Voting for a pro-abortion candidate is "material cooperation with intrinsic evil.."
The priest, Rev. Jay Scott Newman, took this position in calling his parishioners to penance before taking Holy Communion if they voted for Sen. Obama knowing his pro-abortion position.
What we think we know via websites such as TPMCafe will, and should become suspect. Such outlets are why many look to history for contextual truth. Too many partisan mediators fail to deliver the big picture. Then come the partisan historians.
Like expert witnesses in trials, the partisan witnesses prove to be paid witnesses. Non-partisan people can't afford to pay the 'experts' what the parties pay and party organization can arrange. Therefore, in cognitive dissonance many join a party, legitimizing parties out of powerlessness. Leftward political connections have given this website its hit rate, and that has handed it advertising dollars. Established left leaning media have quoted this website where those media did not want to appear to stoop. And the people embrace the deception. 'That's just the way it is.'
There is little wonder so many people turn to faith in God: with people the lies just keep coming. Some say a moving, living, growing human life in the womb isn't a human life with no great foundational reason for the view than that the life isn't 'wanted.' We've got false veterans pretending to be veterans on these websites, swiftboaters, counter-swiftboaters and worse. Whatever lines the leftist wallet moves the leftward tine of the partisan forked tongue. Whatever lines the rightist pocket slithers from the rightward tine. I guess you can say the great bulk of the country's boat is tongue-tined by a small but destructive force that repeats the dogma: 'this is the best system' meaning the partisan plague.
Here we have absolutists for leftward ideology who lampoon those who believe in God while themselves laying their lives down for ideology that makes a religion of their latest utopian figure. It's faith in a god, really, based on the popular perception that this god is the god of the leftist bible.
Let's pretend for a moment that muckraking is a noble enterprise that only the drain plumbers of journalism are courageous enough to do. Yet if they only probe the pipes of right facing homes and not left, they do little more than encourage more of the same on the other side of the aisle. And this is part of the gridlock of spite and polarization in this country that keeps it non-progressive and vulnerable to outside powers in the big picture.
This website is funded by those who profit from gridlock and polarized politics despite that nowhere in the constitution is party required, recognized or necessary. One set of persons running for office are magically wonderful and the other set demonized in this fantastical regime.
If religious groups are to remain free from government, then government must remain free from organized religious groups that may discriminate against each other. However, our political parties are religions in this country, and that, not even very spiritual or humane versions of the real ones. Ideologic, yes. Humane, sometimes. Spiritual, very rarely. And the fact that these movements, their platform bibles and their idols control the path to the White House and national offices tells us that we are a layer away from actual constitutional government.
The reason that constitutional law may come to serve partisan ideologues is because parties run the electoral process that seats those who appoint those partisan justices. End the latter and install a more equitable, popular and accountable process and we will see the former disappear.
Power corrupts every institution, corporation, organization of women and men on earth. We have just elected a new brand, but nonetheless a fallen man to office. He will do some good and some ill. He will not solve all the problems folks expected him to, even if he becomes known as a great president. Leftists and Rightists alike continue their dualist religion, enforcing it on a hypnotized people, and telling them the system is constitutional. Opium rules again.
