Good piece at Matt Abbott's on the stupidity of the Catholic Voting Block.
And Catholics sheepishly keep quiet and vote for men and women who promote evil.
In chapter 3 of Galatians, St. Paul, frustrated with the Galatians allowing non-believers to silence the truth even to the point of the Galatians returning to pagan or evil ways chastises them saying, "O stupid Galatians. Who has bewitched you?"
It can be said of us in America in the year 2010, "O stupid Catholics, who has bewitched you?" We easily go over to pagan ideas, putting aside our faith, our truth, in order to accommodate the evil of people who will not accommodate us! To promote their ideas they attack us personally calling us the far right, ultra-conservative, bigoted, homophobic, hate mongers, holy rollers, and other epithets. This silences many Catholics. It only emboldens me, and it should embolden you also to promote your faith.
Catholics have tremendous power at the polls. We can make or break a candidate's ability to get into office in many (if not most) political races.
There are perfectly good reasons and circumstances to vote for the lesser of two evils. But, a situation where Catholics have zero choices in an election should be an aberration.
As we kept lobbying for proaborts, it got to the point where both Democrats and Republicans realized we are suckers and that was all they sent us.
I suspect the GOP will make some decent gains in the 2010 election because their candidates are generally more in line with the objectives of the rank and file than the Democrat candidates. While I am sure they see us at the fork in the road, I don't think the kind of horses the Republicans will put into the race after the 2010 election is predictable.
When something happens once in a while, you respond to the situation differently than something that becomes the norm.
If your train is late and ultimately makes you late for work, you deal with it. If it is late every day, you stop taking that train and take a different train.
This is where we are in the history of the Catholic vote. It's time to take a different train.
The majority of Catholics in the pews are probably Democrat at heart. We're advocates of of the poor and working people.
Of course, we don't want a system that gives everything to the poor without working for it because that only keeps people down generation after generation. Catholics want the poor to be given better opportunities to help themselves. You don't keep feeding the poor frozen fish sticks, you give them the pole and teach them how to catch fresh fish. Otherwise, their self-esteem stays low and they never pull the next generation out of the hole.
Voting for politicians into brainwashing poor women to kill their children and then shipping them off to abortionists to keep taxes low, I'm sorry to say, are sociopaths. While Democrats don't go as far as mandating women get abortions like China, politicians who push abortion on poor women in America see pregnant women in exactly the same light as the communists in China. They are not interested in the welfare of the poor, they're interested in the welfare of their wallets.
Further, what Catholics are deeply concerned about, is what happens to the woman after she has the abortion. The downward spiritual and emotional spin after killing her own child. Proaborts gloss over the very real spiral a woman has after killing her own child.
Catholics defected from the Democratic party and have been drifting in the desert.
When the Republicans throw us a candidate, we are in the game. But, Republicans have transitioned into taking us for fools. And, there are plenty of fools to be taken.
This all came to a head with the 2008 election when the Republicans plucked proabort Mitt Romney from Massachusetts and tried to sell him to Catholics and the religious right.
It was the line in the sand that many of us did not cross.
So, here we are in 2010. Many Catholics have stopped taking the GOP train. The situation called for a different response. A third party has sprung up out of the rank and file to overthrow the clowns running our country on every side.
The GOP is so shocked by all this they have yet to jockey into position.
I suspect the GOP will make some decent gains in the 2010 election because their candidates are generally more in line with the objectives of the rank and file than the Democrat candidates. While I am sure they see us at the fork in the road, I don't think the kind of horses the Republicans will put into the race after the 2010 election is predictable.
In the post-mortem, they will either be emboldened by their gains, go back to seeing us as suckers and try to once again hand us the Mitt Romneys of their world - or, they will recognize the revolution for what it is and clean up their act. I hope they catch the train because the movement will go on with or without them.
The name "The Tenth Crusade" characterizes the movement from a broader Catholic perspective. It is both theological and political.
Catholics have picked up on the energy of the tea party movement and are cleaning the stalls where it matters most. We are tired of being robbed of our inheritance.
We are purging the internal ranks of people at our schools, parishes and Chanceries that are leading unsuspecting Catholics from the fiat of surrender and molding our own will into the will of God for us, into its antithesis - error and rebellion against God's will.
Catholics have picked up on the energy of the tea party movement and are cleaning the stalls where it matters most. We are tired of being robbed of our inheritance.
We are purging the internal ranks of people at our schools, parishes and Chanceries that are leading unsuspecting Catholics from the fiat of surrender and molding our own will into the will of God for us, into its antithesis - error and rebellion against God's will.
We will continue to take advantage of (and insist upon) our constitutional right to influence thought in the public square. Influencing thought in the culture, academia and politics is what shapes law and governance in our country. The rights of Catholics are every bit as important and constitutional as the rights of atheists to influence thought.
Lots of luck to anyone trying to stop us.
Viva Christo Rey.
