Just Say No to the Mosque at Ground Zero in New York

Pat Condell makes a lot of sense and points out the danger of politicians enabling Islamic violence. He also points out that the name Cordoba, which is that selected for the planned mosque, comes from the large mosque built by Muslims as they began the mass conquest of Spain. Islam has always built mosques on conquered ground. It is a "permanent affront" to all Americans. Selecting this spot is very deliberate as is the plan to open the mosque on the 10th anniversary of 9/11.

"Public opinion can put an end to this disgraceful plan."

Let them build their offensive mosque somewhere else, Condell says,  -- like the Arizona desert or Death Valley. Amen to that!

"To save a single life: It is as if you saved the whole world"

For years I counseled on the sidewalk outside abortion mills. Sometimes women (and their boyfriends) hell bent on abortion changed their minds. I am blessed to have photos of babies saved. My fellow counselors and rosary supporters and I attended baptisms, held baby showers, and rejoiced at the little ones whose moms chose life. So when I read Leave this place now. Go home and hug your baby. this morning it brought back a lot of memories.

I don't live near an abortion mill since I moved to the Shenandoah Valley, so I don't go often now, but I can still spiritually rescue babies through prayer and sacrifice. If you live near a killing center, don't ignore it. Some babies have been saved because someone was there with a sign. Go to the foot of the cross where Jesus is being killed in his precious babies. You'll only know its value when you stand before the judgment seat of God.

Hollywood Light Crew Working for Jimmy Kimmel Uses High Intensity Spotlights to Burn Teen

On June 25th officers from the LAPD ignored the assault by a light crew working for comedian Jimmy Kimmel, who turned high intensity spotlights on a young protestor. Ryan Bueler, a member of the survivors (those born after Roe v. Wade), was participating in the annual Survivors' Boot Camp which was carrying out a Face the Truth type demonstration on a busy street near Kimmel's studio. Kimmel's crew set up to film a stunt taking place later, but apparently got upset with the young demonstrator who refused to move and turned the lights on him from a distance of several feet. The heat from the spotlight partially melted his sign and a plastic bracelet he was wearing. When an adult participant, Jeff White, attempted to turn the lights away from the teenager, he was attacked and his shirt ripped. LAPD responding to the event arrested White but refused to take any action against the camera crew or the man who ripped White's clothing. After police viewed the video they dropped charges against White but still refused to bring any against the cameral crew.

Well, what else is new? I've seen videos showing the LAPD using nunchucks against peaceful rescuers, even breaking their bones. Christians protesting abortion are fair game these days for the modern day Roman tyrants and their legions.

For more information on this disgraceful event go here. To see past actions by the LAPD against peaceful pro-life rescuers view the video below. These days assaults against pro-life citizens is politically correct and police often ignore it. Instead they arrest pro-lifers for exercising their free speech rights or defending themselves against assault.

If Obama has his way, free speech will be eliminated for those who oppose his agenda including the murder of the innocent and the abomination of same sex perversions. He's been after free speech since his pre-election days. And there's plenty more to come if he gets his way including federal takeover of the internet. After all, he's got the mainstream media in his pocket and the only thing that prevents him from having total control is conservative radio, FOX, and the alternative media.

Police Use Nunchucks On Pro-Lifers This video shows the police using nunchucks on peaceful pro-life demonstrators. Before I saw this video I did not know that nunchucks were illegal in some states. That did not keep the cops from using them to break a guys arm though.

Who at the Vatican knew what when?

Tom Bethell has a terrific article in the June issue of The American Spectator which I posted on the Fr. Haley blog. It contains some shocking information about Vatican officials being bribed by the Legionairies of Christ and raises the question of how much Pope John Paul II knew about and enabled the sex abuse coverup. In view of the terrible episcopal appointments Pope John Paul made, the revelations are believable. I hope this slows down his fast track to canonization. Why the rush anyway? Pope John Paul II was a charismatic figure and he certainly suffered courageously, especially in the end, but a little historical perspective wouldn't hurt.

Let's see Pope Pius XII's cause move forward. That much maligned man stands as a floodlight in those dark days of the 20th century when all Europe was swallowed up by the black spider of the Third Reich.

Intolerance Trumps Truth Among Gay Activists

Tolerance may be the mantra of the homosexual movement, but intolerance is their M.O. And we're talking intolerance at the highest level of psychiatry. Any psychiatrist or professional group that refuses to support the biased view that homosexuality is normal and sexual orientation is unchangeable is targeted.

One of the latest battlegrounds is The California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists (CAMFT). They recently considered a motion to deny membership to professionals and professional groups (like the National Association for Research and Therapy of Homosexuality - NARTH) that practice Sexual Orientation Change Efforts (SOCE). They also want to define change therapy as "unethical" even when patients seek to be cured of their disordered attraction. (See more here...)

It doesn't look like CAMFT is in a hurry to carry out the gays' demands - too much potential for lawsuits. But what if they do? What impact will that have on patients? A gay man who was molested as a child, who hates being attracted to other men (Yes, there are homosexuals who fit that description.), goes to a therapist for help. But the only "help" the therapist is ethically allowed to give in the politically correct world of gay propaganda is to convince the man his inclination is "normal" and helping him be "comfortable" with it. That is what's unethical! For decades prior to 1973 the American Psychiatric Association (APA) listed homosexuality as a mental disorder. Only after lobbying by gay activists and faux science did the APA and other professional groups cave in and declare homosexuality normal. They did the same thing with abortion. These professional organizations continue to move toward ever more extreme positions, for example, that sado-masochism is normal as well.

A few therapists and researchers are standing for sanity. Pray for them and for organizations like NARTH that are under serious attack for refusing to trade the politically incorrect truth for the politically correct lie.

For more see the links below:

NARTH Report Shows Gay Activist Influence on Mental Health Organizations: Says society that promotes homosexuality results in more self-identified homosexuals

NARTH Summary of a Newly Published Study on Sexual Orientation Change Efforts

The APA's Pro-Gay River of Denial

Liberals Have ‘Hijacked' Psychiatrists

The A.P.A. Normalization of Homosexuality, and the Research Study of Irving Bieber

The dark, intolerant, and abusive nature of the gay agenda

The Clergy Who Authorized This Monstrosity Should be Defrocked!

Remember Fatima? When the Blessed Mother appeared to the little shepherd children and asked for a basilica to be built there? Well, she obvious didn't authorize the new basilica shown in the video below. In fact, no real Catholic could have authorized this monstrosity. It must have been an atheist imposter working to destroy the Church. How many pilgrims want to visit this...what exactly do you call it?...a bunker?...a fortress?...hardly a church. What a way to treat a sacred shrine!

Mary said the faith would never be lost in Portugal. Now in the parish office at Fatima -- that's another story. This building could have been designed by the evil mayor of Ourem who threatened the children. This must be his revenge.

A Recommendation for Your Beachbag: Clarence Thomas' Autobiography, My Grandfather's Son

Summertime and the living is easy....well, a little easier for most of us with maybe a trip to the beach or some time at the pool. So what's in your beachbag (besides sun screen and towels)? I hope a good book or maybe two. Here's my recommendation for a compelling, hard-to-put-down read: My Grandfather's Son by Clarence Thomas.

The book was sitting on my shelf for months and might be still if my book club hadn't selected it. I'm glad they did. What a story! Thomas and his brother were raised by his hard-working grandfather and loving grandmother. When Thomas' single mom, Leola, asked her parents to help out they agreed to take the boys but made it clear the placement would be permanent. And, in fact, for the rest of their grandfather's life, the two young men would refer to him as "Daddy." Thomas' grandfather never complained about his lot in life, although he had to work hard to make ends meet, and he wouldn't let the boys whine either. He kept them busy working hard and out of trouble -- a smart man. He also encouraged them to get a good education. Thomas attended a local parish school where his abilities were recognized and fostered. To this day he has great respect for the nuns who taught him.

But at times, it seemed to Thomas that his grandfather was too hard. Angry over Thomas dropping out of the seminary, he sent him out on his own at eighteen. Later on he refused to attend Thomas' graduation from Yale law school. Thomas admits his own blame in causing the rift between them. He says he was angry and rebellious and continuously picked arguments with the older man. His one big regret is that things were never fully resolved before his grandfather died.

I had the great privilege of meeting and speaking with Justice Thomas outside St. Matthew's Cathedral the day of the red Mass shortly after his confirmation. I was there with a group of pro-lifers opposing Communion for pro-abortion politicians like Ted Kennedy. (I spoke to Kennedy that day as well, challenging him over his part in murdering the unborn.) Like most pro-lifers, I followed the hearings closely. I knew Thomas attended Truro Episcopal Church, well known for its orthodoxy, firm adherence to the gospel, and pro-life commitment. From the first, I was convinced that the democrats were trying to "bork" a good man and was thrilled when Thomas refused to turn tale and run, but fought back.

In the last chapters of the book, Thomas describes the hearings, that most painful episode in his life, with poignant honesty. For such a private person, this autobiography plumbs the depths of emotional turmoil and the sorrow of betrayal. Thomas' deep faith is revealed time and again in the story especially in his relationship with Senator and clergyman John Danforth.

What is crystal clear throughout the book is the reality that Democrats will attempt to destroy any black man who dares to step out of "his place" and think independently from the their political machine. Clarence Thomas bolted the liberal plantation to make up his own mind about issues and how they affect the black community. It was the unpardonable crime that made him the implacable enemy of the left. Anita Hill was the instrument they used to destroy his reputation and assassinate his character. "How do you get that back?" he asks in the book.

It is hard to understand Hill's despicable betrayal of a man who did all he could to help her professionally. If her verbal attack was true her actions were incomprehensible! Why would a woman who had a good, secure job follow someone who harrassed her and keep in touch with him over the years? To me, Anita Hill's behavior bears all the earmarks of the woman scorned who had a crush on Thomas that was unrequited. Her part in attempting to derail his nomination while doing it anonymously (fortunately the panel refused that degree of complicity) will forever mark her as the liberal machine's moll.

My Grandfather's Son is a passionate story that reveals depths of love, commitment, loyalty, and betrayal. One episode I found particularly moving was Thomas' despcription of his mom's reaction to the show-trial confirmation hearings orchestrated by Joe Biden and the Democrats in their attempt to destroy Thomas:

I never asked my mother how she voted, nor did she ask me why I'd chosen to ally myself with a party that so many blacks regarded as racist and evil. Now she could see for herself. Patrick Leahy, Howard Metzenbaum, Joe Biden, Paul Simon, even Teddy Kennedy: all of them were arrayed against me. How dare they treat her son that way. Never before had I seen her as angry as she was in the fall of 1991. All her life she'd assumed that Democrats in Washington were sensible leaders -- but now she saw these men as single-issue zealots who were unwilling to treat her son fairly. "I ain't never votin' fo' another Democrat long as I can draw breath," she told me as we walked out of the Senate building on what should have been my final day of testimony. "I'd vote for a dog first." 

Tuck My Grandfather's Son in your bookbag this summer. It offers a profound insight into a man of integrity. In the end his courage and constancy foiled the liberal lynch mob. I'm sure "Daddy" would have been very proud!

 

The Battle of Dearborn? When Islam Beat the Christians!

We need a new battle of Lepanto. That Islam and Sharia Law should be taking over in the United States is not only shocking, it's disgraceful! Where is free speech?

Pray for the people of Dearborn who are under assault. Ladies, get ready for the burqa.

Real life - it's about family!

Larry and I took off for a short camping trip about an hour north of home. Seems these days we're lucky to get two days in a row to do something besides defend the faith and keep ahead of the grass and garden. But I really do have a life away from the computer and it focuses on family. In fact, it's our family that makes us fight for the culture because, with nineteen grandchildren, Larry and I have a big stake in the future. We don't want our children to suffer like the children of Israel. And so I keep another blog about family and vacations and the ordinary times of babysitting and baking, reading children's stories, taking walks and teaching the little ones about how faith is the center of our lives.

And every now and then, Larry and I take off on our own. But even on vacation we can't get away from the mess we're in. There are just too many reminders. While we were in Martinsburg, WV we stopped in at St. Joseph's Catholic Church to make a visit. Ai yi yi! talk about a trip back to the 70s and 80s and a church that's as ugly as sin.  But the worst part was the way poor Jesus is being treated. Forgive us, Lord. Check it out for yourself.

Obama and the Lord of the Flies!

World Net Daily (WND) posted the AP photo on the right with the caption, Lord of the Flies? For those who recall the book of the same name, it tells about a group of English schoolboys marooned on an island after a shipwreck. As the boys attempt to establish a kind of government things break down and the students form into two groups battling each other. Their behavior becomes more and more confrontational and violent and, if memory serves, at least one boy is killed.

It's a sad story, as well as a cynical one positing that the natural state of mankind is war. The boy leader of one of the groups is admirable, but unable to prevent the collapse into savagery. The Lord of the Flies, Satan himself, seems to rule on the island arousing jealousy, animosity, and hatred amongst the boys. When they are finally rescued by the British navy, the adults are shocked and disgusted at what they find. There's irony there too, however, since England has been at war for most of her history.

But back to the photo...I think WND hit the mark with their title. Obama's entire strategy since ascending to the presidency has been to foster division, conflict, and class hatred. It's a strategy consistent with Alinsky community organizing. Fostering conflict is what allows those who want power to acquire it.

That the fly landed on Obama's lip is an apt metaphor. Satan is often called "the father of lies." And Obama's lies are legion. He is attacking the country from within. He uses every crisis and even manufactures them in order to consolidate the power of the central government.

The Lord of the flies?...The father of lies?...Take your pick. Obama is equally deserving of either. Jesus said you can know a man by his fruits. Obama's are the advancement of abortion and the homosexual agenda. That's two of the four sins that cry to heaven for vengeance: murder of the innocent and sodomy. It's a good job if you look at it from the Lord of the flies' perspective.