Posted on 05/17/2009 9:53:54 AM PDT by wagglebee
Dr. Beam nails it here!
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The underlying principle at the heart of America's constitutional protections, according to Thomas Jefferson, is declared in these words:
"The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time: the hand of force may destroy, but cannot disjoin them."
Life and liberty, therefore, once "endowed" by the "Creator," are inseparable and "unalienable." Thus, the first claim asserted by America's Founders was to an inherent, "Creator-endowed," unalienable and inseparable right to life and liberty which is prior to the right of any other being's determination (including the woman whose body houses the developing child).
If rights came to us by "grants" from individuals or collections of individuals (judges, legislators, or the executive branch), then the consequence of that idea would be that those rights would be "alienable"--an idea in opposition to the Declaration and the Constitution's goal of securing the "Blessings of Liberty."
Hopefully, more and more Americans will come to realize that "ideas have consequences." In the society, once the concept is accepted that life and liberty are not inherent and derived from the Creator, but by permission (grant) of individuals or government, then no person's life and liberty is secure at any point.
The question being highlighted by today's events at Notre Dame is crucial to the preservation of liberty for all citizens--not just those in the womb.
Cafeteria Catholics...
From Notre Dame to Notre Shame in a single day.
Plausable deniability as in Job ... Satan approaces God and essentially says, Give me a shot sat him (Job) and he will curse you (God).
God does not allow direct contact with Job to Satan ... Satan can say ... "I never touched him"
ND will be able to say, we never endorsed abortion.
Think there is surely, first. . .an Obama ‘calculation’ in here. Did Obama let it be known - by whatEVER means - that he would like to be the on the Notre Dame campus accepting this honorarium? There are so many political threads here that tie into an Obama agenda; find it hard not to think this was the case.
“Trading the defense of Catholic Church teaching for a personal audience with the most powerful political leader in the world will leave ——NOTRE DAME-—— with little or no moral authority.”
Forget group behavior and group ethics.
Make your choices one by one based on your values and then associate with like minded choosers.
This Notre Dame flap is counter-productive in so many ways.
But condemnation is such a great national sport these days, I don't expect it to fade away in favor of individual responsibility taking its place.
To call legal access to abortion a right is a corruption of both the language and the founding concepts of this country. Rights are not bestowed by governments or poorly crafted supreme court decisions, they are bestowed by God. To suggest that God facilitates the heinous practice of fetuscide is taking God’s name in vain.
A lack of principles means that someone can't be trusted, or depended on. Our system just can't work this way any longer.
When is the Pope going to grow a pair and stop kissing little babies for photo ops and start joining the real world. I would love to see him show up at the ND commencement, protest, get arrested, and really piss off the world.
If he showed himself to be a real man of God, do what God dictates in the scriptures, I would most likely quit the Protestant Church and go Cath. At this point, the Protestant Church isn’t doing much except taking the money I tithe and pissing it away in Africa when our own country is going down the toilet.
no, the Notre Dame controversy is a warning shot over the bow of the presidents ship.......you forget Obama has an agenda to force Catholic hospitals, doctors and nurses to perform abortions on demand. if we do not stand for life, we stand for nothing. Notre Dame let us down, we needed to stand up and tell that university, Fr. Jenkins and Obama that we will NOT be silenced.
Marxism replaces God with government. You can’t serve two masters, you can’t worship God and worship government equally, or at the same time. The quote “render unto Ceasar” is misunderstood by many religious people.
Don't you see that ignoring it was the much better option? You're giving the media something to talk about with which they do not agree. Your condemnation is harming only you.
When I left the Methodist Church many years ago they were raising money to build field hospitals for the Viet Cong, and supporting anti gun efforts.
no, it is forcing Obama to think about how much more escalated will be the resonse to forcing abortion on Catholic hospitals, doctors and nurses. this is a war......for the unborn.
No, to remain silent implies consent.
ou're giving the media something to talk about with which they do not agree. Your condemnation is harming only you.
Wrong, the media will talk about it anyway. According to polls released Friday, the number of people who are pro-life has increased dramatically in the past six months.
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