By Larry Peterson
Pope St. John Paul II said, “A nation that kills its own children is a
nation without hope.”
Hillary Clinton’s decades of political experience
have allowed her to master the art of parsing the English language to suit the
moment. To be fair, she is just one of many skilled politicians who has this
uncanny ability to say certain things to please a certain audience and then
deny having said those same things to please a different audience. Amazingly,
the world seems to excuse it all because, as they say, “That’s politics.”
There is one issue, however, that Mrs. Clinton
speaks to where political language is non-existent. That is abortion. Mrs. Clinton
is perfectly clear about her position; she not only is in favor of abortion,
she believes it is perfectly all right for a woman to have an abortion up to
and including the moments right before full term birth. It seems to
me that St. JP II’s opinion and Mrs. Clinton’s opinion on the matter are on
opposite ends of the Sanctity of Life spectrum.
Secularism’s
success is contingent on eliminating God our Creator from the life equation.
God has rules; God’s rules say “NO”. A society filled with, foremost, a sense
of self-indulgence, cannot have that. This secular society believes that every
person should be able to do what they want—“Hey, I’m not bothering you, am I?”
Secularism’s
mantra of self-gratification has been the catalyst that has driven people the
world over to reject the sanctity of life, fomenting many folks to embrace the
false notion that each of us can decide who lives or dies. Why are there so
many people determined to bring St. John Paul II’s words to fruition? I think the answer is simple enough; “I” and “me”
have replaced “you” and “them”. However, I do believe there is still hope.
There
are many people who proclaim their catholicity and intend to vote for the Party
of Non-Life (those who approve of abortion and euthanasia---Euthanasia is legal
in five states, parts of New Mexico and is up for referendum in Colorado ). How
folks can be part of a religion and reject what it basically stands for is
beyond my understanding. I leave their spirituality up to them. Bottom line---that
still leaves a goodly percentage of Catholic/Chrsitians that still embrace the sanctity
of God’s individual creations, whatever their age may be including the
pre-born.
Psalm 139:13-16 speaks to each one of us as God’s individual
creations. "For You formed my inward parts; You covered me in my
mother's womb. I will praise You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made;
marvelous are Your works, and that my soul knows very well. My frame was not
hidden from You, when I was made in secret, and skillfully wrought in the
lowest parts of the earth. Your eyes saw my substance, being yet unformed. And
in Your book they all were written, the days fashioned for me, when as yet
there were none of them."
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| Pope St. John Paul II and Child APPhoto |
The
unexpected candidate for the presidency, Mr. Donald Trump, has proven to be an
enigma to the election process. Honestly, I never knew anything about this man
except that he was a very wealthy and successful international builder and entrepreneur.
He also hosted a #1 rated TV show called the “Apprentice” which was on for 12
years (I actually never watched it). I had never heard anything “bad” about him
and I never had an opinion of him one way or another. Then he ran for President
of the United States.
According
to all the political elite and main stream media and many in his own party he
is almost akin to a new “Hitler”. He is “evil” personified. Yet, through that all, he stands before the world and
says he will defend life and is pro-life and promises to appoint Supreme Court
Justices that will be pro-life. That seems to me to be quite "UnHitlerish".
As
a Catholic man who believes in the Sanctity of Life and honors the fact that
his Church defends life I must cast a vote for the person that will also defend
that life and also has the power to do something about it. I do not care if that
person is obnoxious. I do not care about what they did 10 or 20 or 30 years ago.
The color of their hair matters not and if they happen to be the lousiest
politician who ever lived, so be it. I, and millions like me, are sickened by
the callous disregard for human life especially when this callousness is being
disguised as compassionate. It is NOT compassionate. It is bloody, it is
destructive and it is fatal.
If
we truly believe that we are all God’s individual creations and that Jesus died
for all of us, including the elderly and the pre-born, then we have our moral
duty before us. Finally, from page seven (7) of the old St. Joseph First
Communion Catechism,1963: “God made me
out of nothing. He made me because He loves me. -----I belong to God because He
made me.”
©Copyright Larry Peterson 2016
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