http://www.dfwcatholic.org/stupak-pitts-amendment-passes-240-to-1946858/.html Dallas & Ft. Worth's Best Catholic Website Tue, 16 Mar 2010 21:39:55 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://www.dfwcatholic.org/stupak-pitts-amendment-passes-240-to-1946858/.html/comment-page-1#comment-67009 Ed Reinhart Sun, 08 Nov 2009 19:01:17 +0000 http://www.dfwcatholic.org/?p=6858#comment-67009 Don't be celebrating yet. First, there was no conscience protection clause in the Health Bill which narrowly passed by 15 votes. Nor were there any guarantees that any of the other life issues would be protected. The death panels are alive and well, nothing was mentioned in the bill about stem cell research, planned parenthood issues of family planning and education are well defended, there is a promise of gross intrusion into child rearing. On top of all this this Bill represents the greatest violation of individual and coorporate constitutional rights that has yet occurred outside of the House passed Climate Change Bill. Finally, this Bill will cost at least a trillion dollars, there by reducing personal disposable income at a time when every parish in the country is begging the folks to contribute more to the bottom line of their parishs. And lastly, there is no guarantee that the Stupak-Pitts amendment will survive joint conference negotiations. Personally I think the Bishops and most pro-life entities got snookered. When you constantly dance with the devil you will eventually get burned. The problem with the Bishops is that most of them have traditionaly supported every government effort to solve social ills. Never mind that this support has helped expand the naturally socialist tendency of government. Now we are confronted with an administration which is doing all it can to reduce us to an absolutely socialist/fascist nation in which the government will deprive us of nearly all personal rights, thus making it more and more difficult to observe and preserve our Catholic life and morality. It would have been far better if the Bishops had been stressing the principals of subsidiarity over the last seventy or eighty years instead of coming down in favor of government's natrually socialist tendencies. Don’t be celebrating yet. First, there was no conscience protection clause in the Health Bill which narrowly passed by 15 votes. Nor were there any guarantees that any of the other life issues would be protected. The death panels are alive and well, nothing was mentioned in the bill about stem cell research, planned parenthood issues of family planning and education are well defended, there is a promise of gross intrusion into child rearing. On top of all this this Bill represents the greatest violation of individual and coorporate constitutional rights that has yet occurred outside of the House passed Climate Change Bill. Finally, this Bill will cost at least a trillion dollars, there by reducing personal disposable income at a time when every parish in the country is begging the folks to contribute more to the bottom line of their parishs. And lastly, there is no guarantee that the Stupak-Pitts amendment will survive joint conference negotiations. Personally I think the Bishops and most pro-life entities got snookered. When you constantly dance with the devil you will eventually get burned. The problem with the Bishops is that most of them have traditionaly supported every government effort to solve social ills. Never mind that this support has helped expand the naturally socialist tendency of government. Now we are confronted with an administration which is doing all it can to reduce us to an absolutely socialist/fascist nation in which the government will deprive us of nearly all personal rights, thus making it more and more difficult to observe and preserve our Catholic life and morality. It would have been far better if the Bishops had been stressing the principals of subsidiarity over the last seventy or eighty years instead of coming down in favor of government’s natrually socialist tendencies.

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