Posted on 09/18/2015 5:16:52 PM PDT by NYer
This is what the millennials might call “beyond beyond.”
This is beyond President Obama’s typical Chicago-style politics. This is beyond the more vile tenets of the Alinsky catechism. Hell, this is beyond the bozo Soviet nonsense that John Paul II had to put up with.
No, what we have here is special. We haven’t seen such a raw, naked attempt by a secular head of state to manipulate a pope in centuries. This here is Borgia crap, and not just any Borgia crap. This is top-shelf, vintage Borgia crap at it’s finest.
You see, President Obama has hatched a plan. It is a simple but elegant plan, in which he hopes to create the illusion of a rift between the American bishops and Pope Francis and to exploit and broaden the already existing divisions among Catholics in this country.
So how does he plan to do it?
By putting on a spectacle and forcing Pope Francis to star in it.
Here’s how it will unfold. When Pope Francis visits the White House next week, he will be greeted not only by President Obama, but by a group of selected individuals who openly live or preach lifestyles directly contrary to the teaching of the Catholic Church.
The cast of characters in this contrived stage drama will include:
Sister Simone Campbell, the pro-abortion Catholic nun and Obamacare champion, who organized the “Nuns on the Bus” tour and worked with the Obama White House to undermine the U.S. bishops and sow confusion during the debate on the Affordable Care Act.
Gene Robinson, the openly gay Episcopal bishop who recently divorced his gay partner, and who has accompanied President Obama at several religious events, including the 2014 National Prayer Breakfast.
Mateo Williamson, a cross-dressing woman who identifies as a gay man (and if you even paused for a second over that you really need to get with it). Williamson is the former co-chairman for the Transgender Caucus of Dignity USA.
Vivian Taylor, a male transvestite and former Executive Director of Integrity USA, a homosexual and transgender activist wing of the Episcopal Church. Taylor was apparently told to bring several friends.
So that’s grand.
But why? What does President Obama hope to achieve by luring the Pope into this cheap theatrical production?
At least three things Obama is hoping for:
1. To force Pope Francis into “accepting” these individuals. Of course, Pope Francis will accept them because they are fellow human beings with human dignity, and Pope Francis is a good and holy man who loves every person as a child of God. He will greet them with a smile and be courteous and respectful. But the perception Obama wants to promulgate is the one we are used to by now – that Pope Francis is accepting the behavior of these people, even though he is not.
2. To project the narrative that the “conservative” U.S. bishops are at odds with Pope Francis. The bishops have been outspoken regarding issues of same sex marriage, religious freedom, and the problematic aspects of Obamacare. By selecting individuals who represent the ideas the bishops have been fighting against to appear in a scene of warm greeting with Pope Francis, the President hopes to say, in effect, “See, look who’s side Pope Francis is on.”
3. To drive a wedge between Catholics in this country. Of course, the wedge is surely there already, but Obama wants to drive it deeper. He wants the liberals to claim victory by declaring Pope Francis supports them and only them, and much more importantly, he wants the conservatives to concede as much. He wants them to grumble, to be scandalized, and to blame and accuse Pope Francis. He wants them to race to their blogs and raise hell.
President Obama’s ultimate goal of course is to weaken and ultimately cripple the strength and influence of the Catholic Church, the greatest source of resistance in this country to his regime of religious persecution and state-sponsored and state-mandated moral relativism.
This is what he wants. The media will gladly help him. So will some Catholics.
Will you?
Ping!
No one made the Pope involve himself in this spectacle.
As far as I can tell, the Pope and Obama, if not reading from the same page are at least reading from the same book. Obama is not going to have to work very hard to “exploit” him.
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Why do you form your beliefs about the Catholic Churchon secular sources when you don’t trust them on conservatism or Republicans?????
I don’t promote Rome, but I’m sympathetic toward anyone who is being manipulated, used, or worked over by Hussein. That’s a mighty big population right there. Whether the pope is complicit in the shenanigans or not, it’s a fact that Obama has no respect for the Roman Catholic church or what it stands for.
All the divider in chief cares about is his cross dressing and homosexuality.
He now has done it again by pushing his queers and cross dressers to the Popes face. This after now he has put another homosexual in charge of the Army.
It is sick and disgusting.
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This was in the Wall Street Journal, yesterday Sept. 17th— the Vatican is aware of this freak show and is pushing back:
“The Vatican has taken offense at the Obama administration’s decision to invite to the pope’s welcome ceremony transgender activists, the first openly gay Episcopal bishop and an activist nun who leads a group criticized by the Vatican for its silence on abortion and euthanasia,”
“According to a senior Vatican official, the Holy See worries that any photos of the pope with these guests at the White House welcoming ceremony next Wednesday could be interpreted as an endorsement of their activities.”
If not, I wonder if I am talking to someone with a pulse.
Most of that seems to be about the Pope having issues with homosexual mafia and other weirdness, hence “not on the same page.”
But I don’t see anything there that counters stories about the Pope’s disdain for capitalism, hence “reading from the same book.”
Capitalism has created standards of living unparalleled in human history, while socialism has killed tens if not hundreds of millions and left a legacy of poverty (and environmental catastrophe if any one cares...). But the Pope seems to be worried about the “excesses of Capitalism.”
Why do continue to post this link, to a highly biased list, which includes those secular sources you condemn?
By the way, some of those sources are Life Site News and Chisea, both of which have posted scathing articles of Francis and his antics.
Then why doesn't the Pope refuse to meet with these freaks? In fact the Pope should refuse to meet with Obama.
I agree!
As someone here has said— the Pope is a pretty much far leftie himself, from the perspective of South American junta vs. the working people of parishes etc., and takes to task capitalism. But it is a far cry from these freaks and downright insults to the Church of which he is the head. An insult.
It’s essential for the islamo in chief to embarrass the Church, for the sake of his islamo buddies worldwide. Secondly, his forcing acceptance of abberrant and well established mentally ill people, as normal— well, this should also fly in the face of an experienced priest, one familiar with exorcisms and demons. Perhaps there will be recognition of the demons in attendance, by this Pope. That would be sensational to say the least.
Is this obuma’s way of shoving in our faces that we don't like muslims so he's doing this?
No we don't like muslims, but there are some that do, we don't like Catholics, but there are some that do, we don't like Mormons, but there are some that do...shouldn't we show the Leaders of these religions some respect?
“Pray for me that I may not flee, for fear of the wolves”
Pope Benedict.
He is no anti pope.
The rebellions bishops hate him.
Jeesh!
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