Posted on 09/23/2015 6:00:06 AM PDT by xzins
Monday's Washington Post carries one of the most remarkable and surprising op-eds that paper has published in a long time. Note: This op-ed is the paper's own “voice,” not a piece by a columnist.
Commenting on the Obama administration's inclusion of “transgender activists, the first openly gay Episcopal bishop and a nun who criticizes church policies on abortion and euthanasia” in the welcoming ceremony planned for the Pope's upcoming visit, the Post comments:
What struck us as we read about this small controversy is the contrast between the administration's apparent decision to risk a bit of rudeness in the case of the pope and its overwhelming deference to foreign dictators when similar issues arise. When Secretary of State John F. Kerry traveled to Havana to reopen the U.S. Embassy recently, he painstakingly excluded from the guest list any democrat, dissident or member of civil society who might offend the Castro brothers.
And when Chinese President Xi Jinping comes to the White House next week, shortly after the pope leaves town, it's a safe bet that he won't have to risk being photographed with anyone of whom he disapproves. Chen Guangcheng, the courageous blind lawyer, for example, lives nearby in exile, but he probably won't be at the state dinner. Neither will Falun Gong activists, democracy advocates or anyone else who might, well, give offense.
The Obama administration argues that it will include many people of every background. Yet according to the Wall Street Journal, “The presence of these (controversial) figures is especially irritating, (a) Vatican official said, because it isn't yet clear if the White House has invited any representatives of the U.S. anti-abortion movement, traditionally a high-priority cause for the U.S. bishops.”
Read that, no one active in the pro-life movement is welcome to greet the head of the world's largest pro-life organization.
There will be some Evangelical leaders present at the event. U.S. News reports that they include “the Rev. Joel Hunter, an evangelical megachurch pastor from Florida who is a confidant of Obama on spiritual matters; the Rev. Leith Anderson, president of the National Association of Evangelicals, which represents about 40 conservative Christian denominations; and the Rev. Samuel Rodriguez, president of the National Hispanic Christian Leadership Conference.”
While it's nice of the White House to include some Evangelicals, the inclusion of persons at overt and public odds with the teachings the Pope represents and the omission of others whose political activities — standing for the unborn and their mothers — are essential to Catholic teaching are startling.
Remarkable: A stinging and blunt calling-on-the-carpet of an Administration far more concerned with advancing an aggressive “gay rights” agenda than defending religious liberty here at home or standing with those being horribly persecuted for their faith in repressive nations around the world. As I have written elsewhere, President Obama “cannot defend abroad what (he and his) administration ... are working to erode here at home.”
The willingness of this Administration to affront the leader of the world's largest Christian tradition is an embarrassment to our country. It demonstrates a moral arrogance so profound as to be one of the few things that still surprises after nearly seven years of the President's diligent efforts to, in his words, “transform the United States of America.”
Insulting foreign friends while placating foreign adversaries strikes one as an unusual approach to advancing America's national security and vital interests. Sadly, this Administration seems eager to do just that.
The willingness of this Administration to affront the leader of the world's largest Christian tradition is an embarrassment to our country. It demonstrates a moral arrogance so profound as to be one of the few things that still surprises after nearly seven years of the President's diligent efforts to, in his words, “transform the United States of America.”
Insulting foreign friends while placating foreign adversaries strikes one as an unusual approach to advancing America's national security and vital interests. Sadly, this Administration seems eager to do just that.
I’m sure the transgenders, homo activists, etc. aren’t invited to the White House Ramadan parties either...
I’m not familiar with charisma news. Does anyone have a link to the WP story?
how do 44 percent of americans think he is doing a good job? How did one person vote for hin, no less 50 million?!?!?!
I call NO ONE who voted for him friend.
He won 12 percent among women and lost 8 percent among men.
What man voted for this guy?
And why do the women who voted him in hate their sons, brothers, husbands and nephews so much?!?!
We obviously have a crap load of dumba$$es living in this country. It amazes me these people can half way function in life with the way they think.
That’s probably how many welfare dependent females we have in this country that has turned its head from the reality of natural marriage.
Wouldn’t bother me if they ceased functioning.
Maybe some mad scientist could come up with an ideological virus. It only infects those who are liberal.
And the conservative gene protects against it :)
I told my friend last night, when some person on TV mentioned she was a proud single mom.
What’s there to be proud about!!??
Shouldn’t be stoned to death, things happen in life.
But proud!?!?!?
My mother wasn’t a proud single mom. She was a single mom because my father died young. And I ran wild until my crazy Italian uncles straightened me out in my early 20s after I got in trouble with some gangsters.
And I had a GREAT family. Thank God everything turned out ok, but what chance do these kids have?
The spokesman at the Vatican may be offended, but somehow I doubt this Pope is offended. He didn’t have a problem with the Jesus & hammer and sickle gift. I think he probably okayed this with the White House.
I’LL Tell you this..... IF the obummer is NOT one of Satan’s demons, maybe he should apply for the job.... he continuously goes out of his way to stick his finger in the eye of Christianity...
It’s done deliberately and intentionally. Our fearless leader knows what he’s doing. The pope is more focused on taking money from those who earn it and giving it to those who take it and laugh. He doesn’t care about these things.
Marijuana.
This pope DOES CARE about getting more illegal Mexicans and “Centrales” into his pews and into his seminaries inside America than the babies aborted by Obola.
Women alternately wear the single mom label with pride and to try to get sympathy. Which is it? If you are a single mom because your husband died, well ok,we feel sorry for you and you should be proud you are handling parenthood alone. If you are a single mom because you hooked up with some loser, we don’t feel sorry for you and you made your bed so now you have to lie in it and there is no reason to be proud of that.
It reminds me of the “gay pride” cr@p. So you’re proud that you shove your xxx up some guy’s xxx? Clap clap clap
Hope the Pope excommunicates them all on the spot. Or maybe an exorcism is more in order.
Yet the media/libs/GOPe cowards demand he’s a Christian and not a Muslim? By his (rotten) fruits we know him!
exactly-
The “pope” was offended when he received a COMMUNIST cross with Jesus Crucifixion on it....NOT!
Wore it proudly around his neck!!
Will GLADLY meet Satan’s lil helpers-
This snoooose story is for the Christian dummies
that do not know how to read what evil men are doing-
Hey— any Planned parenthood demons going to be there?
LOL- I already know the answer- yes
lol- homosexual bishops? check
lol- abortion promoting nun- check-
We just need to pray to a fake muslim god-
( I give you 10 to 1 that happens!)
Obama: “I’m more infallible than you!”
Pope: “No. I’m infallible, you’re not!”
Obama: “You lying dog! I am the one who is infallible!”
Pope: “No, you are mistaken! You are a sinner.”
Obama: “No! I am a perfect man! May the fleas of a thousand camels dwell in your armpits!”
Pope: “Why are you using an Arabic curse? Are you a Muslim?”
Obama: “Kneel before me, because I am god!”
Pope: “Uh, nope. That is something you are definitely not!”
Obama: “I’ll prove it to you! Ask the New York Times! They will swear it!”
Pope: “I think we are done, here. Buh-bye.”
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