Update!

Wow.  I really am doing these about a month at a time.  Which is funny really, because this is my second journal, and I update this more regularly than do some of the people I know on their primary.

Ahem.

In any case, this month's offering is from our good friend and colleague Deacon Keith Fournier.

Just kidding.  I don't even know if Deacon is his first name, a position he holds within the church, or a self-appointed title of reverence assigned in order to lend some weight and gravitas to whatever dreck he happens to shit out (like Colonel Saunders, Colonel Tom Parker, or Sergeant Slaughter).  In any case, today was apparently Nikita Kruschev remembrance day or something down at St. Peter's, because Saint Fou-Fou the mighty has decided to pick up his rhetorical shoe and pound it on the pulpit as hard as he can in order to assure us that yes, we will bury them (the abortionists that is.  I'm not sure unchristened aborted foeteses actually qualify for a Christian burial in hallowed ground).

Anyway, here goes.

By Deacon Keith Fournier
5/3/2008

It has been thirty five years since that infamous U.S. Supreme Court decision of Roe v. Wade.

So much for the triumph of the pro-life position being "inevitable."

With the stroke of a judicial pen,

As opposed to a ballpoint...

unelected Justices consigned an entire class of persons, children in the first home of the whole human race (their mothers womb), to the status of property.

Which, interestingly enough, are the exact same unelected justices which will one day (supposedly) reverse their decision and happily grant full citizenship rights upon our most precious of resources, the blacocyst-Americans. 

And, as an aside...this guy is a deacon in the Catholic church and he's bitching about unelected people handing down autodictats from on high?  I guess that's the Pope's job.

Like millions, I have prayed, marched and worked tirelessly to overturn this horrid decision and end the killing.

Yeah?  And how's that coming along for ya, Fou-Fou?

As a human rights lawyer I went to the U.S. Supreme Court to defend pro-life protestors. I still try to join the thousands annually who travel to Washington, D.C. to pray and stand in solidarity with children in the womb and the second victims, their mothers.

And presumably bring pedestrian traffic to a standstill because, even after having traveled here year after year, decade after decade, you red state nutjobs still can't get over the fact that there are more people than cows in this particular neck o' th' wood.  PEOPLE!  They're called fucking ESCALATORS!  If you want a picture to send to your parents, friends, and cousins over at the county fair, just download a picture off of Google.  I can guarantee you, the view will still be exactly the same, whether or not your retarded Midwestern ass is in the frame or not.

The right to life is the fundamental human rights issue of our age because without it there are no other rights.

Unless you count the millions of prospective zombie-Americans who even now are awaiting the moment when Darth Chaney, fearing for his own mortality, cracks open the Crystal of Souls and returns them to glorious, rotting unlife.  But they're not as cute as fetuses so I guess they don't get a social movement.

And, speaking of rights to life, I wonder how many hundreds of thousands of women die each year as a result of complications of childbirth.  I guess you might argue that since they were here first, their right to life kind of takes precedence over that of a shrimp-like collection of cells living deep in parasitic stasis in the bowls of a specific human female, but ya know.  I'm not an asexual zillionare octogenerian with red leather Prada loafers. 

It is also the great freedom movement of our day because without the freedom to be born, there are no other freedoms.

I'm not sure what the hell he means by this, but I assume it's safe to say that if you don't have freedom of movement, you can't be born either, because your egg and sperm can't get jiggy and so on, ergo your scale of human freedom collapses.  Or something.  It's been a while since I read Aquinas.

After all these years of pro-life activity I am still labeled by some who seek to protect the so called "right" to take the lives of innocent children in the womb as "religious right." I tried to stop caring about labels a long time ago.

Dude, embracing a label isn't exactly cause for wonderous amazement when you wake up one morning and realize that people are "still" calling you a religious nutjob.  It's just common sense.

After all, the old children’s jingo "sticks and stones…" does have some merit. Names should not hurt me.

"Jingo" is invading a foreign country to steal its natural resources.  "Jingle" is something that is featured in commercials.  Neither is really appropriate, but since we are dealing with the Catholic church here, I guess the invasion of foreign kid's rectums in the name of church integrity will have to suffice.

However, they still do. I have never liked being called a "conservative." I am also NOT a "liberal" because of what that term has now come to mean. Finally, I deplore the theft of the term "progressive" by those who want to call a return to paganism or libertinism "progress".

If being a progressive leads to paganism and means I get to be the horn-helmeted viking that burns your church down, sign me the fuck up.

I am simply a Catholic Christian.

I believe that what the Catholic Church teaches about the inviolability and sanctity of every human life, at every age and stage, is true.

I'll bet.  Just how much spare change do you give away to the homeless black people sleeping on hot air vents when you come to DC, Deac?  Enough to let you sleep at night?  I fucking doubt it. 

I try to inform all of my life, including my social, economic and political participation, by the teaching of the Catholic Church. Because of that teaching, I sometimes speak of myself as pro-life, pro-family, pro-freedom, pro-poor and pro-peace.

Or the opposite.  Depending on what century we're in.

I am being a Catholic Christian when I insist upon an end to legalized abortion.

And a religious nutjob when you argue that your version of Christian sharia law be imposed on the rest of us, not because of the ethical needs of a secular, democratic state, but because the Pope fucking says so.

I am ashamed of fellow Catholics, and other Christians, especially those in public life, who have failed to stay faithful to the truth about life, and in some instances, have become collaborators with the Culture of death.

Yeah job my memory about what the Catholic church had to say about the truth of life back in the 11th century or so.  That'll be good for a laugh.

We are called by our baptismal vocation to serve the common good. Legal Abortion does not serve the common good.

Well I beg to differ, but then again that's because I see Roe vs. Wade as a compromise position which allows for moderation while avoiding the extremes.  But then again, I'm weird.

As a part of our mission to building a truly just society where the polestar of all public policy is the recognition of the inherent dignity of every human person, at every age and stage, we simply have to end legal abortion in America and throughout the world.

Or, you know.  Stop torturing people.

We must not let up in our efforts to see Roe v. Wade vacated, overturned, or in any other feasible way eradicated from our jurisprudence. The decision is a heinous example of how bad science, worse history and nefarious judicial engineering disguised as "legal reasoning" can be used to unleash a horror on an entire class of persons.

Ok, this is just getting stupid.

I believe that we will see its reversal. We now need to plan beyond that reversal. Our work has always been about more than Roe; it is about building a culture of life and a civilization of love, a new society.

Stupid, but not really surprising.  I've always maintained that the Pro-Life forces aren't really about overturning Roe vs. Wade, but rather are trying to have abortion, contraception, pornography, and a whole slew of various sex-related statutes overturned on the grounds of "morality" and "human decency."

This new society we must build, in addition to protecting children, the elderly and the infirm against those who would kill them, must also promote and protect authentic marriage and the stable and healthy families that are built upon it. It must reach out in compassion to embrace all who have been wounded by the weakened state of the institution of marriage.

Oh and divorce.  I guess that's banned too.

This new society, because it is genuinely concerned about justice, must proclaim the truth concerning human freedom and openly reject the relativist and libertine counterfeits that have sought to redefine the word and lead men and women into new forms of slavery.

As opposed to the old forms of slavery.  Which the church was usually pretty cool with.

Tell me, oh great Deacon.  Will there be a place for unbelievers in this brand new society of yours?  You know, that will let me drink on Sunday, have casual sex with people, and swear so long as I do it in the confines of my own specialized "infidel's" ghetto?

It must hear the cry of the poor and promote public policy and legislation which is a response to our social obligations in solidarity. We are our brothers (and sisters) keeper. Such concern for the poor is not “left wing”, it is human and just.

And creepily authoritarian.  Tell me, will the poor have to pray before they get their bread?

Oh well, there's a lot more here, as it goes on for three (THREE!) more pages.  In any case, I just thought I'd leave you with the cove rimage for this article.  I guess it was supposed to prove the humanity of baby fetuses but, somewhere, something went wrong...





All it did to me was convince me that babies freak me the fuck out.  Ah well.  Until next time!