v. Jaffree decision, which declared unconstitutional an Alabama law requiring that the school day begin with a moment of “silent meditation or voluntary prayer,” then Associate Justice Rehnquist issued a blistering dissent: “The wall of separation between church and state is a metaphor based on bad history, a metaphor that has proved useless as a guide to judging. It should be frankly and explicitly abandoned.” 40
I recall being a substitute teacher in the Waltham, Mass. Public Elementary School System during the spring of 1962. I read short excerpts from the Bible to the children. This was a positive educational experience for them. It was not unconstitutional.
The L.A. Tidings issue, Dec. 9th, 05, p.20, George Weigel hit the nail on the head.
The Framers’ intent to foster a robust religious life in America by preventing the Federal government from ‘establishing’ any denomination as the governmentally approved faith has now been turned inside out. Today, the first amendment is widely understood to require not simply governmental ‘neutrality’ between denominations, or between belief and unbelief, but governmental suspicion of, bordering on hostility to any public manifestation of religious conviction in the public square.
A Common Sense Pro-Life Dispatch
George H. Kubeck, ..
How the Republicans Stole Christmas
[Posted on this blog Saturday, July 9/2011 – written Dec. 10th, 2005]
Chapter 1 - Separation of Church and State
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof. Would it not be wonderful if Bill had a prayerful conversion and became a public advocate of Pope John Paul’s Gospel of Life? He would be a hero of the pro-life movement. Instead as a wayward Catholic, he is a pain in the neck. He promotes the secular humanist judicial activist judge’s interpretation of the first amendment. Bill is very upset with the following:
Bush signed an executive order allowing churches that receive federal funds for so-called faith based programs to practice religious discrimination: hiring as staff members only those who belong to the same church. 36
Bush proposed a school voucher program, which would give parents federal tax dollars to use to pay tuition to private religious schools. 36
Bush instituted a “religious test” for judges, promising to appoint only “commonsense judges who understand that our rights were derived from God.” 36
Under Bush, employees in the White House, the Justice Department, and other federal agencies are under pressure to begin their workday by attending “voluntary” Bible study and prayer sessions. 36
In fact, tearing down the First Amendment’s historic wall of separation between church and state is the express aim of religious conservatives today, and they make no bones about it. After an October 2004 meeting with President Bush, Philadelphia’s Cardinal Justin Rigali issued a statement deploring “separation of church and state” as “A MISINTERPRETATION OF THE CONSTITUTION.” 38
In the Supreme Court’s 1985 Wallace v. Jaffree decision, which declared unconstitutional an Alabama law requiring that the school day begin with a moment of “silent meditation or voluntary prayer,” then Associate Justice Rehnquist issued a blistering dissent: “The wall of separation between church and state is a metaphor based on bad history, a metaphor that has proved useless as a guide to judging. It should be frankly and explicitly abandoned.” 40
I recall being a substitute teacher in the Waltham, Mass. Public Elementary School System during the spring of 1962. I read short excerpts from the Bible to the children. This was a positive educational experience for them. It was not unconstitutional.
The L.A. Tidings issue, Dec. 9th, 05, p.20, George Weigel hit the nail on the head.
The Framers’ intent to foster a robust religious life in America by preventing the Federal government from ‘establishing’ any denomination as the governmentally approved faith has now been turned inside out. Today, the first amendment is widely understood to require not simply governmental ‘neutrality’ between denominations, or between belief and unbelief, but governmental suspicion of, bordering on hostility to any public manifestation of religious conviction in the public square.
A Common Sense Pro-Life Dispatch
George H. Kubeck, ..
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