Vatican Cardinal Burke: ‘We’re well on the way’ to Christian persecution in the U.S

[ivebeenshown]

The First Amendment is as good as dead when Our Creator is removed from it.

 

[incense]

A government program which excludes gays and lesbians from adoption is unjust discrimination. That program exists to serve the entire public. To the extent that an agency is acting as a government provider of adoption services, it needs to serve the entire public.

There’s a belief in America that as long as you don’t take government money, you’ll be okay. They wont’ interfere. Because of this belief, people are willing to forgo any rights or privileges to government programs. So far, so good. Mostly. Too bad that you have to fund the public school and the school your child goes to, but at least you have a choice. Too bad that you have to fund an adoption service with tax money, and then the one that works, with your church donation. But at least you have a choice.

What happens when the anti-religious have control of every government agency? Will they still be happy to let you be? I don’t’ think so. I believe they’ll do it with civil rights laws and hate laws.

The time to fight is now. Let the public know that their acceptance of homosexual marriage means that foster kids and adoption babies must be sent to homosexual couples. Most people think they’re just being thoughtful, that it doesn’t matter. And the people who know better aren’t getting the word out. They’re just huddling into a smaller ball, hoping they’re invisible.

 

[Frankie56]

Remember, God knows full well what is going on and who’s agenda is being adopted. He also knows that his enemy has servants in high places.
We all feel frustrated, and understandably angered by the anti religious brigade (not just in the USA but throughout the world) Put it in God’s hands, trust in Him, their day in the Sun will be short lived

 

[mangy_dog]

Putting your hand close to your eyes only covers your eyes, it doesn’t cover the sky,

The Cardinal is right in saying these things. Regardless of the mechanics of how this, that and the other thing happens - it is happening in our time and our presence.

This nation of laws and priviledges and entitlements and rights, is conducent to legal and “justifiable” persecution of Catholcs and Christians alike for the sake of political correctness and inclusion and diversity and a whole other miriad of PC terms of this “new age”.

Under the guise of “LIberty and Justice for all”…the persecution is well on it’s way.

While you’re at it…use both hands and cover your ears also.

 

[Linda_Marie]

U.S. Military to Rescind Policy Banning Bibles at Hospital

The September 14th memo covers guidelines for “wounded, ill, and injured partners in care.”

“No religious items (i.e. Bibles, reading material, and/or artifacts) are allowed to be given away or used during a visit,” the policy states.

“That means you can’t bring in a Bible and read from it when you visit your son or your daughter, perhaps – or your wife or husband,” King said. “It means a priest that might be coming in to visit someone on their death bed couldn’t bring in the Eucharist, couldn’t offer Last Rites. This is the most outrageous affront.”

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“It flies in the face of not only the Bill of Rights, but 200 years of federal law,” said Ken Klukwoski, of the Family Research Council. “This current administration is showing unprecedented hostility towards those practicing the Christian faith.”
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King said he’s been alarmed at a trend he’s seen to scrub Christianity from the military – most recently the decision to remove a cross from an Army chapel in northern Afghanistan because it violated Army regulations.

link to thread on this topic
forums.catholic-questions.org/showthread.php?t=621693

 

[Nec5]

A government program which excludes gays and lesbians from adoption is unjust discrimination. That program exists to serve the entire public. To the extent that an agency is acting as a government provider of adoption services, it needs to serve the entire public.

Ah, but it is not serving the entire public. It excludes abusers, drunks, incestuous couples, swingers, drug users, and other troublemakers from being able to adopt. It makes a judgment based on a “value” determined by itself and or society. Homosexual actions are a choice, one that should be used when screening adoptions.

I could make a perfectly good argument that drunks are people too and some of the best and brightest minds were raised by alcoholic parents. I could make that argument about virtually any class of people and then argue that the government should not “unjustly” discriminate. Who determines what is “just”? We do, or at least we did. The idea that the government does not discriminate or does not “unjustly discriminate” is a pipe dream laced with relativistic morality and a wimpering nod to the intelligentia and social experts who dabble in perversion.

 

[Linda_Marie]

Michael Gerson: Obama’s ‘good-faith’ policy assaults Catholic principles

The process that produced the HHS decision remains murky. The USCCB has filed a Freedom of Information Act request seeking more details. But it is difficult to imagine that HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius was not involved in a matter of this much obvious controversy. Sebelius — an outspoken pro-choice Catholic — has a long history of conflict with Catholic authorities.

Broadly applied, the HHS policy would amount to systemic anti-Catholic bias in government programs. And the provocation is one in a series. HHS has drawn conscience protections so narrowly that Catholic colleges, universities and hospitals — any Catholic institution that employs and serves non-Catholics — will be required to offer health coverage including contraception and drugs that cause abortion.

In global health grants, new language is appearing requiring the integration of family planning and “reproductive health” services, effectively barring the participation of Catholic institutions. Archbishop Timothy Dolan, president of the USCCB, calls these policies an “assault which now appears to grow at an ever-accelerating pace in ways that most of us could never have imagined.”

Pope tells US bishops to continue to speak up

Pope Benedict has told bishops of the United States not to be silenced by those who seek to muzzle Catholicism in public life, reports the Catholic News Agency.

“Despite attempts to still the Church’s voice in the public square, many people of good will continue to look to her for wisdom, insight and sound guidance,” Pope Benedict said in his address to 20 bishops of New York gathered in the Vatican’s Apostolic Palace on November 26.

The Pope called upon them to “exercise the prophetic dimension of your episcopal ministry by speaking out, humbly yet insistently, in defense of moral truth, and offering a word of hope, capable of opening hearts and minds to the truth that sets us free.”

 

[sedonaman]

I have to disagree with you on that. The First Amendment is essentially worthless now, especially when you throw activist liberal judges into the mix. We have public schools with Muslim prayer rooms, but if a child says grace before his meal or wears a T-shirt that mentions Jesus, he gets sent home. Obamacare, with its forced support of abortion and contraception, essentially criminalizes Catholic conscience. Christians in America have a huge target on their backs, but most of them are too blind or indifferent to notice.

Don’t forget forcing Catholic adoption agencies to give kids to SS"M" couples. Next comes forcing the Church to perform SS “marriages”.

As far as the First Amendment is concerned, it is not exactly worthless. As you point out, it is just enforced on a selective basis, sorta like all animals are equal, but some are more equal than others.