Well, well the Liberals never fail to take the word “progressive” and bend it to their Marxist way of thinking. In New Zealand one Liberal Anglican church has gone as far as invoking the Virgin Mary.

We have the main stream media siding with the Anglican morons and decrying a Catholic activist who on Sunday damaged a billboard depicting the Virgin Mary looking at a pregnancy test kit, located outside the St. Matthews-in-the-City Church in Auckland, New Zealand. Yes, damaging the billboard seems to be the news down under not the immoral use of the Virgin Mary.

“Even people who aren’t Catholics know instinctively you don’t attack the Blessed Virgin who gave us the savior of the world,” the man responsible for ripping the image, Arthur Skinner of the Catholic Action Group told New Zealand television. “To see this at this time is an absolute abomination.”

St. Mathews vicar Glynn Cardy and associate priest Clay Nelson, invited people to offer their own thoughts.

“This billboard portrays Mary, Jesus’ mother, looking at a home pregnancy test kit revealing that she is pregnant,” they wrote when the billboard went up. “Regardless of any premonition, that discovery would have been shocking. Mary was unmarried, young, and poor. This pregnancy would shape her future. She was certainly not the first woman in this situation or the last.

“As in the past it is our intention to avoid the sentimental, trite and expected, to spark thought and conversation in the community. This year we hope to do so with an image and no words. We invite you to wonder what your caption might be.”

So being in the Christmas spirit and celebrating the birth of Jesus Christ means being provocative at the expense of religious beliefs according to the Progressives. The wish to “avoid the sentimental” and “spark thought and conversation.”

Catholic Diocese of Auckland spokeswoman Lyndsay Freer on Monday provided a statement, saying that the St. Matthews’ initiative:

“…ignores the gospel account of matters surrounding Mary’s pregnancy and the birth of Jesus, in which Mary is not a shocked solo mother, but a young woman who, despite any anxiety she may have had, has given her firm assent and trust to God, saying ‘Be it done to me according to your will.’”

Progressive’s often claim people who don’t like their broad interpretations and beliefs are simply “intolerant.”  St. Mathews Cardy and Nelson said:

“Frankly, we are tired of Christian intolerance – and embarrassed by it,” they said.

“When will we recognize that none of us have the whole truth?  When will we recognize that those who hold contrary opinions are not ‘of the devil’? When will we recognize that truth comes in many guises, often in unexpected ways?”

St. Mathews is a self-proclaimed “progressive” church that offers same-sex civil union ceremonies and hosts a Sunday evening service of the “Community of Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgendered and Straight People.” Partly visible behind the ripped Mary poster is an earlier one advertising these all-inclusive services.

Tolerance, not in the name of Jesus Christ, but in the name of Vladmir Lenin.

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Abortion, or as I like to refer to it more accurately, murder has always been on the agenda of the Left and the Obama administration is intent on maximizing the ability to terminate the life of an unborn child. As I write that sentence it’s very chilling for me – the thought of taking the life of a helpless child.

But, alas, Health and Human Services (a contradiction in terms) Secretary, Kathryn Sebelius spoke to the heavily taxpayer funded group NARAL, a leading proponent of abortion at a fund raiser and in no uncertain terms stands by her pro-abortion mantra.

Ms. Sebelius recently overruled the Food and Drug Administration on Plan B, a morning-after pill. The FDA had proposed allowing over-the-counter sales, which would give girls as young as 11 or 12 access without either a prescription or a parent. Now this might seem like a step in the right direction for pro-life advocates but as always the devil is in the details.

Ms. Sebelius has demonstrated she is among the administration’s most trustworthy practitioners: here thinning out mindful defenses with regard to nurses and physicians that do not wish to take part in abortions; pulling financing for a top-rated plan regarding sufferers of sexual trafficking operated through the Catholic bishops, given that they won’t sign up for the NARAL program; shortly to enforce a brand new HHS requirement which will demand health-insurance programs in order to cover contraception, sterilization as well as drugs recognized to induce abortion.

Sadly on her behalf of Comrade Obama, Sebelius’s passion for this plan features a couple of accidental outcomes. Inside her party, it’s resulting in a rift involving the Planned Parenthood side and Obama’s Catholic and religious followers. Beyond her party, it’s highlighting the risk of equating larger federal government having a much more just modern society.

To date, interest has mainly centered on politics. A single explanation is the fact that even Catholics that backed Obama regarding his trademark health legislation understand the contraceptive requirement as being a bridge too far. Included in this are the Catholic Health Association’s Sr. Carol Keehan, whose well-publicized acceptance of the Affordable Care Act provided Obama essential protection at a time when he desired it. Other people merely challenge whether or not requiring Catholic hospitals to shed health care insurance for their workers as opposed to submitting to Madam Sebelius’s half truths is actually the impression Obama desires throughout a challenging re-election cycle.

You also have the Catholic bishops. Only just a couple of years ago, quite a few appeared to consider ObamaCare as being a thoughtful bit of laws if perhaps some conventions (e.g., conscience rights and also abortion financing) could possibly be modified. Today they’re understanding the true dilemma is the entire thing is constructed upon force-from the individual mandate as well as doctors’ charges to the panels determining exactly what treatment plan granny is actually allowed. The actual awareness has resulted in a brand new bishops’ panel regarding religious freedom, and hard, unheard of grievance.

There had been a time when liberals and libertarians valued the significance of protecting the liberties of individuals as well as groups regarding unpopular perspectives. This is no longer true. While federal government grows, religious freedom is actually minimized to a unique “exemption” and worries regarding government coercion tend to be ignored, from the unforgettable thoughts of Nancy Pelosi, as “this conscience thing.”

“Religious liberty is better seen as more a liberty issue than a religion issue,” says Bill Mumma of the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty. “The more we drive religious and private associations off the public square, the more that space will be occupied by government.”

Needless to say, many may respond they object to plenty of items their dollars underwrite – say, the war in Iraq. Ms.. Sebelius’s HHS principle, nevertheless, doesn’t require tax money: It demands requiring Americans to pay out their own personal cash for items they consider unconscionable. The distance this really is from the comprehending during 1776 that the solution to maintain freedom while holding these kinds of disputes as small as possible were to sustain government modest as well as limited.

A brand new television advertisement coming from CatholicVote.org  includes a young girl.

“Dear President Obama,” she states. “Can I ask you a question? Why are you trying to force my church and my school to pay for things that we don’t even believe in?”

It’s an excellent question. Evidently it isn’t sufficient that birth control end up being lawful, inexpensive as well as accessible. As Ms.. Sebelius demonstrates, contemporary American liberalism is unable to stop unless people who oppose them are required to underwrite it.

This is not only a Catholic issue, it’s a moral issue. Do we support the murder of unborn children or not?

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Barack Obama is undecided on allowing an exemption to the Catholic Church concerning his health care law and abortion. In case anyone is wondering the Catholic church and all pro-life institutions and individuals believe taking a life is murder. Leftists, Marxist, Democrats, NARAL and other ilk believe taking the life of an unborn child is pro-choice.

In August, Health and Human Service Secretary Kathleen Sebelius proposed a regulation–that would take affect next fall–that would require all health care plans to cover sterilizations and all FDA-approved contraceptives, including abortifacients. The proposed regulation includes a very narrow religious exemption that does not cover individual Catholics, or Catholic universities, hospitals or charitable institutions.

First off, this is discriminatory because the exemption only includes Catholics not other religions or institutions who have a problem with murdering an unborn child. Despite what the courts have said, mainly nine people in black robes, the United States Constitution does not cover abortion. This is a feminist concept near and dear to women who have unprotected sex and then whine at the consequences. OK, you’re going to ask me what about rape and incest. I might answer think – about adoption.

The US Conference of Catholic Bishops have called the regulation an “unprecedented attack on religious liberty” and have called on American Catholics to contact HHS and demand that the regulation be rescinded. I would call on the whole health care law to be rescinded but the US Supreme Court is going to have a go at that in March 2012. If they decide in the affirmative than we need the law repealed by Congress in 2013.

What we have is religious freedom as set down in the Constitution vs. feminists, liberals, Marxists, radical leftists (fill in the blank) who want something unconscionable to stand while erasing one of the principle portions of the Constitution and one of the main reasons people fled to America to avoid religious persecution. Feminists and their ilk are now persecuting religion.

Obama, surprisingly enough, may let the exemption stand. This would be remarkable as he enjoys funding abortion at the taxpayers expense and is all for infanticide. Obama spokesman Jay Carney has the following remarkable statement: (Emphasis LCs)

“The President has–this decision has not yet been made,” Carney continue. ”You can be sure that we want to strike the right balance between expanding coverage of preventive services and respecting religious beliefs.  And that’s the balance that will be sought as this decision is made.”

Whoa! Health care and preventive services are NOT a right but religious freedom is. By the way, murder is against the law in all fifty states. It’s also a federal crime.

The Catholic Bishops are spot on in their comments:

“Indeed, such nationwide government coercion of religious people and groups to sell, broker, or purchase ‘services’ to which they have a moral or religious objection represents an unprecedented attack on religious liberty.”

Many believe abortion aka murdering an unborn child is a Constitutional right, it isn’t. If you can find it in the Constitution I will pay you $1,000 no questions asked. However, religious freedom is a right in the Untied States and if you find that to be untrue I will pay you $5,000.

Obama will make his decision based on politics and votes. He has no use for religion or the Constitution but he may be counting on Catholics to vote for him again. Have they learned their lesson yet?

If you’re on the side of abortion than do us all a favor – abort yourself!

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