THIS has to be prayer! Wow.
By the way..do you hear the deafening silence from Anne Fox and MCFL?
When a real prolifer is gaining on the candidates who give Mass Citizens for Life money, sit by your computer and wait for MCFL to help the prolifer get elected. When you see bupkis, you'll know it's them.
Their silence is actually an improvement from the passive-aggressive press releases to sabotage prolife candidates. Her usual and customary talking point 'he won't get momentum/can't win' would be limited to people who don't read secular newspapers. So hopefully, she's stumped.
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Sunday, January 22, 2012
What Will Romney Re-Invent Himself as Post South Carolina?
There's one thing Massachusetts Catholics can say with 100% certainty. Well actually, now that I think about it. Two things.
1. When Romney's convictions have not won over grassroots voters, he will get new ones.
Go ahead and laugh. But I'm telling you, it is not far-fetched!
2. Anne Fox of Mass Citizens for Life will send out a press release with a lot of exclamations points saying "It is PRO-LIFE".
1. When Romney's convictions have not won over grassroots voters, he will get new ones.
“Republican voters have sent the message that they want to vote for an adulterous scumbag and I have heard them loud and clear,” he said. “I promise that I will engage in a world-class extramarital affair that will make all of us proud again.”
According to one senior advisor, the Romney campaign was already holding focus groups and conducting special polling to determine the best person with whom Mr. Romney should conduct his extracurricular dalliance.
And in a sign that Mr. Romney is taking precipitous action to find an object for his adulterous intentions, today his campaign launched a new dating site, SexyTimeWithMitt.com.
Go ahead and laugh. But I'm telling you, it is not far-fetched!
2. Anne Fox of Mass Citizens for Life will send out a press release with a lot of exclamations points saying "It is PRO-LIFE".
Saturday, March 26, 2011
Another Anne Fox/MCFL Crack The Code for Scott Brown Emails
Anne Fox of Mass Citizens for Life is at it again.
Scott Brown announced earlier this week that he is not against federally funding family planning.
Among other things, here's what Scott Brown said:
The Scott Brown spinmeister at MCFL sent out a press release to explain how to crack the code on this one -I'll get to that in a minute. Here is the rest of Brown's statement:
Here's what I understand Anne Fox believes the prolife position is on giving federal money to abortionists: When politicians oppose eliminating funding to abortionists, they are NOT in favor of funding it.
Scott Brown announced earlier this week that he is not against federally funding family planning.
Among other things, here's what Scott Brown said:
"I support family planning and health services for women".
The Scott Brown spinmeister at MCFL sent out a press release to explain how to crack the code on this one -I'll get to that in a minute. Here is the rest of Brown's statement:
Brown, a Bay State Republican, said in a statement. “Given our severe budget problems, I don’t believe any area of the budget is completely immune from cuts. However, the proposal to eliminate all funding for family planning goes too far. As we continue with our budget negotiations, I hope we can find a compromise that is reasonable and appropriate.”…
Here's what I understand Anne Fox believes the prolife position is on giving federal money to abortionists: When politicians oppose eliminating funding to abortionists, they are NOT in favor of funding it.
This of course is patently ridiculous.
If you are not in favor of funding abortionists, your position would be in favor of eliminating their federal funding.
Brown has dug himself into a hole. Anne Fox is in the hole with him because she and MCFL have been lying and covering up Brown's prochoice position to rally up Scottt Brown fans from the prolife trenches.
Let me explain how Brown is putting lipstick on the pig.
Brown is trying to say that he is in favor of giving money to abortionists because they provide other services, like birth control and vaccines to women.
If you remember, Kermit Gosnell had vaccines in his back room along with jars filled with babies feet and other body parts.
Pretending we need abortionists to give out flu shots and birth control is one the ways politicians back door federal funding to abortionists. It is political chicanery.
For the record, Catholics teach other Catholic women the perils of birth control pills and the sole use of the gift of human sexuality as a means of physical pleasure. When we have the opportunity, we explain to non-Catholics how they are robbing themselves of real sexual intimacy, planting seeds for breast cancer and circumventing God's Divine plan for their lives. We are NOT in favor of exploiting women in this way, sexualizing them, making them recepticles for semen in their relationships, but we are not in the habit of public advocacy to outlaw contraception.
Catholics certainly are opposed to using our tax dollars for it because we know the harm it does to women and their relationships and to God. If Brown's intentions were providing "decent quality" healthcare to women, gynecologists give out birth control and primary care physicians give out vaccines. He wouldn't be sending women to back alley abortionists and the Kermit Gosnells of this world. The money provided to abortionists is used for other expenses - electricity, heat, payroll -- which frees up other money to provide abortions on the cheap. Even Anne Fox admits this in her press release.
Here's how the Tea Partisan put it:
If federal money went towards PP’s abortion practice, he’d have to vote no, but since it’s earmarked for contraception and unrelated services (which of course frees up other money at PP to apply towards abortions), well, that’s A-OK. Behold the dilemma of a Massachusetts Republican, forever inching his way along a political tightrope.
By the way, for you prolifers out there who have been taking Anne Fox at her word, Brown has repeatedly made his prochoice position clear. Here is a straightforward statement from the transcript from Barbara Walter's interview with Scott Brown (You can read the transcript in its entirety HERE).:
WALTERS: Let's talk about another rising star in the Republican party -- Sarah Palin. Do you think that Sarah Palin is presidential material?
BROWN: Well -- well, sure. I mean, she's been a mayor, and a governor. And -- and has a lot of -- a national following. But I think the more people in a presidential race, the better. She's never contacted us, and vice-versa.
WALTERS: Let's talk about some of your specific views. You are pro-choice, yes?
BROWN: Yes
(As Charlie Sheen says) 'WINNING!'
Anne Fox's most recent in the series of Scott Brown crack-the-code press releases is below. If you can make heads or tails out of it, please let me know.
Anne has turned MCFL into a puppet for politicians who support abortion. I can't figure out who the puppeteer is - are wealthy Republicans pulling her strings?
Whoever and whatever it is, her leadership and strategies have been catastrophic for the prolife movement in Massachusetts. Mass Citizens for Life has been driven into the ground.
Our efforts to rationally discuss the problem have failed.
It is lousy servitude to the unborn - and more importantly to Christ - for us to be paralyzed because we are afraid to hurt Anne's feelings. Let's blow up the balloons. It's time for the retirement party.
The main stream media "reports" that Sen. Brown has come out in favor of funding Planned Parenthood. That is not actually what he said.
"I support family planning and health services for women. Given our severe budget problems, I don't believe any area of the budget is completely immune from cuts. However, the proposal to eliminate all funding for family planning goes too far. As we continue with our budget negotiations, I hope we can find a compromise that is reasonable and appropriate."
The reporting has confused the provision of H.R. 1 that zeroes out Title X for the rest of the fiscal year (on which MCFL has taken no position), with the Pence Amendment, which does NOT reduce funding for Title X but which denies federal funding, from any program, for PPFA and its affiliates. Brown clearly expressed disagreement with the former provision, but he made no comment on the Pence Amendment.
Brown has pledged to vote against abortion funding. Title X money is not supposed to be used for abortions. Of course you are right - the funds are fungible, Planned Parenthood is doing a lot of murky things, they don't even provide some of the services they are touting, they have said they don't need federal money, a few years ago they could not account for hundreds of millions of dollars of federal funds, etc.
NPR got in trouble for using federal funds to lobby for federal funds. It appears that PP will get away with it. If they have sold their message to Congress better than we have, shame on us.
This means we must redouble the pressure! The vote on the Pence amendment in the Senate has not occurred, so please get back on the phones. Try to bring in some of your friends who haven't called yet.
Please make all the points you want, in any way you want, about the other awful things Planned Parenthood does, since those are the things that the Pence Amendment would defund.
Please call now, (202) 224-4543
If you can visit his office, so much the better
John F. Kennedy Federal Building, Suite 2400
15 New Sudbury Street
Boston, MA 02203, 617-565-3170
Defunding Planned Parenthood has been on our miracle list. Now that it seems in the realm of possibility, we must work harder than ever. Go to it!
Anne
Saturday, January 8, 2011
Will the Kerfuffle over Howie Carr be Ann Fox's Waterloo at Mass Citizens for Life?
Catholics involved in pro-life activism in Massachusetts have been challenged by the leadership in the major pro-life political machine, Mass Citizens for Life. Readers here know all the reasons why, so it isn't necessary to enumerate them except to say they consider support for Roe v. Wade satisfactory enough to be honored with the label 'pro-life', they tweak candidate questionnaires to hide their candidates pro-choice positions and they've been asking grassroots Catholic pro-lifers to work for, support, fund and elect pro-choice candidates now for at least a decade.
Somewhere along the line, it became more important to MCFL to 'win' than to work to elect prolifers and this has created numerous problems on many levels. Most importantly, it has fractured our troops and castrated our political power at the level of the GOP when they recruit candidates to put their money and power behind. Prolifers are not part of the discussions because the GOP knows we'll use our political machine to elect prochoice candidates.
There have been many leaders of Mass Citizens for Life in the last decade who have carried this prochoice torch but the tenure of its current president, Anne Fox, has certainly been the most tenuous. The donnybrooks over the strategies involving deception have laid our political machine to waste. The pace of the gradual mutiny quickened as the pro-life credentials of their candidates deteriorated and the deceptive practices with their candidate questionnaires became commonplace, starting with Mitt Romney.
The heart and soul of the pro-life political machine here in Massachusetts is Catholic. Many of us have other shticks. At every crisis of leadership over the last few years, we've pulled together to brainstorm about what to do with Captain Queeg after reason and right judgment failed to persuade. Most are now at the point where they believe we should start our own Catholic pro-life political machine here in Massachusetts - Massachusetts Catholics for Life. Several years ago, a coup de tat of the Board of Directors (who elects officers and votes on policies) was attempted by several well-known, well-respected Massachusetts Catholic prolifers. All of them have other apostolates, many of them also have full time jobs and the coup fell short.
This latest controversy involving MCFL's invitation to Howie Carr to speak at the Assembly for Life (refresher on the controversy HERE and HERE) has really turned up the heat. CJ Doyle and Dan Flatley at the Catholic Action League kicked off a campaign that brought a deluge of requests to MCFL to rescind the invitation to Carr because a) Carr supports proabort politicians b) he has no record of being a pro-lifer and c) he has said numerous vulgar anti-Catholic things about Catholic Sacraments, our Saints and our priests.
More importantly, Carr has repeatedly said that poor women should not be allowed to have children because they can't afford them. This is not the face pro-lifers want as their poster boy. It should be a no brainer that this doesn't send the right message to pregnant poor women from a pro-life group.
In what I would say is more than a coincidence, the Chairman of MCFL's Board resigned over the past few weeks and many made clear they would be be boycotting and demonstrating outside of the event.
Yet, in yesterday's Pilot was an article with several astounding quotes from Anne Fox. The article is called "Carr to remain keynote speaker at MCFL Rally".
A couple of problems. One, Scott Brown is prochoice. Two, all of the pro-life candidates were defeated in Massachusetts because, and here comes the irony, MCFL does not put 'the power of the pro-life vote' behind actual pro-life candidates. Their modus operandi is figuring out who can win so they can be on a winning team. If Anne believed in the power of the pro-life vote, she would be putting that power behind pro-lifers.
Anne is mixing up the words 'pro-life' and 'conservative'.
MCFL has sent out a press release in the last few hours with Howie Carr's name mysteriously replaced with Ray Flynn as the featured speaker.
Most everyone agrees that Howie Carr serves a purpose in the conservative movement and is sorry to see he got sucked into Anne Fox's, God love her, poor judgment. He is joining a long list.
The Board of Directors is responsible and needs to take responsibility of the poor judgment and strategy, and do what needs to be done. There are many, many good people in MCFL but the officers who carry out the day to day decisions have been a disaster. We're going to spend the next few months lobbying board members and if they can't make a commitment to fixing the problem - we will have a new Catholic pro-life machine here in Boston before the end of 2011. This is certainly not something we have wanted to do but we need a pro-life political machine to take advantage of the stampede away from Obamaculture. We need to be savvy and cast the net... and the timing is now.
Here's CJ Doyle's excellent Press Release:
Less than three weeks after the Catholic Action League of Massachusetts began a campaign to disinvite him, WRKO talk show host Howie Carr has withdrawn as the keynote speaker at the Annual Assembly for Life. Massachusetts Citizens for Life, which sponsors the event — to be held January 16th at Faneuil Hall — told callers to their office yesterday that Carr had withdrawn “for personal reasons.” Former U. S. Ambassador to the Holy See Ray Flynn has been scheduled to replace Carr.
Somewhere along the line, it became more important to MCFL to 'win' than to work to elect prolifers and this has created numerous problems on many levels. Most importantly, it has fractured our troops and castrated our political power at the level of the GOP when they recruit candidates to put their money and power behind. Prolifers are not part of the discussions because the GOP knows we'll use our political machine to elect prochoice candidates.
There have been many leaders of Mass Citizens for Life in the last decade who have carried this prochoice torch but the tenure of its current president, Anne Fox, has certainly been the most tenuous. The donnybrooks over the strategies involving deception have laid our political machine to waste. The pace of the gradual mutiny quickened as the pro-life credentials of their candidates deteriorated and the deceptive practices with their candidate questionnaires became commonplace, starting with Mitt Romney.
The heart and soul of the pro-life political machine here in Massachusetts is Catholic. Many of us have other shticks. At every crisis of leadership over the last few years, we've pulled together to brainstorm about what to do with Captain Queeg after reason and right judgment failed to persuade. Most are now at the point where they believe we should start our own Catholic pro-life political machine here in Massachusetts - Massachusetts Catholics for Life. Several years ago, a coup de tat of the Board of Directors (who elects officers and votes on policies) was attempted by several well-known, well-respected Massachusetts Catholic prolifers. All of them have other apostolates, many of them also have full time jobs and the coup fell short.
This latest controversy involving MCFL's invitation to Howie Carr to speak at the Assembly for Life (refresher on the controversy HERE and HERE) has really turned up the heat. CJ Doyle and Dan Flatley at the Catholic Action League kicked off a campaign that brought a deluge of requests to MCFL to rescind the invitation to Carr because a) Carr supports proabort politicians b) he has no record of being a pro-lifer and c) he has said numerous vulgar anti-Catholic things about Catholic Sacraments, our Saints and our priests.
More importantly, Carr has repeatedly said that poor women should not be allowed to have children because they can't afford them. This is not the face pro-lifers want as their poster boy. It should be a no brainer that this doesn't send the right message to pregnant poor women from a pro-life group.
In what I would say is more than a coincidence, the Chairman of MCFL's Board resigned over the past few weeks and many made clear they would be be boycotting and demonstrating outside of the event.
Yet, in yesterday's Pilot was an article with several astounding quotes from Anne Fox. The article is called "Carr to remain keynote speaker at MCFL Rally".
On Dec. 17, officials of the Catholic Action League of Massachusetts wrote an open letter to MCFL president Anne Fox asking her to rescind Carr’s invitation to address the MCFL’s annual Assembly for Life, which will be held Jan. 16 at 2 p.m. at Faneuil Hall.
The letter was signed by Catholic Action League executive director C. J. Doyle and former chairman Daniel Flatley.
In the letter, Doyle and Flatley cited incidents over the last 12 years in which they contend Carr has demeaned Catholic priests, the Church’s sacramental practices and leadership, children born to unwed mothers, and immigrant groups.
They called the invitation “an affront to the Christian religion and everything the Pro-Life movement professes to uphold,” it also said.
However, in an announcement that will appear in the MCFL January newsletter that Fox provided to The Pilot, she affirmed that Carr’s invitation will not be rescinded. [<---Hold that thought for a minute...but don't believe everything you read.]
She noted that Carr is being asked to speak as a “respected political observer and commentator.” He is expected to speak on the power and influence of the pro-life vote in light of Sen. Scott Brown’s election in 2009 and the gains made by pro-life state legislators in 2010.
“It is obvious that people do not recognize the power of the pro-life vote, not pro-lifers ourselves and certainly not the press or the politicians,” she wrote. “It is important that we continue to run and elect pro-life officials. It is much easier for a pro-life person to run for office with the assurance that the pro-life vote is there.”
A couple of problems. One, Scott Brown is prochoice. Two, all of the pro-life candidates were defeated in Massachusetts because, and here comes the irony, MCFL does not put 'the power of the pro-life vote' behind actual pro-life candidates. Their modus operandi is figuring out who can win so they can be on a winning team. If Anne believed in the power of the pro-life vote, she would be putting that power behind pro-lifers.
Anne is mixing up the words 'pro-life' and 'conservative'.
MCFL has sent out a press release in the last few hours with Howie Carr's name mysteriously replaced with Ray Flynn as the featured speaker.
Most everyone agrees that Howie Carr serves a purpose in the conservative movement and is sorry to see he got sucked into Anne Fox's, God love her, poor judgment. He is joining a long list.
Pro-lifers are not going to continue operating with a political machine that elects prochoice politicians. It is a dereliction of duty to the unborn.
We want one in place for the 2012 elections which means the Board of Directors has to persuade Anne Fox, God love her, to be moseying on down the road - or it means Catholic pro-lifers are going to put something together that will publish authentic and honest questionnaires revealing support of Roe v. Wade of candidates MCFL continues to call 'pro-life'.
The Board of Directors is responsible and needs to take responsibility of the poor judgment and strategy, and do what needs to be done. There are many, many good people in MCFL but the officers who carry out the day to day decisions have been a disaster. We're going to spend the next few months lobbying board members and if they can't make a commitment to fixing the problem - we will have a new Catholic pro-life machine here in Boston before the end of 2011. This is certainly not something we have wanted to do but we need a pro-life political machine to take advantage of the stampede away from Obamaculture. We need to be savvy and cast the net... and the timing is now.
Here's CJ Doyle's excellent Press Release:
NEWS RELEASE
SATURDAY, JANUARY 8, 2011
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
CONTACT: C. J. DOYLE
(781) 251-9739
HOWIE CARR WITHDRAWS AS SPEAKER AT ASSEMBLY FOR LIFE
FOLLOWING CAMPAIGN BY CATHOLIC ACTION LEAGUE
Less than three weeks after the Catholic Action League of Massachusetts began a campaign to disinvite him, WRKO talk show host Howie Carr has withdrawn as the keynote speaker at the Annual Assembly for Life. Massachusetts Citizens for Life, which sponsors the event — to be held January 16th at Faneuil Hall — told callers to their office yesterday that Carr had withdrawn “for personal reasons.” Former U. S. Ambassador to the Holy See Ray Flynn has been scheduled to replace Carr.
The Catholic Action League mobilized hundreds of Catholics to contact MCFL and the Archdiocese of Boston (which regularly participates in the event) and demand Carr’s removal. Carr has a long history of vulgar and malicious attacks on the Catholic religion. He has mocked the Eucharist, engaged in vile sexual innuendo regarding the Holy Family, and cast relentless aspersions on the Catholic priesthood. Promoting invidious stereotypes about Hispanics as criminals and illegal aliens, Carr plays Mexican music while reading the names of criminal suspects with Hispanic surnames. Where the pro-life movement tries to demonstrate compassion for poor women in difficult circumstances, Carr derisively refers to the children born out of wedlock to mothers on public assistance as “little bastards”, and has reportedly argued that women on welfare not be allowed to have children.
The Catholic Action League called Carr’s withdrawal “a victory for outraged and long suffering Catholics sick and tired of Carr’s boorish bigotry.”
Catholic Action League Director C. J. Doyle made the following comment: “In a market economy in a secular society, Catholics may not be able to drive bigots like Carr off the airwaves, but we should at least be able to prevent him from being treated as respectable within our own community. In this case, we succeeded in doing so. Having Howie Carr as the keynote speaker at the Assembly for Life would have been an insult to Catholics, an affront to Hispanics and immigrants, and an expression of contempt for unwed mothers and their children.”
“MCFL President Anne Fox ought to apologize for the disgraceful decision to invite Carr in the first place. That decision betrayed an appalling disregard to Carr’s record of blasphemy, sacrilege, nativism and anti-Catholicism. It was also an act of ingratitude to courageous elected officials who have defended the right to life, who have come to the aid of MCFL in perilous times, and who have been unjustly maligned by Howie Carr. The leadership of MCFL ought to be ashamed of itself for this unconscionable and embarrassing choice for keynote speaker.”
Wednesday, December 22, 2010
A Lump of Coal for Mass Citizens for Life Stocking
Anne Fox responded to the Catholic Action League's Press Release.
There's good news and bad news.
I'll give you the bad news first.
Anne says the kind things Howie says about the Montrose School is getting lost in all the hoopla from Catholics offended by Carr's "political acumen" against Our Eucharistic Lord, the Holy Spirit, the Catholic Church and Her Sacraments and the suggestion that St. Joseph sodomized animals.
After all, MCFL is 'non-sectarian' and "assiduous" people could make a list of positive things he's said about people at his parish.
MCFL may officially be 'non-sectarian', but its membership and supporters are almost exclusively Catholic. Anyway, how does MCFL being 'non-sectarian' abjure Carr's offensive remarks and make him an acceptable cheerleader for the sanctity of life? As CJ reveals below, Carr has actually referred to children born out of wedlock as 'little bastards'. What kind of a message does that send to single mothers about MCFL? Doesn't it undermine our entire mission in the pro-life community?
It isn't just that his remarks about Our Lord are vulgar, his remarks persuade his audience against the Church which ultimately keeps people away from the Sacraments and unity with Christ. I am baffled that the consequences to the salvation of souls from Carr's smearing of the Catholic Church are given license by calling MCFL 'non-sectarian'.
Fox also is under the impression that Howie Carr is "anti-choice".
I'm not sure what the word "anti-choice" means, but here's why the wordsymthing is coming across as more of the same intellectual dishonesty we've all grown accustomed to from MCFL: If Carr were 'anti-choice' he wouldn't have the history he has promoting proabortion politicians who then go on to make laws that support abortion rights. That's what you call counterproductive.
If Carr said he was against antisemetism but he had a long history of promoting antisemitic politicians, this is an indication that he's not committed enough to the cause to lead the annual Jewish anti-defamation assembly.
Carr doesn't have 'pro-life' credentials and his 'political acumen' about the Catholic religion, our Pope, teachings, priests and Sacraments disqualify him to lead an MCFL-sponsored event.
MCFL is creating further divisions in the pro-life community by holding onto her story and invitation to Howie Carr.
The good news is, the Catholic Action League has issued a spectacular response:
CATHOLIC ACTION LEAGUE REJECTS MCFL EXCUSES
FOR INVITATION TO HOWIE CARR
The Catholic Action League of Massachusetts today rejected excuses offered by Anne Fox, President of Massachusetts Citizens for Life, for that organization's invitation to the anti-Catholic, Hispanic-bashing radio shock jock Howie Carr, to be the featured speaker at MCFL's Annual Assembly for Life on January 16th.
In a late breaking development, the League has learned that the Chairman of the MCFL Board of Directors, long time pro-life activist Henry Luthin, resigned over the weekend.
The following is the reply of Anne Fox to the League's letter of December 17th:
Dear C. J.,
As I prepared to respond to your email, which requested that we withdraw our invitation to Howie Carr to speak at the Massachusetts Citizens for Life Assembly for Life, I realized that you had sent to your entire list what I assumed was a private email. It surprises me greatly that you would do that without contacting me first. If your goal was to have us withdraw our invitation, it would have been prudent to have contacted me...
You cite examples of statements from the last dozen years which are definitely out of order. I had not been aware of them. I have heard Howie praise the people and the school in his parish as well as The Montrose School. If someone as assiduous as you had been monitoring for the same dozen years, I suspect he would also have a dossier of positive statements.
Massachusetts Citizens for Life is nonsectarian. We, of course, join all pro-life people in admiration and gratitude for the leadership of the Catholic Church which has and is working so hard to restore the Culture of Life and would do nothing to embarrass her.
Howie is anti-abortion. He has been very helpful to us in our work over the past year and a half to publicize the anti-life aspects of Obamacare. We have not asked him to speak as an "entertainer". We have asked him to speak, because of his political acumen, about the unacknowledged power of the pro-life vote. The general public, politicians, and our own people need to hear that.
C. J., I trust that you will share this email with the people to whom you sent your original email.
Best,
Anne
The Catholic Action League characterized Fox's remarks as "a bizarre attempt to defend the indefensible."
Catholic Action League Executive Director C. J. Doyle made the following comment: "Evidently, Anne Fox never heard of the old saying that when you are already in a hole, you should stop digging. She actually makes the insipid argument that blasphemy and sacrilege --- insulting the Body of Christ and making obscene references about the Foster Father of Our Lord --- can be overlooked if there are countervailing considerations. The notion that the vile things Howie Carr has said about the Blessed Sacrament and Saint Joseph are somehow counterbalanced by the financial support he has provided to his daughters' parochial school is manifestly absurd and intellectually dishonest, as is the pathetic attempt to hide behind the non-sectarian status of MCFL. Serious organizations do not invoke their non-sectarian character to excuse bigotry and hate speech."
"As for the preposterous assertion that we have somehow neglected to mention the allegedly good things Howie Carr has said about the Church, here, Anne Fox descends from argument to comedy. The only things which we have omitted are the new revelations about Howie Carr which we are learning of every day as more people contact us with evidence of his Catholic bashing. If anyone believes that they can bring success to their organization by showcasing someone who has mocked the Second Person of the Holy Trinity and defamed the Head of the Holy Family, then their thinking is that of an atheist rather than a Christian."
"For the record, Howie Carr supports sterilization and contraception, and has a long history of promoting pro-abortion candidates for public office. Where the pro-life movement demonstrates compassion for women in difficult circumstances, the caustic Howie Carr demeans the children born out of wedlock to mothers on public assistance as 'little bastards'. Do we really wish to project the surly and mean-spirited countenance of Howie Carr as the image of the Massachusetts pro-life movement? Those who rail against immigrants, minorities, and welfare recipients, far from building a culture of life, usually promote sympathy for population control."
"Liberal Catholics malign the pro-life movement by unjustly accusing it of being a political front for the Republican Party. In this case, Anne Fox seems determined to vindicate that claim, even if it means embracing enemies of the Faith as repulsive as Howie Carr. From tailoring candidate questionnaires to make pro-abortion Republicans look 100% pro-life, to providing a platform to a Republican attack dog, it appears that Anne Fox is seeking to reduce the once proud Massachusetts Citizens for Life to an auxiliary of the Massachusetts Republican Party. For the credibility of their own organization, the officers, directors and members of MCFL ought to restrain her from doing so."
"Meanwhile, the Catholic Action League will begin to call local and national attention to the scandal of having an anti-Catholic, anti-Hispanic, anti-immigrant, anti-life speaker at a pro-life event."
There's good news and bad news.
I'll give you the bad news first.
Anne says the kind things Howie says about the Montrose School is getting lost in all the hoopla from Catholics offended by Carr's "political acumen" against Our Eucharistic Lord, the Holy Spirit, the Catholic Church and Her Sacraments and the suggestion that St. Joseph sodomized animals.
After all, MCFL is 'non-sectarian' and "assiduous" people could make a list of positive things he's said about people at his parish.
MCFL may officially be 'non-sectarian', but its membership and supporters are almost exclusively Catholic. Anyway, how does MCFL being 'non-sectarian' abjure Carr's offensive remarks and make him an acceptable cheerleader for the sanctity of life? As CJ reveals below, Carr has actually referred to children born out of wedlock as 'little bastards'. What kind of a message does that send to single mothers about MCFL? Doesn't it undermine our entire mission in the pro-life community?
It isn't just that his remarks about Our Lord are vulgar, his remarks persuade his audience against the Church which ultimately keeps people away from the Sacraments and unity with Christ. I am baffled that the consequences to the salvation of souls from Carr's smearing of the Catholic Church are given license by calling MCFL 'non-sectarian'.
Fox also is under the impression that Howie Carr is "anti-choice".
I'm not sure what the word "anti-choice" means, but here's why the wordsymthing is coming across as more of the same intellectual dishonesty we've all grown accustomed to from MCFL: If Carr were 'anti-choice' he wouldn't have the history he has promoting proabortion politicians who then go on to make laws that support abortion rights. That's what you call counterproductive.
If Carr said he was against antisemetism but he had a long history of promoting antisemitic politicians, this is an indication that he's not committed enough to the cause to lead the annual Jewish anti-defamation assembly.
Carr doesn't have 'pro-life' credentials and his 'political acumen' about the Catholic religion, our Pope, teachings, priests and Sacraments disqualify him to lead an MCFL-sponsored event.
MCFL is creating further divisions in the pro-life community by holding onto her story and invitation to Howie Carr.
The good news is, the Catholic Action League has issued a spectacular response:
CATHOLIC ACTION LEAGUE REJECTS MCFL EXCUSES
FOR INVITATION TO HOWIE CARR
The Catholic Action League of Massachusetts today rejected excuses offered by Anne Fox, President of Massachusetts Citizens for Life, for that organization's invitation to the anti-Catholic, Hispanic-bashing radio shock jock Howie Carr, to be the featured speaker at MCFL's Annual Assembly for Life on January 16th.
In a late breaking development, the League has learned that the Chairman of the MCFL Board of Directors, long time pro-life activist Henry Luthin, resigned over the weekend.
The following is the reply of Anne Fox to the League's letter of December 17th:
Dear C. J.,
As I prepared to respond to your email, which requested that we withdraw our invitation to Howie Carr to speak at the Massachusetts Citizens for Life Assembly for Life, I realized that you had sent to your entire list what I assumed was a private email. It surprises me greatly that you would do that without contacting me first. If your goal was to have us withdraw our invitation, it would have been prudent to have contacted me...
You cite examples of statements from the last dozen years which are definitely out of order. I had not been aware of them. I have heard Howie praise the people and the school in his parish as well as The Montrose School. If someone as assiduous as you had been monitoring for the same dozen years, I suspect he would also have a dossier of positive statements.
Massachusetts Citizens for Life is nonsectarian. We, of course, join all pro-life people in admiration and gratitude for the leadership of the Catholic Church which has and is working so hard to restore the Culture of Life and would do nothing to embarrass her.
Howie is anti-abortion. He has been very helpful to us in our work over the past year and a half to publicize the anti-life aspects of Obamacare. We have not asked him to speak as an "entertainer". We have asked him to speak, because of his political acumen, about the unacknowledged power of the pro-life vote. The general public, politicians, and our own people need to hear that.
C. J., I trust that you will share this email with the people to whom you sent your original email.
Best,
Anne
The Catholic Action League characterized Fox's remarks as "a bizarre attempt to defend the indefensible."
Catholic Action League Executive Director C. J. Doyle made the following comment: "Evidently, Anne Fox never heard of the old saying that when you are already in a hole, you should stop digging. She actually makes the insipid argument that blasphemy and sacrilege --- insulting the Body of Christ and making obscene references about the Foster Father of Our Lord --- can be overlooked if there are countervailing considerations. The notion that the vile things Howie Carr has said about the Blessed Sacrament and Saint Joseph are somehow counterbalanced by the financial support he has provided to his daughters' parochial school is manifestly absurd and intellectually dishonest, as is the pathetic attempt to hide behind the non-sectarian status of MCFL. Serious organizations do not invoke their non-sectarian character to excuse bigotry and hate speech."
"As for the preposterous assertion that we have somehow neglected to mention the allegedly good things Howie Carr has said about the Church, here, Anne Fox descends from argument to comedy. The only things which we have omitted are the new revelations about Howie Carr which we are learning of every day as more people contact us with evidence of his Catholic bashing. If anyone believes that they can bring success to their organization by showcasing someone who has mocked the Second Person of the Holy Trinity and defamed the Head of the Holy Family, then their thinking is that of an atheist rather than a Christian."
"For the record, Howie Carr supports sterilization and contraception, and has a long history of promoting pro-abortion candidates for public office. Where the pro-life movement demonstrates compassion for women in difficult circumstances, the caustic Howie Carr demeans the children born out of wedlock to mothers on public assistance as 'little bastards'. Do we really wish to project the surly and mean-spirited countenance of Howie Carr as the image of the Massachusetts pro-life movement? Those who rail against immigrants, minorities, and welfare recipients, far from building a culture of life, usually promote sympathy for population control."
"Liberal Catholics malign the pro-life movement by unjustly accusing it of being a political front for the Republican Party. In this case, Anne Fox seems determined to vindicate that claim, even if it means embracing enemies of the Faith as repulsive as Howie Carr. From tailoring candidate questionnaires to make pro-abortion Republicans look 100% pro-life, to providing a platform to a Republican attack dog, it appears that Anne Fox is seeking to reduce the once proud Massachusetts Citizens for Life to an auxiliary of the Massachusetts Republican Party. For the credibility of their own organization, the officers, directors and members of MCFL ought to restrain her from doing so."
"Meanwhile, the Catholic Action League will begin to call local and national attention to the scandal of having an anti-Catholic, anti-Hispanic, anti-immigrant, anti-life speaker at a pro-life event."
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Please add this to your list of prayers in your Christmas worship. It is more than an 'incident'. The trajectory of Mass Citizens for Life has been sucking the oxygen out of the pro-life community for about ten years. This event has the potential to bring on a formal divorce which could get very ugly. We have all been trying to avoid it for the sake of 'peace'. But like everything else the Hound of Heaven does when we are abdicating our duties, He is making it impossible for us to be at peace with it.
n.b. Please also pray for the Walshes who lost their daughter over the last few months, and a sister in Christ who lost her job and is facing eviction.
Sunday, December 19, 2010
Open Letter to Anne Fox and Mass Citizens for Life Asking Them to Withdraw Howie Carr Invitation
-----Original Message-----
From: cmmckinley@aol.com
To: Anne Fox, Officers & Directors of MCFL
Sent: Sun, Dec 19, 2010 11:20 am
Subject: Please Withdraw Invitation to Howie Carr
+
IHS
Dear Anne,
I'm writing to request the invitation to Howie Carr as a featured speaker at the Assembly for Life be withdrawn.
Howie Carr is a political media personality that can be entertaining but he is not a pro-lifer. Whatever positions he holds that seem to be common ground are not common ground with a Catholic pro-life organization. His opposition to Obamacare is not grounded in the sanctity of life, it is fiscal and big government related opposition. Though we can chum around with him at the Harvard Club and laugh at his moonbat jokes, he does not belong as the featured speaker at the Assembly of Life.
More importantly, Howie Carr is vulgar and vile critic of the Body, Blood, Soul and Divinity of Our Lord. The Sacrament and price of our the salvation of our souls is regularly cheapened and spat upon. I was told that as recently as the past few weeks, he proclaimed that "90% of of Catholic priests are pedophiles".
I vehemently object to and am outraged by this invitation and will be taking an active role in lobbying others to request that you withdraw this invitation. If you fail to immediately do so, I will be lobbying our Catholic priests, high-ranking leaders to boycott the event.
The mission of Mass Citizens for Life is a "pro-life" organization whose members and supporters are Catholics who politically organize to have their convictions represented in the various processes of defining civil and constitutional law.
Somewhere along the way, it capitulated to a political organization that identifies with and endorses pro-choice politicians. It tumbled from the primary mission of getting candidates who oppose Roe v. Wade on the ballot and getting out the ground troops to get them elected, to finding common ground with prochoice candidates on ancillary issues and re-characterizing their support of Roe v. Wade as acceptable enough to get a pro-life endorsement from the major Catholic pro-life political machine in Massachusetts.
I am sorry to say, this Howie Carr invitation is adding fuel to the overall impression that MCFL's trajectory is furthering itself as a Catholic political organization and becoming a political shill for fiscal conservatives who wish to use it as a tool.
St. Joseph, chaste guardian of the Virgin, protector of The Holy Church, pray for us.
Carol McKinley
-----Original Message-----
From: calmdoyle@aol.com
Sent: Fri, Dec 17, 2010 2:12 pm
Subject: CATHOLIC ACTION LEAGUE LETTER TO MCFL
December 17, 2010
Anne Fox, President
Massachusetts Citizens For Life
The Schrafft Center
529 Main Street
Charlestown, MA 02129
Dear Anne,
We were astonished to learn that Howie Carr will be featured at MCFL's Annual Assembly For Life on January 16th. Carr is a notorious Catholic-basher with a long record of vicious and gratuitous attacks on the Catholic Religion.
On April 8, 1998 --- Wednesday in Holy Week --- in response to a decision by the Red Sox to forgo alcohol sales in Fenway Park because Opening Day would fall on Good Friday, Carr hosted a segment on his program in which he invited listeners to comment on selling "Catholic Eucharists for $3.49 a bag" as a substitute for beer. The result was a half hour of offensive slurs profaning the Blessed Sacrament.
In one particularly vile episode later in 1998, in a conversation between Carr and his producer Doug Goudie evidently intended to disparage Arabs, it was asserted that shepherds in the Middle East had unnatural relations with the animals in their flocks. Into this depraved subject the name of Saint Joseph --- the Virgin Spouse of the Virgin Mother of God --- was introduced. Saint Joseph was then misidentified as a shepherd.
In an interview with Malachy McCourt, Carr laughed and snickered over McCourt's assertion that the late Francis Cardinal Spellman was not only a homosexual but a pedophile. Carr went on to recount a story alleging that an episcopal ring was found by police in a homosexual brothel, implying that the ring belonged to Spellman.
In January, 2002, Carr hosted a segment in which he asked his listeners " Are you ashamed to be a Catholic?", during which he boasted that he never went to Mass. All throughout the molestation crisis of 2002, Carr contemptuously referred to the Cardinal Archbishop of Boston as "Bernie Law", and on November 29th of that year the Boston Herald published a column by Carr in which he described the Cardinal as "a Bulger bum kisser."
Hispanic Catholics, with their large families and culture of life, are the future of the Church and the Pro-Life movement in America. Howie Carr however, is not only an anti-Catholic but a crude nativist. One of the recurring themes of his program is the attempt to link illegal immigrants to crime. A particularly offensive gimmick is his habit of playing Mexican music while reading the names of criminal suspects with Hispanic surnames. This hostility to Hispanics and immigrants places Cardinal O'Malley, or whoever represents him from the Archdiocese of Boston, in the embarrassing position of sharing a stage with someone who boorishly castigates some of the neediest members of his flock.
In a Catholic community which has a significant number of Eastern Rite Catholics of Lebanese and Syrian descent (the Melkite Cathedral is in West Roxbury) it is unimaginable that MCFL would actually provide a platform to a rabble rousing shock jock who has described Arabs in the past as "towelheads".
Inviting Howie Carr to address the Assembly for Life is an act of monumental ingratitude to elected officials who defended the right to life and came to the aid of MCFL in difficult times. Men such as William Bulger, Ray Flynn, Thomas Finneran, and the late Jim Craven have been the victims of vulgar insults, venomous denunciations, and malevolent diatribes by this spiteful demagogue.
A larger issue here is why an organization with a predominantly Christian membership would want to showcase a public figure whose life and career embody such a cynical negation of Christian values. Howie Carr is infamous for his uncharitableness of speech, his lack of compassion, and his sneering contempt for the objects of his scorn. He preys upon the vulnerable, exploits the misfortunes of others, incites rancor and envy, and has grown rich by his indifference to the Eighth Commandment. He mocks the Church, derides the poor, maligns men who have more integrity than he does, and has ridiculed the Body, Blood, Soul and Divinity of Jesus Christ in the Holy Eucharist.
Inviting such a miserable creature to address an organization dedicated to the sanctity and dignity of human life is an affront to the Christian religion and everything the Pro-Life movement professes to uphold.
We urge you to reconsider this improvident decision and cancel the invitation to this inappropriate choice for a speaker.
Sincerely,
Daniel T. Flatley C. J. Doyle
Chairman Emeritus Executive Director
The Catholic Action League of Massachusetts
From: cmmckinley@aol.com
To: Anne Fox, Officers & Directors of MCFL
Sent: Sun, Dec 19, 2010 11:20 am
Subject: Please Withdraw Invitation to Howie Carr
+
IHS
Dear Anne,
I'm writing to request the invitation to Howie Carr as a featured speaker at the Assembly for Life be withdrawn.
Howie Carr is a political media personality that can be entertaining but he is not a pro-lifer. Whatever positions he holds that seem to be common ground are not common ground with a Catholic pro-life organization. His opposition to Obamacare is not grounded in the sanctity of life, it is fiscal and big government related opposition. Though we can chum around with him at the Harvard Club and laugh at his moonbat jokes, he does not belong as the featured speaker at the Assembly of Life.
More importantly, Howie Carr is vulgar and vile critic of the Body, Blood, Soul and Divinity of Our Lord. The Sacrament and price of our the salvation of our souls is regularly cheapened and spat upon. I was told that as recently as the past few weeks, he proclaimed that "90% of of Catholic priests are pedophiles".
I vehemently object to and am outraged by this invitation and will be taking an active role in lobbying others to request that you withdraw this invitation. If you fail to immediately do so, I will be lobbying our Catholic priests, high-ranking leaders to boycott the event.
The mission of Mass Citizens for Life is a "pro-life" organization whose members and supporters are Catholics who politically organize to have their convictions represented in the various processes of defining civil and constitutional law.
Somewhere along the way, it capitulated to a political organization that identifies with and endorses pro-choice politicians. It tumbled from the primary mission of getting candidates who oppose Roe v. Wade on the ballot and getting out the ground troops to get them elected, to finding common ground with prochoice candidates on ancillary issues and re-characterizing their support of Roe v. Wade as acceptable enough to get a pro-life endorsement from the major Catholic pro-life political machine in Massachusetts.
I am sorry to say, this Howie Carr invitation is adding fuel to the overall impression that MCFL's trajectory is furthering itself as a Catholic political organization and becoming a political shill for fiscal conservatives who wish to use it as a tool.
St. Joseph, chaste guardian of the Virgin, protector of The Holy Church, pray for us.
Carol McKinley
-----Original Message-----
From: calmdoyle@aol.com
Sent: Fri, Dec 17, 2010 2:12 pm
Subject: CATHOLIC ACTION LEAGUE LETTER TO MCFL
December 17, 2010
Anne Fox, President
Massachusetts Citizens For Life
The Schrafft Center
529 Main Street
Charlestown, MA 02129
Dear Anne,
We were astonished to learn that Howie Carr will be featured at MCFL's Annual Assembly For Life on January 16th. Carr is a notorious Catholic-basher with a long record of vicious and gratuitous attacks on the Catholic Religion.
On April 8, 1998 --- Wednesday in Holy Week --- in response to a decision by the Red Sox to forgo alcohol sales in Fenway Park because Opening Day would fall on Good Friday, Carr hosted a segment on his program in which he invited listeners to comment on selling "Catholic Eucharists for $3.49 a bag" as a substitute for beer. The result was a half hour of offensive slurs profaning the Blessed Sacrament.
In one particularly vile episode later in 1998, in a conversation between Carr and his producer Doug Goudie evidently intended to disparage Arabs, it was asserted that shepherds in the Middle East had unnatural relations with the animals in their flocks. Into this depraved subject the name of Saint Joseph --- the Virgin Spouse of the Virgin Mother of God --- was introduced. Saint Joseph was then misidentified as a shepherd.
In an interview with Malachy McCourt, Carr laughed and snickered over McCourt's assertion that the late Francis Cardinal Spellman was not only a homosexual but a pedophile. Carr went on to recount a story alleging that an episcopal ring was found by police in a homosexual brothel, implying that the ring belonged to Spellman.
In January, 2002, Carr hosted a segment in which he asked his listeners " Are you ashamed to be a Catholic?", during which he boasted that he never went to Mass. All throughout the molestation crisis of 2002, Carr contemptuously referred to the Cardinal Archbishop of Boston as "Bernie Law", and on November 29th of that year the Boston Herald published a column by Carr in which he described the Cardinal as "a Bulger bum kisser."
Hispanic Catholics, with their large families and culture of life, are the future of the Church and the Pro-Life movement in America. Howie Carr however, is not only an anti-Catholic but a crude nativist. One of the recurring themes of his program is the attempt to link illegal immigrants to crime. A particularly offensive gimmick is his habit of playing Mexican music while reading the names of criminal suspects with Hispanic surnames. This hostility to Hispanics and immigrants places Cardinal O'Malley, or whoever represents him from the Archdiocese of Boston, in the embarrassing position of sharing a stage with someone who boorishly castigates some of the neediest members of his flock.
In a Catholic community which has a significant number of Eastern Rite Catholics of Lebanese and Syrian descent (the Melkite Cathedral is in West Roxbury) it is unimaginable that MCFL would actually provide a platform to a rabble rousing shock jock who has described Arabs in the past as "towelheads".
Inviting Howie Carr to address the Assembly for Life is an act of monumental ingratitude to elected officials who defended the right to life and came to the aid of MCFL in difficult times. Men such as William Bulger, Ray Flynn, Thomas Finneran, and the late Jim Craven have been the victims of vulgar insults, venomous denunciations, and malevolent diatribes by this spiteful demagogue.
A larger issue here is why an organization with a predominantly Christian membership would want to showcase a public figure whose life and career embody such a cynical negation of Christian values. Howie Carr is infamous for his uncharitableness of speech, his lack of compassion, and his sneering contempt for the objects of his scorn. He preys upon the vulnerable, exploits the misfortunes of others, incites rancor and envy, and has grown rich by his indifference to the Eighth Commandment. He mocks the Church, derides the poor, maligns men who have more integrity than he does, and has ridiculed the Body, Blood, Soul and Divinity of Jesus Christ in the Holy Eucharist.
Inviting such a miserable creature to address an organization dedicated to the sanctity and dignity of human life is an affront to the Christian religion and everything the Pro-Life movement professes to uphold.
We urge you to reconsider this improvident decision and cancel the invitation to this inappropriate choice for a speaker.
Sincerely,
Daniel T. Flatley C. J. Doyle
Chairman Emeritus Executive Director
The Catholic Action League of Massachusetts
Saturday, December 18, 2010
Boston Catholic Prolife Community Asks MCFL to Dis-invite Howie Carr
I called CJ Doyle one day about ten years ago to talk to him about something disconcerting in the Archdiocese and asked him to help unravel it. We've been sharing information and encouraging each other since that time in our activist roles.
I spoke to CJ yesterday and frankly, I have never seen him so mad.
Anne Fox of MCFL has invited Howie Carr to be a guest speaker at the Assembly for Life gathering here in Boston.
For starters, Howie Carr is NOT a pro-lifer and has actively ridiculed and worked against pro-life candidates on his radio show. But more importantly, Howie has been articulating anti-Catholic venom for many years. As recently as this week, he has characterized "90% of all Roman Catholic priests" as "pedophiles".
In the letter below, CJ has a sampling of Howie's anti-Catholic venom, scandalous to Our Lord, the Eucharist, Christ's Church, the Holy Family. My response (which will be going out to Boston prolifers with an appeal to contact Anne Fox and ask her to disinvite Howie shortly).
For readers who want to contact her -
kdfox@comcast.net
MCFL - 617-242-4199
Catholic Action League Letter:
December 17, 2010
Anne Fox, President
Massachusetts Citizens For Life
The Schrafft Center
529 Main Street
Charlestown, MA 02129
Dear Anne,
We were astonished to learn that Howie Carr will be featured at MCFL's Annual Assembly For Life on January 16th. Carr is a notorious Catholic-basher with a long record of vicious and gratuitous attacks on the Catholic Religion.
On April 8, 1998 --- Wednesday in Holy Week --- in response to a decision by the Red Sox to forgo alcohol sales in Fenway Park because Opening Day would fall on Good Friday, Carr hosted a segment on his program in which he invited listeners to comment on selling "Catholic Eucharists for $3.49 a bag" as a substitute for beer. The result was a half hour of offensive slurs profaning the Blessed Sacrament.
In one particularly vile episode later in 1998, in a conversation between Carr and his producer Doug Goudie evidently intended to disparage Arabs, it was asserted that shepherds in the Middle East had unnatural relations with the animals in their flocks. Into this depraved subject the name of Saint Joseph --- the Virgin Spouse of the Virgin Mother of God --- was introduced. Saint Joseph was then misidentified as a shepherd.
In an interview with Malachy McCourt, Carr laughed and snickered over McCourt's assertion that the late Francis Cardinal Spellman was not only a homosexual but a pedophile. Carr went on to recount a story alleging that an episcopal ring was found by police in a homosexual brothel, implying that the ring belonged to Spellman.
In January, 2002, Carr hosted a segment in which he asked his listeners " Are you ashamed to be a Catholic?", during which he boasted that he never went to Mass. All throughout the molestation crisis of 2002, Carr contemptuously referred to the Cardinal Archbishop of Boston as "Bernie Law", and on November 29th of that year the Boston Herald published a column by Carr in which he described the Cardinal as "a Bulger bum kisser."
Hispanic Catholics, with their large families and culture of life, are the future of the Church and the Pro-Life movement in America. Howie Carr however, is not only an anti-Catholic but a crude nativist. One of the recurring themes of his program is the attempt to link illegal immigrants to crime. A particularly offensive gimmick is his habit of playing Mexican music while reading the names of criminal suspects with Hispanic surnames. This hostility to Hispanics and immigrants places Cardinal O'Malley, or whoever represents him from the Archdiocese of Boston, in the embarrassing position of sharing a stage with someone who boorishly castigates some of the neediest members of his flock.
In a Catholic community which has a significant number of Eastern Rite Catholics of Lebanese and Syrian descent (the Melkite Cathedral is in West Roxbury) it is unimaginable that MCFL would actually provide a platform to a rabble rousing shock jock who has described Arabs in the past as "towelheads".
Inviting Howie Carr to address the Assembly for Life is an act of monumental ingratitude to elected officials who defended the right to life and came to the aid of MCFL in difficult times. Men such as William Bulger, Ray Flynn, Thomas Finneran, and the late Jim Craven have been the victims of vulgar insults, venomous denunciations, and malevolent diatribes by this spiteful demagogue.
A larger issue here is why an organization with a predominantly Christian membership would want to showcase a public figure whose life and career embody such a cynical negation of Christian values. Howie Carr is infamous for his uncharitableness of speech, his lack of compassion, and his sneering contempt for the objects of his scorn. He preys upon the vulnerable, exploits the misfortunes of others, incites rancor and envy, and has grown rich by his indifference to the Eighth Commandment. He mocks the Church, derides the poor, maligns men who have more integrity than he does, and has ridiculed the Body, Blood, Soul and Divinity of Jesus Christ in the Holy Eucharist.
Inviting such a miserable creature to address an organization dedicated to the sanctity and dignity of human life is an affront to the Christian religion and everything the Pro-Life movement professes to uphold.
We urge you to reconsider this improvident decision and cancel the invitation to this inappropriate choice for a speaker.
Sincerely,
Daniel T. Flatley C. J. Doyle
Chairman Emeritus Executive Director
The Catholic Action League of Massachusetts
my reply:
CJ, Dan and XXXX,
Thank you for your willingness to stand up and say what needs to be said about the ongoing problems at MCFL. I remain convinced that the way to reclaim the political machine is through a concerted effort to approach the board of directors pointing out the consequences of their poor judgment and errors, ask them to make the changes we all know need to be made and if they refuse, a concerted effort should be made by all of us to call for prolifers to de-fund them.
The serious activists who are still holding on have dwindled down to a handful. Worse than ignoring them, we are put in the position of having to publicly address the scandals. It is affecting the ability to elect real prolifers. We have all been laying low hoping the turnover would bring effective leaders with good judgment into the stream slowly. This is a bust because effective leaders are undermined and eventually tossed out on their fannies. This has left our major political machine a lame duck for years. I do not think this is serving the unborn well and I firmly believe we need to take it on.
I stand behind and support CJ and Dan's request for MCFL to withdraw this ridiculous invitation to Howie Carr. God bless him, for he is a victim of the poor catechesis and cowardice of the shepherds, but the invitation is a scandal that should be acted upon.
God Bless, Carol
I spoke to CJ yesterday and frankly, I have never seen him so mad.
Anne Fox of MCFL has invited Howie Carr to be a guest speaker at the Assembly for Life gathering here in Boston.
For starters, Howie Carr is NOT a pro-lifer and has actively ridiculed and worked against pro-life candidates on his radio show. But more importantly, Howie has been articulating anti-Catholic venom for many years. As recently as this week, he has characterized "90% of all Roman Catholic priests" as "pedophiles".
In the letter below, CJ has a sampling of Howie's anti-Catholic venom, scandalous to Our Lord, the Eucharist, Christ's Church, the Holy Family. My response (which will be going out to Boston prolifers with an appeal to contact Anne Fox and ask her to disinvite Howie shortly).
For readers who want to contact her -
kdfox@comcast.net
MCFL - 617-242-4199
Catholic Action League Letter:
December 17, 2010
Anne Fox, President
Massachusetts Citizens For Life
The Schrafft Center
529 Main Street
Charlestown, MA 02129
Dear Anne,
We were astonished to learn that Howie Carr will be featured at MCFL's Annual Assembly For Life on January 16th. Carr is a notorious Catholic-basher with a long record of vicious and gratuitous attacks on the Catholic Religion.
On April 8, 1998 --- Wednesday in Holy Week --- in response to a decision by the Red Sox to forgo alcohol sales in Fenway Park because Opening Day would fall on Good Friday, Carr hosted a segment on his program in which he invited listeners to comment on selling "Catholic Eucharists for $3.49 a bag" as a substitute for beer. The result was a half hour of offensive slurs profaning the Blessed Sacrament.
In one particularly vile episode later in 1998, in a conversation between Carr and his producer Doug Goudie evidently intended to disparage Arabs, it was asserted that shepherds in the Middle East had unnatural relations with the animals in their flocks. Into this depraved subject the name of Saint Joseph --- the Virgin Spouse of the Virgin Mother of God --- was introduced. Saint Joseph was then misidentified as a shepherd.
In an interview with Malachy McCourt, Carr laughed and snickered over McCourt's assertion that the late Francis Cardinal Spellman was not only a homosexual but a pedophile. Carr went on to recount a story alleging that an episcopal ring was found by police in a homosexual brothel, implying that the ring belonged to Spellman.
In January, 2002, Carr hosted a segment in which he asked his listeners " Are you ashamed to be a Catholic?", during which he boasted that he never went to Mass. All throughout the molestation crisis of 2002, Carr contemptuously referred to the Cardinal Archbishop of Boston as "Bernie Law", and on November 29th of that year the Boston Herald published a column by Carr in which he described the Cardinal as "a Bulger bum kisser."
Hispanic Catholics, with their large families and culture of life, are the future of the Church and the Pro-Life movement in America. Howie Carr however, is not only an anti-Catholic but a crude nativist. One of the recurring themes of his program is the attempt to link illegal immigrants to crime. A particularly offensive gimmick is his habit of playing Mexican music while reading the names of criminal suspects with Hispanic surnames. This hostility to Hispanics and immigrants places Cardinal O'Malley, or whoever represents him from the Archdiocese of Boston, in the embarrassing position of sharing a stage with someone who boorishly castigates some of the neediest members of his flock.
In a Catholic community which has a significant number of Eastern Rite Catholics of Lebanese and Syrian descent (the Melkite Cathedral is in West Roxbury) it is unimaginable that MCFL would actually provide a platform to a rabble rousing shock jock who has described Arabs in the past as "towelheads".
Inviting Howie Carr to address the Assembly for Life is an act of monumental ingratitude to elected officials who defended the right to life and came to the aid of MCFL in difficult times. Men such as William Bulger, Ray Flynn, Thomas Finneran, and the late Jim Craven have been the victims of vulgar insults, venomous denunciations, and malevolent diatribes by this spiteful demagogue.
A larger issue here is why an organization with a predominantly Christian membership would want to showcase a public figure whose life and career embody such a cynical negation of Christian values. Howie Carr is infamous for his uncharitableness of speech, his lack of compassion, and his sneering contempt for the objects of his scorn. He preys upon the vulnerable, exploits the misfortunes of others, incites rancor and envy, and has grown rich by his indifference to the Eighth Commandment. He mocks the Church, derides the poor, maligns men who have more integrity than he does, and has ridiculed the Body, Blood, Soul and Divinity of Jesus Christ in the Holy Eucharist.
Inviting such a miserable creature to address an organization dedicated to the sanctity and dignity of human life is an affront to the Christian religion and everything the Pro-Life movement professes to uphold.
We urge you to reconsider this improvident decision and cancel the invitation to this inappropriate choice for a speaker.
Sincerely,
Daniel T. Flatley C. J. Doyle
Chairman Emeritus Executive Director
The Catholic Action League of Massachusetts
my reply:
CJ, Dan and XXXX,
Thank you for your willingness to stand up and say what needs to be said about the ongoing problems at MCFL. I remain convinced that the way to reclaim the political machine is through a concerted effort to approach the board of directors pointing out the consequences of their poor judgment and errors, ask them to make the changes we all know need to be made and if they refuse, a concerted effort should be made by all of us to call for prolifers to de-fund them.
The serious activists who are still holding on have dwindled down to a handful. Worse than ignoring them, we are put in the position of having to publicly address the scandals. It is affecting the ability to elect real prolifers. We have all been laying low hoping the turnover would bring effective leaders with good judgment into the stream slowly. This is a bust because effective leaders are undermined and eventually tossed out on their fannies. This has left our major political machine a lame duck for years. I do not think this is serving the unborn well and I firmly believe we need to take it on.
I stand behind and support CJ and Dan's request for MCFL to withdraw this ridiculous invitation to Howie Carr. God bless him, for he is a victim of the poor catechesis and cowardice of the shepherds, but the invitation is a scandal that should be acted upon.
God Bless, Carol
Tuesday, January 26, 2010
Scott Brown Says He'd Pose Again Naked.
In the Scott Brown round up from yesterday, we learn Brown offered to endorse Menino, his wife Gail Huff entertained topless in the music video "the girl with the curious hand" and he may do another nude centerfold spread as a great way to show the GOP isn't old and out of touch.
Boston Mayor Tom Menino and Brown say they have had a good relationship for years, and Brown even offered to endorse the mayor in his recent re-election.
I'm glad we didn't have to suffer this "pro-life" indignity but I'm curious to know where MCFL will go from here, aren't you?
Who is the lesser of two evils in the Baker/Patrick race?
Brace yourself. We may soon be hearing "pro-life Patrick".
Of course it isn't new to grassroots prolifers in Boston. MCFL has been endorsing pro-choice politicians for at least a decade. A long list of stealth prolife politicians whose votes went to empower promiscuity, Planned Parenthood and the proaborts.
Wake up Pro-lifers, before you find yourselves swimming in the culture MCFL empowered in Massachusetts.
And, if you speak up, you'll find yourselves under the bus. Possibly with your Cardinal Archbishop calling you a person doing a disservice to Christ's Church.
Pants on the ground, pants on the ground. Looking like a fool witcha pants on the ground.
Boston Mayor Tom Menino and Brown say they have had a good relationship for years, and Brown even offered to endorse the mayor in his recent re-election.
I'm glad we didn't have to suffer this "pro-life" indignity but I'm curious to know where MCFL will go from here, aren't you?
Who is the lesser of two evils in the Baker/Patrick race?
Brace yourself. We may soon be hearing "pro-life Patrick".
Brown is tailor-made for television and magazines - he's good-looking, charismatic, and he even posed nude for Cosmopolitan magazine back in the day. In fact, the 50-year-old Brown told reporters that he may do another nude shoot. A website quoted him as saying, “I think this would be a great way to show the people that the Republican party isn’t just old, and out of touch. Heck, Republicans can even be sexy."
The new "pro-life" movement.Of course it isn't new to grassroots prolifers in Boston. MCFL has been endorsing pro-choice politicians for at least a decade. A long list of stealth prolife politicians whose votes went to empower promiscuity, Planned Parenthood and the proaborts.
Wake up Pro-lifers, before you find yourselves swimming in the culture MCFL empowered in Massachusetts.
And, if you speak up, you'll find yourselves under the bus. Possibly with your Cardinal Archbishop calling you a person doing a disservice to Christ's Church.
Pants on the ground, pants on the ground. Looking like a fool witcha pants on the ground.
Sunday, January 10, 2010
Scott Brown loses his healthcare soundbyte
Whatever reasons prolifers were using about how Brown will save us all from Obamacare is starting to leak like a sieve.
Dems say if Scott Brown wins, they'll stall swearing in to pass healthcare
And, because I find people having difficulty digesting it, I'm going to say again that what Brown wants to do with healthcare is eerily similar to Roe v. Wade - infect the entire nation with it by doing it at the state level.
Scott Brown supported healthcare reform here in Massachusetts that actually included provisions to publicly funding abortions.
Is this what we're lobbying to institute across the United States?
Getting good candidates has to happen long before we all have to hold our noses to vote for the lesser of two evils. For prolifers, this is where our future lies. For those of us lobbying the political hierarchy, we'll never be able to get pro-life candidates if prolifers keep answering the revelry to get out the vote for people who get to Washington and work against us.
If we can't get the GOP to embrace real pro-life candidates and put their money and power behind them, we've got to stop lobbying and voting for the candidates they pass down to us.
This is effective politics.
There are people in pro-life political initiatives who are actually trying to change our mission statement to embrace support for Roe v. Wade as a "pro-life vote" and they've had to misrepresent Brown's positions in order to try to be effective. If you're in the game to save the lives of the unborn, the efficacy of this new development is not assisting the cause.
Also yesterday, Jack Rowe of MCFL's message about what he believes Scott Brown will do was trumped by Scott Brown:
It isn't rocket science to therefore conclude Rowe is being dishonest about what Brown will do if he gets to Washington.
I do believe Coakley is treacherous and I understand if you're contemplating voting to keep her out. But before you do, I'm asking pro-lifers to really inform themselves about Brown's positions, look at the bigger picture and prayerfully double-check their consciences to see where you want to draw the line in the sand.
We have two elections coming up where we can make a significant impact and lobby the GOP to put money and power into our candidates - and really uproot the tyranny. Obama's tanking, the GOP is ripe for picking and the people are desperate for direction.
Perhaps it's time to stop giving the drunks the keys to the car.
I've reached the point where I realize voting for the lesser of two evils IS the lesser of two evils and I do hope to educate people about the reasons why.
Dems say if Scott Brown wins, they'll stall swearing in to pass healthcare
“This is a stunning admission by Paul Kirk and the Beacon Hill political machine,” said Brown in a statement. “Paul Kirk appears to be suggesting that he, Deval Patrick, and (Senate Majority Leader) Harry Reid intend to stall the election certification until the health care bill is rammed through Congress, even if that means defying the will of the people of Massachusetts. As we’ve already seen from the backroom deals and kickbacks cut by the Democrats in Washington, they intend to do anything and everything to pass their controversial health care plan. But threatening to ignore the results of a free election and steal this Senate vote from the people of Massachusetts takes their schemes to a whole new level. Martha Coakley should immediately disavow this threat from one of her campaign’s leading supporters.” A spokeswoman for Coakley’s campaign declined to comment Friday.
And, because I find people having difficulty digesting it, I'm going to say again that what Brown wants to do with healthcare is eerily similar to Roe v. Wade - infect the entire nation with it by doing it at the state level.
Brown also says in this article that he wants to take the proposal for healthcare reform "back to the drawing board" -
The Republican candidate to succeed the late Sen. Ted Kennedy said he'd be a vote to take a proposal for health care reform back to the drawing board because he said the plan could worsen care already available to Massachusetts residents. On healthcare, Brown said each state should be left to handle provisions for its residents, like Massachusetts did when it required coverage beginning in 2007. He said the state could share its programs with other states and replicate them, and work with other congressional delegations if federal aid would be needed to get state-level health care plans in place. Imposing a federal-level insurance plan may mean Massachusetts residents could see lesser care and higher cost, he said
Scott Brown supported healthcare reform here in Massachusetts that actually included provisions to publicly funding abortions.
Is this what we're lobbying to institute across the United States?
Getting good candidates has to happen long before we all have to hold our noses to vote for the lesser of two evils. For prolifers, this is where our future lies. For those of us lobbying the political hierarchy, we'll never be able to get pro-life candidates if prolifers keep answering the revelry to get out the vote for people who get to Washington and work against us.
If we can't get the GOP to embrace real pro-life candidates and put their money and power behind them, we've got to stop lobbying and voting for the candidates they pass down to us.
This is effective politics.
There are people in pro-life political initiatives who are actually trying to change our mission statement to embrace support for Roe v. Wade as a "pro-life vote" and they've had to misrepresent Brown's positions in order to try to be effective. If you're in the game to save the lives of the unborn, the efficacy of this new development is not assisting the cause.
Also yesterday, Jack Rowe of MCFL's message about what he believes Scott Brown will do was trumped by Scott Brown:
And though he has previously said he recognizes Roe v. Wade, the court ruling that legalized abortion, as the law of the land, he won the endorsement of Massachusetts Citizens for Life as an expected “prolife vote in the Senate.’’
“I believe - and he has stated - that he would vote for a [Supreme Court] nominee who would be opposed to Roe v. Wade,’’ said John Rowe, who heads the antiabortion group’s political action committee. Brown’s campaign says he would be willing to do so, but he does not view abortion as a litmus test for a Supreme Court nominee either way.
The reality is, Brown not only does this say whether a candidate Brown votes for is prolife has nothing to do with the reasons why he'll vote for him, he has said previously that he'd be disinclined to vote for somebody who interprets the constitution about right to life issues from the bench.
It isn't rocket science to therefore conclude Rowe is being dishonest about what Brown will do if he gets to Washington.
I do believe Coakley is treacherous and I understand if you're contemplating voting to keep her out. But before you do, I'm asking pro-lifers to really inform themselves about Brown's positions, look at the bigger picture and prayerfully double-check their consciences to see where you want to draw the line in the sand.
We have two elections coming up where we can make a significant impact and lobby the GOP to put money and power into our candidates - and really uproot the tyranny. Obama's tanking, the GOP is ripe for picking and the people are desperate for direction.
Perhaps it's time to stop giving the drunks the keys to the car.
I've reached the point where I realize voting for the lesser of two evils IS the lesser of two evils and I do hope to educate people about the reasons why.
Thursday, January 7, 2010
More on Scott Brown and MCFL
MCFL sent out parables today (posted below my response).
In response to MCFL's email, here's another parable for your consideration:
A story in Maccabees of a martyred mother with seven sons. Greek King Antiochus tried to force a faithful woman and her sons to eat meat. The Jewish mother refused in her faithfulness to religious law that meat defiled the soul. Each one of them chose death rather than to be a spectacle in the public square of caving to the tyranny of governmental pressure to disobey God.
For the men and women who signed the Manhattan Declaration, this would the moment to apply the principle. These are the days.
I see our role here as faithfulness as this world decays around us. We have been going the wrong way. MCFL has been getting and giving terrible advice.
I believe voters have the right to accurate information to make up their own mind on what they want to do about Scott Brown. Most of them have not done their homework and are relying upon MCFL to classify him - calling him a "pro-life" vote is dubious, at best. Everyone has to live with their own conscience, according to their own principles . MCFL has made the decision for the prolife community here in Boston and is withholding information from the people while at the same time asking them send a candidate to Washington based upon what they think will happen.
In reality, it is not about what Jack Rowe, Ann Fox or anyone thinks or believes Scott Brown will do - it's about what Scott Brown says he'll do.
Here are quotes from articles from the last few days:
1.
http://www.ontheissues.org/Social/Scott_Brown_Abortion.htm
Rep. Brown indicated he supports the following principles concerning abortion:Abortions should always be legally available. Abortions should be legal when the pregnancy resulted from incest or rape. Abortions should be legal when the life of the woman is endangered.
"Abortions should always be legally available" - It's perfectly clear there is no basis to believe Brown will ever be voting for a constitutional amendment.
2.
http://www.wickedlocal.com/needham/news/x1689190524/Brown-I-dont-owe-anybody-anything
Brown has said he supports Roe v. Wade and abortion is of very little importance to him. While he says he thinks it's unimportant whether a judge is prolife or prochoice - he also says he will not select judges who will "legislate from the bench. Brown will actually rule out selecting any judicial candidate who interprets the constitution as having a fundamental right to life by characterizing them as "legislating from the bench".
Do you see the difference between MCFL distributing her beliefs about what Brown may do without substantive soundbytes from Brown and drawing conclusions about what Brown will do from the substantive soundbytes Brown himself has said he will do?
Brown also says in this article that he wants to take the proposal for healthcare reform "back to the drawing board" -
Scott Brown supported healthcare reform here in Massachusetts that actually included provisions to publicly funding abortions.
4.
http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2009/11/20/being_the_underdog_never_deters_a_driven_brown/
Brown supported Massachusetts health care overhaul in 2006 and favors elements advanced in the congressional debate about a national overhaul. But he said he would oppose the bills now moving through Congress because they would help other states at the expense of Massachusetts
What differences does it make to the prolife community whether he wants to reform healthcare by instituting this in 52 states? It trumps the Hyde Amendment. This is akin to Roe v. Wade only now we are publicly funding the abortions. For anyone on this circulation who doesn't understand why in processes, I'm happy to demonstrate how by using the Massachusetts healthcare reform Brown helped to implement. We just went through a terrible battle to protect our conscience rights being obliterated by our own chancery. We still don't have all the details of what the contracts say here in Massachusetts. What we do know is nothing at all changed except for large infusions of cash into Caritas. Procedurally, the abortion contracts Caritas made are still in effect and our employees still are being compelled to vet patients who are covered for abortion, want an abortion and have to be told what number to call to proceed with the abortion along with the instructions and we still have promised to make sure they have a ride to the abortionists. What entity is listed on paper as owning this structure is secretive.
Is it MCFL's belief that Brown's aspirations for our 52 states to institute this mess is some kind of prolife version of national healthcare?
What are MCFL substantive ideas about Brown's plan? It isn't enough to say he's going to stop national healthcare because he has other plans that are destructive to the country, to our conscience protections.
5.
http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2009/11/20/being_the_underdog_never_deters_a_driven_brown/
On abortion rights, Brown is basically in favor but with nuance. “Roe v. Wade is the law of the land, and I don’t plan on overturning it, but I’ve always felt that, you know, I’m against partial-birth abortions and believe in parental consent, a strong parental notification law,’’ Brown said, adding that he would not apply an abortion rights litmus test in Supreme Court confirmations.
You've got to reach beyond what MCFL is circulating about what they think about believe Scott Brown will do and look at the evidence.
We are in a critical hour where we can influence what kind of candidates we get from the GOP going forward. The question is, do you want to continue use our prolife networks to lobby for candidates who are proabortion or do we have the courage, strength, faith and loyalto to Christ to tell them not to bother coming to us unless they're willing to put their money behind a candidate has a proven track record in the sanctity of life from the moment of conception to natural death.
Are you willing to throw away this chance to change our future for this candidate?
Do you think that MCFL will have any further influence with getting prolife candidates funded with the kind of money we need to win after they have proven that they'll categorize this man's record as sending a "pro-life vote" to the senate?
I don't relish having people upset with me - but I believe MCFL is giving terrible advice.
Scott Brown vows to work with Dems
And throw this useless servant into the darkness outside, where there will be wailing and grinding of teeth.'
In response to MCFL's email, here's another parable for your consideration:
A story in Maccabees of a martyred mother with seven sons. Greek King Antiochus tried to force a faithful woman and her sons to eat meat. The Jewish mother refused in her faithfulness to religious law that meat defiled the soul. Each one of them chose death rather than to be a spectacle in the public square of caving to the tyranny of governmental pressure to disobey God.
For the men and women who signed the Manhattan Declaration, this would the moment to apply the principle. These are the days.
I see our role here as faithfulness as this world decays around us. We have been going the wrong way. MCFL has been getting and giving terrible advice.
I believe voters have the right to accurate information to make up their own mind on what they want to do about Scott Brown. Most of them have not done their homework and are relying upon MCFL to classify him - calling him a "pro-life" vote is dubious, at best. Everyone has to live with their own conscience, according to their own principles . MCFL has made the decision for the prolife community here in Boston and is withholding information from the people while at the same time asking them send a candidate to Washington based upon what they think will happen.
In reality, it is not about what Jack Rowe, Ann Fox or anyone thinks or believes Scott Brown will do - it's about what Scott Brown says he'll do.
Here are quotes from articles from the last few days:
1.
http://www.ontheissues.org/Social/Scott_Brown_Abortion.htm
Rep. Brown indicated he supports the following principles concerning abortion:
"Abortions should always be legally available" - It's perfectly clear there is no basis to believe Brown will ever be voting for a constitutional amendment.
2.
http://www.wickedlocal.com/needham/news/x1689190524/Brown-I-dont-owe-anybody-anything
While abortion coverage proved a sticking point lawmakers developing federal health care reform, Brown said the positions he and Coakley take on abortion aren't pivotal to the Massachusetts Senate race. Both support Roe vs. Wade, but Brown opposes late-term abortions and lowering the age of consent to have one.
"Abortion really isn't a large part of this race. It's not something that is important at this point, because the major issues are dealing with taxation, deficit spending and where our national security interests are in terms of keeping our country safe," said Brown.
Brown also noted that whether a candidate for a federal judgeship was pro-life or pro-choice holds "very little importance to me" and would have voted to appoint Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor. He would not want a judge "legislating from the bench."
Brown has said he supports Roe v. Wade and abortion is of very little importance to him. While he says he thinks it's unimportant whether a judge is prolife or prochoice - he also says he will not select judges who will "legislate from the bench. Brown will actually rule out selecting any judicial candidate who interprets the constitution as having a fundamental right to life by characterizing them as "legislating from the bench".
Do you see the difference between MCFL distributing her beliefs about what Brown may do without substantive soundbytes from Brown and drawing conclusions about what Brown will do from the substantive soundbytes Brown himself has said he will do?
Brown also says in this article that he wants to take the proposal for healthcare reform "back to the drawing board" -
The Republican candidate to succeed the late Sen. Ted Kennedy said he'd be a vote to take a proposal for health care reform back to the drawing board because he said the plan could worsen care already available to Massachusetts residents. On healthcare, Brown said each state should be left to handle provisions for its residents, like Massachusetts did when it required coverage beginning in 2007. He said the state could share its programs with other states and replicate them, and work with other congressional delegations if federal aid would be needed to get state-level health care plans in place. Imposing a federal-level insurance plan may mean Massachusetts residents could see lesser care and higher cost, he said
Scott Brown supported healthcare reform here in Massachusetts that actually included provisions to publicly funding abortions.
4.
http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2009/11/20/being_the_underdog_never_deters_a_driven_brown/
Brown supported Massachusetts health care overhaul in 2006 and favors elements advanced in the congressional debate about a national overhaul. But he said he would oppose the bills now moving through Congress because they would help other states at the expense of Massachusetts
What differences does it make to the prolife community whether he wants to reform healthcare by instituting this in 52 states? It trumps the Hyde Amendment. This is akin to Roe v. Wade only now we are publicly funding the abortions. For anyone on this circulation who doesn't understand why in processes, I'm happy to demonstrate how by using the Massachusetts healthcare reform Brown helped to implement. We just went through a terrible battle to protect our conscience rights being obliterated by our own chancery. We still don't have all the details of what the contracts say here in Massachusetts. What we do know is nothing at all changed except for large infusions of cash into Caritas. Procedurally, the abortion contracts Caritas made are still in effect and our employees still are being compelled to vet patients who are covered for abortion, want an abortion and have to be told what number to call to proceed with the abortion along with the instructions and we still have promised to make sure they have a ride to the abortionists. What entity is listed on paper as owning this structure is secretive.
Is it MCFL's belief that Brown's aspirations for our 52 states to institute this mess is some kind of prolife version of national healthcare?
What are MCFL substantive ideas about Brown's plan? It isn't enough to say he's going to stop national healthcare because he has other plans that are destructive to the country, to our conscience protections.
5.
http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2009/11/20/being_the_underdog_never_deters_a_driven_brown/
On abortion rights, Brown is basically in favor but with nuance. “Roe v. Wade is the law of the land, and I don’t plan on overturning it, but I’ve always felt that, you know, I’m against partial-birth abortions and believe in parental consent, a strong parental notification law,’’ Brown said, adding that he would not apply an abortion rights litmus test in Supreme Court confirmations.
You've got to reach beyond what MCFL is circulating about what they think about believe Scott Brown will do and look at the evidence.
We are in a critical hour where we can influence what kind of candidates we get from the GOP going forward. The question is, do you want to continue use our prolife networks to lobby for candidates who are proabortion or do we have the courage, strength, faith and loyalto to Christ to tell them not to bother coming to us unless they're willing to put their money behind a candidate has a proven track record in the sanctity of life from the moment of conception to natural death.
Are you willing to throw away this chance to change our future for this candidate?
Do you think that MCFL will have any further influence with getting prolife candidates funded with the kind of money we need to win after they have proven that they'll categorize this man's record as sending a "pro-life vote" to the senate?
I don't relish having people upset with me - but I believe MCFL is giving terrible advice.
One more thing for your consideration. Brown claims that he would support laws protecting our conscience.
I'm here to remind you that in Massachusetts, Catholics Hospitals are being illicitly forced to hand out emergency contraception. Where was Brown when this was happening? What influence in helping Scott Brown get elected has protected our conscience rights?
What has Brown actually "done" to help us remove the illegal "interpretation" of law by Mitt Romney?
He's done nothing.
Here's todays Scott Brown soundbyte. He's going to be the swing vote for both parties. Yesterday, he said he wouldn't vote for a judicial candidate who "legislated from the bench". Today, he has another story. These are his principles and you don't like them, he has others
May God protect, guide and counsel us all.
In Christ, Carol McKinley
Scott Brown vows to work with Dems
“I give you my word. What’s the Republican party gonna to do to me? They haven’t really done much for me now,” he said. “So all of a sudden I’m obligated to them? I don’t owe anybody anything.”
With 12 days to go until the Jan. 19 special election - and on the heels of a poll showing him within striking distance of Coakley - Brown said his stance on issues makes him “the most important vote down there potentially.”
“If I go down there, I’ll be the 41st (Republican) senator,” he said. “The Democrats have to come to me and say, ‘Scott, we know you’re an independent guy, can we have you on this issue?’
“That’s a great position to be in,” he added.
Brown continued to paint himself as a social moderate who is tight-fisted with taxpayer dollars and hawkish on national security. He said there may be cases in which U.S. citizens should be treated as enemy combatants if they have undergone terrorism training outside the country.
“Even though they hold the status of U.S. citizens, now they’ve gone to a different level,” he said. “They’re joining a known terrorist group and almost saying, ‘Even though I’m born here . . . I want to be (elsewhere) instead.’ ”
Brown ducked the label “pro-choice” while saying abortion should be a woman’s personal choice. In the next breath, he said he would vote to confirm a U.S. Supreme Court justice who opposed Roe v. Wade - but added he would have supported Justice Sonia Sotomayor.
“The party’s never been behind me - I’m not the party guy,” he said. “That’s the beauty of me.”
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First Parable
The Fire Chief came and told the woman that her house had burned to the ground and all the children were dead. The woman replied, "At least my conscience is pure! I did not deal with anyone who would not guarantee to save all the children"
A woman ran a large orphanage full of precious children. One day a terrible fire broke out. The woman ran for help. Her neighbors came and said they would go in to save the children. The woman asked, "Will you save all my children?" "No", said the neighbors, "But we will save as many as we can". The woman replied, "I don't want to have anything to do with you if you can't guarantee to save them all"
The firemen came and said they would go in to save the children. The woman asked, "Will you save all my children?" "No", said the firemen, "But we will save as many as we can". The woman replied, "I don't want to have anything to do with you if you can't guarantee to save them all"
The Fire Chief came and told the woman that her house had burned to the ground and all the children were dead. The woman replied, "At least my conscience is pure! I did not deal with anyone who would not guarantee to save all the children"
Second Parable
A flood arrives and the man is up to his knees in water. A truck comes to him. The people in the truck call out, "We have come to save you! Get in!" The man replies, "No thank you. God will save me"The water rises and the man is hanging out of his second story window. A speedboat comes to him. The people in the boat call out, "We have come to save you! Get in!" The man replies, "No thank you. God will save me"
The man is on his roof clinging to his chimney. A helicopter comes to him. The people in the helicopter call out, "We have come to save you! Get in!" The man replies, "No thank you. God will save me"
Of course, the man drowns. When he sees God, he berates God for not saving him. God answers, "I sent a truck for you, I sent a boat for you, I sent a helicopter for you...
Third Parable
Matthew (25:13-30)"It will be as when a man who was going on a journey called in his servants and entrusted his possessions to them.
To one he gave five talents;to another, two; to a third, one--to each according to his ability. Then he went away.
Immediately the one who received five talents went and traded with them, and made another five.
Immediately the one who received five talents went and traded with them, and made another five.
Likewise, the one who received two made another two. But the man who received one went off and dug a hole in the ground and buried his master's money.
After a long time the master of those servants came back and settled accounts with them.
After a long time the master of those servants came back and settled accounts with them.
The one who had received five talents came forward bringing the additional five. He said, 'Master, you gave me five talents. See, I have made five more.'
His master said to him, 'Well done, my good and faithful servant. Since you were faithful in small matters, I will give you great responsibilities. Come, share your master's joy.'
(Then) the one who had received two talents also came forward and said, 'Master, you gave me two talents. See, I have made two more.'
His master said to him, 'Well done, my good and faithful servant. Since you were faithful in small matters, I will give you great responsibilities. Come, share your master's joy.'
Then the one who had received the one talent came forward and said, 'Master, I knew you were a demanding person, harvesting where you did not plant and gathering where you did not scatter;so out of fear I went off and buried your talent in the ground. Here it is back.'
Then the one who had received the one talent came forward and said, 'Master, I knew you were a demanding person, harvesting where you did not plant and gathering where you did not scatter;so out of fear I went off and buried your talent in the ground. Here it is back.'
His master said to him in reply, 'You wicked, lazy servant! So you knew that I harvest where I did not plant and gather where I did not scatter?
Should you not then have put my money in the bank so that I could have got it back with interest on my return?
Now then! Take the talent from him and give it to the one with ten.
For to everyone who has, more will be given and he will grow rich; but from the one who has not, even what he has will be taken away.
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I can 't seem to crack the code how these relate to voting for the proabort who isn't as bad as the other proabort.
Soon, prolifers will have a choice between Charlie Baker/Richard Tisei and Devil Patrick/Tim Murray..
This fool is gearing up for "the parables".
Soon, prolifers will have a choice between Charlie Baker/Richard Tisei and Devil Patrick/Tim Murray..
This fool is gearing up for "the parables".
Monday, January 4, 2010
Scott Brown Finally Publicly Says He is Prochoice
Brown says abortion is of very little importance to him:
http://www.wickedlocal.com/needham/news/x1689190524/Brown-I-dont-owe-anybody-anything
You'd have to have long arms to distribute flyers from 35 feet.
Well, you could always try paper airplaning them?
It's may be true if prolifers send Brown to Washington he'll vote "no" on healthcare this round.
He's just said he supports Roe v. Wade and the abortion issue means very little to him.
Brown was a supporter of Massachusetts healthcare "reform" that provides abortion with taxpayer dollars.
Calling this guy a pro-life vote and lobbying for him is imprudent.
The reasons why we don't get prolife candidates to have succesful campaigns is because they're being sabotaged by prolifers by supporting prochoice candidates instead, calling it the lesser of two evils.
We've got to stop letting prochoice candidates use our leadership, our newtorking, our grassroots campaigning.
There was a candidate who supports the right to life from the moment of conception to natural death running opposite Brown in the Republican primary. Jack Robinson.
You know how MCFL is now saying there will be very little turnout and the pro-life vote can win it? Well, back in the primary days, they weren't willing to help Robinson win with the same votes they're now rounding up for Brown.
They had a different soundbyte back then.
Though Robinson answered he supported life from the moment of conception to natural death, Anne Fox sabotaged his campaign by saying - get this - Robinson was not pro-life because he wasn't for a constitutional amendment!
She ended the email by saying she would "keep you up to date".
How's she doing?
When will it get to the point where the pro-life community realizes we need new leadership?
There's a significant problem that we keep refusing to fix at the level of leadership volunteering our resources to prochoice candidates. By the time they get down to us, we feel desperate enough to vote for him.
Unless and until the GOP realizes we are NOT going to support a prochoice candidate, come what may - we'll continue on this collision course of compromise that is destroying our Nation.
If you're a prolifer, you better ask yourself in the face of the evidence whether Brown is a "pro-life" vote or whether he's going to "revamp" healthcare to exclude exploiting the poor, the elderly, the suffering and the unborn - and then ask yourself how you can sit on your hands while Anne Fox continues to take the unborn on this trajectory.
Cheers!
http://www.wickedlocal.com/needham/news/x1689190524/Brown-I-dont-owe-anybody-anything
While abortion coverage proved a sticking point lawmakers developing federal health care reform, Brown said the positions he and Coakley take on abortion aren't pivotal to the Massachusetts Senate race. Both support Roe vs. Wade, but Brown opposes late-term abortions and lowering the age of consent to have one.
"Abortion really isn't a large part of this race. It's not something that is important at this point, because the major issues are dealing with taxation, deficit spending and where our national security interests are in terms of keeping our country safe," said Brown.
Brown also noted that whether a candidate for a federal judgeship was pro-life or pro-choice holds "very little importance to me" and would have voted to appoint Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor. He would not want a judge "legislating from the bench."
For those of you who have been standing in front of abortion clinics saving lives, I'd be careful not to cross the buffer zones when you pass out Vote for Brown leaflets:
Not all of Brown’s votes are easy to classify, however. In 2007, he cast a vote to create a 35-foot buffer zone around abortion clinics to better distance protestors from patients.
You'd have to have long arms to distribute flyers from 35 feet.
Well, you could always try paper airplaning them?
It's may be true if prolifers send Brown to Washington he'll vote "no" on healthcare this round.
The Republican candidate to succeed the late Sen. Ted Kennedy said he'd be a vote to take a proposal for health care reform back to the drawing board because he said the plan could worsen care already available to Massachusetts residents.Brown is for national healthcare, he just wants to go back to the drawing board.
He's just said he supports Roe v. Wade and the abortion issue means very little to him.
Brown was a supporter of Massachusetts healthcare "reform" that provides abortion with taxpayer dollars.
Calling this guy a pro-life vote and lobbying for him is imprudent.
The reasons why we don't get prolife candidates to have succesful campaigns is because they're being sabotaged by prolifers by supporting prochoice candidates instead, calling it the lesser of two evils.
We've got to stop letting prochoice candidates use our leadership, our newtorking, our grassroots campaigning.
There was a candidate who supports the right to life from the moment of conception to natural death running opposite Brown in the Republican primary. Jack Robinson.
You know how MCFL is now saying there will be very little turnout and the pro-life vote can win it? Well, back in the primary days, they weren't willing to help Robinson win with the same votes they're now rounding up for Brown.
They had a different soundbyte back then.
Though Robinson answered he supported life from the moment of conception to natural death, Anne Fox sabotaged his campaign by saying - get this - Robinson was not pro-life because he wasn't for a constitutional amendment!
She ended the email by saying she would "keep you up to date".
How's she doing?
When will it get to the point where the pro-life community realizes we need new leadership?
There's a significant problem that we keep refusing to fix at the level of leadership volunteering our resources to prochoice candidates. By the time they get down to us, we feel desperate enough to vote for him.
Unless and until the GOP realizes we are NOT going to support a prochoice candidate, come what may - we'll continue on this collision course of compromise that is destroying our Nation.
If you're a prolifer, you better ask yourself in the face of the evidence whether Brown is a "pro-life" vote or whether he's going to "revamp" healthcare to exclude exploiting the poor, the elderly, the suffering and the unborn - and then ask yourself how you can sit on your hands while Anne Fox continues to take the unborn on this trajectory.
Cheers!
Sunday, January 3, 2010
Calling Scott Brown "pro-life" is akin to calling Tiger Woods "mongomous"
For several months, there's been squabbling in Boston's pro-life community over MCFL's active campaigning for Scott Brown and their characterizations of him as a pro-lifer. I've laid low publicly about the dust up because nobody in the pro-life community disputes that Martha Coakley is a greater threat to life and liberty than Brown. In fact, everyone is in agreement that Coakley's ideology on the sanctity of life is worse than Kennedy's.
I don't mean this entry to be discouraging to anyone who in good faith believes Brown will stop Martha Coakley and/or the healthcare bill. I fully understand and can empathize with that trajectory.
Early on, hardcore prolifers did their diligence on Brown's convictions on abortion. Brown was couching his language in writing because he was courting the prolife community, but was straight-forward verbally to many prolifers that he supports Roe v. Wade.
As Brown's campaign trotted along, in conversations with Massachusetts prolifers at large, it became clear to me that the lack of written verification of Brown's support of Roe v. Wade was causing some confusion. Apparently MCFL had invited Brown to put up a table at the Boston 2009 Walk for Life. Accordingly, people presumed the invitation and Brown's presence indicated MCFL had scrutinized his convictions about the sanctity of life, made the determination on behalf of the pro-life community that he opposed Roe v. Wade and did not do their own diligence.
I wrote to Scott, explained the situation and asked him to come clean in writing about his convictions on abortion.
This was his reply:
Hi Carol.I am against partial-birth abortion, for parental consent, and against federal funding for abortions. Hope this helps.
I noted the deliberate omission of his support for Roe v. Wade and asked not to proceed with this strategy.
I told him playing games with words would be perceived in the prolife community as his character being deceptive rather than honorable. I explained that because pro-lifers consider Coakley so culturally dangerous, I believed he'd be better off marketing himself with honesty. That way, prolifers would at least know Brown says what he means and means what he says, and he'll follow through with his campaign promises.
I told him I was very tapped into the grassroots, the actual people who "vote", and I believed garnering support with intellectual dishonesty would be detrimental to his campaign, the leadership of the people he was using in the prolife community to distribute misinformation and to the future unity of the Massachusetts prolife community.
I wrote him numerous times regurgitating the above soundbytes and asking him to man up.
He never responded.
He subsequently did say he was in favor of abortion rights in this Boston Globe article:
On abortion rights, Brown is basically in favor but with nuance. “Roe v. Wade is the law of the land, and I don’t plan on overturning it, but I’ve always felt that, you know, I’m against partial-birth abortions and believe in parental consent, a strong parental notification law,’’ Brown said, adding that he would not apply an abortion rights litmus test in Supreme Court confirmations.
And, on his campaign website:
AbortionThe following is Project Vote Smart rating of Brown on abortion:
While this decision should ultimately be made by the woman in consultation with her doctor, I believe we need to reduce the number of abortions in America. I believe government has the responsibility to regulate in this area and I support parental consent and notification requirements and I oppose partial birth abortion. I also believe there are people of good will on both sides of the issue and we ought to work together to support and promote adoption as an alternative to abortion.
Abortion Issues
2005 Senator Brown supported the interests of the NARAL Pro-Choice Massachusetts 50 percent in 2005.
2004 Senator Brown supported the interests of the Massachusetts Citizens for Life 33 percent in 2004.
2000 In 2000 Massachusetts Citizens for Life determined Senator Brown to be 8.
In addition to Brown, there was another candidate in the Republican primary running for Kennedy's seat - Jack E. Robinson. Robinson claimed to be pro-life and tried to lobby prolifers saying that both Brown and MCFL were misrepresenting his pro-life credentials.
Dec 8 Tue Special Primary election for Senator Kennedy's old seat;
All Democrats are Pro-Choice (Pro-Abortion) and Pro-same-sex marriage; STEPHEN G. PAGLIUCA, Rep. Michael Capuano (100% NARAL Pro-Choice rating), AG Martha Coakley (100% NARAL Pro-Choice) and ALAN A. KHAZEI.
You could at least exercise your Prudential Judgment with a vote for a Republican
Republican Scott Brown has a mixed Pro-Life/Pro-Choice record but is against same-sex marriage.
Republican Jack E. Robinson is Pro-Life but also Pro-same-sex marriage and Pro-Gay and Transgender rights. He was against the Stimulus and the Public option on Health Care.
Yet, on page 5 of the November/December issue of MCFL News, not only was Robinson excluded from the MCFL chart on where the candidates stood on the life issues, but the question of whether the candidates actually favored or opposed abortion was omitted!
Following the publication of MCFL's newsletter and just before the primary, MCFL responded to Robinson's claims that they and Brown were being less than forthright, by circulating an amazing email written by Anne Fox, throwing Robinson under the bus:
On the Republican side, Jack E. Robinson has entered the race. His campaign delivered cards to homes in the cities across the state. The cards claim that he is the only pro-life candidate.
Robinson was interviewed by Deborah Becker on WBUR Radio in Boston. She asked him where he stands on abortion. He answered, "Well, I would never vote for a constitutional amendment, if that's what you are asking me, but I'm personally pro-life."
This is an amazing and contradictory position for two reasons.
First, the "only pro-life candidate" obviously would want to guarantee the right to life of all by passing a constitutional amendment.
Secondly, the last time Robinson ran for the U. S. Senate he filled out the MCFL questionnaire. The first question, "Do you believe that the law should protect the right to life of each human being from conception to natural death?" Robinson answered "yes", which, of course, implies support for a constitutional amendment.
If you live in Everett, North Adams, Fall River or one of the many places where the cards were distributed, you need to share this information with everyone in your area.
We'll keep you up to date as the Primary approaches.
Anne Fox, President
The real question is here, in "keeping people up to date", why hasn't Scott Brown's contradictory position, support of Roe v. Wade and opposition to a constitutional amendment ever been distributed to the pro-life community?
In the past week, MCFL has escalated their campaign for Brown in the pro-life community using the adjective "pro-life":
The PAC is organizing this effort by state rep. districts. That means you can help close to home.
Jack says, "This is an unprecedented opportunity to send a pro life vote to the Senate. The turn-out will be very low. The name of the game will be getting out the vote. There are more than enough pro-lifers in the state to send Scott Brown to Washington - a pro-life vote from Massachusetts, no less!....
Jack and the PAC are working very hard. Thank you for helping!
Anne Fox, President
I'm not exactly sure why MCFL is convinced Brown is going to vote against healthcare. Seems to me, he supports national healthcare:
Brown supported Massachusetts health care overhaul in 2006 and favors elements advanced in the congressional debate about a national overhaul. But he said he would oppose the bills now moving through Congress because they would help other states at the expense of Massachusetts.
It's clear to me that Brown favors national healthcare but opposes elements that siphon money from Massachusetts. It should also not go unnoticed that in 2006 he was in favor of healthcare reform in Massachusetts that publicly funds abortions.
I wrote to Janet Callahan (of MCFL) yesterday, pointing out that most people in the prolife community have relied upon MCFL's representation that Brown is "pro-life" thinking that implies he opposes Roe v. Wade.
I explained that an honest campaign would have explained Brown is pro-choice but better than Coakley because there are many in the grassroots who are done with compromising. They have the right to accurate information from MCFL. I suggested they stop using the word "pro-life".
Never before in history of the authentic prolife movement has anyone used the word "pro-life" for a pro-choice candidate. We ought to leave that to the Catholics United and Catholics in Alliance for the Common Good crowd.
This was her response:
Hello Carol,
Thank you for you email. However, it is a misstatement to say that MCFL calls Scott Brown “pro-life.” In fact, we call Scott Brown “a pro-life vote.”
Best wishes for a New Year filled with blessings,
Janet
I wrote back and explained that the latest round of worthsmything still doesn't cut it because Brown is NOT a "pro-life vote."
He's admitted when it comes to voting, his support is on the side of Roe v. Wade, so it's a pro-choice vote.
I reiterated that they can't send people out into the streets or to the polls with the serious omission and commission of making them believe they're working for a pro-life candidate.
Last night, they circulated another email, still implying Brown is a pro-lifer:
Jack Rowe, Chair, Massachusetts Citizens for Life Political Action Committee tells us:
"People are terribly upset about health care and asking what to do.
Here is the very exciting part. We in Massachusetts can actually save the whole country from this awful health care.
Our PAC has been supporting Scott Brown because he will be a pro-life vote in the Senate. Scott Brown will also vote against the health care bill.
After the compromise bill comes out of conference, it must be approved again by each house. Brown will vote against the bill. That means there will not be 60 votes in the Senate! That means the bill will be defeated!
Can we do it? We certainly can! Turn-out will be very small. If each of you votes for Scott Brown and gets one other person to vote that should win the election. Also, be sure to arrange for your elderly or house-bound friends to vote. Call your town hall on Monday!
We must be very sure so we are doing a huge pro-life literature "drop" the weekend of January 16 and 17 - right before the election. We need your help! Please contact Janet at Mass Citizens to volunteer: jcallahan@masscitizensforlife.org or 617-242-4199 X 230.
We are the only state that can stop this health care! You and I are the voters who can do it. Contact Janet today!
I'm sorry to say this, but if you take a leadership position in the pro-life community, the duty comes with prohibitions against the violation of the word "pro-life".
There are many of us who believe the strategy of voting for the "lesser of two evils" has done a disservice to the unborn. By supporting the lesser of two evils, we keep circling in the same vicious cycle of empowering evil. It has destroyed our country.
It isn't spite and it isn't foolishness.
It's political strategy.
Let me explain.
We're in a unique position at this point in time in history.
The power of the GOP has been choked off. They didn't give us the right candidates.
The system is set up in a hierarchy. The GOP shoots candidates up the flagpole, lobbies initiatives with grassroots followings and networks to see if they'll salute. When a suitable candidate passes inspection we presumably will then provide leadership and ground troops to lobby voters for their candidate.
The system is designed to work so that the initiatives say "no" to the GOP when they come around with a pro-choice candidate. But that is no longer happening.
In 2008, the GOP cleaned Romney up thinking Romney's life-long opposition to us in the trenches would be forgotten if they taught him the right soundbytes. Romney had the best guidance and counsel money could buy.
Sadly, a number of loose cannons in that middle-management layer of pro-life initiatives said "yes" to Romney. But, when Romney was circulated to the ground troops, we refused to rally the ground troops to get the voter out.
We choked the power at the level above the voter.
So, here we are in 2010 and the GOP has lobbied a pro-life initiative to get out the vote for a prochoice candidate.
Here's why working for a prochoice candidate, and worse, giving him any kind of pro-life credentials, is political suicide:
- The entire structure of political power is based upon money and the power of networking.
- Every prolife candidate that comes along, we don't support because "he doesn't have a chance".
- He doesn't have a chance because he doesn't have the "money".
- Prolife candidates cannot make it without the people in the GOP with the money. It is a sad fact but true that we need money to get the message and our people out into the public square on the trains, in front of the boob tube, ads, on websites, commercials - etc.
- The GOP will never give our candidates the money, so long as we keep supporting prochoice candidates who are fiscal conservatives.
- Lobbying our POWER to the GOP who now knows we'll use our network and call their prochoice candidate "pro-life" is political suicide.
When Judie Brown or Fr. Pavone say a candidate is pro-life, we know exactly what that word means.
When Patrick Kennedy uses the word "pro-life", we know he's hijacked the word to give it a different meaning.
The pro-life community should not have to be second guessing what MCFL means when they use the word "pro-life". MCFL's dishonesty about the word "prolife" leaves me very troubled. The trust of the people is being violated and consciences are being deliberately misinformed.
I'm of the opinion that we have a real opportunity to get the GOP to give us authentic pro-life candidates going forward. The GOP needs pro-lifers. Frankly, I'm uncertain as to whether they are actually tapped in enough to the grassroots to know we're choking them at the level beneath the "pro-life initiatives" giving them less than savvy advice about who we're going to lobby, campaign and vote for.
For anyone thinking they'd like to take another crack at sending a prochoice vote to Washington, knock yourselves out.
Personally, I don't think campaigning for Scott Brown is playing our cards right and he certainly shouldn't be honored with the adjective "pro-life".
n.b. Oh, and in case you're wondering about the picture, that's Scott Brown in his "America's Sexiest Man" nude centerfold spread from Cosmopolitan Magazine.
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