Sunday, October 12, 2008

Senator Obama’s Politics of Division and Despair

From Catholic Online:

Senator Obama regularly calls us to be united in our “common humanity” and “our shared destiny.” In Berlin, he called on all of us to tear down all sorts of “walls” that divide us. However, despite vague references to “our values,” Obama cannot articulate what it is that unites us or what are our values. In fact, his politics are not the politics of unity, but of division. The unity Obama offers can never be because he views sins as fundamental rights. Spe Salvi (Saved in Hope), the encyclical letter of Pope Benedict XVI, reminds us that “[s]in is...the destruction of the unity of the human race.”

Yet, Senator Obama wants us to embrace sin as a fundamental right. How can our country ever hope to achieve unity if we embrace sin?

Obama divides mothers and children, supporting a mother’s “right” to kill her child if it is unwanted. He divides husbands and wives, by supporting contraception and mandating insurance coverage for it, depriving the sexual act of its unitive and procreative elements...

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