Topsy and Tuptim Slog Through Part 2 of the Amazon Document with its Community Organizing Focus

Topsy and Tuptim meet at the Christmas in July 5K and Fun Run to support their children and grandchildren who are participating. They stage their chairs near the finish line then get iced coffee and muffins at the snack bar.

Bishop Sheen in Rochester: The Alinsky Connection

In a 1974 Playboy interview Saul Alinsky said,
"If there is an afterlife, and I have anything to say
  about it, I will unreservedly choose to go to hell."

What can I say? The bloom is off the rose. I can still appreciate much of Fulton Sheen's work, but I can never read it again without a critical eye.  Learning about Sheen's Teilhard enthusiasm got me looking a little deeper into his social justice work. Stephanie Block, an expert on Alinsky community organizing, told me awhile back about Fulton Sheen's connections to Alinsky activities in Rochester. I didn't look into it at the time and forgot about it. It's disturbing to see that Sheen was an active enabler of Alinsky's radicalism. If he were alive today, I hope he would realize the error of some of his beliefs and actions and repudiate them. We'll never know. 

Would Sheen have supported a priest like Fr. Michael Pfleger in Chicago? I can't imagine it, but the priest he made his social justice guru, Fr. David Finks, sounds a lot like Pfleger who's even too much for liberal Cardinal Blase Cupich. Finks worked with the Alinsky organization FIGHT that targeted Kodak. During his tenure at the USCCB, he helped to create the notorious Catholic Campaign for Human Development which allowed Alinsky organizing groups (that support intrinsic evils condemned by the Church) to pick the pockets of the faithful. He later left the priesthood and married. And this was the man in whom Sheen put so much trust. It is disheartening to see how a man can be misled into undermining the good he does with their right hand, by the evil he supports with the left. But I don't intend to inter the good Sheen did with his bones. We have much to thank him for: his vigorous opposition to Communism, his constant urging for priests to make a daily holy hour, the excellence of so much of his writing, the conversions he fostered like Bella Dodd. Pray for Fulton Sheen and learn a little more about him in this 50 year old snapshot from Catholic Digest.

We've Seen this Before: The New Community Organizer on the Block is Indivisible!

Vendee version of
Viva Cristo Rey

You've seen it on college campuses. You've seen it at Trump rallies. You've seen it in Ferguson and other Black Lives Matter riots. You've seen it used by PICO, VOICE, ACORN, GAMALIEL, and the Industrial Areas Foundation. It's the Alinskyite community organizing tactics: any and all strategies, moral or immoral, to accomplish their goals. It's power by mob action. 

Whether they use money or psychological techniques, it's all about manipulating a mob to get what you want. The leaders of the French Revolution were so good at it they killed over 100,000 including the extermination of men, women, and children who were fighting for faith and freedom in the Vendee. Those French people weren't nobles; they were almost all peasants. They never oppressed anyone. What they did do was resist the murder and imprisonment of their priests and the closing of their churches. They wore the image of the Sacred Heart on their clothing as they fought. 

Democrat Dirty Tricks: They Pay for and Train Violent Agitators to Disrupt Trump Rallies!

Chicago protests canceling Trump rally were manipulated
by dark operatives of the DNC and they brag about it!

The Democratic National Committee is a corrupt group pulling the strings on "dark operatives" who arrange for violence and dirty tricks against their political enemies.

Here's a brief glimpse of the shocking slime on the video:

Scott Foval: Admits making sure "there is a double blind between the actual campaign and the actual DNC and what we're doing. There's a double blind there. So they can plausibly deny that they knew anything about it."

California Pursues Euthanasia in Stealth Move

WILL SACRAMENTO ENACT THIS BAD END-OF-LIFE BILL?

California is one of the first in line at the death cafe. The state legalized abortion in 1970, three years before Roe, and have been champions of death ever since. 

Now as the death peddlers are shifting their target (or rather expanding it) from the beginning of life to the vulnerable at the end of life, California is eager to be the trend setter.

Condemn the Obama Administration's Promotion of Human Trafficking of Children

It is unbelievable that anyone can justify the human trafficking of the Obama administration using children as pawns to overwhelm our system and increase the government bureaucracy. CNS News has a very disturbing story that includes this:

Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) told the committee that he'd just received a report from an immigration advocacy group at the University of Chicago Law School describing the ordeal of two unaccompanied children: 

"Samuel and Emily are siblings; amazingly, ages 3 and 6 -- 3 and 6. They got here from Honduras. I don't know how," Durbin said. 

"When they initially arrived in the United States, they were very quiet and they didn't open up. They were clearly victims of trauma. After two months of care and custody of these 3- and 6-year-old children by HHS, Emily revealed that both children had been raped by members of a local drug cartel. 

"I think about those children when I think about this debate. Are they the exception? God, I pray they are. But I'm afraid there are many more with similar stories."

Three and six years old! Those are the ages of two of my little granddaughters. What mother in her right mind would let those little ones travel thousands of miles alone with a bunch of barbarian coyotes? It is time to close the borders instead of letting people think there's a magic land in the north where money grows on trees and the roads are paved with gold.

Obama and his administration are guilty of the trafficking of these children, some of whom are dying on the trip like 15-year-old Gilberto Ramos. And then there are the reports of children's bodies washing up on the banks of the Rio Grande.

And why are we not securing the borders? It's all part of the community organizing strategy to overwhelm the system. Read about it here. Obama promised to transform America and he's keeping that promise in spades. What his supporters didn't realize is that he wanted the U.S. to collapse so he could remake us into the latest socialist, government-run country where the people are slaves of the state. Is that what you want for your children and grandchildren?

ACORN: "a key provider of money and manpower for the Democratic Party"

Obama and the Democrats love ACORN as well they should since the community organizing group is "a key provider of money and manpower for the Democratic Party" according to the National Legal and Policy Center (NLPC). In fact, last March, despite Congress banning ACORN funding, Obama ordered it restored after an out-of-control federal judge, Nina Gershon, made permanent her injunction against halting the cash transfer to the corrupt group.

Now federal judges are supposed to rule according to the Constitution which gives the power of the purse to the Congress. Nobody has a right to federal funding and it's up to Congress to pass appropriations that designate where taxpayer dollars go, but, hey! the Constitution never stops liberal judges from making things up as they go along and the Constitution be damned!

ACORN has been keeping its head down since all the scandals broke. And here are some of the reasons why NLPC writes:

Armed with its ‘by-any-means-necessary' philosophy of community power, ACORN activists in recent years have amassed a well-earned reputation for stretching the bounds of ethics and law via methods such as vandalism, property invasion, tax evasion, voter fraud and embezzlement. ACORN activists in Missouri, Nevada, Ohio and other states were prosecuted for generating phony voter registration cards, with any number of individuals pleading guilty. The State of Louisiana filed two tax liens against ACORN and an affiliate totaling more than $330,000, while the IRS hit up ACORN for tax liens amounting to more than $1.5 million. Wade Rathke in June 2008 was forced out of his own organization following revelations that he'd covered for his brother, Dale, when the latter, as ACORN chief financial officer, during 1999-2000 embezzled nearly $950,000. Neither has been prosecuted.

The national spotlight shined on ACORN ever more brightly after Barack Obama became president. Though never formally a member, Obama during his days as a Chicago lawyer in the mid-Nineties represented ACORN in its (successful) attempt to force the State of Illinois to comply with the new federal "motor voter" law that loosened voting registration requirements (and whose passage owed much to ACORN pressure). But with increased visibility came increased scrutiny. Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., supervised the preparation of a detailed report released in July 2009 concluding that ACORN was structured as a racketeering enterprise. Two months later an ad hoc multi-city private sting operation caught local ACORN officials on hidden camera giving advice on how to get around the law. Quickly, the IRS and the Census Bureau canceled planned working relationships with ACORN. And Congress passed a resolution cutting off funds to ACORN. Read the complete article here.

ACORN, meanwhile, declared they were going out of business, while, in reality remaking themselves under different names. Which just goes to prove that community organizers never die, they just reincarnate under new names. After all, who wants all that experience of registering dead people and pressuring banks to make bad loans to go to waste? Surely not liberals who never tell a lie. Just ask them. They'll tell you it all depends on the meaning of the words. And like Humpty Dumpty in Alice's world, they mean just exactly what they say they mean, no more, no less. But don't hold them to it, because the meanings will change in a blink if it suits them.

Stop, Mary! Boycott CCHD!

The Industrial Areas Foundation in the Diocese of Arlington

I recently posted an open letter to the priests of Arlington on the Les Femmes main website about the Industrial Areas Foundation (IAF) affiliate, VOICE (Virginians Organized for Interfaith Community Engagement). Eleven parishes in the VOICE network funneled over $100,000 to the IAF in 2009. The open letter urges the priests of Arlington to do two things. Ask Bishop Paul Loverde for an audit of the parishes involved and to join the boycott of the Catholic Campaign for Human Development which awarded VOICE a $40,000 grant in 2009. These community organizing networks are poison. They marry "progressive" pro-abortion, pro-sodomy churches with Catholic parishes to work together for liberal causes. Their agenda is more and bigger government to solve problems. If the money diverted to the IAF and the thousands of man-hours spent lobbying for socialism went, instead, into establishing a free dental clinic and a volunteer legal services office that would be REAL help for the poor. Visit the Les Femmes website and click on E-letters next to the flashing icon.

Community organizing groups are forming in dioceses all over the country. Find out if there's one growing in your diocese. It may be affiliated with Gamaliel Foundation, IAF, PICO (People Improving Communities), DART (Direct Action and Research Training), etc.

President's ACORN Buddies Get Nearly 1 Million Firefighting Grant!

According to an article in the Washington Times this morning, ACORN's been awarded a Homeland Security grant that normally goes to firefighters. What exactly qualifies ACORN in the firefighting department? Must be they help the president put out political fires.

"[Senator] Vitter, who was routinely notified of the grant before it became public, sent his letter to Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano on Sept. 22, saying the money should be given 'to a more deserving group of first responders.'

"One such group might have been the St. Tammany Parish Fire District No. 3, which applied for a $120,000 grant to purchase smoke alarms for low-income families after a January fire killed four childrenin a home that had no working detectors.

"'We wanted to buy smoke detectors to spread to homes all over the community to prevent that from happening again,' Chief Charles Flynn said in an interview Tuesday." Read more....

Father Damien: A Saint, not a Community Organizer!

On October 11 Pope Benedict will canonize Damien de Veuster, the Belgian priest who spent most of his life serving poor lepers on the island of Molokai in Hawaii. I've been reading a short biography of the courageous priest who single-handedly transformed a "hell on earth" into a Catholic community of love. He personally built coffins and dug graves for the dead and put a fence around the cemetery to protect the graves from marauding dogs. He ministered to the sick: washed their bodies, bandaged their wounds, made their beds, cleaned their rooms. He built homes and a house for orphaned children. Those who were well enough helped build a road and a dock. He put the lepers first, both their physical and spiritual needs.

Think about it, St. Damien, with all the needs of the leper colony, would have been ineligible for a funding grant from the Catholic Campaign for Human Development. While he loved his flock and gave them dignity through the corporal and spiritual works of mercy, he failed to "empower" them. He didn't start a Molokai Neighborhood Project to lobby the government, although he wasn't above harrassing the governor himself. He didn't start a Molokai Workers Center or a Disabilities Forum or a Legal Service for Lepers program. He served his people as a father serves his children or a shepherd cares for his flock. And in the end he shared everything with them including their disease.

As I research the grantees for the CCHD collection for 2009, I'm appalled at the amount of money going to pay salaries of community organizers while banning any money spent on direct services to the poor. It's high time the bishops stopped funding liberal organizations primarily focused on expanding socialism instead of saints like Damien who truly serve the poor. The best way to "empower" the poor is to strengthen their families. Pray for an end to the CCHD collection and for the installation of a pro-life collection. The bishops have talked the talk on pro-life for 35 years; they need to walk the walk by replacing the CCHD liberal lottery with a pro-life collection that gets at the real root of poverty, the destruction of the family.

Our world needs more saints like Fr. Damien and fewer community organizers like Barack Obama. Blessed Damien, soon to be St. Damien, pray for our poor sick country filled with spiritual leprosy. Intercede for our conversion through the Sacred Heart of Jesus and the Immaculate Heart of Mary.

Is Fr. Tuck Grinnell Endorsing Congressman Jim Moran?

On Monday evening St. Anthony's in Falls Church, VA along with other liberal organizations (some with aims directly opposed to Catholic teaching), sposored pro-abortion Catholic Congressman Jim Moran at a forum to discuss "immigration reform." St. Anthony's participation could only happen with the direct support of pastor/community organizer Fr. Tuck Grinnell. Fr. Tuck is a lead organizer in Virginians Organized for Interfaith Community Engagement (VOICE), an affiliate of the Alinsky group, Industrial Areas Foundation.

"Immigration reform" is codespeak for amnesty for illegals. Moran not only favors amnesty, but in-state tuition, welfare benefits, and other taxpayer-funded services for the invaders. This is tantamount to someone entering your house uninvited, sitting down at your table, and demanding your dinner and a bed. It isn't just a border problem. About 40% of illegals come through a port of entry and then violate the terms of their admission.

Michael Cutler of the Center for Immigration Studies was a thirty-year veteran of INS, the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service. His experience makes him an authority on the impact of illegal immigration on the United States. I recently heard him on a radio talk show bringing up a number of serious problems, some of which I had never considered:

---Economic Impact: Many illegals come for one reason - to make money and send it home. This results in a serious financial drain on the American economy.
---Health Impact: Illegals tend to congregate and, because many men come without their families, prostitution increases. Cutler described how health clinics pop up in cities with large illegal populations to service the prostitutes. (And no doubt provide abortions.) Often they also bring diseases like TB.
---Crime: Gang activity is common among the illegal populations. They prey on everyone. In my own state of Virginia, gang violence has been directly linked to illegals.
---National Security: The 9/11 hijackers were illegal aliens. Our failure to control our borders and monitor those who overstay makes us more vulnerable to terrorist activity.

Do the research. Compassion is fine. We all want to welcome the stranger who comes in legally. But illegals prey on both natural born citizens and those who waited in line to enter legally. It is insane to reward their actions.

Fr. Gerry Creedon Trivializes Murder of the Innocent as a "Narrow Beginning of Life Question"

UPDATE NOVEMBER 17, 2017: FR. CREEDON DIED YESTERDAY. PLEASE PRAY FOR THE REPOSE OF HIS SOUL. YOU CAN READ HIS OBITUARY IN THE ARLINGTON CATHOLIC HERALD.

Fr. Gerry Creedon is the pastor of St. Charles Borromeo Catholic Church in Arlington, VA. He is a champion of liberal politics, a personal friend of the Kennedy's who participated in the scandalous near-canonization funeral of Ted Kennedy in Boston last month. He also attended the graveside service where Cardinal McCarrick read the pro-forma Vatican letter, implying the pope's approval of the man and his scandalous life.

Fr. Creedon is a leader in the recently formed Virginians Organized for Interfaith Community Involvement (VOICE), an affiliate of the Industrial Areas Foundation (IAF) lobbying for more government funding for just about everything.

Fr. Creedon could be the poster boy for what's wrong in the American Church today. It isn't the priest in his role as alter christus that matters, but his important job of political organizer working for liberation. He doesn't organize his parish with Eucharistic processions and holy hours, urging parishioners to perform the corporal and spiritual works of mercy. He holds mass meetings to organize lobby groups to pressure the government to do "charity."

The fact that Fr. Creedon treats the vulnerable and weakest members of society with indifference, almost contempt, is not surprising. The babies appear to be invisible, to him. Abortion is just one of those "neuraligic questions" that "can cause a lot of polarization" as he puts it. I wonder if Jesus would agree. Somehow I doubt it in view of his statement that, "Whatever you do to the least ones, you do to me."

See below the transcript of Father's final comments. Would you want to be part of his "consensus" and join his lobby group seeking "equality and justice for all Americans".... except the smallest and most vulnerable? Fr. Creedon's message reminds me of the community organizers of the French Revolution whose motto was "liberty, equality, fraternity." It didn't apply to everyone, of course, as the guillotine's voracious appetite illustrated.

While Fr. Creedon spouts the nonsense below, millions of babies, victims of the "neuralgic question" of abortion continue to die, making his lip service to "equality and justice" so much liberal blather.

"I think we'll get a consensus if we go toward the idea of equality and justice which are ideals for all Americans and ideals that all the faith communities can propose rather than dealing with the narrow end of life or, for that matter, begining of life questions."

A victim of Father's "narrow beginning of life question:"

Jesus, Mary, and Joseph, I love you very much. I beg you to spare the lives of the unborn babies I have spiritually adopted who are in danger of abortion. Amen. - Prayer of Archbishop Fulton Sheen

Community Organizing at its Ugly Worst! President Obama, Call Off Your Thugs!

The Washington Times has an interesting article this morning, Health reformers targeting 'enemies.' The very first paragraph reads: "The plan for a series of grass-roots demonstrations Tuesday to promote President Obama's health care agenda calls for tightly scripted events and an 'escalation' of efforts against 'enemies' of reform."

Note the tactics straight out of the Alinsky playbook: 1) identify an enemy, 2) freeze him, 3) choose a tactic your mob [okay, Alinsky doesn't call his lackeys a mob] will enjoy. [Union thugs enjoy "escalating" against their opponents, especially if they can do it with steel-tipped boots and brass knuckles.]

The article goes on, "The document, a copy of which was obtained by The Washington Times, details specific talking points, tactics, props and strategies to stage the protests. It lists goals that include action that 'mobilizes our base by animating existing anger about private insurers.' The HCAN field plan dictates that each protest will include a minimum of 30 participants, target only health care insurers CIGNA, WellPoint and United Health Care and showcase what it calls 'victims,' or people who have either lost insurance, can't afford it or were denied coverage because of pre-existing medical conditions....The field plan says the protests should attract media coverage that 'creates villains or enemies that serve as a contrast with our side; validates the need for affordability and the public health insurance option; [and] forces the other side to respond.'"

The organizers are getting more and more transparent and their tactics are no longer a mystery. Honest liberals need to wake up to the fact that they are nothing but pawns on a chessboard being used by unscrupulous politicians for their own purpose. The immoral men and women of both parties do it, liberals just do it more effectively. One big difference -- the mainstream media goes after Republicans, remember Richard Nixon and his "enemies" list? You won't read about this in the New York Times. They stopped being journalists years ago and are nothing but shills for liberal politicians.

One other thought - When you consider that Obama promised "hope" and "change," this escalation of ugly mafia-style tactics is shocking. America, you voted to put a community-organizer-in-chief in the White House. He's running his administration according to Alinsky's Rules for Radicals and turning the country into a banana republic. Push back with prayer, letters to the editor, support for real conservatives, and join the tea party movement.

Don't let the organizers win by default. As Edmund Burke said, "The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for enough good men to do nothing."

How Catholics Funded the Election of the Most Pro-Abortion Politician in History

The Catholic Connection to Barack Obama

This is a 2008 column by Phyllis Schlafly, but worth reviewing to see how Catholics in the pew financed the election of Barack Obama, the most pro-abortion politician in history. The Catholic Campaign for Human Development has a record that puts in queston whether or not it can be trusted. A campaign to fund charitable projects is great if the money truly goes to charity. But if it's funding liberal politics and politicians and undermining the Catholic faith in the process, then something needs to be done. CCHD has defunded ACORN. Is the problem ended? No. Large portions of the collection go to other community organizing groups that operate the same way, whose primary purpose is advancing liberal politics and politicians. Ask your bishop for an overhaul in CCHD. In the meantime ask yourself whether the campaign can currently be trusted with your money.

ACORN Plans to Police Itself! Ha-Ha-Ha-Ha.....

It's time for a Congressional investigation of this organizaton which has received multi-millions of dollars in taxpayer money. It's one rotten acorn!

ACORN calls its actions 'indefensible'

For ACORN articles on this blog go here.

Another Blockbuster ACORN Video - San Bernadino

Here's one more example of a stellar ACORN operative: are you starting to see the trend? It wasn't just an isolated case of a few bad eggs. In Baltimore, Brooklyn, San Bernadino, Washington, D.C. They all approve of: prostitution, tax evasion, fraudulent representation of illegal businesses, child sex abuse, human traficking. Is there anything these folks won't stoop to and condone? This is liberalism which believes there is no truth and man is the author of his own destiny (except for the abused children). Obviously, for this woman her destiny included killing her husband, but setting it up first, which proves premeditation. And she got away with it.

Remember, this is the community organizing network following Saul Alinsky's rules. The end justifies the means even when the means include turning little girls into child prostitutes and urging violence against them to get more money. Note the liberal politicians named in the video including Barbara Boxer, California senator.

Note as well her remark that "if they were liberal they would help you." This type of corruption is endemic to godless liberalism which champions individual autonomy. If you are your own god, you can do whatever you want.

Many Americans are living in a dream world, believing that there are no repercussions from the liberal philosophy. They think it means helping the downtrodden: getting the government to feed the hungry, clothe the naked, etc. Wake up, folks. Government charity is an oxymoron, a contradiction. Idealistic blindness is not a virtue. These liberals have raked in millions in government tax dollars often with liberal politicians enabling them! And Obama wanted them involved in the census? How would you like this woman knocking at the door and casing your property?

Will ACORN Really be out of the Census?

The tentacles of the community organizer have a far reach. I'd like to think ACORN's ties to the census really will be severed, but I'm not confident. There's more than one way for a community organizer to get his hooks in the books. How many ACORN workers will apply as census workers without being formally connected to ACORN? It's a question worth pondering.

Census Bureau severs ties with ACORN in 2010 count

Responses to the President's Encore on Health Care

The president's speech last night offered nothing new, just more of same about his plan which actually doesn't exist. THERE IS NO OBAMA PLAN, just Democratic proposals like HB 3200, the 1000+ page monstrosity that most congressman haven't read. So when the president says that "my plan" will do this or that, what exactly is he talking about? It's convenient, of course, not to have anything written down because he can claim anything about "the plan" and no one can check it out. He can call his critics liars for saying abortion will be covered because he says it won't in "my plan." But the only proposals out there will allow it. So where's your plan, Mr. President?

Remember that with Obama we are basically dealing with a community organizer, not a politician. Politics is the art of compromise - coming up with the best legislation that a body of representatives, voting for the people, can agree to. Community organizing, on the other hand, has nothing to do with compromise. It is about bringing together a constituency that uses whatever means necessary to get what they want. Community organizers are basically lobbyists with clubs and pitchforks.

Saul Alinsky, the father of community organizing, said the organizer must "rub raw the resentments of the people of the community; fan the latent hostilities of many of the people to the point of overt expression.... An organizer must stir up dissatisfaction and discontent."

Is it any wonder that the government process is becoming so acrimonious? This is the experience our community-organizer-in-chief brought to the oval office. And the tactics being used throughout the health care debate, especially at the town hall meetings with union thugs manhandling people, illustrate the community organizer's talent for fomenting "dissatisfaction and discontent." The president knows nothing about "bi-partisan" working together. The incivility that is so obvious in the government process is fundamental to community organizing.

Not long ago, Phyllis Schlafly advised her Eagle Forum members to "Put Rules for Radicals on your must-read list if you want to understand much of contemporary politics." It was good advice. If you want to know your president, read the book that formed his politics.

Here are some of the responses to the president's speech:

GOP Response to Obama's Health Care Address

From Mike Huckabee

Sarah Palin: Response to the President's Health Care Speech

And from Brian Gibson of Pro-Life Action Minstries:

The following was written for our next newsletter After listening to President Obama's speech last night, it seems more pertinent than when I wrote it earlier this week. Feel free to distribute this as you see fit.


"I Met Obama" -- a Year Later

About a year ago, while returning from sidewalk counseling at Planned Parenthood, I had a "chance" encounter with our President. At the time he was the Democrats candidate for President. Mr. Obama had quietly come to the Twin Cities for an evening fundraising event. My encounter with him was the next morning on the sidewalk in front of the Copper Dome Restaurant. Mr. Obama's "surprise" visit to the restaurant had more police, Secret Service Agents, and media persons in attendance than "regular citizens."

When Mr. Obama came out of the restaurant, he began shaking hands of those who had started to gather on the sidewalk. I was the second to be greeted by the candidate. It was an incredible opportunity to challenge Mr. Obama's pro-abortion positions which I took up immediately as he took my handshake

Much has transpired since that morning in August. The response I received from Mr. Obama has become very telling of this man's way of handling issues which he has strong beliefs and purposeful intentions. His response to me that day, the only person in the vicinity challenging his positions, was remarkably cool and collected. Instead of reacting by backing away or trying to dismiss me quickly, he held my handshake and tried to let me know that he was empathetic to what I was saying, even thanking me for sidewalk counseling that morning. He told me of his deep religious struggle with the abortion issue. But since taking office, Mr. Obama has acted decisively in favor of the killing of the unborn, showing no outward signs of a religious struggle over abortion.

Many months later, as President of the United States, Mr. Obama had a meeting with Roman Catholic Francis Cardinal George which included the life issues. Cardinal George related afterward that he had to repeatedly tell Mr. Obama that they did not agree on abortion and other life issues. Apparently, the President continues to deal with these all too important issues by trying to get us to believe that he agrees with us, while he does something else entirely.

Now Mr. Obama is telling the nation that pro-life leaders are "bearing false witness" and disseminating misinformation regarding the inclusion of abortion and euthanasia in the health care reform legislation he is pressing so hard to get enacted into law. Yet even the mainstream media has begun to make it clear that the President is wrong. The Wall Strret Journal, the Associated Press, Time Magazine, The Washington Post, and FactCheck.org have all commented that taxpayer funding of abortion and the requirement that abortion be covered are included in the health care bill before the House of Representatives. Once again, Mr. Obama wants us to accept what he says and disregard what he actually is doing.

He is articulate. He is poised. He is a capable of endearing many to himself as he meets and speaks to thousands. He is very charismatic. But he is also very dangerous. A man whose word is opposite his actions is untrustworthy, no matter how amazingly smooth and articulate he may be.

As stated in Romans 16:18, "For such men are slaves, not of our Lord Christ but of their own appetites; and by their smooth and flattering speech they deceive the hearts of the unsuspecting." Let us not be the unsuspecting when it comes to our leaders in Washington. Let us keep them in our prayers, not for the success of their plans, but for what is truly for the good of our nation; the defense of the innocent and upholding of the truth. Let us pray for their change of heart toward He who is all good. And let us continue to challenge their evil positions, listening not to smooth and flattering speech.


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Sincerely in Christ,

Brian Gibson
Executive Director
Pro-Life Action Ministries

A Bad Mixed Marriage: the Catholic Church and Left Wing Radicals

There are many imposters in the Church today who use the words of faith to cover actions of worldly betrayal. The Catholic Campaign for Human Development is one of the worst, essentially stealing the hard-earned money of the Catholic faithful in the pews to give it to liberal community organizing groups that use it to secure elections for left-wing politians.

Be informed. Here are a few more recent articles uncovering the wolfism of the Catholic left. Their sheeply bleating is a cover for their wolfly action. Watch out for their teeth.

Left-Wing Radicalism in the Church by Matthew Vadum

Picking Pockets in the Pew by Mary Ann Kreitzer

Articles from the Catholic Media Coalition website

The Big Con by Anne Hendershott