In the name of “choice”, we have murdered 50 million unborn children – and now with the prospect of Obama becoming President and signing the misbegotten “Freedom of Choice Act”, we are on the path to another 50 million murders, unless we take this issue as seriously as we should:
The Church militant’s purpose, the bishop explained, is to “‘fight’ against the enemies of Christ’s justice and truth and light and life.” This fight requires our attentions in a “peaceable but serious manner.”
Lamenting the “casual manner” of some Christians, he said St. Paul’s letter to the Ephesians reminds us that we are in a battle “not with flesh and blood, but with the principalities and powers, with the rulers of this present darkness, with the evil spirits in heaven.”
“What is at stake in this battle is our immortal soul, our salvation,” Bishop Finn insisted. “My responsibility as bishop is with the eternal destiny of those entrusted to my care. My total energies must be directed to the well being of those who otherwise may come under the spell of a radically flawed and fundamentally distorted moral sense, at odds with what our Mother the Church teaches.”
“The direct willful destruction of human life can never be justified; it can never be supported. Do you believe this firm teaching of the Church?” he asked.
Bishop Finn noted that priests and ministers in Canada had been brought before government tribunals for preaching and teaching in support of marriage, being charged with “hate speech” against homosexuality.
“In light of the tyranny of choice growing each day in our own beloved country, we ought to be ready for similar attacks on religious freedom,” he warned.
“We must not fail to preach the Gospel. We can not withhold the truth of our faith. That is why I will never be silent about human life,” Bishop Finn insisted.
“What about you?” he asked.
Noting that Christ told the apostles they would be hated by the world, just as He was, the bishop said Christians must never resort to violence but “we must stand up fearlessly against the agents of death, the enemies of human life.”
And we are, indeed, hated – the so-called “pro-choice” people are fanatic in their hatred of us. Which means that we must love them all the more, and pray for them…but we must also stand firm for life. Being kind and merciful must never become being morally flabby. Love and truth are not soft, mushy things but are, instead, the sharpest of swords and hard as diamonds.
We must take up this sword of truth and wield is tirelessly in the fight for life. No matter how hard the road, we must never give up. And right now we are come to the crossroads – on Tuesday we will either advance the Culture of Life or the culture of death. Obama is for death, McCain is for life – for people who respect life from conception until natural death, there is no other choice than Senator McCain.
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