Divider-in-Chief by Kate Obenshain

Author:Kate Obenshain
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Regnery Publishing
Published: 2012-08-20T04:00:00+00:00

Obama’s Catholic Apologists

The Catholic Church is the largest religious denomination in the United States, and Barack Obama has always had a line-up of prominent Catholics willing to go to bat for him. For his inner circle, the president chose Catholics who dissent fully from their church on moral matters. Five of his original cabinet secretaries are Catholics who disown the church’s teaching on human life. Two in particular stand out: HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius and Vice President Joe Biden.

Sebelius is the flagrantly pro-abortion former governor of Kansas. In her current post as secretary of HHS, Sebelius is the Obama official most responsible for crafting the contraceptive mandate. As governor of Kansas from 2003 to 2009, Sebelius aggressively promoted abortion. She vetoed legislation that would have limited abortions in her state on at least four occasions.14 In 2008, she vetoed the Comprehensive Abortion Reform Act, which would have strengthened late-term abortion laws and prevented coerced abortions.15 It’s no wonder why Sebelius opposed limiting late-term abortions: their principle practitioner was a huge contributor to her campaigns.

George Tiller was notorious for being one of the only abortionists in the country who would regularly perform late-term abortions for almost any reason. Based in Wichita, “Tiller the baby killer,” as some of his opponents referred to him, was also a huge contributor to Sebelius and her allies in Kansas. He spent millions funding the Democratic Party through his ProKanDo political action committee. He spent $1.2 million in the 2006 election cycle alone .16 Sebelius and Tiller were so tight that Sebelius once held a party at the governor’s mansion honoring Tiller. Only Tiller, his wife, and clinic staff were present at the event.17

Sebelius’s promotion of abortion prompted her bishop, Kansas City Archbishop Joseph Naumann, to ask that she no longer receive Holy Communion. 18 In 2009, Archbishop Raymond Burke, prefect for the Apostolic Signatura, the Holy See’s highest court, proclaimed that Sebelius should not receive communion. “Whether Governor Sebelius is in the Archdiocese of Kansas City in Kansas, or in any other diocese, she should not present herself for Holy Communion because, after pastoral admonition, she obstinately persists in serious sin,” Burke said.19 (All this negative attention is said to have knocked Sebelius out of the running to be Barack Obama’s running mate in 2008.)

With Sebelius at the helm at HHS, nobody should be surprised at the Obama administration’s attacks on religious liberty and conscience rights and promotion of controversial abortion laws—these have always been her forte.

In 2012, Sebelius accepted an invitation to deliver the commencement address at the Georgetown Public Policy Institute (GPPI). Georgetown is not Notre Dame. It often seems to downplay its Catholicism, preferring to stress its research and academic credentials rather than its Jesuit tradition. It routinely hires professors and invites speakers, Catholic and non-Catholic, who publicly support abortion and other policies that contradict Catholic moral theology. Bill Clinton20 and Barack Obama21 have both spoken there. In 2008, the Georgetown faculty gave $179,000 to candidate Obama. The Chronicle of Higher Education ranked Georgetown among the top ten of Obama’s academic donors.

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