Pro-Life Protesters at Notre Dame Are Hypocrites

As you may have heard, some of the pro-life crowd are protesting up a storm over Notre Dame's invitation for President Obama to speak at their commencement this month. They point to the fact that as the most prominent Catholic university in the nation, they should not allow someone who is pro choice to speak.

See here and here.


This got me thinking. Is it REALLY a motivation to hold life dear that these people are protesting over or is it merely a proxy issue to fight against a representative of a liberal party, one that is less tied to the conservative religious movements and their hate mongering?

I decided to do the job that the press SHOULD be doing and see if anyone who was pro death penalty had ever spoken at Notre Dame and what do you know? I only had to run one google query and found the following tidbits:

"President George W. Bush delivered his first presidential commencement address at Notre Dame in May 2001, declaring that the nation’s faith-based organizations were central to the war on poverty."

See here.


I haven't seen one member of the press point this out yet.

As you may know, W. executed 155 people while Governor of Texas. That is more than any other elected official in the history of the United States. Some of the people whom he had executed had questionable conviction records. Some were retarded. How is that for anti-life agenda, Catholics? George Bush executed retarded people. Where were you then?


(Side note: Guess who his staffer was who prepared biased summary memos for Bush to review during clemency hearings? Who authored memos that presented only the worst parts of the record and ignored all other evidence and mitigating circumstances? It was...wait for it... Alberto Gonzales. How was he rewarded for facilitating these executions, some of which put retarded men to death? He got to preside over the mass political firings of a large number of US Attorneys.)

Did throngs of pro life Catholic s rise up in protest? (The Catholic church is against capital punishment, by the way.) Did they bring little pictures of retarded men being executed like they brought of 10 week old fetuses being aborted? Of course not. Why? Because they knew that they were getting a president who would funnel tax payer money to churches, so they all just shut the hell up.

See here and also here.

Now, with a president who actually agrees with them on so many issues regarding social justice and societal well being is coming to speak, they bash him on his pro choice agenda, conveniently ignoring the fact that he wants to discourage abortions at every turn by providing sex education to avoid unwanted pregnancies, by encouraging adoption over abortion, and by encouraging people to abstain from sex until they know enough to know how to be sensible about it.

Pointing out that the loudest proclaimers of faith are often the biggest hypocrites is an age old task, but we should all keep doing it. Sooner or later enough people will wake up to the scam and put an end to it.



UPDATE: After a technical issue and an absence, I have had to re-post all of my old posts. As a result there will be many posts listed as published today, Dec 3, 2009, that were posted sometime earlier in the year, but I do not know the exact date. this post is one of them.