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U.S. Ambassador Criticized by State Department for ‘Faith-Based Writing’ Resigns

U.S. Ambassador Criticized by State Department for Faith Based Writing ResignsLast week we brought you the saga of Douglas Kmiec, the U.S. ambassador to Malta. The U.S. State Department recently issued a 41-page report that accused Kmiec for being too outspoken about religion.  The background is worth reading here.  Well now we have this update from the AP:

WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. ambassador to Malta, an important Roman Catholic supporter of President Barack Obama, said Sunday he would resign after a State Department report criticized him for spending too much time writing and speaking about his religious beliefs.

In letters to Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, Douglas Kmiec said he would step down Aug. 15. He told The Associated Press that no one pressured him to leave.

Kmiec was a well-known conservative law professor and commentator before being taking the job in 2009. But a report this month by the State Department’s inspector general rebuked Kmiec for concentrating too much on issues such as abortion and his faith, while neglecting his ambassadorial duties

“I doubt very much whether one could ever spend too much time on this subject,” Kmiec wrote Obama in his resignation letter.

The audit was the second critical assessment of a politically appointed ambassador this year and illustrates the pitfalls that presidents can face when they appoint noncareer diplomats to ambassadorships, often as a reward for their political support.

A February report blasted the 14-month tenure of Cynthia Stroum, a big Obama donor who became ambassador to Luxembourg. It described her service as fraught with personality conflicts, verbal abuse and questionable expenditures on travel, wine and liquor. Things were so bad in the wealthy European nation that some staff requested transfers to Iraq and Afghanistan, the report said. Stroum resigned effective Jan. 31, just days before the scathing assessment was made public.

The audit of the U.S. Embassy in Malta said Kmiec’s “outside activities have detracted from his attention to core mission goals” in the Mediterranean island nation, such as promoting maritime security and American business. It acknowledged the wide respect for Kmiec in the conservative, Roman Catholic country of Malta, but said his articles distracted him and embassy officials by forcing them to carefully review his writing. They upset administration officials in Washington, too, it noted.

Kmiec responded by describing the criticism of his religious views was “especially odd” because his friendship with Obama began out of a common view that “too much of politics had been used to divide us, sometimes by excluding people of faith.”

Kmiec, a law professor at Pepperdine University and a lawyer in President Ronald Reagan’s administration, was targeted by conservative Catholics and denied Communion by one priest for his support for Obama during the presidential campaign.

In his letter to Clinton, Kmiec noted that he advised President George H.W. Bush in 1989 that government audits should focus on rooting out waste, fraud and abuse, and suggested that the criticism of his ambassadorship was in effect a “sting-back.” He said inspectors use the audits to criticize support for Obama’s policies such as his goal to promote interfaith dialogue.

The State Department declined comment on Kmiec’s announcement.

The embassy in Malta has recently played an enhanced role as the nearest European country to Libya. More than 180 Americans were ferried to Malta when Moammar Gadhafi’s forces violently cracked down on protesters seeking an end to his four-decade rule.

CNN looked at his resignation letter:

“With my reputation impugned by the recent … report, I can no longer be certain that I am in a position with my government to have your needs and perspectives heard in the best possible light,” Kmiec said in an e-mailed statement.

The State Department had no immediate comment Saturday on the ambassador’s submitted resignation, including whether or not it had been accepted.

Kmiec, the former dean of the Catholic University of America’s law school, defended his actions in his official letters and statement. He was appointed in 2009 — a year after the “Kennedy Democrat and Reagan Republican,” as he’d described himself in his letter to Clinton, spearheaded Obama’s outreach to Catholic voters in the 2008 presidential campaign.

Kmiec was very critical of the report, released last week from the U.S. State Department’s inspector general, which criticized him for spending so much time writing and speaking about faith-related issues.

CNN describes Kmiec’s resignation letter as defiant:

In his letter to Clinton, Kmiec said the report was based on “unsupported speculation that someone doing as much writing as I have done could not have also been devoted to the embassy mission.”

“The contrary proof … is the strength of our embassy,” he wrote. “Our work is careful, thorough and timely, and I am fully apprised of all of it.”

The ambassador claimed, in his letter to Clinton, that the inspector general report’s authors had “failed to read any of my writing or see its highly positive effect on our bilateral relations.” He also said the report’s assertion that faith-based writings weren’t relevant to his position represented a “flawed and narrow vision of our diplomatic mission.”

The CNN article also looks at Kmiec’s assertion that the criticism may be, in part, payback for something that happened in 1989 — read that account here.

Here is a interview Kmiec did with Stephen Colbert back in 2009:

Comments (114)

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  • drattastic
    Posted on April 17, 2011 at 11:54am

    It is “freedom of religion” NOT freedom FROM religion you damn commies.

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    • Therightsofbilly
      Posted on April 18, 2011 at 2:55am

      I only wish the “damn commies” had enough common sense to grasp what you just said.

      Such a simple statement, yet so far over their heads.

      I guess it depends on what their definition of “of’ is.

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  • swimmer1940
    Posted on April 17, 2011 at 11:43am

    Any person of true ethical or Christian faith who is dumb enough to support Obama and his liberation theology/Islamic beliefs is simply asking for an a$$ kicking form those he/she has supported. It’s been stick out your chin time for decent people who supported this empty sack of a man, and his minions.
    Decent, ethical people should run as fast as they can in the direction away from Obama and his policies.

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    • Chicago Ray
      Posted on April 18, 2011 at 1:32am

      Agreed completely. I just don’t get how GOOD people think they can change these people.

      They’re lost and forever in this life. if you voted for Obama in this country, you’ve lost your way a long time ago. There’s never been a more obvious wrong choice than there was between THAT and yes a little liberal but WAR hero John McCain.

      Up to me these people never vote again in this country they obviously care nothing about voting for such a brutal candidate in all areas..

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  • ORSO
    Posted on April 17, 2011 at 11:39am

    The former Ambassador is obviously a hypocrite…. let’s keep in mind who he is supporting in Obama. As a Jr, Senator and now as President, Obama has championed late term abortions.

    No Christian or person of conscious could ever support this unless the mother’s health is in grave danger. The argument about abortion goes out the window ( a collection of cells) when it comes to these late term murders.

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  • Its Gonna Getcha
    Posted on April 17, 2011 at 11:38am

    Tried to figure out if there is an exact quote from the State Department saying he was writing too much, but specifically, writing too much about religion. Does anyone know if that distinction is in writing? As for the Colbert clip, thank you very much Blaze for pulling that up. Few work as hard as Colbert. If all this is piecing together like it seems to be, then U.S. ambassador Douglas Kmiec was having second thoughts about ditching religion in accordance to this atheistic administration.

    If so, it is an enormously revealing peer into how exactly, this administration dissects & extricates their rejects.

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  • Mainer forever
    Posted on April 17, 2011 at 11:27am

    I could NEVER support anyone who was Pro-death like Obllaaaaahhh blah…or Nacy, or Harry NEVER!!!

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    • EP46
      Posted on April 17, 2011 at 3:46pm

      That is the question I had. How could this man be a Catholic and support the PUPPET ? How could this man support for potus a man who said if his daughters ‘made a mistake’ they should be allowed an abortion ?? I do not understand how he can support pro-life positions and support the PUPPET to other Catholics.

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  • papapatriot
    Posted on April 17, 2011 at 11:25am

    This is all part of the secular-progressive agenda that is taking place in America. They feel that if they eliminate God then any reference to “Inalienable Rights” becomes mute. We must stop this Priogressive attack on America. Visit WEBPATRIOTICSERVICES.COM and join with us in defeating the progressives in our government.

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  • ConservativeFeminist
    Posted on April 17, 2011 at 11:24am

    +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

    In contrast, Obama would have given him a promotion had he been writing pro-Marxist literature.

    +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

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  • Ghandi was a Republican
    Posted on April 17, 2011 at 11:20am

    Right- But we can send a “Ground zero mosque Imam” as an emmisary to the entire middle East where he proclaims “America is a racist and bigoted Nation of Muslim haters” on the public dime!

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  • CulperGang
    Posted on April 17, 2011 at 11:17am

    OK so I laid out how dangerous the tpeD etatS is and it never appeared. that in fact MADE my point.
    America you want to know where the enemy is…look no further than the St@@@ D@@t a hot bed of seimmoc since the dloc raw. They are the enemy within. read up on them and the cast of characters that went through their portals. It has been infiltrated by tsinummoc long time ago.

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  • CulperGang
    Posted on April 17, 2011 at 11:05am

    Oh, and BO doesn’t talk incessantly about the “Religion Peace?“ trying to convince the world that his compatirots are ”peaceful” minus a few radicals(FEW MILLION that is.) One thing most people are NOT aware of is that the State Department has been HIJACKED by communist. SINCE the cold war the State Dept has been an enclave of liberals who are communist. It stands to reason that talk of ANY Christian religion will be “character assasinated.”

    Make no mistake YOUR Stated Department HAS been selling America to communist blocks for a LONG time. The State Department is ONE of the enemy within. Start with Henry Kissinger and go down the line. Most people don’t pay much attention to the State Dept. IT IS one of the most powerful and has been so far the most dangerous to the CONSTITUTION and FREEDOM. It is run by communists.

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  • momprayn
    Posted on April 17, 2011 at 10:45am

    I had the same thoughts as most on here have expressed and I’m wondering why does he want to team up with them again? I don’t understand how blind people are – and I’m about the most realistic person around. And how they can be brainwshed so easily. But yes, the Bible warns about all this. And it’s horrible that Consvs./Christians allowed us to get to this breaking point – let it build up for decades. As a Protestant, I don’t understand Catholics – or anyone that believes strongly that abortion is murder, a sin – among other issues that the Dems – and especially Pres. Obama stand for – can vote for them & defend him. I was told that their priests & pastors tell them that it’s the other stuff like “social justice” and “redistribution of wealth” – welfare (helping the poor, unemployed, etc.) – are more important somehow than the abortion or homosexual stuff. Somehow they must believe they (Dems) are more “moral” bc of that? Does not compute. Please — everyone – don’t just bllindly follow and believe what your spiritual leaders say, no matter how “sincere” they may be. I’ve learned most of the time, they’re “sincerely wrong”. Do your own research about these issues in a non-Catholic Bible. Jesus was NOT for “social justice” (it’s “equal justice”), not for “collective salvation” (it’s individual). I’d also take heed of what “Robert Hawk” said. I’ve read encouraging news that the black consvs. are waking up somewhat – getting better anyway. Most Dems really want to keep them “on the plantation” & are totally selfish and liars….only care about keeping their power and control. Please wake up – also all other minorities. If we do, then finally, we can rid our country of this evil & become healthier both spiritually and physically, economically, safer & blessed by God instead of cursed.

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  • kreese
    Posted on April 17, 2011 at 10:43am

    Didn’t I hear Obama say “God Bless America” the other day? Oh well, any practicing Catholic who supports an abortion advocate like Obama seems strange.

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  • silverlining
    Posted on April 17, 2011 at 10:38am

    Please stop any interdenominational biting , this story rings a little red warning bell for all Christian believers and free expression of faith.

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  • sbenard
    Posted on April 17, 2011 at 10:33am

    I remember a couple years ago that a prominent Clinton White House official, Robert Reich, said that NO person of faith should EVER be permitted to serve in any government role or be elected to office. This is the attitude and philosophy of progressives. They believe that belief in God disqualifies a person from playing any role in government. We should therefore not be surprised at this news.
    Mr. Kmiec appears to have turned a blind eye to the antagonism toward people of faith that progressives feel. Another writer on the Daily Kos last year said that all religions should be destroyed by the US government. This is just another example of this pervasive antagonism toward not only people of faith, but of God Himself! These people and their philosophies are inspired by the enemy of God, who is Satan.
    I’m sad for Ambassador Kmiec, but his own refusal to recognize the reality of progressivism was a contributing factor in his renunciation by the Obama Administration. It is also further proof of the hatred this White House has for historical Christianity and for its founder, Jesus Christ himself!

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  • teddrunk
    Posted on April 17, 2011 at 10:32am

    How can you really be a Catholic, and an Obama supporter? I guess it should of been apparent. First molesting children, then Catholics supporting baby killers, and the Catholic bishops just smile and pose for pictures with the same politicians that vote to kill children. Look at the Catholic bishop creeps that posed with Ted Kennedy. Kennedy, Pelosi, Biden, they SHOULD of been excommunicated if Catholicism hadn’t gone over to Satan.

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    • Colonel-Burkhalter
      Posted on April 17, 2011 at 3:01pm

      You shouldn’t be insulting Catholics. Remember they are carrying the weight when it comes to abortion and gay marriage. None of the other churches are openly against these things. Yes, you are right about some of these bishops posing with phony politicians like that discusting peice of trash Ted K.

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    • teddrunk
      Posted on April 17, 2011 at 5:21pm

      Actually Colonel B., that’s really not true, at least in the American Catholic Church. Few Catholic bishops do anything to their members who openly support abortion. I can think of one bishop in
      La Crosse Wisconsin a few years ago, but that’s about it. The Catholic Church was over run with Commies going into the seminary in the 1960′s & 70′s and these are now church leaders that enforce no church laws.The pose for holy pictures with the likes of Pelosi, Biden, Kerry & the Kennedy’s. The Catholic Church is as guilty as those baby killers are for allowing them to be members of the Church.
      Also, that is NOT correct that the Catholic Church is the only church holding the line against abortion. I can think of 3 or 4 Lutheran Synods off the top of my head that would excommunicate someone like Pelosi in a heartbeat. (No, not the ELCA)

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  • kickagrandma
    Posted on April 17, 2011 at 10:20am

    The world will hate you if you follow ME, for it hated ME before it hated you. (paraphrase~~~ JESUS to HIS followers then and now).

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    • BetterDays
      Posted on April 17, 2011 at 12:08pm

      Amen, and “persecutions shall come”, not maybe, not could happen, but WILL.
      No matter what buildings banner you sit in on your day of worship, if you Belive on Jesus you are saved, and therefor my brother or sister in Christ Jesus. Jesus told us straight up that our most difficult battles with unbelievers and false teachers would come from within.
      I can tell anyone here, that if my church leaders were serving Satan willingly I would like to know that. I might be offened at the start, but I would also seek GODs face and truth in the matter will all due haste, lest the report be truth and I be caught up in their sin because I defended a denomination before I did the will of GOD. To many fall away because they rely on doctrines of man over truth from scripture, and thusly chose the way of the world over GOD.

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  • SLR Cameras
    Posted on April 17, 2011 at 10:08am

    Well I for one am glad that he stuck up for his beliefs.

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  • quicker
    Posted on April 17, 2011 at 10:03am

    Liberals are liberal first.To think that guy is a conservative is wrong ,he is at best a RINO

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  • old white guy
    Posted on April 17, 2011 at 10:02am

    did he think that by throwing his lot in with evil he would in anyway change it for the better?

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    • texanpatriot
      Posted on April 17, 2011 at 11:45am

      The most “Pro-death” President in our history (willing to kill babies born accidentally from an attempt to kill them) joined by a supposed Catholic? I don’t believe it. He sold his soul for an Ambassadorship. When will the true Christians, who are not afraid to stand of for the innocent and voiceless, demand a stop to the murder of these small ones.
      Even my Mom and Dad became Pro-life voters when they could no longer hold their noses.

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    • psst
      Posted on April 17, 2011 at 12:10pm

      Texan said
      “ He sold his soul for an Ambassadorship”
      ——-
      I wholeheartedly agree..
      IMO. he’s a poseur con like Soetoro is a poseur ameriKan.
      Ya know, Birds of poseur, flock together.

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  • Robert Hawk
    Posted on April 17, 2011 at 10:01am

    Are you folks dead?
    This action is exactly what I have been writing about on the Blaze for a while now. This believer in Christian doctrine was scathed publicly not for a disservice to his country but for his belief in Christian doctrine. The democratic – Marxist party is out to eliminate any and ALL Christian doctrine from the United States. Clinton is not a Christian, she’s a progressive, who believes in the doctrine of Marx and Engels. Oh, sure, she may attend a so called “Christian” church but rest assured that the church she attends, teaches the doctrine of Liberation theology, and not the doctrine of Christ. For its through the doctrine of Liberation Theology that the democratic – Marxists have subverted the Christian church systems of the United States.

    So here we are again, at the altar of religious persecution, as yet one more believer in Christian doctrine is offered up for sacrifice by the believers in Marx & Engels doctrine. What is this mans crime? Believing in Christian doctrine? Wasn’t that covered in the 1st amendment to the constitution? “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof…” It appears as though this ambassador is the recipient of unjustified violation of his civil rights as an American citizen. He has the right to believe and exercise his religion, via the constitution of the United States and the US government has no right to punish him for the free exercise thereof.

    But we have allowed the democratic – Marxists to lead our country at this point in time. And they see no fowl with eliminating every doctrine which does not align with their own. Yes, belief in Marx & Engels doctrine is a religion, just as Christianity is a religion. If you read the doctrine of Hegel which Marx and Engels based their doctrine upon, you will find that it includes a spiritual belief. In dictionary terms this is known as a theocracy. Just as Muslim countries mix religious belief with their political system, so do those who believe in the doctrines of Hegel – Marx & Engels. Socialism, Communism, Marxism, Leninism, Progressivism, they are all theocracies which are based on Greek Stoic doctrine. The apostle Paul warned of this doctrine in Colossians chapter 2. Americans should read it sometime. Preferably before they are assimilated into the doctrine of Hegel – Marx & Engels, pre persecuted for their beliefs just as this Ambassador has been.

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    • martnee777
      Posted on April 17, 2011 at 10:30am

      This calls for wisdom. If anyone has insight, let him calculate the number of the beast, for it is man’s number. His number is 666. His name is Marx

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    • CaptGregg
      Posted on April 17, 2011 at 10:40am

      While Kmiec’s religious influence was helpful to BO’s campaign, one cannot help but think it was a burr under his saddle once he became POTUS.
      What I believe is an even more significant point is that Kmiec is reportedly very highly regarded in Malta. That must irritate an administration that appears to make every effort to poison our relationship with traditionally friendly governments.

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    • GIDEON612
      Posted on April 17, 2011 at 10:47am

      @Robert Hawk

      Do you get it?
      God is going to separate the sheep from the goats.
      I detest being represented by the catholic church in the eyes of those who have their spiritual eyes shut. Just as I detest being represented by these types of people that support and put this person in the WH. Whether they were led along blindly or chose to follow along is is just like only watching the MSM all the time and being brainwashed there. If you don’t allow God Himself open the Scriptures to you you WILL be misled.

      This is all going to happen. It WILL become illegal to have a Bible in this country before the end of this age. I suggest, before putting me down for telling you the truth, that you get to know Jesus on a personal level and not an intellectual one.

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    • en2deep
      Posted on April 17, 2011 at 11:58am

      I agree with what you wrote but when you choose to work for someone they design the rules of conduct. He should not have worked for a regime that’s hostile to christianity. He did the right thing in resigning.

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    • Robert Hawk
      Posted on April 17, 2011 at 1:48pm

      The number 666 in Revelation 13 refers to the book of revelation boys and girls and yes it identifies a man. More accurately, it identifies the timing of a man. A man who’s name will be Christ Jesus, only as he is identified in Revelation 13, he is a fake.
      We are given Signs of the end times in Matthew 24, Mark 13, and Luke 21
      Further we are given the events which lead up to these end times in the prophecy of Jeremiah 24 (already occurred) as well as Daniel 7,8 and 11.
      The book of Revelation mentions 4 specific sets of activities
      Seals = Seal the issue in your mind
      Trumpets = Action
      Thunders = Which were not allowed to be written down
      Vials = Punishment (the cup of wrath)
      666 refers to the 6th seal, 6th trumpet, and 6th vial. In all of these, the fake Christ is identified. The true Christ is identified by 777 or 7th Seal, 7th Trumpet, 7th Vial. As its stated in Revelation 13: “And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him whose names are not written in the book of life of the lamb slain from the foundation of the world.” This word foundation is interesting, its katabolay in the Greek and it means to cast down or throw down. The first casting down is written in Revelation 12:4, where Satan rebelled against our Father in the 1st earth eon or age. The earth ages are written in 2nd Peter chapter 2.
      Finally the False Christ is identified in 2nd Thessalonians Chapter 2:3. The word perdition used there is Apolia, which is the same name used in Revelaiton 9:11 to identify the king of the bottomless pit Apollyon.

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  • gothicreader
    Posted on April 17, 2011 at 9:45am

    He gets what he deserves. How can a christian let alone a Catholic agree with the views of this Administration?
    It boggles the mind as to why Jewish Americans and Catholics Americans support BHO and the democratic party.

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    • GIDEON612
      Posted on April 17, 2011 at 10:05am

      Study catholicism, not the doctrine but the history.
      You will be horrified.
      Look at how they were in bed with the Nazi’s during World War II.

      Do this and you will understand.

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    • VanGrungy
      Posted on April 17, 2011 at 11:07am

      The Catholic Church is a product of it’s long battle with islam…

      Nowadays the Catholic Church hierarchy is staffed with quran canoodlers through acquiescence to baha‘i faith as the supreme faith of ’unity in diversity’
      ===

      It’s a spiritual war, pay attention to ALL of the players and we will perceive the roots of the spread of evil…

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    • VanGrungy
      Posted on April 17, 2011 at 11:15am

      Gid,

      Ummm.. no.. 2 million Catholics were slaughtered by the very anti-Christian nazis…
      and…
      http://www.catholic.com/library/HOW_Pius_XII_PROTECTED_JEWS.asp
      The Pope secretly worked to save as many Jewish lives as possible from the Nazis, whose extermination campaign began its most intense phase only after the War had started. It is here that the anti-Catholics try to make their hay: Pius XII is charged either with cowardly silence or with outright support of the Nazi extermination of millions of Jews.

      Much of the impetus to smear the Vatican regarding World War II came, appropriately enough, from a work of fiction—a stage play called The Deputy, written after the War by a little-known German Protestant playwright named Rolf Hochhuth.

      The play appeared in 1963, and it painted a portrait of a pope too timid to speak out publicly against the Nazis. Ironically, even Hochhuth admitted that Pius XII was materially very active in support of the Jews. Historian Robert Graham explains: “Playwright Rolf Hochhuth criticized the Pontiff for his (alleged) silence, but even he admitted that, on the level of action, Pius XII generously aided the Jews to the best of his ability. Today, after a quarter-century of the arbitrary and one-sided presentation offered the public, the word ‘silence’ has taken on a much wider connotation. It stands also for ‘indifference,’ ‘apathy,’ ‘inaction,’ and, implicitly, for anti-Semitism.”[8]

      Hochhuth’s fictional image of a silent (though active) pope has been transformed by the anti-Catholic rumor mill into the image of a silent and inactive pope—and by some even into an actively pro-Nazi monster. If there were any truth to the charge that Pius XII was silent, the silence would not have been out of moral cowardice in the face of the Nazis, but because the Pope was waging a subversive, clandestine war against them in an attempt to save Jews.

      “The need to refrain from provocative public statements at such delicate moments was fully recognized in Jewish circles. It was in fact the basic rule of all those agencies in wartime Europe who keenly felt the duty to do all that was possible for the victims of Nazi atrocities and in particular for the Jews in proximate danger of deportation to ‘an unknown destination.’ “[9] The negative consequences of speaking out strongly were only too well known.

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    • GIDEON612
      Posted on April 17, 2011 at 11:33am

      @VanGrungy

      You are excused.
      I was referring to history, not the theater or revisionist history.

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    • VanGrungy
      Posted on April 17, 2011 at 11:51am

      maroon…

      keep your hate on.. lol

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    • BetterDays
      Posted on April 17, 2011 at 11:58am

      @Gideon612
      To those who understand no explanation is necessary, to those who can’t understand no explanation will ever do.
      I either case our battle in truth, lies not with the believer in the pew, uninformed, not workmen, sheep led by ravenous wolves. I was once in her, I know from personal experience that the everyday Catholic is underfed in the word of GOD because the church teaches that her people can’t understand the word and encourages her sheep not to read the word. I also know that within her are sheep who love the LORD despite their teachers ways, these will be called out by GOD. Much as GOD shall call out HIS people from Protestant church’s which by in large mirror Catholicism in one very important way, Sabbath keeping.
      GOD created us for a Personal relationship with HIM, and how awesome is this.!
      GOD speed, may He that breathed into you life, keep thee under His wing.

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    • GIDEON612
      Posted on April 17, 2011 at 1:29pm

      @BetterDays

      Very well said !
      I agree with you on these matters and just do not like when trying to bring The Truth into light I get more resistance from those that claim to have God and have Him all figured out. I am an avid reader and studier of the Scriptures and I could continue to do so for another hundred years and not be beyond the cover. The Word of God is so deep, multi faceted and timely that it still gives me goose bumps, and I hope that never stops.
      The term Christians was given to people that followed The Way. It means Christ like or little christs.
      We are also to have the mind of Christ. When Jesus spoke people moved. They either away from Him, followed Him or at Him, to kill and silence The Truth.
      It is very easy to see where people fit into these same groups. So in the light of these I count myself worthy of God to be hated by man, and called a hater.

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    • BetterDays
      Posted on April 17, 2011 at 1:43pm

      @Gideon
      Well stated. “For if GOD be for us who can be against us?” And, I know no thing but Christ and Him crucified.“ and again ”I count all things as loss for the glory of the knowledge of Jesus Christ.”
      I too shall go when my Savior calls, and GOD forbid I forsake Him.
      One need only read the Word to determine who the Beast is, but perhaps that’s why the reading of Gods word is discouraged by the Beast? Having a form if Godliness but lacking ( the personal relationship and changing power) power thereof.

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    • Colonel-Burkhalter
      Posted on April 17, 2011 at 2:51pm

      The worst kind of enemy is the one from within! This is a type of traitor hangs the loose robes of belief blatantly around his neck -and twists those beliefs. Take the Gidon guy, he claims that the Catholic church were Nazis supporters –not true. Not only was there no official position, but many convents and monasteries hid Jewish children and helped Jews to escape. Political correctness always twists history and beliefs to suit a given end.

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    • Thun
      Posted on April 17, 2011 at 3:41pm

      @ Gideon

      From Harretz.com…

      Pope Pious XII saved thousands of Jews

      New research has found that Pope Pius XII may have facilitated the exodus of about 200,000 Jews from Germany shortly after Kristallnacht, the Daily Telegraph reports.

      New research has found that Pope Pius XII may have arranged the exodus of about 200,000 Jews from Germany just three weeks after Kristallnacht, the Daily Telegraph reported on Tuesday.

      The research is being carried out by Dr. Michael Hesemann, a German historian who is combing through the Vatican archives for the Pave the Way Foundation, a U.S.-based interfaith group.

      Pope Pius XII has been widely criticized for his silence during the Holocaust and his failure to explicitly denounce the Holocaust, the Nazi regime or to excommunicate Hitler.

      The new research, however, shows that the perception of Pius XII as “Hitler’s Pope” may be historically incorrect.

      Kristallnacht, known as “The Night of Broken Glass”, took place on November 9-10, 1938. Ninety-one Jews in Germany and Austria were killed in anti-Jewish pogroms and tens of thousands were arrested and sent to concentration camps. Thousands of homes, buildings and synagogues were destroyed.

      Hesemann said that Cardinal Eugenio Pacelli – the future Pius XII – wrote a letter on November 30, 1938, urging Catholic archbishops throughout the world to apply for visas for “non-Aryan Catholics” and Jewish converts to Christianity who wanted to flee Germany.

      According to Hesemann, there is evidence that the visas would have been given to ordinary Jews and that the terms “converted Jews” and “non-Aryan Catholics” were a cover to prevent the Nazis from discovering the true purpose of the visas.

      Elliot Hershberg, the chairman of the Pave the Way Foundation, was quoted in the Daily Telegraph report saying: “We believe that many Jews who were successful in leaving Europe may not have had any idea that their visas and travel documents were obtained through these Vatican efforts. Everything we have found thus far seems to indicate the known negative perception of Pope Pius XII is wrong.”

      http://www.haaretz.com/jewish-world/pope-pius-xii-saved-thousands-of-jews-1.300589

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    • GIDEON612
      Posted on April 17, 2011 at 11:02pm

      @Thun

      I am growing tired of you people. But as Paul said,” Do not become weary in well doing.”

      The person you call the pope saves no one, Jesus alone saves. The pope, according to catholic doctrine, is the visible god on earth because the masses are too dumb to believe in an invisible god.

      Stop giving me flack for telling the truth. The doctrine is a distraction.

      Peter, who was not sent to Rome but to the Jews, turned from Jesus while walking on water and began to sink into the sea. The sea is depicted as not only physical but spiritual death throughout the Bible. He was distracted and was sinking and cried out for Jesus and Jesus saved him. Whosoever causes one of my little ones to stumble, it would better for him to have a milstone hung around his neck and cast into the sea.
      There is your message.

      David said that we are not to turn to the left or the right. This means keep your eyes on Him and Him alone, Jesus.

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    • GIDEON612
      Posted on April 17, 2011 at 11:07pm

      If what is being said about a man called pope cutting a deal to rescue so many people were true it would not have been hidden for so long. The need for having acceptance from man and not God is too great in this denomination, and or sect, to hide or pass up.

      The End

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    • Thun
      Posted on April 18, 2011 at 11:20am

      @ Gideon

      You demean my faith in a public forum and then claim you’re growing tired of me? How Christian of you. I’ll pray for you every day when I pray The Rosary.

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  • rmblount
    Posted on April 17, 2011 at 9:44am

    Aren’t Catholics Prolife? If so, how could he be sol Catholic and a supporter of Obama? So religious yet so not.

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    • awizard
      Posted on April 17, 2011 at 10:17am

      @rmblount;
      Umm … do you remember obama was ProLife before he was ProDeath … “You do not know the Power of ‘The Dark side’ … “

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    • walkwithme1966
      Posted on April 17, 2011 at 10:21am

      You do not have to agree with the President on every issue to be a supporter of his – do you? There are many pro-life Democrats as there are pro-choice Republicans. http://maboulette.wordpress.com

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    • dawg of gawd
      Posted on April 17, 2011 at 10:33am

      Catholics? The Catholic church is the great whore. We all know that.

      dawg of gawd  
    • BetterDays
      Posted on April 17, 2011 at 11:38am

      @Dopeydawg
      Get the behind me Satan, for it is written man does not live upon bread alone but on every word of GOD, be gone foul spirit.

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    • Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
      Posted on April 17, 2011 at 1:54pm

      @AWizard:

      I always favored the way Vader handled the matter:

      Admiral: “Ack! thud!”
      Vader: “Apology accepted Admiral.”
      New Admiral: “Ulp!!!”

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    • TheGreyPiper
      Posted on April 17, 2011 at 3:16pm

      No dawg, that would be Michelle.

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    • Sparky101
      Posted on April 17, 2011 at 3:33pm

      Someone asked ‘You do not have to agree with the President on every issue to be a supporter of his – do you?” No, just being dumb can do that.

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  • psst
    Posted on April 17, 2011 at 9:38am

    While he has worked for two Republican presidents and has made clear his anti-abortion stance differs from that of Obama, Kmiec said in his statement that he “would welcome (the president and himself) teaming up again.”
    The above came from the link Here.Note tje word “Again”
    This guy is getting what he deserves.Even after this, he wants to team up again w/ the Poseur.?

    Kmiec, a well-known conservative law professor and commentator, has been a key Catholic supporter of Obama.

    Wow! A well know conservative, he helpet the Poseur to win Catholic votes.
    He’s either a poseur conservative himslef or else he just plain stupid.
    Any conservative w/ sense would have seen Soetoro is a marxist from the start.

    Marxists Soetoro and kilLIE teamed up on his all right.
    I say . he should enjoy what he’s getting. he deserves it.

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  • Professional Infidel
    Posted on April 17, 2011 at 9:36am

    Well TO BAD!!

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  • LadyIzShy
    Posted on April 17, 2011 at 9:35am

    sorry to see him go but at least he pointed out the lies told about himself

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    • Professional Infidel
      Posted on April 17, 2011 at 9:37am

      Also to Bad. Gone because of your thoughts, “Why not abozo”??

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    • GIDEON612
      Posted on April 17, 2011 at 10:00am

      At least he was trying to follow God. I do not condone the pushing of any religion or denomination. We are to spread the Gospel, which means Good News of, Jesus’s coming to save us and His near return.
      We are not to teach man-made doctrines that point and lead away from Jesus.

      Either way this man was in support of what the world recognizes as the church and he was attacked for it.
      We are at the end of the age.

      Pray up, look up, Spread the Word of the Gospel of Truth and pray for the peace of Israel.

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    • GrannyATL
      Posted on April 17, 2011 at 10:14am

      If this man spearheaded Obama’s “outreach” to Catholic voters in 2008, he is a pseudo-Catholic. There are lots of them who have weazeled themselves into high places — academia being primary amongst them. Catholic University of America is a known hotbed of liberal Catholicism as is, unfortunately, Notre Dame; the university that gave Obama an honorary doctorate.

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    • banjarmon
      Posted on April 17, 2011 at 10:17am

      Another blow to Christians from the left.

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    • joe conservative
      Posted on April 17, 2011 at 10:31am

      If he was talking about how great the Koran was, he would be just fine in our crazy society today. This PC stuff only works one way. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oIMRNUGXxII

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    • Cemoto78
      Posted on April 17, 2011 at 10:49am

      Imagine if he were a Muslim and speaking about his faith. In this political correct society he probably would have been held up as a hero and promoted real fast. The PC crap has got to go as it is the crumbling of our country.

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    • kryptonite
      Posted on April 17, 2011 at 10:53am

      No, you couldn’t. You wasted a whole book, bozo.

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    • VanGrungy
      Posted on April 17, 2011 at 10:59am

      only muslims are allowed to talk about their faith… what an unAmerican diplomat.. /sarc off

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    • Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
      Posted on April 17, 2011 at 11:01am

      Indeed it is good he has told the truth in regards to what was lied about him.

      He shows conviction in willingness to stand by his ideals; along with honor and integrity to make the choice of living with the ideals instead of compromising them for the sake of expediency.

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    • Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
      Posted on April 17, 2011 at 11:02am

      Add this to previous post of mine:

      “We need more people of honor and integrity in DC, especially the white house.”

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    • Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
      Posted on April 17, 2011 at 11:11am

      @Banjarmon and Gideon:

      One more blow struck out against anyone of faith, any non-PC faith at the least. This ongoing reign of PC garbage has got to get done and gone (preferably out the window and over a cliff) as soon as is humanly possible.

      @Grandmaof5 (when you read this)

      New item in my gallery, JOY is her name, click the screen name of mine to go there. She will be on the bottom row of the front page.

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    • StonyBurk
      Posted on April 17, 2011 at 11:15am

      I agree I am sorry to see him go. Henry Ward Beecher said it well some years ago –”If a man cannot be a Christian in the place where he is,he cannot be a Christian anywhere.” I add If our mere politicians Diplomatic appointees cannot be Christians where they are then they ought resign. Better to be hated by the world that perishes than to warrant the judgement of God Almighty.

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    • GIDEON612
      Posted on April 17, 2011 at 11:29am

      @Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}

      I don’t have a gallery of graven images. I have God.

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    • BetterDays
      Posted on April 17, 2011 at 11:32am

      “In his letter to Clinton, Kmiec said the report was based on “unsupported speculation that someone doing as much writing as I have done could not have also been devoted to the embassy mission.”

      IMHO, someone one who does as much golfing as the Obamanation does, can not be devoted to the American nation, and should resign. When attempts were made to reach the “unanointed ” one, it was discovered that he was golfing and could not comment. When attempts were made to set an appointment with the Golfer in chief, his personal secritary reported all dates are currently filled by golf, Bill Ayers, George Soros, and golf and could not be amended unless god the golfer said so.

      Meanwhile in Heaven reports for requests for “ freak lightning strikes on a golf course” have spiked in the last two and a half years. GOD Himself has declined commentary directly, and of yet hasn’t issued any unique lightning strikes.

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    • Melvin Spittle
      Posted on April 17, 2011 at 12:00pm

      This is another fine example of the war against Christianity in the US. Socialist policies cannot be successful with Christians in the way. Now, had he been a Muslim, that would be an entirely different story. The left has successfully remade extremist Muslims as oppressed freedom fighters that must be protected from criticism and hate-speech. The tree-huggin’, granola munchin, Palestine supporting, Jew hating Marxist revolutionaries are at epidemic levels here in the US. Now they are publicly advocating the overthrow capitalism (read GOVERNMENT). The way I see it is that Christians AND Jews are in the way of both the current administration and Islam’s agendas. Islam is promoted IN OUR PUBLIC SCHOOLS while Christian students are persecuted by ever growing anti-Christian school policies. The administration and it‘s supporting NGO’s are preparing a huge excrement sandwich for us all to eat.

      “what’s better than a big juicy steak? nothing. and what’s better than nothing? a stale piece of bread. therefore, a stale piece of bread is better than a big juicy steak.”-Land of The Blind

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    • Marylou7
      Posted on April 17, 2011 at 12:03pm

      Well I’m sorry too that a so-called man of God could actually campaign for and serve under a Marxist. This man is just a little too confusing to me.

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    • CatB
      Posted on April 17, 2011 at 12:35pm

      If he was writing Socialist Marxist garbage .. he would have been hailed and probably promoted!

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    • paperpushermj
      Posted on April 17, 2011 at 12:40pm

      I guess we will see if Catholics will bite on Obamas hook again in 2012?

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    • theonefromabove
      Posted on April 17, 2011 at 12:40pm

      He should have not resigned.

      http://politicalbowl.com – Political Videos

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    • tarbush
      Posted on April 17, 2011 at 12:56pm

      At least they didn’t eliminate him by having him go down in a mysterious fiery plane crash.

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    • snidley-whiplash
      Posted on April 17, 2011 at 5:53pm

      Stop giving money to the U N.
      Get them off our soil, the worthless pieces of sh*t

      S/F

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    • sWampy
      Posted on April 17, 2011 at 7:42pm

      Wow we have an ambassador to Saudi Arabia, that gets kicked out for sodomy of a minor, we make him head of navy, in charge of our sea men, and are now talking about making him the head of the DOD, this guy writes about religion and they make him resign, how sad.

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    • Islesfordian
      Posted on April 17, 2011 at 8:25pm

      That interview with Colbert shows that he is not a true Catholic. He doesn’t understand what marriage is for and why it is crucial to society. Any good catholic would know this. He was a shill for the gays. I wonder what other Catholic teaching he was radically perverting.

      Good ridance.

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