Cosmos-Liturgy-Sex

Well, it was not a surprise I suppose, but it was still a blow.  On Friday, as expected, BO signed an executive order reversing the Mexico City policy which now allows US funded NGOs to promote abortion–and promote they will.  It is not a surprise since BO made it clear that this was his plan and he is filling his staff which will oversee life issues, with proabortion zealots.  BO has bought into the illusion that abortion is a matter of women’s rights just as he has bought into the error that the same sex attraction disorder agenda is also a matter of civil rights.  Thus, these are areas in which he will brook no compromise.

The extent to which these rights extend in his mind can be seen in his active support of FOCA and his rejection of former President Bush’s end of term executive order put in place to safeguard the right to conscience of health care workers.  The ACLU is emblematic of this disturbing thinking.  The right to act according to one’s conscience is trumped by a supposed “right” not just to “act out” on disorders (abortion, SSAD, etc.) but also by a “right” to force others to enable such behavior.  In fact, BO’s support for additional “hate crimes” legislation, as we are seeing in Canada and in Europe, suggests that religious liberties are also to be subordinated to such fabricated “rights.”

The tyranny that appears to be on our horizon, the foreshadowing of which was Friday’s executive order, is a modern form of tyranny which Monsignor Robert Sokolowski mentions in his epic tome, Phenomenology of the Human Person.  In summarizing the way that syntax reveals the human person as the agent of truth, Sokolowski asserts that the corruption of truth is the aspect of modern tyranny that makes it perhaps the greatest malady man must endure.  He refers to George Orwell’s novel 1984:

… modern tyranny is complete only when subjects are willing to disavow their own exercise of truthfulness, and to say that four fingers being held up in front of them are not necessarily four, but that they could be three, or five, or four, or even all of these at once, depending on what the Party says the are.  As the tyrannical O’Brien says to Winston in 1984, “The thought is all we care about,” and, “When finally you surrender to us, it must be of your own free will” (96).

Clearly, the tyranny is not yet complete.  However, it seems that the groundwork is now being laid.  The majority of the US electorate either cared not enough about the threat or did not see it clearly enough.  The crisis atmosphere is now upon us which makes the possibility that the majority could willingly abandon their responsibilities as agents of truth all the more credible. We will see in the next few months how committed BO is to social reconstruction as a priority.  He has loaded his administration with abortion ideologues.  He is willing to now spend scarce US tax dollars on pushing the abortion “ideal” upon the underdeveloped world.  If he champions FOCA and hate speech legislation amidst the crises he has on his plate, the answer will be clear.

When Catholic hospitals and all healthcare workers of conscience  find that they now are obligated to cooperate with the culture of death, expect to hear again Blago’s retort to Illinois pharmacists…”it’s time to find another profession.”  When Christians, Jews, and Muslims are ordered to no longer teach that abortion is murder or that same sex attraction is a disorder, expect to hear that they have no right to promote hateful and devisive ideas. When BO holds up four fingers and asks what you see, expect to hear the Party whisper in your ear the answer you are to give before you have a chance to respond.

We may have turned the corner that we all were hoping we would not turn.  If this charismatic man who now inhabits the White House indends, as his first priority, on foisting upon us the social shennanigans he has promised, then the Church in the U.S. should be ready for persecution well beyond the threat of taxation we are now seeing in San Francisco.  With the Psalmist we should pray all the more fervently for the Church: Lord, protect Her from evil, guard Her still.