Grumpa Joe is busy developing the 2012 Monet Vision, and is taking a garden walk-about. He will rejoin the community when the cirsium vulgare, cirsium arvense, and terrorist Wabbits are in check.
A very good friend and colleague sent me this YouTube presentation by a priest in Indiana. Father Sammie L Maletta presents a super passionate homily on the evils of government mandated reproductive care. His point is simple, if we as Catholics accept this mandate we give up our first amendment rights to freedom of religion. We cannot nor will not stand for any regression of our liberties. I’ve noticed that democrat pundits argue that Catholics are being hypocritical about abortion and the use of birth control, and that hypocritical Catholics are not in a position to excuse themselves from forced payment for such. What role does the government have in judging the morality of Catholics? What does committing sin have to do with the freedom to practice the religion we choose? Does it mean that the government is now the sole judge of our moral conduct? Will I have to confess my sins to Obama or his bureaucratic minions? This is not just an attack on Catholics it is an attack on all christian faiths. It is another excuse to implement sharia law and to convert the infidel.
The man and his party have to go. If we do not send him packing by an overwhelming majority landslide vote, we deserve everything he gives us.
Listen to this homily, it will make you shiver with angst.
There are some very special people in my life who are totally committed to healthcare reform. I disagree with their opinions about the efficacy of Obama Care. It is a senseless stupid pile of paper designed to take power, and to eliminate liberty from America. Healthcare is not a right, it is a gift to us from the millions of compassionate workers who serve humanity with a desire to limit our pain and misery. They do not educate themselves for 12 years to be told by a brain-dead bureaucrat in Washington how to do the job.
The Founding Fathers did not stick their necks out to see successors take away the liberties they fought so hard to establish.
“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are the Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness. . . .”
I’m not in much of a mood to write today, so I’ll let the picture relate the story. I believe graphics tell a story much better than written words. Pictures are much more effective.
By the way, the title I gave this post is Progressive BS, the only rights we have are to Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness.