The Nominees for the Winter 2009 HLI Millstone Award Are . . .

to numerous to list. So, could I have the envelope please!

& the winner of the Winter 2009 Human Life International Millstone Award is, oops make that the winners are (drum roll please) . . . .

OBAMA CATHOLICS

As I said about yesterday''s award, no surprize. Actually, this is probably the largest single group to get this award as it covers roughly 18 million "Catholics".

So what did 54% of voting Catholics including 43% of weekly Mass-goers (who as HLI points out, "should have known better") vote for?

They helped elect to the Presidency "a man who is far more radical on abortion than Al Gore, John Kerry or even Hillary Clinton." A man who promised to sign the Freedom of Choice Act, voted to allow late term babies born alive after abortion to be starved & dehydrated to death, vowed to restore funding to the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) that supports China's forced abortion program. (& has proven since being in office that this claim is true.)

Why did they do this? "They were seduced by a telegenic face and a brilliant speaking style." As HLI points out: "These Catholics certainly would not buy an expensive new house based solely on its new coating of paint. They would carefully inspect it inside and have it looked over by a professional first.. But they bought Obama hook, line and sinker, without bothering to perform even the most cursory examination of his policies. They, like so many others, were simply hypnotized by the mantra of 'Change!'"

Obama was aided & abetted by groups like Catholics United, Catholics in Alliance for the Common Good, & Catholic Democrats. AS HLI puts it, they were "pied pipers who led millions astray." The Bishops' document, Faithful Citizenship, was used to put abortion on a par with many other social issues. The result, these Catholics justified ignoring abortion. I have to add that there were some priests who rightly taught from the document, but many used its poor wording as a loophole to enable people to ignore or downplay abortion as the primary issue. This same thing was done with Cardinal Bernadin's seamless garment. The Cardinal made it clear that some issues were primary, trumping the others, with abortion at the top. But that was very conveniently ignored & was aided by the way the media presented it.

Then there was Archbishop Wilton Gregory's post election statement that Obama's election was a "great step forward for humanity." As HLI said: "Born humanity, perhaps. " (Gregory is a former president of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops.)

HLI points out: "But we cannot entirely blame the Bishops or dissenting fake 'Catholic" groups for the result of the vote. The full weight of responsibility must fall on the shoulders of those millions who actually voted for Obama; those who could not be bothered to dig deeper; those who ignored the direction of Pope Benedict XVI, who said that 'Not all moral issues have the same moral weight as abortion and euthenasia. There may be legitimate diversity even among Catholics about waging war & even applying the death penalty, but not . . . with regard to abortion and euthenasia.'"

Most former abortionists admit they were in it for the money. "Catholics who voted for Obama are no different from these abortionists. They voted based on their wallets, not based on any semblance of Catholic morality."

Since there isn't enough sandstone in all of America's quarries to send each of these "18 million so-called 'Catholics'" HLI "will send make-believe millstones to them." That will enable the recipients to "store them in places where they put other things they soon forget about---like their Confirmation certificates."

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The Millstone Award "is of course inspired by the Lord’s words castigating the theological frauds of His own time for their dishonesty: “Temptations to sin are sure to come; but woe to him by whom they come! It would be better for him if a millstone were hung round his neck and he were cast into the sea, than that he should cause one of these little ones to sin” (Lk 17:1-2). And in the very next verse of that passage, the Lord said, “If your brother sins, rebuke him.” This award is then an exercise of public rebuke for those who cause public scandal! The recipients of this rebuke are persons in public life who represent themselves as Catholics and take advantage of their public position to knowingly advance positions or behaviors contrary to the clear teachings of our Faith."