Catholic Kathleen Sebelius and Abortion Politics

The appointment of Sebelius is one more slap in the face orchestrated by the Obama administration and directed at the Catholic church, orthodox monotheists and those opposed to a platform that constitutes an abysmal failure of human compassion towards the most innocent members of society. The appointment is consistent with this administration's disregard for human life, further demonstrated by the dissolution of the Mexico City policy and subsequent funding for embryonic stem cell research. The late pope John Paul II courageously and clearly articulated this downwardly spiraling morass of evil, calling our culture a "Culture of Death" which indeed it is.

The American people, particularly those affiliated with an exponentially expanding federal government along with a gaggle of social engineers, refuse to recognize that America's problems are not simply economic or political. In fact, they are symptomatic of a much greater crisis. We are a morally bankrupt nation and most certainly will collapse beneath the weight of our reprehensible misdeeds.

Much maligned and often ridiculed, fundamentalist Christians have one particular charism in their court. They call sin sin and adamantly pronounce that the only remedy for America is a radical repentance or complete departure from repugnant acts that systematically destroy the most innocent of human life. They are correct.

God may be ignored or portrayed as mythological, refuted to be mere whimsy; a teddy bear in the sky or perhaps a doting granddaddy. God may be crafted as an anachronism to be largely ignored by the illuminati, or God may be defined as whatever it is that makes people comfortable. God will be mimicked by imposters, maligned by the blasphemous and mocked by the arrogant. Ultimately God will prevail.

As regards this administration, its actions thus far and its intentions, the hope and change rhetoric espoused prior to the election illustrate an amazing propensity to influence voters while the works themselves resemble something more akin to smoke and mirrors, a grand delusion.

Prudent Americans would do well to pray for America, not that America will be delivered from the impending dissolution of a once great nation. Rather that those who pray may express their confidence in the One who alone deserves their adoration. Our current executive branch hardly deserves our accolades.

J.M. Palvado of AL 11:13PM March 12, 2009