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Senator Obama Is Not A Catholic Voter’s Choice
“Do not judge by appearances, but judge with right judgment.” John 7:24

Senator Barack Obama is not a loving, caring Christian. His voting record and his stance on important issues show his true, selfish, nature.

from Senator Obama’s web site:
http://obama.senate.gov/podcast/060628-call_to_renewal_1/

“I think that we should put more of our tax dollars into educating poor girls and boys. I think that the work that Marian Wright Edelman has done all her life is absolutely how we should prioritize our resources in the wealthiest nation on earth. I also think that we should give them the information about contraception that can prevent unwanted pregnancies, lower abortion rates, and help assure that that every child is loved and cherished.” (This statement shows a lack of caring and love for the poor. For more information: Physicians For Life)

“But the reason the doctor was considering not voting for me was not simply my position on abortion. Rather, he had read an entry that my campaign had posted on my website, which suggested that I would fight “right-wing ideologues who want to take away a woman’s right to choose.”"
(Again, showing a lack of love for women.)

(This is a man who cares for… what(?), certainly not love of his fellow man.)
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also from page: http://obama.senate.gov/speech/060628-call_to_renewal/

“But what they didn’t understand, however, was that I had to take Mr. [Alan] Keyes seriously, for he claimed to speak for my religion, and my God. He claimed knowledge of certain truths.

Mr. Obama says he’s a Christian, he was saying, and yet he supports a lifestyle that the Bible calls an abomination.

Mr. Obama says he’s a Christian, but supports the destruction of innocent and sacred life.

And so what would my supporters have me say? How should I respond? Should I say that a literalist reading of the Bible was folly? Should I say that Mr. Keyes, who is a Roman Catholic, should ignore the teachings of the Pope?

Unwilling to go there, I answered with what has come to be the typically liberal response in such debates - namely, I said that we live in a pluralistic society, that I can’t impose my own religious views on another, that I was running to be the U.S. Senator of Illinois and not the Minister of Illinois.”

(So, Senator Obama admits that he is for a “lifestyle” that is opposed to the “Bible” actually a lifestyle opposed to LOVE and that he is opposed to the teachings of the Catholic Church.)

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http://www.ontheissues.org/Social/Barack_Obama_Abortion.htm

from Source: 2008 Democratic Compassion Forum at Messiah College Apr 13, 2008:

“Undecided on whether life begins at conception
Q: Do you personally believe that life begins at conception?
A: This is something that I have not come to a firm resolution on. I think it’s very hard to know what that means, when life begins. Is it when a cell separates? Is it when the soul stirs? So I don’t presume to know the answer to that question. What I know is that there is something extraordinarily powerful about potential life and that that has a moral weight to it that we take into consideration when we’re having these debates.”
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http://www.ontheissues.org/Social/Barack_Obama_Abortion.htm

Expand access to contraception; reduce unintended pregnancy
AT A GLANCE
Reproductive Choice: Obama has been a consistent champion of reproductive choice and will make preserving a women’s right to choose under Roe v. Wade a priority as president. Obama also supports expanded access to contraception, health information and preventive services to reduce unintended pregnancies.
OBAMA’S PLAN
Protecting a Women’s Right to Choose: Obama will make safeguarding women’s rights under Roe v. Wade a priority. He opposes any constitutional amendment to overturn that decision.
Reducing Unintended Pregnancy: Obama will work to reduce unintended pregnancy by guaranteeing equity in contraceptive coverage, providing sex education, and offering rape victims accurate information about emergency contraception.
OBAMA RECORD
Throughout his career, in both the Illinois Senate & the US Senate, Obama has stood up for a women’s right to choose, consistently earning 100% ratings from pro-choice groups.
Source: Campaign booklet, “Blueprint for Change”, p. 35-36 Feb 2, 2008

Rated 100% by NARAL on pro-choice votes in 2005, 2006 & 2007
Sen. Obama received the following scores on NARAL Pro-Choice America’s Congressional Record on Choice.
2007: 100 percent
2006: 100 percent
2005: 100 percent

Voted against banning partial birth abortion
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on Homosexuality
(He actually misuses the Bible!)

While, on his own web site, he states that people should use non religious support for their stance and then he changes his own stance by using, excuse me, I mean he changes his own position by “MIS”using the Bible to prove his point!
from his web site: “This brings me to my second point. Democracy demands that the religiously motivated translate their concerns into universal, rather than religion-specific, values. It requires that their proposals be subject to argument, and amenable to reason. I may be opposed to abortion for religious reasons, but if I seek to pass a law banning the practice, I cannot simply point to the teachings of my church or evoke God’s will. I have to explain why abortion violates some principle that is accessible to people of all faiths, including those with no faith at all.”
(It is a hard thing for me to trust a man who can not follow his own advice.)

from Catholic news agency:
http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/new.php?n=11991

“”I don’t think it [a same-sex union] should be called marriage, but I think that it is a legal right that they should have that is recognized by the state,” said Obama. “If people find that controversial then I would just refer them to the Sermon on the Mount, which I think is, in my mind, for my faith, more central than an obscure passage in Romans.”"

(ME - Philip Turgati - www.iamonetruth.com)
If the Senator cared at all about those that consider themselves homosexual he would tell them the truth, in a loving, caring way. That being, that while a man can love a man and a woman can love a woman, erotic love between them is unnatural by simply looking at nature. While the bodies of men and women were naturally meant to compliment one another… that isn’t the case with the gay orientation. It is simple “common sense”. Something that seems to be sadly lacking in a selfish world.

“So you must realize that the LORD, your God, disciplines you even as a man disciplines his son.” [Deuteronomy 8:5]

“for whom the Lord loves, he disciplines; he scourges every son he acknowledges.” [Hebrews 12:6]

I just read in an article about Dion DiMucci, some of you remember, Dion and The Belmonts, “The Wanderer” & “Run Around Sue”, about him coming home to God in The Catholic Church.

I quote the article and Dion;

“The story of DiMucci’s rise and fall, conversion and return to the Catholic Church is rare in American popular culture in that on the way back he didn’t stop at the celebrity church of tolerance.

Some of these people worship at the altar of tolerance. They say that means you love people. But it’s not love. To me, the grown-ups tell you what’s wrong. Real grown-ups will disapprove of something their kid does but loves him totally,” DiMucci said.”

(end from article in “The Catholic World Report” March 2008)

People will say on hearing the Scripture; “for whom the Lord loves, he disciplines”, “I want the love but not the discipline”. However, they are mistaken the love is the discipline… they are one and the same… inseparable.

Discipline leads to “obedience”.

I hear all the time how people have a “problem with the Catholic Church”, they claim that their problem isn’t with God, because The Church gives them God’s Laws in easy and not-so-easy to digest sound bites. I hear this from those within The Church and those outside equally.St. Paul would disagree, when he uses the term in his Letter to the Romans chapters 1 & 16, “obedience of faith”. He starts his Letter with this term and to make sure his children do not forget ends his teaching with it. [Romans 1:5 & 16:26]Faith in God means that we believe He loves us and it means that we are disciplined.

A good friend sent me an email with a link to Sen. Obama’s speech on Race in America.

I sent the following reply. 

Hi! It is always good to hear from you.

I appreciate the email. It takes some courage to stand up for what we believe is right.
While I listened to the whole speech as best I could, I could not help seeing the direct correlation of Senator Obama’s issue on race and that of abortion.

He started his speech with our Nation’s “Founding Father’s” and the drawing up and signing of The Declaration of Independence. Declaring our Nation’s freedom from the oppression of the mighty power of England. We had no voice, under their yoke.

He mentioned, something that I didn’t know, that being, at the drawing up of “The Declaration” our Founding Fathers put off the question of slavery for 20 yrs. Many hearing his remarks would think that was a mistake.

That reminded me of the signing of Roe Vs. Wade. The Supreme Court put off the question of when human life begins.

Common Sense would dictate that the Justices should have answered that question first. Then, once the issue is clear, they can make an informed decision.

His speech was on Race in America. I found many of his remarks “fit” the abortion issue. I will only share a few here. Sen. Obama stated; “Race is an issue that we [America] simply can not ignore!”

Common Sense would say; “Abortion, that is, the plight of the unborn, is an issue that America can simply not afford to ignore!”
Just because Americans have the POWER to claim that a whole “class” of human beings are not human and do not deserve to live, that fact, does not give us the right to do so!

Sen. Obama draws his speech to a close by quoting a teaching of “the religions of the world”; “Do unto others as you would have others do unto you!”

I agree.

There would be no need to put yourself in danger.

Now, it would be different if you ran out into speeding traffic to save a child that is in the road and as you go, you ask God to help you… THAT WOULD BE BOTH LOVING, PRUDENT & COURAGEOUS.]   (CCC 1808 FORTITUDE or COURAGE = It disposes one even to renounce and sacrifice his life in defense of a just cause.) 

Spending/handling money imprudently, is a temptation from Satan, not an act of Faith.         

The following is a reply to a misinformed ‘post’ on myspace…

You are a loving Christian lady and I respect that… but “Halloween” comes from the term “All Hallows Eve” or “All Saints Eve”. The original celebration of All Saints Eve was in honor of all the Christians that have led exemplary lives and gone before us… you know, the “cloud of witnesses” [Heb. 12:1] that St. Paul speaks of.

The setting is a restaurant overlooking the water in St. Augustine. A meal and good conversation. The lady does not practice her Catholic Faith anymore and is seeking validation of her poor view of The Catholic Church. Perhaps, even, she might be seeking to enlighten me on the evils of The Catholic Church.

She didn’t realize that God, “has a better idea”!

First she brought up “The Inquisition”.

She opened our conversation with; “How about the atrocities that were perpetrated by The Catholic Church during The Spanish Inquisition?”
I think that her question to me could be construed as; “How could I think that the Catholic Church was a loving, caring organization in light of the torture devices used in interrogations, such as the Iron Maiden, by The Inquisition?”.

I gave a brief but succinct answer that I knew a truly loving person could accept.
I answered:
1.) The Catholic Church bases all their teachings on two criteria.
A) Love of God
B) Love of self and love of neighbor.

2.) I said to her that she would agree with my next statement.
I told her that it is unfair to judge a civilization of a different time period by the standards of today. She looked thoughtful, for a moment, then agreed.

I then pointed out that there are writings from that time period; of people who, actually, petitioned the secular courts whom they were brought before for crimes, such as stealing, to allow them to be tried by The Inquisition, because, at the time, The Inquisition was known to be fair and lenient.

3.) I pointed out that there is much misinformation about The Inquisition. I told her that years ago one “anti-Catholic” author put the statistic in his book, about The Inquisition, that 95 Million people were killed. When, in reality, there were not 95 Million people in all of Spain at the time of The Spanish Inquisition. But, many authors who wrote after that book was published used this man’s mis-information without checking the validity of his statement.

For more on this subject:
The Inquisition - “This Rock” - http://www.catholic.com/library/inquisition.asp
“What’s So Great About Catholicism” - By. H.W. Crocker III - “Did this Inquisition of the 13th century strike fear into the people of western Europe? No. Its scope was limited; its trials and punishments more lenient to the accused than were those of its secular counterparts. Inquisitional punishment was often no more than the sort of penance—charity, pilgrimage, mortification—that one might be given by a priest in a confessional.”   http://www.crisismagazine.com/november2002/feature6.htm

Why Harry Potter Goes Awry - Zenit

VATICAN CITY - The Vatican on Tuesday issued a “Ten Commandments” for motorists to keep them on the road to salvation, warning drivers against the sins of road rage, abuse of alcohol or even simple rudeness.   http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070619/ap_on_re_eu/vatican_road_rage

I had a discussion with a friend of mine on the preceding article.

When I read the article I sent him a, little known, teaching from the Catechism of The Catholic Church (CCC), that speeding can be a mortal sin. http://www.scborromeo.org/ccc/p3s2c2a5.htm#II

2290 The virtue of temperance disposes us to avoid every kind of excess: the abuse of food, alcohol, tobacco, or medicine. Those incur grave guilt who, by drunkenness or a love of speed, endanger their own and others’ safety on the road, at sea, or in the air.

Here is what he sent me, in reply.

“BUT to drive recklessly is a mortal sin???   that is sick!   all my life i thought a mortal sin was an XTRTEMELY serious infraction like nothing short of murder. u know something that only the worst of the worst could ever possibly commit. But thanks to your quoting of the catlic chrch “rules” i feel “mortal” sins have been cheapened to the point of making them meaningless.  i mean to put murder, & rape in the same category as reckless driving and adultry is to me just ridiculous and further degrades the chrches credibility in my book.
sorry but i had to say it after u said it was a mortal sin…… all i asked was if ya think the popes driver always obeys the limit and not speaking of emergencies,”

This is what I have to say to anyone who may think as my friend does. When mankind holds the lives, health and welfare of other humans in contempt that is a “grave” - “mortal” (as the Bible puts it, 1 John 5:16-17; James 1:15), sin. If I through my own lack of respect for another person’s dignity and welfare, use that person’s body in a sinful contemptuous way then it is a Mortal Sin. If some one has a contemptuous attitude for those around him and drives recklessly so as to endanger their lives needlessly, then it is a Mortal Sin.

To take human life or to use human life with contempt is a “grave” offense against God!

To quote my friend again: “all my life i thought a mortal sin was an XTRTEMELY serious infraction like nothing short of murder”

Treating those around you as though they were nothing more then a rag to sop up the dirt on your garage floor, is an “extremely serious infraction”!

Here are some other statements from the CCC that may help to clarify God’s teaching.

2269 The fifth commandment forbids doing anything with the intention of indirectly bringing about a person’s death. The moral law prohibits exposing someone to mortal danger without grave reason, as well as refusing assistance to a person in danger.

Unintentional killing is not morally imputable. But one is not exonerated from grave offense if, without proportionate reasons, he has acted in a way that brings about someone’s death, even without the intention to do so.

For more on this subject: Highway to Heaven, DAVID GIBSON

The Light from The Son, hurt’s the eyes of those who wish to remain in Darkness!