Friday, April 29, 2005
The Antichrist?
Ken Salazar, a congressman here in Colorado and a self-styled Catholic, has claimed that Focus on the Family is "the Antichrist of America." Figures, somehow, that this would come from Colorado, the state I love but which is also where Patsy Ramsey probably got away with murder, where Kobe Bryant and his tramp got it on, where the Texas Seven fled to...the list goes on ;) Anyway, Salazar has run into trouble before--and believe me, Denver talk radio was abuzz with this "Antichrist" comment of his--and the previous trouble was with Denver Archbishop Charles Chaput, a truly outspoken defender of the Catholic faith.
Last year Salazar was rebuked publicly by Denver Archbishop Charles Chaput. He was selected to receive an award from a Catholic lawyers group. However, when the archdiocese learned that the pro-abortion 'Catholic' was to receive an award they pulled the auxiliary bishop who was to say Mass for the group's special award dinner, also telling them to move their ceremony from Church property. (see LifeSiteNews.com coverage: http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2004/dec/04122103.html )
In my humble opinion, if you deny the basic tenets of the Catholic faith--such as the belief that all life is sacred and should not be terminated at someone else's whim--then you are not a Catholic. You can say you are 'til the proverbial bovines do their proverbial thing, but the fact is--you are not a Catholic. Ken Salazar is not Catholic. John Kerry and Ted Kennedy are not Catholic. Again, for those people who believe abortion is not murder, that lesbians should be able to become married priests, that the slaughter of Terri Schindler was "peaceful" and that her so-called husband did the right thing--go ahead and start your own religion. We Catholics won't stop you ;) Just, please, let Ken Salazar be your archbishop? And Ted Kennedy could be a cardinal! And hey, while you're at it, why not make Teresa Heinz Kerry your pontiff?
Oh, as for the "Antichrist" thing--strikes me as funny that a man who will defend to the death a woman's "right" to murder her unborn children shouldn't be so quick to claim that a truly Christian group like Focus on the Family is the Antichrist. The whole "what would Jesus do" thing applies here, I think--and I somehow cannot see Jesus marching in a pro-abortion rally and screaming that decent groups like Focus are the antithesis of His belief system. Stupid thing to say, Salazar, truly stupid...
Last year Salazar was rebuked publicly by Denver Archbishop Charles Chaput. He was selected to receive an award from a Catholic lawyers group. However, when the archdiocese learned that the pro-abortion 'Catholic' was to receive an award they pulled the auxiliary bishop who was to say Mass for the group's special award dinner, also telling them to move their ceremony from Church property. (see LifeSiteNews.com coverage: http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2004/dec/04122103.html )
In my humble opinion, if you deny the basic tenets of the Catholic faith--such as the belief that all life is sacred and should not be terminated at someone else's whim--then you are not a Catholic. You can say you are 'til the proverbial bovines do their proverbial thing, but the fact is--you are not a Catholic. Ken Salazar is not Catholic. John Kerry and Ted Kennedy are not Catholic. Again, for those people who believe abortion is not murder, that lesbians should be able to become married priests, that the slaughter of Terri Schindler was "peaceful" and that her so-called husband did the right thing--go ahead and start your own religion. We Catholics won't stop you ;) Just, please, let Ken Salazar be your archbishop? And Ted Kennedy could be a cardinal! And hey, while you're at it, why not make Teresa Heinz Kerry your pontiff?
Oh, as for the "Antichrist" thing--strikes me as funny that a man who will defend to the death a woman's "right" to murder her unborn children shouldn't be so quick to claim that a truly Christian group like Focus on the Family is the Antichrist. The whole "what would Jesus do" thing applies here, I think--and I somehow cannot see Jesus marching in a pro-abortion rally and screaming that decent groups like Focus are the antithesis of His belief system. Stupid thing to say, Salazar, truly stupid...
