This
is my final appeal to all, generally
to Christians, specially to Catholics,
and particularly to CFC-FFL members.
CFC-FFL is for family and life.
This is what defines us. This
is who we are and what our mission
is. Obama is very strongly for
gay marriage and for abortion.
He represents the antithesis of
what we hold sacred, of our very
mission. To vote for him, when
there is a strongly pro-life alternative,
is to betray one's faith and to
become an enemy of Christ himself.
May
the Lord guide all Americans
in this election to stand up
for what America stands for---a
nation under God, committed
to the weak and defenseless,
desiring a world at peace.
God
bless America.
frank
Denver
Archbishop: "Senator Obama
is the most active pro-abortion
politician to run for the Presidency"
By
Kathleen Gilbert
November
3, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) -
In a recent interview Archbishop
Chaput answered some of the
most pressing questions about
the presidential election, focusing
on the moral imperative for
Catholics to bring their pro-life
values to the voting booth.
Thomas
Peters of the popular American
Papist blog sat down with the
archbishop, who has made headlines
as one of this year's most vocal
defenders of human life among
the U.S. bishops.
Peters
asked Archbishop Chaput why
the Church in the U.S. has been
particularly outspoken on life
issues in recent months.
"One
reason is that Senator Obama
is the most active pro-abortion
politician to run for the Presidency
since Roe v. Wade," said
the archbishop. "He has
committed himself to do things
the Church would resist."
Regarding
the defense of the Church's
pro-life doctrine, Chaput said
the U.S. bishops have realized
that "a quieter approach
to these things has not been
effective ... we have to be
clearer, more precise, stronger
in what we say. We've just had
it."
He
also said that the U.S. bishops'
"Fatihful Citizenship"
document is "not very clear"
and, because it is able to support
widely conflicting interpretations,
should be revised or rejected.
He
discussed the view of some Catholics
who support Obama as the "true
pro-life" candidate, asserting,
"It would be foolish to
say that someone who endorses
abortion as an option and runs
on a party platform that has
no regret at all about abortion
... to call that position pro-life
is really strange."
Archbishop
Chaput, who is the author of
the bestselling book "Render
Unto Caesar" on the integration
of Catholic faith and political
life, said that while he and
the Church fully support separation
of Church and state, "We
don't believe in the separation
of faith and politics.
"Politics
is simply the business of arranging
how we love our neighbor. So,
to say we should separate what
we believe from how we love
our neighbor doesn't make any
sense."
Chaput
re-emphasized that abortion
is "the foundational issue
in our culture.
"Cardinal
George said our country's drenched
in blood, and it is. Why would
you let someone lead our country
or represent your state if that
person favors allowing people
to kill their children? It doesn't
make any sense."
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"Barak Obama on
Abortion" - The Online
Book with All the Details
By
Kathleen Gilbert
November
3, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) -
The National Right to Life Committee
(NRLC) has released an online
book documenting the extreme
pro-abortion advocacy of Barack
Obama, proving that the Democratic
presidential candidate has a
spotless pro-abortion record
in his years as a legislator.
A
quote from Jeff Jacoby of the
Boston Globe features prominently
on the first page: "On
abortion, no presidential candidate
has ever been so extreme."
The
document, entitled "Barack
Obama on Abortion," focuses
its attack on Obama's radical
beliefs, ushering forth a long
list of news clippings, speech
and press release quotes,and
copies of original senate voting
records. The book lets the facts
to speak for themselves, citing
original source material rather
than advancing arguments.
The
book dedicates a chapter to
Obama's rejection of the Illinois
Born Alive Infants Protection
Act - a bill "virtually
identical to the federal measure
... passed by the U.S. Senate
without dissent." Noting
that Obama had earlier accused
the NRLC of "lying"
about this data, they also quote
Factcheck.org, who found that
the bills were indeed identical.
Another
chapter outlines Obama's wholehearted
support for the Freedom of Choice
Act: "This act, if passed
and signed by the President
of the United States, would
go far beyond even the Roe v.
Wade Supreme Court decision.
"It
would overturn virtually all
pro-life legislation, make partial-birth
abortion legal again, require
taxpayer-funding for abortion,
and strike down essentially
all limitations on abortion,
including parental notice and
consent laws."
The
book highlights other aspects
of Obama's radical agenda, including
his objection to a law prohibiting
the transportation of minors
across state borders to obtain
an otherwise illegal abortion,
as well as his objection to
limiting taxpayer funding for
abortion.
To
read the NRLC's book "Barack
Obama on Abortion," go
to:
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Obama
Is For ‘Gay Marriage’
even as He’s Against It
Democratic deception has worked:
most ignorant about Obama’s
radical anti-DOMA agenda
Commentary
by Peter LaBarbera of Americans
for Truth
November,
3, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) -
As a social conservative, one
of the most troubling aspects
of this presidential campaign
has been the media’s (and
John McCain’s) failure
to flesh out Barack Obama’s
“audacious” doublespeak
on the issue of same-sex “marriage.”
Here’s
the question Obama was lucky
enough to have never been asked
in this campaign: What does
it mean to say you support traditional
marriage (one man, one woman)
– when you do so much
to advance the pro-“gay
marriage” cause, including
denouncing state marriage-protection
amendments like Prop 8 in California
as “discriminatory and
divisive”?
Did
you know that Obama has promised
homosexual activists that he
will work to fully repeal the
federal Defense of Marriage
Act? DOMA was signed into law
by Bill Clinton in 1996 and
protects states from being forced
to recognize out-of-state “gay
marriages.” It was passed
overwhelmingly by the Senate,
85-14, with Sen. Biden joining
28 other Democrats in voting
yes. How liberal is Obama’s
anti-DOMA scheme? Hillary Clinton,
a trusted gay ally, pledged
to repeal only part of DOMA.
Neither
McCain nor Gov. Palin has made
an issue of Obama’s extreme
anti-DOMA sop to the homosexual
crowd even though they had a
clear opening. (One 2007 Quinnipiac
poll revealed that a homosexual
group’s endorsement of
a candidate would be a net electoral
loser among voters in Florida,
Ohio and Pennsylvania.) The
result is that Obama’s
DOMA Destruction Plan never
surfaced in the debates and
barely in the major media.
The
Democratic spin on marriage
has fooled a lot of voters.
If you watched the presidential
debates, including the Saddleback
Church event with Pastor Rick
Warren, you might have concluded
that Obama and his running mate,
Joe Biden, pretty much agree
with McCain and Gov. Sarah Palin
on same-sex “marriage.”
That
is a precisely what the savvy
strategists at the Obama/Biden
campaign want you to think,
as they strive to hide their
candidates’ radical pro-gay
agenda and portray themselves
as reasonable moderates on this
wedge issue. Truth is, the gulf
between the tickets is the difference
between saying you support marriage
and actually doing something
to protect it – and NOT
favoring policies like repealing
DOMA that are completely in
line with the homosexual activists’
goal of radically redefining
this sacred institution.
McCain
is a strong DOMA supporter who
will embrace a Federal Marriage
Amendment if he sees activist
judges forcing “gay marriage”
on the states. Obama, on the
other hand, went from supporting
DOMA in 2004 to calling it “abhorrent”
as part of his radical promise
to homosexual groups to overturn
it. Obama is setting the stage
for nationalizing “same-sex
“marriage” (perhaps
under the guise of “civil
unions”), while reporters
dutifully provide him cover
by repeating his alleged opposition
to same.
If
only one major media reporter
would ask Sen. Obama: how can
you say you support traditional
marriage and yet “abhor”
a popular law (DOMA) that helps
states to preserve it? Alas,
we mere mortals have to choose
sides – and most politicians
flip and then flop — but
apparently Obama, The One, is
allowed to embrace both sides
of an issue simultaneously and
get away with it.
Consider
the following Obama policies
and rhetoric and ask yourself
if this sounds like a man who
supports traditional marriage:
-
Obama congratulated homosexual
activists for “getting
married” at a San Francisco
Democratic gay event;
-
Though Obama says he “personally”
opposes “gay marriage,”
he creates a distinction without
a difference by supporting federal
“civil unions.”
Obama told the nation’s
leading homoseuxal lobby group:
“I believe civil unions
should include the same legal
rights that accompany a marriage
license.” Interestingly,
this stance has led Obama to
support a bill to allow homosexual
partners to immigrate to the
United States just like married
spouses;
-
Obama promises gay activists
that he will use the bully pulpit
to advocate for homosexual adoption
of children. Thus Americans
may have to endure the absurd
spectacle of a President Obama
using the prestige of the White
House to defend placing children
in homes that are motherless
or fatherless by design;
Obama said he “respects”
the California supreme court’s
4-3 decision earlier this year
forcing “gay marriage”
on that state, even though it
wiped out a previous statewide
ballot vote by Californians
to preserve marriage as between
a man and a woman;
-
Obama denounced the Federal
Marriage Amendment as a mere
“political ploy”;
-
Obama dismisses a key passage
in the New Testament Book of
Romans and distorts Jesus Christ’s
Sermon on the Mount to justify
his pro-homosexuality agenda.
Considering
the above, is it asking too
much of the media to stop repeating
the distortion that Obama and
Biden support traditional marriage?
Appearing
on the Ellen DeGeneres show,
Sen. Biden eagerly told Ellen,
a “gay-marriage”
activist, that if he were a
California voter he would vote
“no” on Prop 8 in
California. How strange, since
Prop 8 does nothing but reinstate
the definition of marriage as
between a man and a woman. (It
does not affect same-sex “domestic
partners,” who already
receive the same benefits as
married couples under California
law.) Of course, earlier, in
the vice-presidential debate,
Biden claimed to oppose gay
“marriage” —
creating the false impression
that he and Palin essentially
agree on the same-sex-”marriage”
question.
John
McCain blew it by not calling
out his opponents on their “gay
marriage” deception and
their plans to do in DOMA. All
he needed to say was that the
Illinois Senator doesn’t
have the guts to tell the truth
— that Obama’s “personal”
opposition to “gay marriage”
is meaningless because his pro-gay
pledges would greatly advance
the spread of homosexual “marriage”
across the land. With friends
like Obama and Biden, McCain
could have said, the beleaguered
institution of marriage really
doesn’t need enemies.
"For to me life is Christ,
and death is gain." (Phil
1:21)