Laura Ingraham Takes on Jon O'Brien, the head of ------ for Choice*

This was the final segment of the Laura Ingraham Show on Monday, 29 November 2011, except fot the "Call of the Day" (more on that later). Her guest was Jon O'Brien, president of ---- for Choice*.  You can tell how fustrated Laura got when he refused to answer her questions or let her finish what she said.

You will notice that O'Brien claimed that his baptism gave him the right to call himself Catholic while totally avoiding the real question about the Bishops & Pope's knowledge of authentic Catholic teaching & their making it clear the group was NOT Catholic. He also refused to answer her question about unborn children as  well. & what little he did say about Catholics & Family Planning was inaccurate/incomplete. (Again more about that under "Call of the Day" below.)

Now as for the call of the day you can hear it here, or here: Allen says being pro-choice is not Catholic.

Yes, it was me who called in. Yes, I was surprized I actually got on the air, & even more so to later find out I was the "Call of the Day". I called in to simply pass on my support of Laura's defense of the Catholic Church's teachings. I didn't think she would be putting any more callers on the air. But there I was, being told to hold on. I guess she liked how "brutal" I was.

I stand by my statement that he would be one of those urging the Early Christians to offer incense to the Emperor to avoid being martyred. & I don't apply that only to him, but to all those who call on the Catholic Church to bow to the Obama demand that Catholic institutions pay for birth control etc in their insurance policies. I came to that conclusion after recently reading the article Does the Catholic Church Still Count? in the Nov 2011 issue of The New Oxford Review. Towards the end of the story I began seeing what the Obama administration was doing was the equivalent of requiring the early Christians to offer incense to Caesar. They were being told that they had to do that but then could still be able to practice their faith otherwise. (NOTE: the link only has the 1st part of the story, not the part I am refering to.) Then at the weekday Mass for 15 Nov the 1st reading was 2 Maccabees 6:18-31. It tells the story of Eleazar being told to pretend to eat pork & his refusal because doing so would cause scandal. The next day the reading was from 2 Maccabees 7:1, 20-31 that told of the Jewish mother & her 7 sons in a similar situation. I also read a couple of short bios on various days about early martyrs (such as St. Marcellus, the Centurion, Martyr, St. Quintin, Martyr &  St. Theodore Tyro, Martyr) who refused to compromise despite being urged to do so.

& while we may not be facing physical martyrdom, we are being put in a similar situation of having to chose between what we believe & what the government wants us to do. We need to be ready, should that day come. It may not be too far away when we have to go along with what the government demands of us to support their "culture of death" agenda or pay whatever legal price, to be willing to sacrifice all, including our freedom rather than deny our faith.

* Except for when she actually introduced Jon O'Brien she would not say the word Catholic as a part of the title of the group. & obviously I agree with her wholeheartedly.