Thoughts for Thursday on Conscience: You Follow Yours; I'll Follow Mine!

It's interesting to see how the tune has changed among the Wuhan virus hand-wringers. Remember when they justified every single draconian response, "If it could save ONE life?" Now that the gene therapy jab is killing and injuring people at a rate never seen in previous "vaccinations," they tell us it's worth it because the number of injured and dying is acceptable (to them).

Guest Post: A Letter to the Bride and Groom

Editor's note: Below is a letter a friend of mine wrote to her nephew and his prospective bride. I applaud my friend for the courage to face the potential anger of the young couple. No one likes their actions challenged. Remember the reaction of Nancy Pelosi when a reporter asked her if she hated Trump? She clearly does, but went ballistic when someone stated the truth! After all, she's a "devout Catholic."

Is the Party Over? Democrats Are Going Mad!

Quetzalcoatl, the plumed serpent god of the
Aztecs, a combination of bird and rattlesnake.
He's associated with the wind, an appropriate
connection for a party reaping the whirlwind!

Democrat Crackpots are Breaking Up Their Party

On his show yesterday, Rush discussed the Stalinist tactics used by Democrat leadership imposing leftist insanity on every Democrat member of the House. Since a number of Democrats represent districts much more conservative than the party, these folks have to choose between political suicide by abandoning their constituents or political murder by the likes of Nancy Pelosi and AOC who are threatening them if they deviate one inch from the party line. It's madness! And it illustrates this quote from the ancient world.

"Whom the gods would destroy, they first drive mad."

Exploiting the Poor Goes High Tech

Rich People FedEx Embryos to Women in India for Cheap Surrogacy
Living Cadavers: How the Poor Are Tricked Into Selling Their Organs

Transhumanism? Double Yikes!

My husband and I have been watching old re-runs of the X-Files. Last night a scientist was working on crossing the DNA of terminally ill volunteers with the DNA of aliens. When I saw this video today I thought -- Wow! The writers were more on target than they knew. How long will the Lord put up with our attempts to play God. When the speaker in the video below talks about the possibility of a cataclysmic event, I was nodding my head. After all, if we can bring diseases into our bodies from bestiality, will wicked experiments by mad scientists splicing animal DNA into humans not open us to even worse (unintended) consequences? The fruit of playing God is always rotten.

Pedophilia Next?

Now that all barriers to adult buggery have been eliminated, the sex-fixated  move on to dismantle the next obstacle to total depravity -- approving adult sex with children. The pedophile conference earlier this month announced to mainstream America that more evil is on the way. Was anyone paying attention?

Now that same sex perversion has been proclaimed a societal good, child pornography and adults having sex with children must be approved next. None of this is accidental. There is a history that shows the inexorable, step-by-step movement toward the goal -- complete sexual license even claiming "consent" by children to rape and abuse. Alfred Kinsey led the vanguard with his "experiments" using sex abusers to claim that children are "sexual beings" and that they actually enjoy being abused. Kinsey's pedophiles would masturbate children, even babies, to the point of seizure. This monster, like his spiritual twin Margaret Sanger, is heralded for his "research." In reality, he was a deeply disturbed man, perhaps possessed, who was a leading figure in establishing the culture of death.

A 1998 article warned of what was coming. Here's an excerpt:

In 1990, the Journal of Homosexuality produced a special double issue devoted to adult-child sex, which was entitled "Male Intergenerational Intimacy" (1). One article said many pedophiles believe they are "born that way and cannot change" (p. 133). Another writer said a man who counseled troubled teenage boys could achieve "miracles... not by preaching to them, but by sleeping with them." The loving pedophile can offer a "companionship, security and protection" which neither peers nor parents can provide (p. l62). Parents should look upon the pedophile who loves their son "not as a rival or competitor, not as a thief of their property, but as a partner in the boy's upbringing, someone to be welcomed into their home..." (p. 164).


A British university professor wrote: "Boys want sex with men, boys seduce adult men, the experience is very common and much enjoyed" (p. 323). A professor of social science at the State University of New York says he looks forward to the day when Americans will "get over their hysteria about child abuse" (p. 325) and child pornography....

The authors' conclusion? That childhood sexual abuse is on average, only slightly associated with psychological harm--and that the harm may not be due to the sexual experience, but to the negative family factors in the children's backgrounds. When the sexual contact is not coerced, especially when it is experienced by a boy and is remembered positively, it may not be harmful at all.

The authors of the article propose that psychologists stop using judgmental terms like "child abuse," "molestation," and "victims," using instead neutral, value-free terms like "adult-child sex." Similarly, they say we should not talk about the "the severity of the abuse," but instead refer to "the level of sexual intimacy."

The authors conclude that behavior which psychotherapists commonly term "abuse" may only constitute a violation of social norms. And science, they say, should separate itself from social-moral terminology. Religion and society, these writers argue, are free to judge behavior as they wish...but psychiatry should evaluate behavior by its own set of standards.

In fact, the authors of the Psychological Bulletin article propose what they consider may be a better way of understanding pedophilia: that it may only be "abuse" if the child feels bad about the relationship. They are in effect suggesting a repetition of the steps by which homosexuality was normalized. In its first step toward removing homosexuality from the Diagnostic Manual, the A.P.A. said the condition was normal as long as the person did not feel bad about it.  (See more.)

Approval of child abuse is on the radar screen and moving this way. Parents who aren't alarmed by this are asleep. The first weapons in the fight-back arsenal are prayer and fasting. The next is education of friends and neighbors. Pass this post on. What else can you do? Write letters to the editor. Fight the sexualization of children in the public schools (and even Catholic schools) which grooms them, not only to engage in sex with one another, but to be victims of adults. Remember to do everything with charity. Hate the sin, but love the sinner. They are the lost sheep who need a savior. But fight -- your children and grandchildren are worth it.

"All Men Are Created Equal"

Fourth of July always gets me thinking about the Declaration of Independence and its affirmation of the principle that "all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights." You can see that if you look at my earlier posts this morning relating to the equality of babies in the womb. I particularly found the discussion between the young man and the college professor interesting. She said she knew it was wrong to kill blacks and Jews but she didn't know why. It's a metaphysical question, she claimed, that has no answer.

Huh?

I have no problem answering the question -- because they are members of the human family. You don't kill your own. Slaughtering beef or cutting the head off a chicken is in a different category of act because animals are not human. Now some ethicists like Peter Singer would say that's "specieism." Singer believes pigs have more rights than babies waiting to be born. It seems to me that there must be an element of self-hatred in such a view since we all began as little ones in the womb. What does it say about your view of your own self-worth if you can shrug and say, "Of course my mom had a right to kill me before I was born!" Wow!

If you have no value in the womb when do you have value? Do you have any value at all at any time? And if so when does this value suddenly happen? Is it dropped on you like dew at some magical point? Mother Teresa had it right when she said that if we can justify abortion, what is to stop from you killing me or me killing you. Any inhumanity toward another person becomes justifiable doesn't it?

These are philosophical questions that get to the heart of who we are and they begin to expose the diametrically opposed world views of the secular humanist and the Christian humanist. The secularist says we have no value except that given us by other people. The Christian humanist says we have value because we are created by God and loved and belong to Him. "I knew you before you were formed in the womb." The difference is whether we came to be as an accident of nature or because we are loved by a gracious God to whom we are the "apple" of His eye. Either we belong to Him and have rights as a result or we belong to ourselves and are not answerable to anyone. Either God makes laws by which we are all called to govern ourselves, or man is a law unto himself and "might makes right." The strong prey on the weak. The majority exercises its tyranny on the minority.

Which society do we resemble at present: the law of God or the law of the jungle?

Share your view with HHS on Conscience Protection for Doctors

We're getting down to the wire on alerting HHS to your opinion on Conscience Protection. The deadline for expressing your opinon is April 9th, this Thursday. Visit the USCCB website and get up to speed, then click the email link on the right and send your views to HHS. If you want moral medicine, don't let them force medical personnel to kill their patients.

Are you a real Catholic?

If a mouse is in the cookie jar, is he a cookie? Would you want to take a bite out of that fat, cookie-filled mouse? Yuck! Absolutely not; you know the difference between a white-chocolate-chip madacamia nut cookie and a disease-carrying rodent.

But what about the mice in the Church? A person can call himself anything he likes, but, is he the real thing? Is he Catholic in his beliefs and actions? Or is he the mouse in the cookie jar? Can a Catholic be pro-choice? No. Can a Catholic vote for abortion? No. Can a Catholic use contraception? No. Can a Catholic dissent from Church doctrine and defy the magisterium by embracing heresy and dissent? No. These things are evil and Catholics cannot cooperate with evil.

How many so-called Catholics will embrace the most pro-abortion, pro-infanticide candidate in the history of our country? Many. How many real Catholics will mark their ballot for the infanticide candidate? None. A Catholic cannot vote for someone who embraces actions that are intrinsically evil. When both candidates support intrinsic evils, the real Catholic "should vote in such a way as to allow the least harm to innocent human life and dignity." [Moral Principles for Catholic Voters, Kansas Catholic Conference]

The Democratic party has, for the most part, disenfranchised real Catholics. Nancy Pelosi, Joe Biden, Christopher Dodd, Ted Kennedy, and other pro-abortion Catholic democrats show exactly how malformed their consciences are whenever they open their mouths. A real Catholic votes for them to the peril of their souls.

A well-formed Catholic conscience recognizes that the life issues take precedence over every other issue in an election. When candidates are wrong about those issues, it doesn't matter how right they are on anything else. Their embrace of the gravest evil of our time, the murder of the innocent, disqualifies them from consideration.

The only way one can vote for an anti-life candidate, as the Kansas bishops say in their document, is to minimize to the degree possible the harm toward the innocent.

Be a real Catholic: inform your conscience, not according to the ear tickling world, but according to the Church. Jesus Himself said that not everyone who says, "Lord, Lord," will enter into the kingdom, but only "those who hear the word of God and keep it." You can be sure - there are no rodents in heaven.

USEFUL RESOURCES:
Moral Principles for Catholic Voters
Voter's Guide for Serious Catholics
A Brief Catechism for Catholic Voters
American Life League Voter's Guide