liberalism

J. Budziszewski on Liberalism

“That is the real significance of the Casey plurality’s “right to define one’s own conception of existence, of meaning, of the universe, and of the mystery of human life” (and my excuse for returning to it yet again). This proclamation is every bit as religious as the Nicene Creed, a veritable anthem of nonjudgmentalism–yet what a judgement! Have I blown up the Oklahoma federal building? According to my concept of existence, maybe those people weren’t real. Have I tortured and raped the woman in the next-door apartment? According to my concept of meaning, maybe her suffering wasn’t meaningful. Have I gathered some buddies and kicked a homeless man into a coma? According to my concept of the mystery of human life, maybe he didn’t have a life. Don’t forget, I have a right to my definitions. Everything is permitted, nothing denied, for I am the center of the universe I define.

Such is the logic of liberalism, but the Supreme Court resists logic, as liberalism always must. It hoards its elixir carefully; the acid of nonjudgmentalism may be uncorked from time to time, but only to dissolve the judgements of someone else. This raises the interesting question of how long a universal solvent can be bottled up. Eventually it melts through the cruet.”

-J. Budziszewski in The Line Through the Heart: Natural Law as Fact, Theory, and Sign of Contradiction page 182-183

The Top 7 Things I Want For This Nation

  1. I want to force my morality on everyone else.
  2. I want there to be a theocracy where Christianity rains supreme and suppresses atheists.
  3. I want every female to wear a burka and do everything their husbands say, even if what their husbands say is wrong and immoral.
  4. I want homosexuals to be shipped off to San Francisco.
  5. I want Young Earth Creationism to dominate the schools and be the paradigm scientific theory.
  6. I want there the gun laws to be lowered to allow 16 year olds to carry a concealed weapon in every state.
  7. I want to ban everyone from having any sex at all.

If you have anything more to add to this list, just post it below ;) Also, check out this view if you don’t get where I’m coming from ;)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y-_JhRJ0tWA

Liberal Intolerance and Intolerable Liberals

The Obama administration has decided that it has the power to force religious health care providers to act against their religious beliefs. In August of last year (2011) the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) issued a requirement that most health insurance plans must provide for all FDA-approved contraceptives services, which would presumably include abortifacients.

The problem is that for Catholics contraception is a sin against nature. It is an abominable act on a par with homosexual sodomy. Even worse is the case of abortifacients: since Catholics believe life begins at the moment of conception, if Catholics are forced to give away abortifacients they are in effect being forced to commit murder. Forcing Catholics to pay for these things is nothing less than forcing them to act against their most strongly held beliefs and to commit grave and mortal sins against God.

The Church has voiced its problems with these requirements. Of course, we all know that the Obama administration–being so concerned to promote tolerance and diversity–would have to make an exception. The Obama administration has thought it over and “catholic” Kathleen Sebelius, secretary of the HHS, has this to tell us:

“After evaluating comments, we have decided to add an additional element to the final rule…”

Thank goodness! Great news!

“Nonprofit employers who, based on religious beliefs, do not currently provide contraceptive coverage in their insurance plan, will be provided an additional year, until August 1, 2013, to comply with the new law.”

…or not. In effect, we have been given a year to prepare ourselves to violate our consciences. And this is why Catholics–and anyone committed to religious liberty in general–cannot vote for Obama or his damnable policies.

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