Joseph Pecar
The real reasons behind the "Notre Dame Obama Offer" controversy!
By Joseph Pecar
The media reported issues surrounding the Obama offer by pundits favoring it include, the pursuit of academic freedom, Notre Dame's tradition of honoring presidents, norms of protocol, financial prosperity, Government funding, tax breaks, and other secular goals.
To many who castigate Father Jenkins for extending and refusing to rescind the offer, it is his, and therefore Notre Dame's, complete lack of moral rectitude and the Offer's evil consequences, that they see as the principle issues that should be invoked to resolve the controversy. To them, clearly none of the secular issues can be more important, take precedence over or justify the hideous evils of willfully perverting people's consciences and the increased number of Abortion-related lost and maimed lives that have already, or will occur if the Obama offer is not rescinded.
Let's first consider why consciences are desecrated and then why other factors resulting from Notre Dame's Offer increase the number of lost or maimed lives.
In the past millions of ordinary people have firmly believed that Abortion — and the Infanticide and Black Genocide it engenders in America — to surely be intrinsically evil. However, as a result of Notre Dame's Offer, their consciences have been corrupted to the point where they now wrongly conclude "such practices could not truly be evil." Why? Because, they reason, "if individuals seeking to firmly ensconce radically pro-Abortion and anti-God ideologies in the moral fabric of our Nation were evil, surely Georgetown, Notre Dame and others would not cover icons, remove Crucifixes, and take other steps in deference to or to bestow honors on them."
Since conscience is the very foundation of spiritual sanctity, the desecration of the consciences of untold numbers of souls that occurs when leaders of prestigious Catholic institutions willfully scandalize others, are obviously — and in their own right — grievously despicable, heartlessly cruel moral transgressions. But the accumulative evil wrought by this Abortion-related scandal is not limited to debasing the moral well-being of individuals alone.
No, as the number of citizens and legislators with wounded consciences grows large enough, even more pernicious rights to unrestricted Abortion will be voted for and enacted. Quests that Obama, who since being elected President has become the most well-known, and now the most powerful, radically pro-Abortion person in the world, has already taken significant steps towards.
That means even more innocent human lives will be lost to Abortion. And because the number of so called "Botched Abortions" scale with the number of "Good Abortions" performed, then the number of post-Abortion but born-alive babies who die despite efforts to save them, the number of post-Abortion but born-alive babies simply left to die (Infanticide), and the number of Botched Abortion survivors left with life-long afflictions and suffering — all will also increase.
Moreover, there is overwhelming evidence that the way Abortion has and is yet practiced in the United States clearly constitutes and increases the incidence of Black Genocide. Again, why is that true? Here are some of the facts that make that so.
Since 1973, twice as many Black Americans have died from abortion than from AIDS, accidents, violent crimes, cancer, and heart disease combined. Blacks make up only 12% of the population but 34% of all abortions are Black babies. In the last 36 years over 17 million African American babies have died by abortion alone, which is one third of America's current Black population. Nearly half of all African-American pregnancies end in abortion.
The early seduction of Black Americans by the Birth Control League and Margaret Sanger's (Planned Parenthood's founder) eugenics programs set into motion today's dilemma. From the beginning, the birth control movement's "Negro Project" (launched in 1939) was especially appealing to eugenicists determined to check the climbing birthrates of those they defined as the "unfit."
And finally, Dr. Clenard H. Childress, Jr., Black Pastor of The New Calvary Baptist Church in Montclair, NJ and founder of blackgenocide.org summarizes the situation with this shocking revelation. According to Allan Guttmacher's statistics, "today the most dangerous place for an African-American to be is in the womb of their African-American mother."
Would it not be refreshing and enlightening if in the course of our newspaper reporter's investigations and our news and talk-shows host's interviews, that they would query both those who support and those who criticize Notre Dame's decision to honor the most radically pro-Abortion President in history, whether or not in taking their positions, they took into account such factors as the perversion of the consciences of millions of souls and the impact that making and not rescinding the Notre Dame Obama Offer will have on the number of Abortions performed, and the deadly or debilitating impact that will have Abortion's survivors?
Will it not be revealing if few are even able to respond? And if they can't, will the fact that they are unprepared to respond be truly shocking "breaking news"? That is, that secular and material goals have virtually eliminated moral rectitude as the basis on which to evaluate conduct in our American society?
For those who might interview Father Jenkins, perhaps some newsperson could ask them the following question: "In the past millions of ordinary people have firmly believed that Abortion — and the Infanticide and Black Genocide it engenders in America — to surely be intrinsically evil. Because Notre Dame, a university that represents itself as a bastion of the Catholic faith invited Obama — who is the now the most notorious person in the world promoting abortion — to speak and to confer an honor on him, those people have been scandalized into believing that their 'Abortion must be intrinsically evil' conviction must be wrong and that everything Obama advocates about Abortion must be morally licit.
"Now, Father Jenkins, you may argue that they misunderstood Notre Dame's position, but even if they did, the damage to their consciences is done and over with. And it is hard to imagine that the highly educated powers to be at Notre dame did not fully appreciate the "risk" of this scandalization — prior to Notre Dame's offer.
"Since no one forced Notre Dame to make the Obama offer, just exactly what good did you, Father Jenkins, see that you thought offset the terrible wickedness of corrupting the consciences of millions of people, and the evil consequences of the even more unlimited Abortions practices that are sure to result?
Why can't our news-people ask such a straight forward question, and expect an answer?
© Joseph Pecar
May 16, 2009
The media reported issues surrounding the Obama offer by pundits favoring it include, the pursuit of academic freedom, Notre Dame's tradition of honoring presidents, norms of protocol, financial prosperity, Government funding, tax breaks, and other secular goals.
To many who castigate Father Jenkins for extending and refusing to rescind the offer, it is his, and therefore Notre Dame's, complete lack of moral rectitude and the Offer's evil consequences, that they see as the principle issues that should be invoked to resolve the controversy. To them, clearly none of the secular issues can be more important, take precedence over or justify the hideous evils of willfully perverting people's consciences and the increased number of Abortion-related lost and maimed lives that have already, or will occur if the Obama offer is not rescinded.
Let's first consider why consciences are desecrated and then why other factors resulting from Notre Dame's Offer increase the number of lost or maimed lives.
In the past millions of ordinary people have firmly believed that Abortion — and the Infanticide and Black Genocide it engenders in America — to surely be intrinsically evil. However, as a result of Notre Dame's Offer, their consciences have been corrupted to the point where they now wrongly conclude "such practices could not truly be evil." Why? Because, they reason, "if individuals seeking to firmly ensconce radically pro-Abortion and anti-God ideologies in the moral fabric of our Nation were evil, surely Georgetown, Notre Dame and others would not cover icons, remove Crucifixes, and take other steps in deference to or to bestow honors on them."
Since conscience is the very foundation of spiritual sanctity, the desecration of the consciences of untold numbers of souls that occurs when leaders of prestigious Catholic institutions willfully scandalize others, are obviously — and in their own right — grievously despicable, heartlessly cruel moral transgressions. But the accumulative evil wrought by this Abortion-related scandal is not limited to debasing the moral well-being of individuals alone.
No, as the number of citizens and legislators with wounded consciences grows large enough, even more pernicious rights to unrestricted Abortion will be voted for and enacted. Quests that Obama, who since being elected President has become the most well-known, and now the most powerful, radically pro-Abortion person in the world, has already taken significant steps towards.
That means even more innocent human lives will be lost to Abortion. And because the number of so called "Botched Abortions" scale with the number of "Good Abortions" performed, then the number of post-Abortion but born-alive babies who die despite efforts to save them, the number of post-Abortion but born-alive babies simply left to die (Infanticide), and the number of Botched Abortion survivors left with life-long afflictions and suffering — all will also increase.
Moreover, there is overwhelming evidence that the way Abortion has and is yet practiced in the United States clearly constitutes and increases the incidence of Black Genocide. Again, why is that true? Here are some of the facts that make that so.
Since 1973, twice as many Black Americans have died from abortion than from AIDS, accidents, violent crimes, cancer, and heart disease combined. Blacks make up only 12% of the population but 34% of all abortions are Black babies. In the last 36 years over 17 million African American babies have died by abortion alone, which is one third of America's current Black population. Nearly half of all African-American pregnancies end in abortion.
The early seduction of Black Americans by the Birth Control League and Margaret Sanger's (Planned Parenthood's founder) eugenics programs set into motion today's dilemma. From the beginning, the birth control movement's "Negro Project" (launched in 1939) was especially appealing to eugenicists determined to check the climbing birthrates of those they defined as the "unfit."
And finally, Dr. Clenard H. Childress, Jr., Black Pastor of The New Calvary Baptist Church in Montclair, NJ and founder of blackgenocide.org summarizes the situation with this shocking revelation. According to Allan Guttmacher's statistics, "today the most dangerous place for an African-American to be is in the womb of their African-American mother."
Would it not be refreshing and enlightening if in the course of our newspaper reporter's investigations and our news and talk-shows host's interviews, that they would query both those who support and those who criticize Notre Dame's decision to honor the most radically pro-Abortion President in history, whether or not in taking their positions, they took into account such factors as the perversion of the consciences of millions of souls and the impact that making and not rescinding the Notre Dame Obama Offer will have on the number of Abortions performed, and the deadly or debilitating impact that will have Abortion's survivors?
Will it not be revealing if few are even able to respond? And if they can't, will the fact that they are unprepared to respond be truly shocking "breaking news"? That is, that secular and material goals have virtually eliminated moral rectitude as the basis on which to evaluate conduct in our American society?
For those who might interview Father Jenkins, perhaps some newsperson could ask them the following question: "In the past millions of ordinary people have firmly believed that Abortion — and the Infanticide and Black Genocide it engenders in America — to surely be intrinsically evil. Because Notre Dame, a university that represents itself as a bastion of the Catholic faith invited Obama — who is the now the most notorious person in the world promoting abortion — to speak and to confer an honor on him, those people have been scandalized into believing that their 'Abortion must be intrinsically evil' conviction must be wrong and that everything Obama advocates about Abortion must be morally licit.
"Now, Father Jenkins, you may argue that they misunderstood Notre Dame's position, but even if they did, the damage to their consciences is done and over with. And it is hard to imagine that the highly educated powers to be at Notre dame did not fully appreciate the "risk" of this scandalization — prior to Notre Dame's offer.
"Since no one forced Notre Dame to make the Obama offer, just exactly what good did you, Father Jenkins, see that you thought offset the terrible wickedness of corrupting the consciences of millions of people, and the evil consequences of the even more unlimited Abortions practices that are sure to result?
Why can't our news-people ask such a straight forward question, and expect an answer?
© Joseph Pecar
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