Kerry on Bush’s meeting at the Vatican

Reacting to Bush’s meeting with Vatican officials, Kerry says, “I think it was entirely and extraordinarily inappropriate, and I think it speaks for itself.” Which means, “I’m the one who’s Catholic, damnit! All those contracepting, fornicating, aborting, sodomizing, and/or masturbating ‘Catholics’ are supposed to vote for me!” That’s the so-called “Catholic vote” Kerry is courting, right? These are primacy of conscience types who have killed their conscience. Rather than primacy of conscience it is primacy of the spirit of the world.

CNN refers to Bush’s request “promoting those issues that are part of his social agenda.” You can almost feel the writers of this piece bristling at the thought of the leaders of one of the world’s major religions getting involved in what they see are domestic political issues, not issues of absolute morality. Kerry is reported as disagreeing with Bush’s request on the basis of the separation of Church and State. How does this endanger the separation of Church and State? It doesn’t. What the liberals would have us believe and practice, as they do, is religion has no role in public discourse. It is an argument from authority (the weakest kind, according to St. Thomas); the authority of a document, the U.S. Constitution, whose First Amendment has been misinterpretted and misrepresented again and again to remove religion from the public life of this nation.

The Constitution is based in large part on Natural Law, correct? Natural Law admits the truth of a universal, not relative, morality. Absolute morality forbids all manner of things people have gone through the civil courts to obtain in the name of personal rights. Bringing the Church and other Christian churches into the fray of these moral issues is essential if we are to spread the Gospel, but also if we are to protect our rights.

And lastly, an aside I picked up listening to a tape of Fr. John Corapi: Natural Law also admits the existence of God, reality Himself. To be disconnected from God is essentially to be disconnected from reality. This is a good definition of insanity. Something that Frank Sheed and Fr. Corapi agree on – aetheism and secularism are a form of insanity.