Beck: ‘Wake Up’ & Join Catholics in Fight Against Contraceptive Mandate
- Posted on January 30, 2012 at 12:50pm by
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This morning, Glenn Beck tackled some of the biggest religious issues of the day. Among them, he covered a monumental debate that’s heating up between the Catholic Church and the Obama administration. The division, as you likely know, is over an impending federal mandate that religious groups cover abortion-inducing drugs and birth control free-of-charge.
“What the Obama admin is asking Catholics to do is to violate what they believe is morally right,” Beck said. “I urge you that, if you are a Catholic, to read this…search this story out, read it and then get involved.”
But Beck’s call for engagement went beyond simply calling Catholics to take a stand. He also encouraged people of all faiths to recognize the issue’s importance, urging them to come together to “assist the Catholics in everything they are doing right now.”
“Nobody’s asking anybody to change their theology or to have doctrinal debates,” Beck continued. “This is about our liberty and our religious liberty to be specific.”
Catholic League president Bill Donohue joined Beck on-air to discuss his take on the matter. Of particular note, Donohue mentioned the rare collaboration he’s seeing between Catholics of all stripes on this issue of the contraceptive mandate.
“I’ve been doing this job in the Catholic League for about two decades and never have I seen greater resolve on the part of Catholics,” he said. “Even liberals who don’t normally get along with conservatives are coming together on this.”
Donohue also had some tough words for the president and his administration.
“I have never seen an administration as aggressive to stamp out religious liberty as the Obama administration,” he said. ”Obama has created a nightmare and why he’s doing it in an election year, I have not a clue.”
Watch this portion of the discussion, below:
“It is a full assault from every direction. We have got to wake up,” Beck proclaimed.”
Watch the second portion of the discussion, below, to hear Donohue and Beck further describe what can be done to offer support to Catholics:
Also, be sure to tune in to GBTV tonight at 5:00 p.m. ET to see Beck confront these issues head-on.
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Comments (238)
cessna152
Posted on January 30, 2012 at 1:51pmMaybe it is our right to “ABORT” the life of a Liberal…since Progressives/Liberals are not rational, thinking human beings. It‘s our right ya’ know….
Report Post »kilnbillyones
Posted on January 30, 2012 at 2:57pmAhhhhh Yes great idea!
Report Post »ShyLow
Posted on January 30, 2012 at 3:10pmWe need to find a way to counter the unconstitional theft of our rights,on a state and local level…Organize all state Officials…and have them say with a loud voice…if these laws were not done by our governors signing on to them,then they are null and void and whoever tried to go around us are criminals…PLEASE DON’T THINK OUR RIGHTS WILL BE RESTORED FROM THOSE AT THE VERY TOP…State and Local…Governors and Mayors…The LEAST will be the GREATEST
Report Post »rose-ellen
Posted on January 30, 2012 at 3:31pmI’m with you on this one Glenn Beck.As a good loyal catholic -how could i not be?
Report Post »Faith1029
Posted on January 30, 2012 at 3:46pmI cannot imagine why Catholics would ever vote Democrat. You cannot be a Christian and vote for Obama. You cannot be a Democrat and be a Christian. Democrats stand for most everything the Bible is against. You either are for God, or you are against Him. You vote Democrat, you are against Him. People of faith, take a stand against this evil.
Report Post »TeaPartyForRomney
Posted on January 30, 2012 at 3:46pmRomney fought for the Catholic hospitals in Massachusetts. The legislature tried to force them to provide contraception but Romney fought to stop it, sadly he was unable to do so with the 85% liberal legislature. Romney has done great things for the Social Issues and people need to know that ( http://url2it.com/lmbp ). He has worked for the conservative social issues more than any other candidate out there. Starting with fighting Gay Marriage in Mass, the first state to allow it and he started the fight in 2003 and fought for 3 years even going to Washington to speak in front of senate committees (Hatch, Kennedy, Leahy, etc) Then in his own state he teamed up with James Dobson, and other evangelicals to fight the legislature. Even suing them with his own money to make them allot his ballot initiative to be placed on the ballot for the people to vote on. A constitutional amendment to ban same-sex marriage.
Report Post »TeaPartyForRomney
Posted on January 30, 2012 at 3:48pmYou know this is why Cardinal O’Malley in Boston and the Massachusetts Pilot Catholic News worked with Romney and defended him on all attacks against him, having to do with the social issues. That is why the Catholic Envoy is backing Romney as well, for the social issues. Mass Citizen’s for Life still endorse him for the social issues.
Report Post »hidden_lion
Posted on January 30, 2012 at 5:12pmShylow-
“We need to find a way to counter the unconstitional theft of our rights,on a state and local level”
Thats called the militia.
Report Post »Ruler4You
Posted on January 30, 2012 at 5:17pmI’m beginning to disagree with Beck. This “IS” one battle in the quest to dismantle America. Yeah, sure its a battle, none the less. But we have to stop fighting from battle to battle. We can’t win being defensive, that’s tactical. We have to have vision. Not reaction. We have to be strategic. Without vision, we can’t get out of the parking lot.
If ‘conservatism’ can’t articulate its benefits over communism then it deserves to perish. Its that simple. I don’t like it, but it really “IS” that simple.
Report Post »jzs
Posted on January 30, 2012 at 5:35pmNot taking sides, but the Catholic Church better not put the issue to a vote. Almost the same percentage of Catholics use the pill to prevent pregnancy as Protestants.
“Only 2% of Catholic women rely on natural family
planning; even among Catholic women who attend
church once a month or more, only 2% rely on this
method. Sixty-eight percent of Catholic
women use highly effective methods: sterilization
(32%, including 24% using female sterilization,) the
pill or another hormonal method (31%) and the IUD
(5%).”
http://www.guttmacher.org/pubs/Religion-and-Contraceptive-Use.pdf
Report Post »TheThirdLittlePig.com
Posted on January 30, 2012 at 5:49pmahhh Christian Saria law!!!! death to the infadels
Report Post »islamhater
Posted on January 30, 2012 at 6:23pmYou want to get abortion over turned? Get a more conservative supreme court. How ? both parents must be u.s. citizens at the time of birth. Obamas father never was. So everything he has done is illiegle and must be removed from history. Yep even those 2 supreme court justices he appointed.Inforce the constitution…
Report Post »Pharmer1
Posted on January 31, 2012 at 10:34amSome of these leftie bioethicists have postulated that there is no moral problem with killing people who have ‘lost all their abilities’. Are they feeling suicidal??
Report Post »cessna152
Posted on January 30, 2012 at 1:48pmSince LIBERALS are always pushing for abortions and contraceptives, we’ll let them pay for it and let them use it. In a decade they’ll be extinct…
Report Post »martinez012577
Posted on January 30, 2012 at 1:47pmHey Beck, Wake up and join the only candidate that will use the Constitution. Santorum is for this type of government control. It doesnt matter if its conservative or liberal social engineering, its still social engineering!!!!!
Ron Paul 2012.
Report Post »AxelPhantom
Posted on January 30, 2012 at 2:59pmSorry, Ron Paul is for “letting the states decide” on abortion.
Either abortion is taking a life or it is not. You cannot be sort of alive or sort of dead (or a little bit pregnant). This is one issue that is black and white no “tweensies”
If you believe an unborn child is a life and that a baby has the same rights to life as a “productive” adult, then “letting the states” decide does not remove the blood stain from your hands by voting for anyone who supports it.
Report Post »PPMStudios
Posted on January 30, 2012 at 3:03pmNope. You’re wrong about Santorum. He’s a STAUNCH Catholic….
Report Post »West Coast Patriot
Posted on January 30, 2012 at 3:10pmAxel, This is another example of listening to the media and not doing your own homework. Listen to Paul here, he is for repealing Roe v Wade as he believes that life begins at inception. He believes that abortion is a violent act against a human life and should be protected by the Constitution. When you have the federal government making laws, you reduce freedoms. That is unconstitutional and we have to get back to our constitutional principles. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ulbVVZgwE0
Report Post »West Coast Patriot
Posted on January 30, 2012 at 3:13pmPPM, Santorum is for big government and government controlling your life, being able to come into your bedroom etc…. Watch here in his own words and learn: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=1Gwwmm-cQxU#
Report Post »PPMStudios
Posted on January 30, 2012 at 3:15pm@AXELPHANTOM
Isn’t it quite the coincidence that all those in favor of abortion, have already been born….
Report Post »West Coast Patriot
Posted on January 30, 2012 at 3:19pmRomney has said he is for abortion until now as he runs for POTUS. If a candidate has to move to the center, left or right or change their position in order to get your vote, they are lying to you.
Report Post »lukerw
Posted on January 30, 2012 at 3:19pmRon Paul’s… Foreign Policy is: Ooh, the World is Scarry… let’s hide!
Report Post »PPMStudios
Posted on January 30, 2012 at 3:29pm@West Coast Patriot
The topic is not about Santorum’s government control. No matter how much you may think, it’s about this contraceptive/abortion issue. Santorum is against the government getting involved in that.
Stay on topic please….
Report Post »West Coast Patriot
Posted on January 30, 2012 at 3:30pmLuke, ANOTHER example of just listening to the media and not doing your own homework. Paul is for a strong Natl. defense, stronger than any other candidate. We spend more money that goes to other countries in our military spending that Paul would like to end and put more money into defending our borders and our country. You should not post lies when you are not informed.
Report Post »http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=beytghoOnBU
West Coast Patriot
Posted on January 30, 2012 at 3:34pmPPM, I believe it was you and Martinez that brought Santorum’s name into the discussion so you can kiss my A$$.
Report Post »PPMStudios
Posted on January 30, 2012 at 3:34pm@West Coast Patriot
Romney never said he was in favor of abortion. When running for MA Governor, he said he wasn’t going to change or overturn what was already on the books. He said at the time, he was pro-choice. That doesn‘t mean he’s in favor of it. It means he didn’t want to upset the liberal status quo in MA.
Stop with the mis-information please….
Report Post »PPMStudios
Posted on January 30, 2012 at 3:45pm@West Coast Patriot
Like you’ve been throughout this thread, you’re only partially correct. Again!
Martinez brought Santorum into it. Kiss your what? …and there it is Left coaster! I knew I’d get the liberal inside you to come out….. Yeah, you’re a real patriot…. NOT!
Report Post »West Coast Patriot
Posted on January 30, 2012 at 3:45pmPPM, I was pointing out how is for one thing at one time and another at another time. Here is Mitt in his own words where toward the end he says he does not acknowledge a pro-life endorsement and he has never been a pro-life candidate. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_w9pquznG4
Report Post »West Coast Patriot
Posted on January 30, 2012 at 3:56pmWhen I am confronted by arrogant people like you PPM, I will tell them to kiss my A$$ everytime. You think you are a moderator or something? Get a life and start researching. There are college classes that you can take that will show you how to do real research and not get all your ideas from the media. You are the one that is sounding half right to me.
Report Post »PPMStudios
Posted on January 30, 2012 at 4:17pm@ LEFT COAST PARROT
I’m not trying to “moderate”. Just trying to keep everything honest.
So you can kiss your own a$$ when you pull your head out of it!!
Report Post »West Coast Patriot
Posted on January 30, 2012 at 4:23pmSpoken like a true liberal.
Report Post »PPMStudios
Posted on January 30, 2012 at 4:31pm@LEFT COAST PARROT
Yawn……. I’m bored and tired of you eating all the bait off my hook…..
Report Post »AxelPhantom
Posted on January 30, 2012 at 4:39pmOn Sept, 22, 2011 at the GOP Orlando Debate, Ron Paul says when asked “ You have said that you believe that life begins at conception and that abortion ends an innocent life. If you believe that, how can you support a rape exception to abortion bans, and how can you support the morning-after pill? Aren’t those lives just as innocent?”
A: “They may be.”
Maybe just as innocent? Tell me Mr. Paul were they tried in a court of law, were they read their Miranda rights? Were they charged with any crime? And yet they were summarily executed.
He continues. “but the way this is taken care of in our country, it is not a national issue. This is a state issue.”
Please explain how saying “it is the State’s right to choose” is different from Pelosi’s “it is a woman’s right to choose”? That is simply using the Constitution as a front vs. woman’s rights as a front.
He says he believes that life begins at conception and then in nearly the same breath turns around and says that it is within the rights of states to decide to extinguish a life without trial and without charge? Wrong, wrong, wrong!
And he said it again in his own book I’ll trust you to look that one up yourself : Liberty Defined, by Rep. Ron Paul, p. 2&6-7 , Apr 19, 2011
Report Post »jb.kibs
Posted on January 30, 2012 at 4:58pmlol, i was going to say that too…
Beck, you “wake up” … ffs…
Report Post »jb.kibs
Posted on January 30, 2012 at 5:17pmlukerw, you are hilarious… trading with other nations so that both of us have something to gain and lose from our civil discourse is Far from “hiding”… the only justified form of force is defense retaliation, or defending another nation who has asked for it and it has been passed through congress (the people).
As much money as the federal government has spent and lost, during these undeclared conflicts, and all of the FEMA camps, which can’t even protect against tornados, they could have built every home owner a nuclear bomb shelter, fully stocked. Also large nuclear bomb shelters in every major city, fully stocked.. that is, IF they are TRULY so scared of nuclear attacks… the fact is, they are not scared of nuclear attacks, because they aren’t doing anything here to prepare for them…
We are fighting these conflicts because we are enforcing the value of our Federal Reserve Notes. What happens if someone refuses to take them for trade? we MAKE them take them. it’s that simple. look it up.
Report Post »West Coast Patriot
Posted on January 30, 2012 at 9:03pmSome of you here do not respect the Constitution or the rule of law and should go live in a socialist country since that is what you espouse to. I am losing respect for the Republican Party, which I have been since I was old enough to vote 37 years ago. It is people like you guys that are ruining our country along with the progressives for the last 100 years. I hope and pray that when this country goes under, you all reap what you have sown, misery.
Report Post »West Coast Patriot
Posted on January 30, 2012 at 9:14pmThis is for all you anti-constitution losers: http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/The-Vote/2012/0130/Will-Ron-Paul-win-more-delegates-this-week-than-Gingrich-Santorum
Report Post »Ron Paul may just be able to pull this off. All you that are against the rule of law, can kiss my A$$.
KTsayz
Posted on January 30, 2012 at 9:22pm@Axel 4:39PM As you know, Ron Paul is a DOCTOR. Not just any doctor but a OBG/GYN. He understands everything one needs to know about conception and life. When he said, “They may be,” he meant that there may be a fertilized egg or there may not be. He understands that a rape victim may want the morning after pill just in case she got pregnant, not because she knows she is pregnant.
Report Post »You need to investigate Dr Paul’s actual position on this issue rather than a debate soundbite, especially since you know Dr Paul is never given time to explain anything.
Some facts: it’s been approximated that 5% of all rape victims become pregnant – far too many rapes and rape-related pregnancies sadly – and that the majority occurred among adolescents and resulted from assault by a known, often related perpetrator; meaning it would be multiple rapes that eventuated in a pregnancy.
All Dr Paul was saying is that there is no way to know if conception occured during a rape and if a traumatized woman wants a pill that will probably have no affect because there is no pregnancy, why not give her that little bit of piece of mind? I would rather a woman take a pill given right then and there than have a women decide to have an abortion 6 to 8 weeks down the line.
I‘m NOT saying Catholic hospitals have to provide this option and I don’t want them to, I‘m just saying that you can’t force all women to follow Catholic doctrine. America is not a theocracy and the 1st Amendment guarantees it never
Mutiny
Posted on January 30, 2012 at 10:13pm@axel, you are wrong. Murder is a state issue. It is not ruled on by the federal government. If Roe vs Wade is overturned, which Ron Paul is for, its forces the states to decide if its murder. Ron Paul believes its murder, but as I said earlier, states handle their own murder cases. So sorry bud, you are wrong.
Report Post »AxelPhantom
Posted on January 30, 2012 at 11:55pmMutiny,
I am not saying it is not a state issue. The states are prohibited from doing it by the fact it is an Inalienable right, specificially enumerated in the Declaration of Independence, which if you look at a law book is LAW #1. “We are endowed by our Creator…” I know Obama likes to leave the “Creator” part out, but it is in there. Therefore, you cannot take from someone [their life] unless yours is in direct threat by them, without due process of law, it does not matter if the state does it or the federal government does it. The states are prohibited from doing it by the fact it is an Inalienable right.
Report Post »If as Dr. Paul believes, life begins at conception, then once the egg and the sprm have united, that child is in possession of a life, it is not yours to take away.
AxelPhantom
Posted on January 31, 2012 at 12:07amKTSAYZ
I have done one thing Ron Paul has never done, felt life inside me.
So that maybe you will understand why I will fight RP to the death on this.
Late in 1987 I was 19 and was raped. In 1988 my longtime boyfriend and I got married. In 1988 we gave birth to a daughter. He has raised that baby as his own and loves her as much as he loves me (and yes he knew it wasn’t his before he married me). If he wouldn’t have proposed, the baby would have been born just the same because I have been a librtarian (not a republican libertarian) my whole life.
It took me a long time to look into my child’s eyes and not see that day in 1987. I held her close and knew that to do right by her as her mother I had to find a way to forgive the man who forcibly brought her into my arms. Many tears, nights where I jumped while on the edge of sleep at my husband’s touch, days where I just couldn’t see life beyond the next few hours. It was so hard.
“Choice” is a fallacy created by the left to assuage the reality of what you are doing when you have an abortion. You are taking by force, that which is not yours to take(someone else’s life); no different what that rapist did to me and two wrongs do not make a right.
If the government is to value the rights of one life, it must value the life of all or it will surely value the life of none. Paul is wrong, abortion has no place in our society whether in the states or in the federal government.
Report Post »AxelPhantom
Posted on January 31, 2012 at 12:30amOne last thing
Perhaps the difference is your definition of conception.
Conception is the fertilization of the egg by the sperm, not implantation of the embryo in the lining of the uterus like you were probably taught in high school (gotta watch those progressives!).
When the embryo is implanted, that is pregnancy, conception has already occured days before. Medically that is the terminology. (I know, been through a bit of med schooling myself).
So the term “pregnancy” is not the same as “conception” and yes, Dr Paul is well aware of this.
It is why the Catholic church is against any artificial means which would prevent pregnancy after conception such as degrading the lining of the uterus (the pill and morning after pill), because at that point, it is no longer separate cells it is a united life and by destroying the body’s natural process with chemicals you are ending the process of life.
So when Dr. Paul says he believes life begins at conception, he is not saying it begins when it is embedded in the uterus. He is saying it begins when the sperm and egg unite, making the morning after pill and most all forms of oral steroids (the pill) likewise the ending of a life.
Report Post »Dismayed Veteran
Posted on January 31, 2012 at 10:48amLife is not a states’ right issue. It is a federal issue. The Declaration of Independence lists “Life” as one of the unalienable rights the Creator bestowed upon us. The definition of LIFE has to be the same for all states.
I think the important thing to concentrate on is all denominations who believe that life begins at inception unite on this one issue. We undoubtedly disagree on dogma and doctrine but we do agree on life.
Report Post »Scott15sb
Posted on January 30, 2012 at 1:47pmThe time has come for all who belive in the God the father to come together and stand up for Free Will, our first gift from the Father. Now it the time, tomorrow may be too late.
Report Post »So whoever knows the right thing to do and fails to do it, for him it is sin.
(James 4:17 ESV)
encinom
Posted on January 30, 2012 at 2:03pmActually, its the Atheists and Liberals that are standing for free will, while the Right Wing are wishing for and attmepting to impose a Christian Theocracy.
Free Will, does not mean follow a 1,500 year old book of myths, it means each individual is free to make their own choice.
Report Post »Scott15sb
Posted on January 30, 2012 at 2:13pmAtheists take a gamble that they can’t win. Even if they are right, in the end, they lose! I will take my changes with God. If I am wrong, it really doesn’t matter who is right.
Report Post »tgthompson
Posted on January 30, 2012 at 2:44pm@ENCINOM
Report Post »Atheists and Liberals our standing up for free will! Theirs and only theirs. They are trying to crush Christian free will and God given rights.
RavenGlenn
Posted on January 30, 2012 at 2:57pmScott: I’m sorry, but as an atheist, I’m not playing a game. Maybe that’s what you think life is, and if so, that is sad. I’m just merely living and when I die, I die. No big deal really.
Report Post »Cesium
Posted on January 30, 2012 at 3:13pm@Raven Right on brotha!
Report Post »spreadthefaith
Posted on January 30, 2012 at 3:15pmIt’s a blessing to have this grab for power during an election year. We still have the power to elect a candidate who respects life, pro-religious freedom and believes that America is good. Rather than having the candidates accuse and attack each other they should be addressing the executive orders that this administration is imposing on Americans. People say that this election is about the economy but if that‘s all we’re worried about than we will become not like Europe but China.
Report Post »Scott15sb
Posted on January 30, 2012 at 3:15pm@RAVENGLENN: I agree that live is not a game. But, I believe I have a soul and that it will continue after my body dies. If I am wrong, then you are right, no big deal. I have considered the idea of you being right and me being wrong. Have you thought about it the other way? What if you are wrong?
Report Post »66 bronco
Posted on January 30, 2012 at 3:42pm@ENCINOM
“1500 year old book of myths”
Your wrong every time you open your mouth about the Bible! The “Dead Sea Scrolls” are at least 3000 years old…. you don’t even get your basic facts right. Just like some other dope…. “the earth’s core is millions of degrees hot.” (Al Gore)
Report Post »spreadthefaith
Posted on January 30, 2012 at 3:45pmEncinom,
Report Post »you are right-there are atheists who believe in natural law..like murder is wrong,stealing is wrong etc..and they are fighting for our foundational freedoms.
encinom
Posted on January 30, 2012 at 4:12pm66 bronco
Posted on January 30, 2012 at 3:42pm
@ENCINOM
“1500 year old book of myths”
________________________________
I was wrong, 1700 year old book of myths. At the Council of Rome in 382 A.D., Roman Bishops assemble the books that would be included in the Bible.
Report Post »TEXASGRANNY73
Posted on January 30, 2012 at 4:50pmYou are right. Just check out roaring lions in the street. One just replied to you. Called Encinom. This not about abortion or pills..this is Booboo Obama attacking religion and Catholics fighting back. This is evil trying to not only overcome good but stamping it out. @Encinom I have my mythical book called the Bible or the gospel (good news) sitting right at my hand. Please tell me where I can find that I care or am forcing my religion on you. Free will means free will. You have it already. I cannot find it anywhere that I care what you have decided is mythical. You are just a man or human just like me (made of clay) and to it you will return (just like me). And that is where our will runs out. Now my Father never promised me a rose garden but He did promise me salvation. I Believe. You don’t. What’s the problem? Actually it is the liberals and atheists who don’t want me to have free will. And actually you even said it in your 2nd sentence…free will means we have the freedom to make our own choice. And ak shu ally you are really kind of funny. My will is to stand with the Catholics..don’t comment back. There is no debate.
Report Post »hidden_lion
Posted on January 30, 2012 at 5:26pmSpread-
Report Post »Why would stealing be a natural wrong? If you are not strong enough to keep it, you lose it. That is natural law. The weak will perish at the hands of the strong, that is the way of evolution. Morality is from GOD, not nature. There is no good reason if you follow natural law to protect the weak, that would be contrary to good evolutionary practices. You don’t want undesirable or weak traits passed along into the gene pool.
freedom4ever
Posted on January 30, 2012 at 1:47pmLocal Catholic Church and school pushed for bo as president and for health care. Got what they wanted and now they have to follow the rules. I was at a mass (last one for me) where the priest was talking about how GREAT it was and even referred it to UNIVERSAL HEALTH CARE – to him and his perish it was so wonderful. The teachers who taught at the school were all for it – if they are for it why should they ask for any special favors? They PUSHED it in church and to the CHILDREN that went to their perish school! I’m sorry they got what they asked for! Even now thinking of that mass with children in it and the priest going on how great it was makes my blood pressure go up! I feel sorry for the ones who didn‘t support him and his health care package but when you preach about it and think it’s great then follow their rules and keep your mouth shut. want to pick and choose? doesn’t work that way!
Report Post »sta
Posted on January 30, 2012 at 2:01pmPlease, don’t leave us now. We need you. That parish did you wrong but there are many others (including mine) that are in it for the good fight. Find a conservative parish and come back.
Report Post »Anonymous T. Irrelevant
Posted on January 30, 2012 at 2:01pmI find it ironic that you unintentionally misspelled parish as perish in conjunction with ObamaCare.
Report Post »The two just seem to go together.
six4life
Posted on January 30, 2012 at 2:04pmPlease, understand that the “Catholics” Obama has trotted out and given high positions in his administration are traitors to the TRUE FAITH. They are his “useful idiots”.
The problem is that the church has been infiltrated for the last 40 years by the “social justice” liberal Catholics, including bishops who have not spoken out in defense of the TRUE FAITH.
Obama’s Counterfeit Catholics
http://youtu.be/uFYCNKi-BhA
The bottom line is: this is against religious freedom and the first ammendment and ALL Christians, Jews, etc….should be concerned. If this is allowed to fly…where will it stop ????
Report Post »srttpatr
Posted on January 30, 2012 at 2:15pmI hear what you are saying. There are many parishes out there just like this one. Yours is probably just like the ones where I reside as they are a sanctuary for the illegals as well. That’s why they support his healthcare. Illegals get a free ride and we get to pay for it. They are having children one after the other at our expense. I burn when I hear politicians saying Americans are no longer having families and that the illegal immigrants are and brag about it saying how much better off the U.S. is because of this. If they had to pay for these births I’d like to see how many births there would be. These churches are hypocrites. I no longer go to mine because of this.
Report Post »Biddle
Posted on January 30, 2012 at 2:36pmbetter yet, find a non denominational church. Thats the kind Christ instituted. and while we should stand up for liberty, thats not what we are promised in this life. See, His Kingdom IS NOT OF THIS WORLD. So there is indeed a place for politics and faith, but they dont tend to go well together. You wind up with a nation like ours, one that “comes up out of the EARTH (wilderness region), and appears as a Lamb, but speaks like a dragon.” And thats a dangerous thing. Bless you.
Report Post »FRED BEAR
Posted on January 30, 2012 at 3:23pmas a Roman Catholic I have to be salt for the world. I have been in your positiion for many years, been kicked out of parishes cause I disagreed with abortion etc.. the key is to never give up. Pray harder, go deeper in your faith. learn your faith.
There are in any given archdiocese at least 1 or 2 more conservative parishes to go to. You may have to drive half an hour. This is what you look for.
1) Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament
2) Confession available for a Priest before or after each Mass
3) Saying the Rosary befor or after Mass
4) Saint Ignatious Retreats
5) Alter Boys, and the fruits being 1 or 2 priestly vocations each year.
6) Fasting
7) the Saying of the Saint Michael Prayer at the end of Mass
8) Religious communities such as Nuns that wear the full habitS
Some Perspective is Father John Hardon, a future Saint in the Roman Catholic Church, said that their would be a need for Maryters for Christ in the persecutions coming soon.
Dont worry, Believe in miracles
Mike
Report Post »spreadthefaith
Posted on January 30, 2012 at 3:36pmObama has given the Christians,Jews, and those that value natural law an issue to unite on. Our country is rooted in Judeo christianity and natural law. Really, Obama should have been more patient and delivered his threat after the election. We believe our rights come from God,not Obama. The Catholic Church may have some of its members betray it but it’s not going away. We aren’t afraid to fight the good fight.
Report Post »mllyjul
Posted on January 30, 2012 at 3:52pmThat was my thoughts exactly. I stood stunned and disgusted during the last presidential election as I received postcard that said, “Catholics for Obama” and I saw people wearing sweatshirts and T-shirt that said Catholics for Obama. THey still supported him after his first official act in office was reauthorizing the ban on the U.S. paying for abortions in foreign countries…still no outrage from the Catholics in my area, then again when Obamacare was passed….Marcy Kapture our representative who is supposedly a good catholic voted for it…hook, line and sinker all of the “good” catholics in my area stood silent and supported this garbage legistlation in the name of “free health care for the poor” well NOW THEY DECIDE TO SEE WHAT IS IN THE BILL AND THEY ARE OUTRAGED. Really? Now that their ox is being gored they are paying attention, now they are realizing their are wolves among the catholic sheep! hmmmmmm Little late isn’t it?
Report Post »kalayaan
Posted on January 30, 2012 at 4:26pmFor sure that parish priest did not even read the Obamacare bill just like those irresponsible and shameless members of the US Congress (both Senate and the Congressmen)…these “USEFUL IDIOTS”…
Report Post »by faith
Posted on January 30, 2012 at 5:50pmWhy would you leave the Catholic Church because of this issue?
That is leaving Peter because of Judas.
You don’t judge a medicine by the people who don’t take it.
Jesus set up His Church (Matthew 16:18) and said the gates of hell would not prevail against it.
for nearly 2,000 years the Catholic Church has been here as Jesus intended. Are there sinners in the church? Yes. Every last one of us.
Leave the fullness of the faith for what?
Leave the sacrements for what?
Or will you be one more of the many who do not receive their Church‘s teaching on their church’s authority; they accept their church’s authority because they agree with their preferred teaching.
Do you accept the message at the word of the Messenger, or do you choose the Messenger based on the message.
Report Post »faithandhonor
Posted on February 1, 2012 at 2:16pmIt’s true there are some parishes that have supported obama and are now complianing, but there are also ones that are fighting back and have been from the start. Don’t abandon our faith because of a bad parish, find one that is good and conservative, and has not flipped sides depending on what they want. They are out there I go to one.
Report Post »smitty1007
Posted on January 30, 2012 at 1:46pmThe jerks in Washington keep trying to put band aids on the economy, but do not correct the source of the problem! A trillion here, a trillion there, a trillion everywhere – bankrupting our country!
Report Post »Since demographics is what drives the economy, I believe that biggest source of the problem is the abomination of law passed by bigoted, immoral, liberal supreme court justices called Row v. Wade. Since the passing of this law FROM THE BENCH, over 50 million little, defenseless babies had their heads crushed and their brains sucked out just because women could not keep their legs crossed, because some found that having a baby was inconvenient or because Planned Parenthood talked people into abortion in order to increase their profits. (They should NOT receive federal funds.)
Roe v. Wade was passed in January 1973, so those aborted would have been 0 to 39 years old. They would have required that schools were built, roads were updated, required a larger energy grid and that at least 20 million more homes/apartments were built. They would have gotten married, had children, raised families, bought a house or rented an apartment, bought clothes, bought food, bought refrigerators, computers, cell phones, books, washers, dryers, dish washers, furniture and many more products that would have caused more factories to be built to manufacture these products and more stores to sell them in.
Now, because of Roe v. Wade, we have had over three years of recession with no sign of an en
smitty1007
Posted on January 30, 2012 at 1:45pmCardinal-designate Timothy Dolan, president of the USCCB, sharply criticized the decision by the Obama administration in which it “ordered almost every employer and insurer in the country to provide sterilization and contraceptives, including some abortion-inducing drugs, in their health plans….Never before has the federal government forced individuals and organizations to go out into the marketplace and buy a product that violates their conscience. This shouldn’t happen in a land where free exercise of religion ranks first in the Bill of Rights.”
The HHS has issued a rule forcing nearly all private health plans to include coverage for all FDA-approved prescription contraceptive drugs and devices, as well as surgical sterilization. These are listed among “preventive services for women” that all health plans will have to cover without co-pays or other cost-sharing — regardless of whether the insurer, the employer or other plan sponsor, or even the woman herself objects to such coverage.
Report Post »The exemption provided for “religious employers” is so narrow that it fails to cover the vast majority of faith-based organizations, including Catholic hospitals, universities, and service organizations that help millions every year. Ironically, not even Jesus & his disciples would have qualified.
During the public comment period last fall, the bishops’ grassroots campaign alone generated over 57,000 comments to HHS opposing their mandate.
Now that the Administration has refuse
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Posted on January 30, 2012 at 1:44pmAmendment 1 – Freedom of Religion, Press, Expression. Ratified 12/15/1791. Note
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
so much for Obama being a constitutional professor… he can’t even get past the 1st Amendment… his student should their tuition back… OMG12 (OBAMA MUST GO 2012)
Report Post »encinom
Posted on January 30, 2012 at 2:01pmThere is nothing here that violates the Establishment Clause. The priest have their knickers in a bunch cause they are being told that they have to cover the medical services of their female employees.
Where was the Bill Donohue’s outrage when priests were having their way with alterboys and the Bishops were covering it up? His outrage was directed at the victims and the reporters for covering the story.
“Catastrophe was only narrowly averted in 2009 when a 27-year-old, 11-weeks-pregnant patient in Arizona staggered into the emergency room of St. Joseph’s Hospital and Medical Center in Phoenix with such severe pulmonary hypertension that her doctors determined she would die without an immediate abortion. The ethics committee voted to break hospital policy and advise the woman of her option of a lifesaving abortion. The woman chose to have doctors terminate the pregnancy.
But when the bishop overseeing the Phoenix diocese heard about this, he declared that St. Joseph’s could no longer be a Catholic institution unless it agreed to follow Catholic “moral teachings.” The Bishop forbade Catholic Mass in the hospital’s chapel and excommunicated Sister Margaret McBride — the only nun on the ethics committee.” Read more: http://www.care2.com/causes/treatment-denied.html#ixzz1kyB7QsyD
These old men have no place in the world today, let alone making medical decisions.
Report Post »sta
Posted on January 30, 2012 at 2:05pmEncinom – I had blood pressure that was at dangerous levels through my pregnancy. It can be controlled with drugs that do not cross the placenta. Don’t drink the Kool-Aid. Oh and spellcheck is also your friend.
Report Post »YAHSHUARULES
Posted on January 30, 2012 at 2:58pmObama studied the Constitution to know how to destory it. Ever hear of “know your enemy”? His enemy is the Constitution and that is why he majored in it. It is obvious that only someone with such hatred and vitrol for all it stands for could be executing the policies he has as he works to systematically dismantle it piece by piece with impunity.
Report Post »spreadthefaith
Posted on January 30, 2012 at 3:59pmEncinom-murdering one person to save another?Who gets to judge which life is more valuable? Do want a human person to make the decision on how valuable you are?
Report Post »encinom
Posted on January 30, 2012 at 4:13pmspreadthefaith
Report Post »Posted on January 30, 2012 at 3:59pm
Encinom-murdering one person to save another?Who gets to judge which life is more valuable? Do want a human person to make the decision on how valuable you are?
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The mother, the family, not some Bishop sitting miles away from.
Christ the Lord
Posted on January 30, 2012 at 1:42pmALL SPIRITS, ALL DEATH, ALL JUDGEMENTS,,.,,. are HERE,.,. THEY ARE HERE, THEY ARE FREE.,m..,. FOREVER I am WITH YOU.,. FEAR NOT.,.,
Report Post »KickinBack
Posted on January 30, 2012 at 1:42pmGeorgetown Univ. 2009. Obama orders all the crosses covered up, even though they were not in the camera view as it was. I believe this man has it out for established religions, and just like any other commie, he can’t stand to look Jesus in the face.
Report Post »UBETHECHANGE
Posted on January 30, 2012 at 1:42pm“First they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out, because I was not a Socialist.
Report Post »Then they came for the Trade Unionists, and I did not speak out, because I was not a Trade Unionist.
Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out, because I was not a Jew.
Then they came for me — and there was no one left to speak for me.” ~Martin Niemoller (14 January 1892 – 6 March 1984) was a German anti-Nazi theologian and Lutheran pastor.
encinom
Posted on January 30, 2012 at 2:06pmThe three groups that Beck and his Beckerheads attack.
Report Post »UBETHECHANGE
Posted on January 30, 2012 at 2:13pm@ENCINOM <troll
1. n. To utter a posting designed to attract predictable responses or flames; or, the post itself. Derives from the phrase “trolling for newbies” which in turn comes from mainstream “trolling”, a style of fishing in which one trails bait through a likely spot hoping for a bite. The well-constructed troll is a post that induces lots of newbies and flamers to make themselves look even more clueless than they already do, while subtly conveying to the more savvy and experienced that it is in fact a deliberate troll. If you don't fall for the joke, you get to be in on it.
2. n. An individual who chronically trolls in sense 1; regularly posts specious arguments, flames or personal attacks to a newsgroup, discussion list, or in email for no other purpose than to annoy someone or disrupt a discussion. Trolls are recognizable by the fact that they have no real interest in learning about the topic at hand – they simply want to utter flame bait.
Report Post »encinom
Posted on January 30, 2012 at 2:29pm@UBETHECHANGE
Can not deny the truth that Beck’s attacks on select groups mimics the Nazis, so you go after the messenger.
Report Post »Hugie 59 PA
Posted on January 30, 2012 at 1:38pmIt’s not only contraceptives that are being mandated by President Obama but he also is mandating through the DHHS abortifacient drugs (the morning after pill to abort) and sterilization. All these mandated if allowed to come to fruition would according to Church teaching violate my conscience and the consciences of my fellow Catholics.
Report Post »HBTeaMember
Posted on January 30, 2012 at 1:34pmThe NEW AWAKENING is coming upon us. God is with us, so who can be against us. Pray for all the people of faith, we will all come together and show the world and this country, that WE will stand behind the Catholic church. It is never too late to take a stand for freedom of religion. One person CAN make a difference, we are all coming together to fight evil, and the evil one knows that time is running out, GOOD does win over EVIL. Amen Amen. God is always with us. We must fight to save our freedom.
Report Post »Hugie 59 PA
Posted on January 30, 2012 at 1:45pmExcellent! Amen! But we all know how to stand up for religious freedom – by voting as our civic duty which is to express in our ballot the issues that morally guide our lives.
Report Post »vtxphantom
Posted on January 30, 2012 at 1:33pmReligion is the enemy of socialism. I am a catholic, and I wholly support fighting this mandate. Today it is religious beliefs, tomorrow it will be one of your beliefs.
Report Post »UBETHECHANGE
Posted on January 30, 2012 at 1:32pm“Silence in the face of evil is itself evil: God will not hold us guiltless. Not to speak is to speak. Not to act is to act.”—Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Report Post »TEXASGRANNY73
Posted on January 30, 2012 at 2:39pm! Peter 5:8 Be of sober spirit, be on the alert. Your adversary, the devil, prowls about like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour. NAS Bible This argument is not about abortion or pills. This attack by the roaring lion is evil against good—at Christians and those of faith in God. Continually on the prowl to gather the good..it already owns evil. All those who embrace the living God should stand with the Catholics. Thank you.
Report Post »West Coast Patriot
Posted on January 30, 2012 at 1:30pmOur fourth amendment rights were trampled on by the Patriot act under Bush, our fifth amendment rights trampled on by NDAA under Obama, the first amendment rights are being trampled now, the second amendment has been trampled on in the past by Romney and Gingrich. I think that we need to really consider a candidate that would end all of this and protect our Constitution. We just keep sitting idly by, listening to the media and pollsters on who we should vote for. I say enough.
Report Post »TwoLazy
Posted on January 30, 2012 at 1:37pmI agree and what I’ve been say for some time now …“have you had enough yet”
Report Post »justangry
Posted on January 30, 2012 at 1:45pmCheck this one out, West Coast
Report Post »http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NW-e7z7S6VI&feature=player_embedded
West Coast Patriot
Posted on January 30, 2012 at 1:51pmWatch this one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x-BfPozMyKI&feature=youtu.be
Report Post »Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on January 30, 2012 at 1:30pmObama-mandates have to end. This is one more assault on the Constitution.
Report Post »CatB
Posted on January 30, 2012 at 1:46pmObamacare in WHOLE must be defeated .. the mandates are how they get it implemented .. and will destroy Obamacare if we destroy them. Pray that the SCOTUS makes the right decision (in spite of Kagan and her refusal so far to recuse herself)
http://hotair.com/archives/2011/12/19/its-a-date-supreme-court-to-hear-obamacare-arguments-march-26-27-28/
Report Post »West Coast Patriot
Posted on January 30, 2012 at 2:06pmWe need to not lose sight that Congress is involved in this also. We need to clean house and put in candidates everywhere that take their oath to protect and defend the Constitution seriously.
Report Post »ZeldaZick
Posted on January 30, 2012 at 1:29pmI’ve been waiting for the White House to make an error and over step. I thought it would come when they attempt to outlaw our guns. This works just as well however.
Talk about kicking over a hornet’s nest!………www.Survivalblog.com
Report Post »bigfatslob
Posted on January 30, 2012 at 1:25pmWhy do we always let the left frame the arguement ???? The law would require providing contraception AND “The morning after” ABORTION pill ( Note, this is NOT contraception, it is abortion as it kills the fetus after creation ). So lets all call it “THE ABORTION PILL” so all know what it truly is.
Report Post »CatB
Posted on January 30, 2012 at 1:50pmLIke calling being PRO-Abortion .” pro-choice “.. it is to sanitize what it really is. Everyone has choice before conception in all but a very very few situations.
Report Post »hi
Posted on January 30, 2012 at 1:53pmHow about calling it “The Baby Killer Pill?”
Report Post »The_Jerk
Posted on January 30, 2012 at 1:24pmThe Catholic church has long supported the teachings of Marxism and Open Society principles. Those chickens are coming home to roost.
Report Post »sta
Posted on January 30, 2012 at 2:09pmDidn’t you read or hear ANYTHING Beck said?
Stop standing on the sidelines doing a happy dance that those evil Catholics finally get theirs.
YOU will be next.
Report Post »lel2007
Posted on January 30, 2012 at 1:22pm“All that is required for evil to prevail is for good men to do nothing.” ~ Edmund Burke
Report Post »Stoic one
Posted on January 30, 2012 at 1:15pmThe administration seems to think they have the upper hand; which is either very chilling – or laughable. It depends on whether we really are still free or in fact a police state that has not yet bared it’s teeth.
Report Post »justangry
Posted on January 30, 2012 at 1:28pmI’m guessing the latter. It makes no sense. Why would he disenfranchise Catholics? I thought a large number of his base, the hispanics, were mostly Catholic. I dunno.
Report Post »noguilt
Posted on January 30, 2012 at 1:12pmFinally, the Catholic Church is taking a stand. My husband and I stopped going to our church when it was clear that the priest and many in the congregation were Obama supporters. They began preaching Social Justice as a way to ignore that Obama was pro-abortion. They tried to have us overlook his abortion stance in favor of his socialistic ideas to spread the wealth. I hope this change is not too late!!
Report Post »TXPilot
Posted on January 30, 2012 at 1:17pmObama and all his truly evil buddies are trying to decrease the value of human life to the point that it becomes a non-issue……Maybe, it is to prepare us for when they usher in the death panels and gas chambers?……I’d say that is the case.
Report Post »AndYetItMoves
Posted on January 30, 2012 at 1:18pmYawn. 100 years from now catholicism will no longer exist. This debate will likely still exist, but hopefully with the delirious religious rhetoric a thing of the past.
Report Post »Locked
Posted on January 30, 2012 at 1:33pm@Andy
” 100 years from now catholicism will no longer exist.”
How do you figure? Catholicism is still the largest denomination in Christianity; I don’t see it disappearing any time soon.
Report Post »ZeldaZick
Posted on January 30, 2012 at 1:36pm@ANDYETITMOVES
Report Post »How do you know what will take place in 100 years, 50, 25, next year? The Church has been around for 2,000 years my friend, my money in on the (Christian) Church.
AndYetItMoves
Posted on January 30, 2012 at 2:03pmIf you haven’t noticed things change pretty quickly these days (anyone still have a CD collection?), I would venture to say that between the child abuse, the conviction that wearing a condom is slightly worse than contracting HIV, and the deplorable, murderous history of the catholic church, people are starting to catch on.
Report Post »A few concise google searches are pretty much all it takes to disprove the existence of god, this was not the case 20 years ago.
FRED BEAR
Posted on January 30, 2012 at 4:05pmRoaman Catholics will be the last ones standing..so we have built Life on the Rock..even if some or most of us will be martyrs.
Report Post »proliance
Posted on January 30, 2012 at 9:48pmGuys, it is the Catholic Church, not Roman Catholic. And the Church is not a denomination, it is the “one, holy, catholic and apostolic church.”
Report Post »lukerw
Posted on January 30, 2012 at 1:12pmNO to Mandates… and Dictatorship!
Report Post »Steelhead
Posted on January 30, 2012 at 1:10pmdo you have any idea how many Catholic girls take the pill? lots.that why they don’t have huge families any more
Report Post »Stoic one
Posted on January 30, 2012 at 1:16pmThat is an individual choice, not a government mandate.
Report Post »riverdog1
Posted on January 30, 2012 at 1:20pm@stoic. there is no goverment madate for women to take birth control. none
Report Post »Steelhead
Posted on January 30, 2012 at 1:24pmstoic -absolutely , no one forces them to use contraception they do it on their own so what is really going to change
Report Post »lel2007
Posted on January 30, 2012 at 1:24pmCatholic girls do not determine Catholic Church doctrine. The majority elected obama, that doesn’t make his any less evil.
Report Post »lel2007
Posted on January 30, 2012 at 1:25pmSteelhead indeed.
Report Post »Steelhead
Posted on January 30, 2012 at 1:32pmlel- catholic girls already violate church doctrine by their own free will
Report Post »KickinBack
Posted on January 30, 2012 at 1:37pmdo you have any idea how many Catholic girls take the pill? lots.that why they don’t have huge families any more
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Nice logic. Lacking proof of course. Then again, libby’s are always lacking.
sta
Posted on January 30, 2012 at 2:13pmHow do you know that unless you are staring into their bedrooms?
Natural Family Planning is not the old rhythm method. The woman takes her temperature to find out when she is ovulating or uses a test to find the same. It is as accurate as using condoms.
Not all Catholics with small families are on BC pills.
Report Post »PPMStudios
Posted on January 30, 2012 at 3:08pm@RIVERDOG1
I believe that’s his point.
The Church and Beck‘s point is that you can’t force the Church or tax payers for that matter to pay or provide something they vehemently disagree with; Whether it’s a personal belief or the Church doctrine.
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