Further Comments on S-S Marriage in N.Y. # 3 of 3
In pursuit of the truth – www.cinopsbegone.com – Friday, July 15, 2011
From the blog: http://www.catholic.org/discuss/index/php?
1.Professor Robert George” “They [s-s-marriage advocates] rarely have the foggiest notion of what the arguments are in support of the view they reject or what the intellectual challenges are for the view they hold. They already know the truth and that’s that. So what need is there for reflection, study, deliberation & debate? Why argue with intolerant & anti-civil rights bigots” To the barricades.”
“Of course there is an astonishing degree of ignorance on display in all this, especially when considered in proportion to the certitude and moral passion of liberalism’s true believers. Perhaps it is too much to ask of them, but for those who might perhaps secretly when no “sophisticated urbane friends are looking and want to know why those of us on the other side dissent, and who might be writing are the damning intellectual challenges that “same-sex” marriage advocates have not met and cannot meet here again is the link to “What is Marriage?”
2. J. Peter Nixon‘s “Don’t Lose Ugly” – The Future of Marriage July 15th of “Commonweal”:
“Ten years from now, I would be extremely surprised if gay marriage had not been legalized in most of the Northeast and West Coast. Within 25 years, I expect that the number of states where gay marriage is legal will outnumber those where it is illegal… Opponents of gay marriage – among whom I would include the U.S. Catholic bishops – are going to lose this fight.” [The writer doesn’t consider himself an opponent of gay marriage. Remember that this is so-called Catholic magazine is read by some bishops. They also read “The National Catholic Reporter” which promotes sophisticated heresy.]
“While bishops have not only the right but also the responsibility to bring Catholic teaching into the public square, they also need to do so in ways that do not make them seem uniquely obsessed with the sins of gays and lesbians.” [Bishops are duty bound to inform and minister to homosexually inclined Catholics. This lifestyle is not biologically normal and self-destructive.][What we have is a liberal mindset unattached to the “Catechism of the Catholic Church,” “The Magisterial,” and St. Thomas Aquinas? This mindset has corrupted Catholic academia.]
3. Bishop Thomas J. Olmstead, “Catholics in the Public Square” 18) Are there any “non-negotiable” issues for Catholics involved in politics? There are several issues.
•Protection of life in all its stages, from the first moment of conception until natural death;
•Recognition and promotion of the natural structure of the family as a union between a man and a woman based on marriage and its defense from attempts to make it juridically equivalent to radically different forms of union which in reality harm it and contribute to its destabilization, obscuring its particular character and its irreplaceable social role;
•The protection of the rights of parents in educate their children:
George H. Kubeck, Same-sex marriage is an election issue in 2012. No CINOP is worthy of support.
Friday, July 15, 2011
Thursday, July 14, 2011
Breaking News: "CINOP" Gov. Brown Signs SB 48
Breaking News: “CINOP” Gov. Brown Signs SB 48
In pursuit of the truth – www.cinopbegone.com – Thursday, July 14, 2011
From: kengland@capitolresource.org –
Preface: As a retired public California school teacher, CINOP (Catholic-in-name-only politician, A FRAUD) Governor Brown politicizes the teaching profession and continues to destroy it as he did in 1975 when he signed SB 160. This law legalized industrial type unionism in public education. GHK)
“CINOP Governor Brown capitulated to pressure by the homosexual community and signed Senate Bill 48 by Senator Mark Leno.”
“Moments ago, Brown signed SB 48 and said, “History should be honest,” the Democratic governor said in a written statement. “This bill revises existing laws and prohibits discrimination in education and ensures that the important contributions of Americans from all backgrounds and walks of life are included in our history books. It represents an important step forward for our state, and I thank Senator Leno for his hard work on this historic legislation.”
SB 48 is an attempt to indoctrinate children as young as five to not only accept but also endorse homosexuality through our social science curriculum specially history, history books and instructional materials. [K-12 grades]
“Governor Brown refused to listen to the thousands and thousands of calls by pro-family, traditional values voters asking him to veto SB 48,” says Karen England, executive director of CRI. “He ignored over half of the people in our state to implement a controversial, objectionable, and poor school policy measure into California’s classrooms.”
“SB 48 does absolutely nothing to reduce bullying, improve the state of our education system, ensure students graduate, or prepare them for global competitiveness,” said Paulo Sibaja, legislative director of CRI. “Instead it diverts precious classroom time away from science, math and reading, and writing and focuses on the agenda of a small group of people.”
“Senator Leno and supporters of SB 48 argued that students would stop bullying others if they learned the sexual preference of certain figures yet they failed to mention most bullying is not based on homosexuality. Also, the implementation of SB would cost Californian’s a lot of money since textbooks would have to be changed in order to meet the mandate of SB 48. The Governor failed to take SB48’s flawed assumptions into consideration and in doing so sign a bill that would harm children’s developing minds by thrusting confusing and controversial concepts not age appropriate.”
“Capitol Resource Institute (CSI) is working with a coalition of family advocacy groups on our next step following the Governor’s signage of SB 48. We will continue to follow further developments and keep you informed.
George H. Kubeck – PLEASE FINANCIALLY SUPPORT – CAPITOL RESOURCE INSTITUTE, 660 J STREET, SUITE 250, SACRAMENTO, CALIFORNIA 95814
In pursuit of the truth – www.cinopbegone.com – Thursday, July 14, 2011
From: kengland@capitolresource.org –
Preface: As a retired public California school teacher, CINOP (Catholic-in-name-only politician, A FRAUD) Governor Brown politicizes the teaching profession and continues to destroy it as he did in 1975 when he signed SB 160. This law legalized industrial type unionism in public education. GHK)
“CINOP Governor Brown capitulated to pressure by the homosexual community and signed Senate Bill 48 by Senator Mark Leno.”
“Moments ago, Brown signed SB 48 and said, “History should be honest,” the Democratic governor said in a written statement. “This bill revises existing laws and prohibits discrimination in education and ensures that the important contributions of Americans from all backgrounds and walks of life are included in our history books. It represents an important step forward for our state, and I thank Senator Leno for his hard work on this historic legislation.”
SB 48 is an attempt to indoctrinate children as young as five to not only accept but also endorse homosexuality through our social science curriculum specially history, history books and instructional materials. [K-12 grades]
“Governor Brown refused to listen to the thousands and thousands of calls by pro-family, traditional values voters asking him to veto SB 48,” says Karen England, executive director of CRI. “He ignored over half of the people in our state to implement a controversial, objectionable, and poor school policy measure into California’s classrooms.”
“SB 48 does absolutely nothing to reduce bullying, improve the state of our education system, ensure students graduate, or prepare them for global competitiveness,” said Paulo Sibaja, legislative director of CRI. “Instead it diverts precious classroom time away from science, math and reading, and writing and focuses on the agenda of a small group of people.”
“Senator Leno and supporters of SB 48 argued that students would stop bullying others if they learned the sexual preference of certain figures yet they failed to mention most bullying is not based on homosexuality. Also, the implementation of SB would cost Californian’s a lot of money since textbooks would have to be changed in order to meet the mandate of SB 48. The Governor failed to take SB48’s flawed assumptions into consideration and in doing so sign a bill that would harm children’s developing minds by thrusting confusing and controversial concepts not age appropriate.”
“Capitol Resource Institute (CSI) is working with a coalition of family advocacy groups on our next step following the Governor’s signage of SB 48. We will continue to follow further developments and keep you informed.
George H. Kubeck – PLEASE FINANCIALLY SUPPORT – CAPITOL RESOURCE INSTITUTE, 660 J STREET, SUITE 250, SACRAMENTO, CALIFORNIA 95814
Wednesday, July 13, 2011
Report Card# 12 on Bill Press's Book
Report Card # 12 on Bill Press’s Book
How the Republicans Stole Christmas
[Posted on this blog, Wed. July 13, 2011] Sun., Nov. 11, 2007 – Thurs., Feb. 2, 2006
Chapter 2 – Killing in the Name of Jesus (cont’d)
There is a Catholic Laity that has common sense and wisdom. What can Bill Donohue of Catholic League of Religious and Civil Rights teach us indirectly in dealing with the CINOP and the Bill Presses of the world? In the district I live in we are going to have a CINOP running for office in the State Senate race.
Here is the gist of a talk Bill Donohue gave in Orange County in 1996, via a Cardinal Mindszenty Society Conference. 3-23-96. * Pope John Paul II has asked the laity to be engaged. First of all, the Catholic League does not get involved in any kind of internal Church dispute. Bill is not a spokesman for the Catholic Church. The League is there so that the voice of the Catholic Church, the clergy in particular can be heard.
Stop being a doormat and be proud of your Catholicism. That is why I deplore Anti-Semitism. I learned it in the Catholic schools. We need to get up to the plate and speak back, the way the Jews have been doing it for years.
Be aware that the Catholic Church is proudly counter cultural. By this we mean that the Catholic Church teaches about freedom and that freedom is the right to do what you ought to do. Our culture teaches freedom is the right to do whatever you want to do. That is why a lot of the elites hate us.
You can organize a phone tree and this is very effective for any cause. You can form you own little citizen Ad Hoc Committee. Get yourself a lawyer and a 501 C3 Status. Get yourself some letter head and a fax. You will be surprised what you can do once you have a name behind you. *
And now let me share some tough love. The truth hurts. Since the Roe vs. Wade Decision, Jan. 22, 1973, the CINOP is responsible for Catholics leaving the Church for another religion, watering down and rewriting our Faith and Tradition, and fueling anti-Catholicism in America. The Alito Hearings were an education for all Americans and in particular for Catholics. I apologize to the Baptists, Evangelicals and other Christians for the CINOPS during the Confirmation Hearings. The Catholic in Name only Politicians promote the Culture of Death. They embarrass and denigrate our Catholic Faith.
Senator Edward Kennedy is concerned about the March for Progress and expanding Civil Rights. For him, this means giving absolute rights and legal status to the agenda of the ACLU and redefining the meaning of words like Marriage. I am really fed up with Catholic Liberals in Canada and Catholic Socialists in Spain passing same-sex marriage laws. This is a disgrace of the highest order and we need to stop it in the U.S.A.
The party and principles of John F. Kennedy are dead. They do not exist in California, Massachusetts or New York. Why remain registered with a dead party? The least you can do is to reregister to Decline to State. This would be a good start for all including Christian clergy and Religious and the staff at the California State, and the National Catholic Conference of Catholic Bishops.
The CINOP is an albatross around the neck of the Catholic Church’s new evangelization. The CINOP must be shamed, shunned and defeated at election time.
George H. Kubeck, 2-2-06, Feast of the Presentation of the Lord [posted July 13/11]
How the Republicans Stole Christmas
[Posted on this blog, Wed. July 13, 2011] Sun., Nov. 11, 2007 – Thurs., Feb. 2, 2006
Chapter 2 – Killing in the Name of Jesus (cont’d)
There is a Catholic Laity that has common sense and wisdom. What can Bill Donohue of Catholic League of Religious and Civil Rights teach us indirectly in dealing with the CINOP and the Bill Presses of the world? In the district I live in we are going to have a CINOP running for office in the State Senate race.
Here is the gist of a talk Bill Donohue gave in Orange County in 1996, via a Cardinal Mindszenty Society Conference. 3-23-96. * Pope John Paul II has asked the laity to be engaged. First of all, the Catholic League does not get involved in any kind of internal Church dispute. Bill is not a spokesman for the Catholic Church. The League is there so that the voice of the Catholic Church, the clergy in particular can be heard.
Stop being a doormat and be proud of your Catholicism. That is why I deplore Anti-Semitism. I learned it in the Catholic schools. We need to get up to the plate and speak back, the way the Jews have been doing it for years.
Be aware that the Catholic Church is proudly counter cultural. By this we mean that the Catholic Church teaches about freedom and that freedom is the right to do what you ought to do. Our culture teaches freedom is the right to do whatever you want to do. That is why a lot of the elites hate us.
You can organize a phone tree and this is very effective for any cause. You can form you own little citizen Ad Hoc Committee. Get yourself a lawyer and a 501 C3 Status. Get yourself some letter head and a fax. You will be surprised what you can do once you have a name behind you. *
And now let me share some tough love. The truth hurts. Since the Roe vs. Wade Decision, Jan. 22, 1973, the CINOP is responsible for Catholics leaving the Church for another religion, watering down and rewriting our Faith and Tradition, and fueling anti-Catholicism in America. The Alito Hearings were an education for all Americans and in particular for Catholics. I apologize to the Baptists, Evangelicals and other Christians for the CINOPS during the Confirmation Hearings. The Catholic in Name only Politicians promote the Culture of Death. They embarrass and denigrate our Catholic Faith.
Senator Edward Kennedy is concerned about the March for Progress and expanding Civil Rights. For him, this means giving absolute rights and legal status to the agenda of the ACLU and redefining the meaning of words like Marriage. I am really fed up with Catholic Liberals in Canada and Catholic Socialists in Spain passing same-sex marriage laws. This is a disgrace of the highest order and we need to stop it in the U.S.A.
The party and principles of John F. Kennedy are dead. They do not exist in California, Massachusetts or New York. Why remain registered with a dead party? The least you can do is to reregister to Decline to State. This would be a good start for all including Christian clergy and Religious and the staff at the California State, and the National Catholic Conference of Catholic Bishops.
The CINOP is an albatross around the neck of the Catholic Church’s new evangelization. The CINOP must be shamed, shunned and defeated at election time.
George H. Kubeck, 2-2-06, Feast of the Presentation of the Lord [posted July 13/11]
Report Card # 11 on Bill Press Book
Report Card # 11 on Bill Press Book
How the Republicans Stole Christmas
[Posted on this blog on Wed. July 13, 2011]Sat. Nov. 10, 2007 - Thursday, Jan. 26, 2006
These letters are reprinted on the blog – Cinops Be Gone during the past five weekends for all, including the Catholic Bishops who are meeting this coming week in Baltimore. The purpose is to understand the mind and heart of a Catholic-in-name-only politician, also known as a pro-choice Catholic politician. For our Catholic Faith, the pro-choice Catholic politician is the most dangerous Catholic politician in America. He is the scandalous role model for the second largest uninformed religious group in America. GHK
Chapter 2 – Killing in the Name of Jesus
There are serious differences between the culture of death and the culture of life mentality in America. This week’s confirmation debate in the Senate on Judge Sam Alito for the Supreme Court may enlighten us, particularly on the pro-abortion Pseudo-Catholic Senators. You will hear a lot of Spin. Bill Press is a master at Spin. He wrote a book on it,titled, Spin This. Here are a couple of quotes:
“There is no good definition of spin. It’s easier to say what it is not than what it is. It’s not the truth. Neither is it a lie. Spin lies somewhere between: almost telling the truth. But not quite; bending the truth to make things looks as good – or as bad – as possible; painting things in the best possible – or worst possible – light.… Spin has its roots in what was first described as ‘Newspeak’ by George Orwell in his novel 1984.
(Orwell may have gotten the date wrong, but he was right about everything else.) In the totalitarian state he described, the ruling party controlled thought by controlling the language. The key was ‘doublethink,’ as expressed in ‘doublespeak’ – by which one says the exact opposite of what one means, yet ends up believing it to be true: ‘War is Peace,’ ‘Freedom is Slavery,’ and ‘Ignorance is Strength.’”
Now this is a technique used by the Catholics in Name only Politicians and their supporters. There was a time when you were born a Catholic and then always a Catholic. Now we have ex-Catholics and converts to another Christian religion. But we also have the CINOP. He is against the death penalty and for almost all Catholic Social Teachings in the public arena and in this way rationalizes his pro-abortion, euthanasia, same-sex marriage stands. He is truly an indoctrinated secular humanist type originating in the 1960’s and from a failed Catholic Higher Education System. To get himself elected, the CINOP uses false advertising as a Catholic.
Now what Pro-Life is facing in America is that the ruling party is the Culture of Death Mentality. It controls the language and the issues to be focused on. It is the media, Hollywood, Academia etc. They also have a double-standard. The two exceptions are: Talk Radio and Fox News. Modernism is suicidal like in Europe.
Bill Press believes that the war in Iraq is not a just war. Only the American Southern Baptist Convention – plus a scattering of conservative Catholics and Orthodox Jews – supported the war. He errs in denigrating the religious beliefs of Christian Coalition Leadership with ridicule. This is not Christian talk but repeating secularist propaganda.
He continues with a consistent animosity to other Christians in the book. They did not vote for Kerry but so did a majority of Catholics. He is a cry-baby and a religious bigot.
Christians and particularly, Catholics need some kind of antidote to the Culture of Death Mentality. I believe membership in the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights and the Cardinal Mindszenty Society would be a good beginning. It would be like getting the flu shot. I have been a member for more than 25 years.
“Proclaim the message, insist on it in season and out of season, refute falsehood, correct error, call to obedience, but do all with patience & sound doctrine.” 1331, Jan. 26th Morning Prayer, Antiphon,
[posted on this post – www.cinopsbegone.com on Wed. July 13, 2011]
George H. Kubeck, 1-26-06, Memorial -Timothy and Titus, Bishops
How the Republicans Stole Christmas
[Posted on this blog on Wed. July 13, 2011]Sat. Nov. 10, 2007 - Thursday, Jan. 26, 2006
These letters are reprinted on the blog – Cinops Be Gone during the past five weekends for all, including the Catholic Bishops who are meeting this coming week in Baltimore. The purpose is to understand the mind and heart of a Catholic-in-name-only politician, also known as a pro-choice Catholic politician. For our Catholic Faith, the pro-choice Catholic politician is the most dangerous Catholic politician in America. He is the scandalous role model for the second largest uninformed religious group in America. GHK
Chapter 2 – Killing in the Name of Jesus
There are serious differences between the culture of death and the culture of life mentality in America. This week’s confirmation debate in the Senate on Judge Sam Alito for the Supreme Court may enlighten us, particularly on the pro-abortion Pseudo-Catholic Senators. You will hear a lot of Spin. Bill Press is a master at Spin. He wrote a book on it,titled, Spin This. Here are a couple of quotes:
“There is no good definition of spin. It’s easier to say what it is not than what it is. It’s not the truth. Neither is it a lie. Spin lies somewhere between: almost telling the truth. But not quite; bending the truth to make things looks as good – or as bad – as possible; painting things in the best possible – or worst possible – light.… Spin has its roots in what was first described as ‘Newspeak’ by George Orwell in his novel 1984.
(Orwell may have gotten the date wrong, but he was right about everything else.) In the totalitarian state he described, the ruling party controlled thought by controlling the language. The key was ‘doublethink,’ as expressed in ‘doublespeak’ – by which one says the exact opposite of what one means, yet ends up believing it to be true: ‘War is Peace,’ ‘Freedom is Slavery,’ and ‘Ignorance is Strength.’”
Now this is a technique used by the Catholics in Name only Politicians and their supporters. There was a time when you were born a Catholic and then always a Catholic. Now we have ex-Catholics and converts to another Christian religion. But we also have the CINOP. He is against the death penalty and for almost all Catholic Social Teachings in the public arena and in this way rationalizes his pro-abortion, euthanasia, same-sex marriage stands. He is truly an indoctrinated secular humanist type originating in the 1960’s and from a failed Catholic Higher Education System. To get himself elected, the CINOP uses false advertising as a Catholic.
Now what Pro-Life is facing in America is that the ruling party is the Culture of Death Mentality. It controls the language and the issues to be focused on. It is the media, Hollywood, Academia etc. They also have a double-standard. The two exceptions are: Talk Radio and Fox News. Modernism is suicidal like in Europe.
Bill Press believes that the war in Iraq is not a just war. Only the American Southern Baptist Convention – plus a scattering of conservative Catholics and Orthodox Jews – supported the war. He errs in denigrating the religious beliefs of Christian Coalition Leadership with ridicule. This is not Christian talk but repeating secularist propaganda.
He continues with a consistent animosity to other Christians in the book. They did not vote for Kerry but so did a majority of Catholics. He is a cry-baby and a religious bigot.
Christians and particularly, Catholics need some kind of antidote to the Culture of Death Mentality. I believe membership in the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights and the Cardinal Mindszenty Society would be a good beginning. It would be like getting the flu shot. I have been a member for more than 25 years.
“Proclaim the message, insist on it in season and out of season, refute falsehood, correct error, call to obedience, but do all with patience & sound doctrine.” 1331, Jan. 26th Morning Prayer, Antiphon,
[posted on this post – www.cinopsbegone.com on Wed. July 13, 2011]
George H. Kubeck, 1-26-06, Memorial -Timothy and Titus, Bishops
# 2 Indirect and Direct Comments on S-S- Marriage in N.Y.
Indirect and Direct Comments on S-S-Marriage in N.Y.
In pursuit of the truth – www.cinopsbegone.com – Wednesday, July 13, 2011
“Same-sex marriage sacrifices the needs of the poor who are hurt the most when a sound public understanding of marriage and sexual morality collapses.” This needs to be repeated over again.
Continue to check out this blog: http://www.catholicvote.org/discuss/index/php?p=18773
1. Professor Robert George: “So people are calling you “intolerant” and an “anti-civil rights bigot”? Well, for those who have absorbed the premises of sexual liberation and embraced it dogmas so fanatically that they can’t fathom the possibility that any reasonable person of goodwill could dissent from them that what people like you and me seem to be. Like overly impassioned believers at all time and in all places these folks suppose that anyone who doubts the tenet of their faith must have malign motives. Dissenters from what they regard and unquestionable orthodoxy must be “haters” the modern word for “heretics.”
It’s ironic - and amusing – that these folks regard themselves as urbane sophisticated people – critical thinkers who are much smarter and better informed (not to mention more “tolerant” and open-minded) than their opposition… to be continued [The arrogance of this stupid elite is stupendous.]
2. Radio Personality Hugh Hewitt: - http://www.zenit.org/article-31840?I=english “US Morality Tank needs Refill” – “Moral Leadership requires Courage” “Who is going to Lead? Moral Character and the Future of American Public Life,” was Hewitt’s topic to more than 500 in the refectory at the Archdiocese of Denver on Tuesday.
[If Hewitt had talked to the Archdiocese of New York, maybe we would not have Same-Sex Marriage passed in New York last week. We have also an absolute poverty of Catholic Laity Leadership! It is shameful and tragic!]
“What’s the solution? Moral leadership,” he said. “Vibrant, confident, talented moral leadership.” There are many examples of voices in American history, Archbishop Joseph Rummel of New Orleans, whom Archbishop Charles Chaput of Denver wrote about in recent years, and Archbishop Leo Burke of St. Louis…
3. Mr. John Keenan, O.P., J.D., promoter of peace & justice, Western Dominican Province:
“Our Pastors need to preach faith and morals.” Reference the letter by the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops on April 13, 2011 on the matter of the federal budget – justice and moral obligations – debt and deficits – common good and health care. - …nearly 2000 years ago, the Roman Empire fell for 3 main reasons:
1. Declining moral values and political civility at home, 2. an overconfident military in foreign lands 3. Government fiscal irresponsibility… The real Gospel focus of the American bishops is not a call for governmental action, but the moral make-up of our country. Every resource of the bishop bishops should be focused on improving the mediocre catechetical teaching and preaching that occurs around the country, many pastors fail to teach or preach, but often cite platitudes and generalities during the Homily at Holy Mass.
What is needed? True preaching. If the bishops want to change the culture and touch the hearts of the American people that will ultimately guide the Congress, then preach.
George H. Kubeck
In pursuit of the truth – www.cinopsbegone.com – Wednesday, July 13, 2011
“Same-sex marriage sacrifices the needs of the poor who are hurt the most when a sound public understanding of marriage and sexual morality collapses.” This needs to be repeated over again.
Continue to check out this blog: http://www.catholicvote.org/discuss/index/php?p=18773
1. Professor Robert George: “So people are calling you “intolerant” and an “anti-civil rights bigot”? Well, for those who have absorbed the premises of sexual liberation and embraced it dogmas so fanatically that they can’t fathom the possibility that any reasonable person of goodwill could dissent from them that what people like you and me seem to be. Like overly impassioned believers at all time and in all places these folks suppose that anyone who doubts the tenet of their faith must have malign motives. Dissenters from what they regard and unquestionable orthodoxy must be “haters” the modern word for “heretics.”
It’s ironic - and amusing – that these folks regard themselves as urbane sophisticated people – critical thinkers who are much smarter and better informed (not to mention more “tolerant” and open-minded) than their opposition… to be continued [The arrogance of this stupid elite is stupendous.]
2. Radio Personality Hugh Hewitt: - http://www.zenit.org/article-31840?I=english “US Morality Tank needs Refill” – “Moral Leadership requires Courage” “Who is going to Lead? Moral Character and the Future of American Public Life,” was Hewitt’s topic to more than 500 in the refectory at the Archdiocese of Denver on Tuesday.
[If Hewitt had talked to the Archdiocese of New York, maybe we would not have Same-Sex Marriage passed in New York last week. We have also an absolute poverty of Catholic Laity Leadership! It is shameful and tragic!]
“What’s the solution? Moral leadership,” he said. “Vibrant, confident, talented moral leadership.” There are many examples of voices in American history, Archbishop Joseph Rummel of New Orleans, whom Archbishop Charles Chaput of Denver wrote about in recent years, and Archbishop Leo Burke of St. Louis…
3. Mr. John Keenan, O.P., J.D., promoter of peace & justice, Western Dominican Province:
“Our Pastors need to preach faith and morals.” Reference the letter by the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops on April 13, 2011 on the matter of the federal budget – justice and moral obligations – debt and deficits – common good and health care. - …nearly 2000 years ago, the Roman Empire fell for 3 main reasons:
1. Declining moral values and political civility at home, 2. an overconfident military in foreign lands 3. Government fiscal irresponsibility… The real Gospel focus of the American bishops is not a call for governmental action, but the moral make-up of our country. Every resource of the bishop bishops should be focused on improving the mediocre catechetical teaching and preaching that occurs around the country, many pastors fail to teach or preach, but often cite platitudes and generalities during the Homily at Holy Mass.
What is needed? True preaching. If the bishops want to change the culture and touch the hearts of the American people that will ultimately guide the Congress, then preach.
George H. Kubeck
Tuesday, July 12, 2011
Michele Bachmann Ex-Democrat
Michele Bachmann Ex-Democrat
In pursuit of the truth – www.cinopsbegone.com – Tuesday, July 12, 2011
Marcus Bachmann, Michelle’s husband of 33 years, immediately knew that she was different. In the spring of 1976, when they were both sophomores at Winona State University in Southeastern Minnesota, he spotted her across the playground at an elementary school near campus, where they supervised recess and youth sports. They were both (barely) paying their way through school and jumped at the chance to make a few dollars. [Article by Robert Costa, National Review, July 18th]
“Every day, we walked from the elementary school to the college,” Marcus tells me. On those strolls, they opened up to each other. “Michele was interested in intellectual philosophical, and political conversations,” he says. The summer after she graduated from high school in Anoka, Minn., she had worked on a kibbutz in Israel, and she fascinated him with her stories.
The pair became fast friends, and soon the relationship blossomed beyond the schoolyard. That summer they worked on Jimmy Carter’s presidential campaign. Both were pleased that Walter Mondale, Minnesota’s favorite son, was chosen to the Georgia Democrat’s vice-presidential nominee. “By the time we were dating,” she says, “He told me that it’d cost $100, and I said ‘No way,’ since I would not put 24 cents in a soda machine. But we went, and we danced at an inaugural ball.”
For Bachmann, the experience was a thrill, especially seeing the Capitol dome for the first time, a sight that moved her to tears. But that was her last dance with democratic politics. By the spring of 1978, their senior year, she and Marcus were planning a post-graduation fall wedding. Their affection for Carter was evaporating. They talked about how he was aimless in foreign policy and a blubbering mess on social policy, his supposed strength.
A key moment in their political development came that spring when they both attended a campus screening of the Francis Schaefer film How Should We Then Live? The Rise and Decline of Western Thought and Culture. “The message encouraged our beliefs that life is precious.” Marcus tells me, reflecting on how the evangelical thinker influenced them.
Michele agrees. From that moment, her pro-life and family values began to crystallize into a firm political worldview. After years of seeing politics as partisan scraps, Bachmann began to notice a difference between the Democrats she grew up with in Waterloo and the monolithic Left running Jimmy Carter’s Washington.
The final straw came on a train ride back home one evening in the late Seventies. Bachmann was reading Gore Vidal’s Burr, a historical novel. When she realized that passage after passage was mocking the founding fathers, she threw the book down, disgusted with how the liberal writer described her heroes.
“I was offended,” she says. “When I grew up in a Democratic family, we were respectful of the founders, we were very patriotic, we loved the country, and we were reasonable fair-minded Democrats, like many of them are. I put the book down, looked out the window, and thought that this is not what I recall growing up. I thought I must not be a Democrat; I must really be a Republican. A couple years later, in 1980, both Bachmanns back Ronald Reagan [who also was an ex-Democrat]…
George H. Kubeck
In pursuit of the truth – www.cinopsbegone.com – Tuesday, July 12, 2011
Marcus Bachmann, Michelle’s husband of 33 years, immediately knew that she was different. In the spring of 1976, when they were both sophomores at Winona State University in Southeastern Minnesota, he spotted her across the playground at an elementary school near campus, where they supervised recess and youth sports. They were both (barely) paying their way through school and jumped at the chance to make a few dollars. [Article by Robert Costa, National Review, July 18th]
“Every day, we walked from the elementary school to the college,” Marcus tells me. On those strolls, they opened up to each other. “Michele was interested in intellectual philosophical, and political conversations,” he says. The summer after she graduated from high school in Anoka, Minn., she had worked on a kibbutz in Israel, and she fascinated him with her stories.
The pair became fast friends, and soon the relationship blossomed beyond the schoolyard. That summer they worked on Jimmy Carter’s presidential campaign. Both were pleased that Walter Mondale, Minnesota’s favorite son, was chosen to the Georgia Democrat’s vice-presidential nominee. “By the time we were dating,” she says, “He told me that it’d cost $100, and I said ‘No way,’ since I would not put 24 cents in a soda machine. But we went, and we danced at an inaugural ball.”
For Bachmann, the experience was a thrill, especially seeing the Capitol dome for the first time, a sight that moved her to tears. But that was her last dance with democratic politics. By the spring of 1978, their senior year, she and Marcus were planning a post-graduation fall wedding. Their affection for Carter was evaporating. They talked about how he was aimless in foreign policy and a blubbering mess on social policy, his supposed strength.
A key moment in their political development came that spring when they both attended a campus screening of the Francis Schaefer film How Should We Then Live? The Rise and Decline of Western Thought and Culture. “The message encouraged our beliefs that life is precious.” Marcus tells me, reflecting on how the evangelical thinker influenced them.
Michele agrees. From that moment, her pro-life and family values began to crystallize into a firm political worldview. After years of seeing politics as partisan scraps, Bachmann began to notice a difference between the Democrats she grew up with in Waterloo and the monolithic Left running Jimmy Carter’s Washington.
The final straw came on a train ride back home one evening in the late Seventies. Bachmann was reading Gore Vidal’s Burr, a historical novel. When she realized that passage after passage was mocking the founding fathers, she threw the book down, disgusted with how the liberal writer described her heroes.
“I was offended,” she says. “When I grew up in a Democratic family, we were respectful of the founders, we were very patriotic, we loved the country, and we were reasonable fair-minded Democrats, like many of them are. I put the book down, looked out the window, and thought that this is not what I recall growing up. I thought I must not be a Democrat; I must really be a Republican. A couple years later, in 1980, both Bachmanns back Ronald Reagan [who also was an ex-Democrat]…
George H. Kubeck
Monday, July 11, 2011
Report Card # 10 on Bill Press's Book
Report Card # 10 on Bill Press’s Book
How the Republicans Stole Christmas
[Posted on the blog on Mon. July 11, 2011] Sunday, Jan. 15, 2006
Chapter 1 – Separation of Church and State (cont’d)
Our American Vietnamese citizens and immigrants know all about reeducation camps. They and their relatives have experienced it in Communist Vietnam. The same can be said for our Americans of Cuban and Korean descent.
This is what Bill Press’s book is all about. It is a reeducation and brainwashing book for practicing and non-practicing Catholics, particularly if one does not have a deep knowledge of our Catholic beliefs and history of our country. As a pseudo-Catholic, Bill’s book is for all readers to change their beliefs and accept abortion on demand,
same-sex marriage, euthanasia and assisted suicide, embryonic & stem cell research, and finally, the over-all secular agenda as part and parcel of our Constitution.
Before moving on to the next chapter, I do not believe that the Founding Fathers supported an absolute wall of separation between Church and State. Their words speak for themselves.
It is the duty of all nations to acknowledge the Providence of Almighty God, to obey His will, to be grateful for His benefits, and to humbly implore His protection and favor. George Washington, Oct. 3, 1789, Proclaiming a Day of Prayer & Thanksgiving
We have been assured, Sir, in the Sacred Writings, that ‘except the Lord build the House, they labor in vain that build it.’ I firmly believe this; and I also believe that without His concurring aid we shall succeed in this political building no better than the builders of Babel.” Ben Franklin, Constitutional Convention, June 28, 1787
God who gave us life gave us liberty. And can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are a gift of God? That they are not to be violated but with His wrath? Indeed, I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that His justice cannot sleep forever. Thomas Jefferson, 1781
I have a tender reliance on the mercy of the Almighty; through the merits of the Lord Jesus Christ. I am a sinner. I look to Him for mercy; pray for me. Alexander Hamilton, Last dying words, July 12, 1804. Alex is the Founding Father, a little giant.
U.S. Supreme Court Decision, 1892 – Our Laws and our institutions must necessarily be based upon the teachings of the Redeemer of Mankind. It is impossible that it should be otherwise; and in this sense and to this extent, our civilization and our institutions are emphatically Christian.
Here is what has happened to America since prayer was removed from the public schools in 1962: Sat Scores (Combined Math and Verbal Scores) down 10%, Teen Suicide (15-19 year-olds) up 450%, Child abuse up 2,300%, Illegal Drugs up 6,000%, Criminal Arrests of Teens (14-17 year-olds) up 150%, Divorce up 350%, Births to Unmarried Girls (15-19 year-olds) up 500%. All of the above is from a large flyer by
Traditional Values Coalition – P.O. Box 97088, Washington, D.C. 20090-7088
George H. Kubeck, [Posted on the blog – www.cinopsbegone.com on Mon. 7/11/11]
How the Republicans Stole Christmas
[Posted on the blog on Mon. July 11, 2011] Sunday, Jan. 15, 2006
Chapter 1 – Separation of Church and State (cont’d)
Our American Vietnamese citizens and immigrants know all about reeducation camps. They and their relatives have experienced it in Communist Vietnam. The same can be said for our Americans of Cuban and Korean descent.
This is what Bill Press’s book is all about. It is a reeducation and brainwashing book for practicing and non-practicing Catholics, particularly if one does not have a deep knowledge of our Catholic beliefs and history of our country. As a pseudo-Catholic, Bill’s book is for all readers to change their beliefs and accept abortion on demand,
same-sex marriage, euthanasia and assisted suicide, embryonic & stem cell research, and finally, the over-all secular agenda as part and parcel of our Constitution.
Before moving on to the next chapter, I do not believe that the Founding Fathers supported an absolute wall of separation between Church and State. Their words speak for themselves.
It is the duty of all nations to acknowledge the Providence of Almighty God, to obey His will, to be grateful for His benefits, and to humbly implore His protection and favor. George Washington, Oct. 3, 1789, Proclaiming a Day of Prayer & Thanksgiving
We have been assured, Sir, in the Sacred Writings, that ‘except the Lord build the House, they labor in vain that build it.’ I firmly believe this; and I also believe that without His concurring aid we shall succeed in this political building no better than the builders of Babel.” Ben Franklin, Constitutional Convention, June 28, 1787
God who gave us life gave us liberty. And can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are a gift of God? That they are not to be violated but with His wrath? Indeed, I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that His justice cannot sleep forever. Thomas Jefferson, 1781
I have a tender reliance on the mercy of the Almighty; through the merits of the Lord Jesus Christ. I am a sinner. I look to Him for mercy; pray for me. Alexander Hamilton, Last dying words, July 12, 1804. Alex is the Founding Father, a little giant.
U.S. Supreme Court Decision, 1892 – Our Laws and our institutions must necessarily be based upon the teachings of the Redeemer of Mankind. It is impossible that it should be otherwise; and in this sense and to this extent, our civilization and our institutions are emphatically Christian.
Here is what has happened to America since prayer was removed from the public schools in 1962: Sat Scores (Combined Math and Verbal Scores) down 10%, Teen Suicide (15-19 year-olds) up 450%, Child abuse up 2,300%, Illegal Drugs up 6,000%, Criminal Arrests of Teens (14-17 year-olds) up 150%, Divorce up 350%, Births to Unmarried Girls (15-19 year-olds) up 500%. All of the above is from a large flyer by
Traditional Values Coalition – P.O. Box 97088, Washington, D.C. 20090-7088
George H. Kubeck, [Posted on the blog – www.cinopsbegone.com on Mon. 7/11/11]
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