Catholicism, Mr. Obama and the US Constitution

So, earlier today, I was on the air, briefly with Mr. Hugh Hewitt, the topic of his radio show was of course the hot potato of the Obama order for the Catholic Church to provide health insurance services for their workers that are contrary to their faith and teaching. The order, I might add, that he has since "modified", through expert smoke and mirrors, that still does not change the essential fact that he is still holding the Catholic Church to providing sterilization and contraceptives to their workers against their theology as a free and long established religion in the United States, as a matter of fact the Catholic Church was on this continent almost 300 years before the Constitution was ratified and in effect.

Well, anways, I called into the show and Hugh's screener patiently listened to me and then Mr. Hewitt graciously allowed me to go on the air and voice my opinion...

To let you all into where I was mentally when I started speaking here's a bit of the background:

Some ignorant callers had the gall to say that Catholics could "choose to use or not to use" those services and some also pointed out the examples (terrible ones at that) of Nancy Pelosi and Joe Biden, and others, even the caller herself, as stating they are "Good Catholics" that believe in the use of sterilization, abortion and artificial contraception...I was personally incensed by this lack of understanding of Catholicism, one held by many igorant people in America and even some Catholics themselves, but not only that but also by the simple fact that these folks considered themselves to be "Good Catholics" yet even as they remain defiantly opposed in word and deed to the theology and dogma of our Church as directed by Its leader, the Holy Father, our Pope in Rome.

Don't get me wrong, and some of you will, and say that I am JUDGING these fellow Catholics and I am not, I am saying they are wrong in their assumption that if they continue to do what is in direct contradiction to the Church's teaching, believing that if they still go to Mass and take their sacraments and tithe, that they are "good Catholics"... Unfortunately its not that simple, the Catholic faith is not an a'la carte menu that we can choose what we want to be part of and what we don't want to be part of. Catholicism by its very nature means UNIVERSAL, one faith through a unified theology. Just like any of the major religions of the world, they and the Catholic Church all have major pillars of their faith that set them apart, part of their root dogma and belief system...

Of course, one of the problems is that American Catholics, in our great freedom experiment of a country; freedom of spirit and action, we have chosen to take a path that has over time become quite a bit liberal to the rest of our brothers and sisters in the Universal Faith. A great deal of our errant path was due to the the liberal bishops of the 70's. American "cradle" Catholics, those born and baptised into the franchise, have largely taken for granted the wonders and tenets that our Church professes and teaches; we dropped what is inconvenient to us by the wayside and only kept that which was personally and politically convenient to us at the time... I say "we" collectively because I was one too. As we got older we lost that wonder and astonishment that the Church had for us that adult converts to Catholicism still have... Some of us, myself and quite a few others, have come back to it, it is relevant once again to us and we accept it in its entirety in intellectual obedience. NOTE: The Catholic Church doesn't want mindless zombie followers, it wants us to think and be critical and then CHOOSE to follow her DESPITE what we think, and that my friends is FAITH.

Ok that was the background that I came into my comments on the air with Mr. Hugh Hewitt.

I wrote down my thoughts on a notepad so that when he let me on the air I wouldn't be a mindless babbler, uuh uhhing my way through it....

((1)) This is not a Catholic issue, this is a fundmental 1st Amendment Issue. The Federal Government shall make no law regulating nor prohibiting the free exercise or expression of a religion and that of religious freedom.

((2)) Liberal Social Legislation and liberal social morality passed by a legilsative body, no matter how officious sounding, still does not trump that 1st Amendment protection afforded to ALL religions, religious dogma, theology or church morality and teaching...

((3)) To use Biden and Pelosi as examples of "good Catholics" is to use Lee Harvey Oswald and Charles Whitman as examples of good Marines... yeah, maybe once they were, but they have taken what was pure and later have executed it in a perversion of the original intent. They either accept the Catholic faith teachings as they are intended by the Holy Father or they really need to leave and become one of the many liberal Christian faiths that allow moral flexibility and condone abortion, sterilization and mercy killing. There are special children in this world that are here despite the admonition by some in-laws and other adults to terminate the pregnancy and lives are better for them being here, though not easy, they are enriching for their very presence among us...