Tu Quoque Cage Match

Uh, Todd, if you actually analyze what I wrote, you will note that I did not call people names but identified two categories into which they probably fall. Beyond that I identified a characteristic common to the Notre Shame threads on a number of blogs--an orchestrated campaign by "Catholic Democrats" to defend Obama by "diversion" and "change of subject" to the Eeeeevvvvvvviiiiiilllll Bush" (tu quoque).

And I did this not because my side is getting "whacked." Your side cannot be whacking anyone because your entire argument is a false moral equivalency.

That you keep trying to win with it--as you have been doing now for years only shows that you don't even understand the issues at stake. Instead, your real loyalty is to leftist political causes.

Personally, I would welcome pro-life support from any big-government, left-leaning politicos who might wish to supply it. The trouble is that such folks are nearly non-existent on the political spectrum. But wherever they may be found, I salute them.

Your tribe, however, doesn't reciprocate. Anyone who favors conservative political causes, no matter what their views on various Catholic issues, gets slammed by you folks (usually by twisted logic) because for you no one can take a "good" position on Catholic issues unless he also inhabits the left side of the political spectrum.

But why do I suspect that you won't even grasp what I'm saying?

It was gruesomely wrong for Fr Jenkins to invite B.O. Prof. Glendon is all class.

I'm repulsed at Catholics who are trying to make a political point out of this. President B.O. stands for FOCA and abysmal extension of the abortion regime. One that legalises private application of lethal violence on innocent humans for convenience, that produces an increasingly callous society one that is less able to see the evil of torture per se, less able to produce citizens of nobility. Abortion has become, by destroying hope, a potent driver of social decay. George Cardinal Pell wrote recently "abortion corrupts everything it touches". Again 50 000 000 dead babies. Our society is groaning in pain, and blood guilt.

Abortion and contraception are the central pillars in the viciously anti-Christian sexual revolution; one that has destroyed families, children and the nation's integrity. The logical outcome of sexual laissez faire is the normalisation of SSA and State legalisation of SSM which has created the 'mega-cultural conflict of the decade'. The Iowa Supreme Court ruling decided opposition to SSM could only be motivated by anti-homosexual prejudice! Therefore in the eyes of the State the Church is equivalent to a racist organisation - logical outcome is public marginalisation. Constitutional lawyers admit religious freedom is in great peril, and have no illusions persecutions will have to be borne now, we have a duty to those that come after to bear them now or leave a terrible legacy.

President B.O. is an abortion extremist and living death to the Catholic Church. A complete list of all he done and proposes to do is a matter of public record.

Without stable institutions at home, and marriage and the family are the primary and most important of these, stable peace creating international economic and political institutions can't be built and sustained. A nation is less able to defend itself in this situation and less able to do positive good internationally.

The social science is in; the damage from abortion has been monumental, Humanae Vitae was prophetic. This license to kill, besides its intrinsic evil, has helped to prop up a view of human nature that taken to its logical conclusion has the potential to completely divide the country into culture of death and culture of life civil war. The defenders of the American experiment as articulated in the Declaration 'we hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are created equal' and those who support a new experiment in liberty - legalised murder and constellated acts, and their legal and cultural extension. This is a crisis of civilisation before it is an explicitly religious one. It is a fight over the natural law.

Those who argue their oppostion to energetic and organised protest at ND's betrayal of the US and Catholics world wide are grand hypocrites. Their arguments lack all proportion and undermine the principled opposition to other intrinsic evils like torture. Why complain about a unified group of citizens prepared to defend the American experiment from violent attack when it has common cause against torture on the same grounds?

It has the stink of B.O. politicking.