Hmm. With the wealth of information out in the world, expeditously served up on a computer screen with a few clicks day or night, it might be easy for a speech writer to sprinkle some oft used words heard or read round and about, into a speech. One that a President might give. At a commencement address.
The President gave it at the University of Notre Dame, a Catholic institution May 17, 2009. Now there has abeen a torrent of dissent and donation withholding as a result of such an institution giving an honorary degree to a politician who holds such views counter to those of the Catholic church on abortion. Barack Obama opines pro choice, supports infaticide, and has been labeled The Most Extreme Pro-Abortion Candidate Ever.
But digression aside. One might also wonder why Obama, a disciple of the Trinity United Church of Christ which practices Black Liberation Theology, might handily usurp the United Methodist Church’s words from one of their television commercials. For a Catholic university speech. Cloaked in the vestments of a Catholic institution.
Lee Cary at AT.
The United Methodist Church occasionally airs a television advertisement based on a trilogy of openness. It’s tag line is:
“Open hearts. Open minds. Open doors. The people of The United Methodist Church.” Through its television campaign, the United Methodist Church is promising seekers that it is a denomination of open hearts, open minds and open doors.” (Source)
During his address at Notre Dame’s commencement event, the President said,
“Each side [of the abortion issue] will continue to make its case to the public with passion and conviction. But surely we can do so without reducing those with differing views to caricature. Open hearts. Open minds. Fair-minded words. It’s a way of life that has always been the Notre Dame tradition.”Ooops.
Did Obama write the speech? Or a speech writer who thought no one would be paying attention?
Well that probably does not make anyone question Obama’s faith. Although it may raise the question of his judgment in using a speech writer who handily picks lines from other religions, to present to another which is taking on a firestorm in honoring him.
What does show some serious lack of judgment, is Obama’s raising of his hand to the graduating students during the blessing at the ceremony. Obama, as a non-Catholic, would have best stuck to his speech and ceremonial duties, and kept his hand down during the the blessing and left that to the Catholics in charge.
As if that was not bad enough, as Gateway Pundit put it, Sick. Obama Wears Prayer Dedicated to Virgin Mary At Notre Dame Commencement, the inscriptions part of the insignia on the robe. Receiving an honorary degree, Obama had to be gowned and hooded from the same institution.
“The phrase ‘Vita, Dulcedo, Spes,’ taken from the ancient prayer to the Virgin, the ‘Salve Regina,’ means ‘our life, our sweetness, our hope’ and the combination of these phrases with the symbol for the university indicates the dedication of all Notre Dame’s activities, intellectual, spiritual, athletic, and so on, to Our Lady,” explained the February 1931 issue of the Notre Dame Alumnus magazine.
It is just ironic that Notre Dame’s mantra so clashes with Obama’s pro choice stance. And hence with Catholic church pro life teachings. Yet he merrily enveloped himself in the historical attirement and pageantry of the day. And went on to mesmerize the fawning masses despite some very contorted history. Nice Deb laid it out.
As with the race speech, which never answered the question of how he was able to sit in the pews and listen to the poisonous sermons of fire-breathing Pastor, Jeremiah Wright for all those years, this speech doesn’t address his own profoundly pro abortion views and actions which he’s acted upon his whole political career…right up to his first days in office.
Even the good Brit, Gerald Warner, called it for what it was. Barack Obama preaches the gospel of abortion at Notre Shame. Two peas in a pod?
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