Category: Politics

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.

Can you imagine how John Fonda Kerry will deal with the growing threat of Iran? Editorial on the growing threat via washtimes.com, America’s newspaper and Eric’s employer.

As the IAEA meets in Vienna to consider a European-drafted resolution pointing to Iran’s continued refusal to come clean about its nuclear program, representatives of the Islamist regime continue to threaten the agency. The speaker of the Iranian parliament yesterday warned that members may not ratify Iran’s signature to an additional protocol to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) — something insisted on by the IAEA after it discovered that Tehran was attempting to develop atomic weapons in violation of its obligations as a signer of the NPT. The speaker, Gholam Ali Hadad-Adel, suggested that by pressing Iran to tell the truth, the Europeans were doing the bidding of nefarious “Zionists.” Late last month, the head of Iran’s powerful Revolutionary Guards warned that that the regime was prepared to launch suicide attacks or missile strikes against “29 sensitive sites in the U.S. and in the West.”

Just so you know that Iraqis are neither subhuman nor amoral. Here’s a quotation from one of the Iraqi heroes:

Private Jassim added that the firefight created an even stronger bond between Iraqi (ICDC) soldiers and American Marines. Speaking through an interpreter, he said, “I feel very, very bad the Marine was shot because they are like my brothers now, but I’m ready to go out again. I’m always ready.”

Charles Krauthammer, the Washington Post’s best columnist, takes on the media folks who are eulogizing Ronald Reagan. They “dwell endlessly on the man’s smile, his sunny personality, his good manners. Above all, his optimism….’Optimism’ is the perfect way to trivialize everything that Reagan was or did.”
Eric’s Prediction of the Day: when the Holy Father dies, look for the media to follow the same pattern. They’ll say John Paul helped destroy communism, that he attracted some of the largest crowds in human history, and left an influential legacy of words. The way they’ll trivialize his achievements is by pointing to smartypants Western theologians who think they’re more Catholic than the pope (literally), and the “widespread dissent” from Church teachings among secularized Catholics.