Short little note here. Liberal Catholics always use polls to show they’re right. We get the 98 percent poll of Catholics actually wear condoms on a daily basis just in case they meet someone they’re attracted to on the train. We get 69 percent of Catholics support marriage between cats and dogs.
The implication is that they’re right because we’ve convinced a majority of people they are right. But the Catholic church doesn’t have a poll driven magisterium. The magisterium is to be ignored in favor of the will of the people in all things Catholic.
But that isn’t how it works in the Church, that’s how it kinda’ works in a democracy. But it seems that despite polls that say the people don’t like Obamacare, it’s right because the Supreme Court says it is. So in democracy it’s ok to have the hierarchy decide what’s right and wrong, polls be damned.
I just got one of those mass emails from the Democrat Party from Joe Biden praising Obama for pushing the Affordable Care Act even though it isn’t popular. So in a democracy, rolling over the will of the people is brave but in the Catholic Church it’s oppressive.
June 30, 2012 at 4:49 pm
Amen. I'm really struck by Obama's whole "I did it because it's right for the country" thing. I have yet to gather my thoughts into anything coherently resembling real thought on all of this; I'm watching it with a kind of chock and horrified awe. But one thing's coming through loud and clear–the state is religion for many.
June 30, 2012 at 4:50 pm
Um, shock, not chock. Maybe chock, too. Hey, words have no meaning anymore, anyway.
June 30, 2012 at 10:02 pm
Obama may force employers to pay for abortions.
That'll be called OBAMACARE II . Just Watch what he does next. Heaven help us if he's re-elected.
BUT THERE'S HOPE !
JACKSON, Miss. — Mississippi could soon become the only state without an abortion clinic because of a new law taking effect this weekend.
Robert Fallon
July 1, 2012 at 1:01 am
The Democratic majority that rammed Obamacare down our throats was voted into office in 2006. 60% of eligible voters didn't bother to vote. If they had, we might never have had that monstrosity of a bill at all.
July 1, 2012 at 1:23 am
To clarify, Are you sure the Supreme Court says that Obamacare is "right" or merely constitutional as a tax? There is a difference.
July 1, 2012 at 3:28 am
Forget the polls. Check out what Missouri's up to at The Catholic Knight (http://catholicknight.blogspot.com/).
Good to hear someone's got a real workable plan in mind.
Cheer up my friend in Christ
July 1, 2012 at 4:20 am
The Supreme Court has done nothing to stop abortion….why were we foolish enough to think they'd do the right thing now?
July 1, 2012 at 1:42 pm
In just one day in this nation’s history, we have come closer to legitimizing our taxpayer dollars being used to fund and propagate the abortion industry. Yet another important reason to stop the madness in November.
Bill McNichols
July 1, 2012 at 2:40 pm
BTW the 98% figure you keep quoting on this issue is incorrect. It is more likely to be about 50% who ignore the teachings of the Church. The 98% comes from a secular source and it cannot be taken at face value. It is the same thing with the so called 50% of all marriages end it divorce. That is simply not true according to a story on FOX NEWS last fall. Please be aware that polls are not foolproof and can be worded any way.