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Obama’s Notre Dame Convocation Equivocation

Posted 19 May 2009 in abortion, Barack Obama, hypocrisy, political correctness

(I’m testing Blogger’s post-via-email function, as the company for which I’ve been freelancing blocks pretty much the entire Internet. We’ll see if this works…)

I was dismayed by President Obama’s speech at Notre Dame this weekend for a variety of reasons. A Catholic institution inviting a staunch pro-abortion politician to give their commencement (and giving him an honorary degree) is not too different from inviting the Klan’s Grand Wizard to be a presenter at the NAACP’s Image Awards: there’s just too great a divide in basic morality to tolerate.

And that gets to the heart of my beef: Obama’s disingenuous challenge for “fair-minded words” with regards to faith and abortion. By using PC-charged buzzwords, The One is doing what Dems do best: shame others into complicity. Just as the fear of bring called a racist keeps many from speaking out on matters involving crime, the use of “fairness” as a cudgel seems to have effectively cowed Catholic leaders at Notre Dame into compromising their pro-life stance.

Challenging those who believe abortion is murder, Obama called for “Open hearts. Open minds. Fair-minded words.” as though people who believe in the sanctity of life are closed-minded, and the abortion issue is a simple difference of opinion.

I wonder if the president is similarly willing to equivocate on slavery? Or genocide? Would he just as easily empathize with the “heart-wrenching decision” to carry out those atrocities?

President Obama’s damaged moral compass bodes ill for our nation. Notre Dame’s student & faculty would do better to observe the words of President Theodore Roosevelt: “To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.”

Posted by FullMetalPatriot
12th gen. American, Constitutionalist, Harley-riding Texan, gun owner & NRA member, blogger, illustrator, Florida Gator alumnus. #TCOT

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