[ncalburt]

Can we stop POSTING THE LIFE NEWS STORY ABOUT A PHONY OBAMA FRONT GROUP NOW !

[johniegrad]

The Catholic Hospital Association is not an Obama front group. It is the association representing Catholic hospitals.

Very unfoutnately, they have adopted the position of supporting health care "reform" in the current form being considered by Congress.

This means that they are essentially unopposed to federal funding for abortion and abolition of conscience protection for Catholic health care workers.

This is a fairly influential group whose positions are now opposed to Catholic teaching.

[johniegrad]

This thread discusses this in greater detail. I posted opposing opinions and a resolution by the Catholic Medical Association on it. Rather than repeat it here, please follow the link.

[cripplecreek]

Anyone supporting pretty much any Obama agenda should be seen as pro marxist and nothing more.

[Tarpon]

Anyone else find it strange that the president of all the people would lobby so hard for his race preferences in the death care bill?

Now what would have happened if Bush did this about the Iraq war. Would the lame stream lap dogs just lay quietly ...

[NYer]

A Catholic Archbishop warned Americans today about dishonest leftists and democrats who claim the church backs the pro-abortion Senate health care bill.

We saw a bit of this already this weekend. A non-Catholic Catholic group of radical leftists and Marxists released a letter (signed by non-Catholics) in support of the Senate’s pro-abortion bill.

Kathryn Jean Lopez at The Corner reported:

In a piece to be released later this morning, Catholic archbishop Charles J. Chaput of Denver comes out swinging against the health-care push in Washington this week. He writes, in part:

Groups, trade associations and publications describing themselves as “Catholic” or “prolife” that endorse the Senate version — whatever their intentions — are doing a serious disservice to the nation and to the Church, undermining the witness of the Catholic community; and ensuring the failure of genuine, ethical health-care reform. By their public actions, they create confusion at exactly the moment Catholics need to think clearly about the remaining issues in the health-care debate. They also provide the illusion of moral cover for an unethical piece of legislation.

Do not be misled, in other words, by a Speaker’s lies or by anyone claiming to speak for the Catholic Church telling you a Catholic’s conscience will be clear if he supports this legislation.

Remember: The dishonest leftists will stop at nothing to pass their nationalized health care bill.

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[lastchance]

Oops thought a Bishop was giving it to the USCCB.

[ETL]

Excerpt from The American Thinker...

Article: Obama, Black Liberation Theology, and Karl Marx
May 28, 2008

Just one nugget from the Sacred Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, "Instruction on Certain Aspects of the ‘Theology of Liberation': "...it would be illusory and dangerous to ignore the intimate bond which radically unites them liberation theologies), and to accept elements of the marxist analysis without recognizing its connections with the (Marxist) ideology, or to enter into the practice of the class-struggle and of its marxist interpretation while failing to see the kind of totalitarian society to which this process slowly leads."--Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger, Prefect, now Pope Benedict XVI; written in 1984

Understanding that black liberation theology is Marxism dressed up to look like Christianity helps explain why there is no conflict between Cone's "Christianity" [i.e. 'reverend Wright's thing] and Farrakhan's "Nation of Islam." They are two prophets in the same philosophical (Marxist) pod, merely using different religions as backdrops for their black-power aims.
http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/05/obama_black_liberation_theolog.html