
Obama promises to reduce the number of abortions in America
Pope Benedict XVI calls for a World Political Authority
Reading the first half of
Reuter’s article on President Obama and Pope Benedict’s meeting today in the Vatican, I was left mostly unsurprised.
The President told the Vatican that he would do “everything possible to reduce the number of abortions in the United States” and that his goal is to “change social conditions so as to put more women in situations where they do not feel they have to have an abortion”, which in truth, is a very polite way of saying “Thanks for your vote, but I’ll pursue my own agenda”.
Openly and consistently stating that you support abortion, embryonic stem-cell research, and civil rights for gay couples is one thing, but to waffle on these issues when it’s politically expedient to come across as a social Conservative is disingenuous.
Whether he’s right or wrong on these issues, he’s lying about them.
The pope also gave the president a copy of his latest encyclical, “Charity in Truth,” which called for a “world political authority” to manage the global economy and for more government regulation of national economies to pull the world out of the current crisis and avoid a repeat.
Regardless of how you feel religiously about a connection between the Vatican and statements about a New World Order, this should be raising little red flags in the minds of
every American (and for that matter, every person in a free democratic state),
regardless of your religious affiliation who values independence of law, and freedom of self-governance.
Our founding fathers established a sovereign nation to be free of interference from a government that was not in line with their interests. For Americans to put ourselves in a position where we are administered to by some massive worldwide governmental entity is to spit in the face of every single person who fought and died to preserve our Independence. The Pope, and all else who support some fanciful notion of a worldwide safety net, a global currency and some omniscient financial security administration need to take a very careful look at the threat this poses to our freedom.
Because when it gets right down to it, and this is something that I think many Americans miss, oppression doesn’t always come at the hand of a warring nation. We have as much to fear from an idyllic notion of world peace as we do from ruthless fascism and tyrannical dictators.
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