Aurora Borealis

So I’ve been meaning to give President Obama a modicum of credit for waiting unitl the day after the pro-life march to rescind the Mexico City policy.  At least he didn’t pour salt directly into the wounds of pro-life advocates.  But we don’t for a moment believe he’s moderated his radically pro-abortion positions.  And the cynical part of me thinks that he did that executive order signing without media coverage, etc. like what had accompanied his previous signings because he wants to keep the pro-lifers who vote Democrat because they always have from starting to discover just how pro-abortion he is and his party has become.  Wake up, people!  The Democrat platform says we should be obligated to pay for women to slaughter their children.  It’s as pro-abortion a platform as they’ve had yet.

So last weekend at our parish we ran a signature drive to oppose the Freedom of Choice Act.  It took most of this past week for me to get all the cards processed, but Agent Murphy and I finally went by the post office yesterday afternoon and dumped them all in the mail.  We sent a total of 2.497 cards to senators and representatives.  This is a campaign coordinated by the U.S. bishops.  Several people commented, as they were signing, that this seems like too little too late from our bishops.  I can’t help but agree; but we do what we can.

We were the first group to do a project like this in the new church, and we hit some snags with the setup.  Staff didn’t seem to think through how things like this would go in the new space, so when I did what I was told to do but it wasn’t really what they wanted done, I got chewed out.  A real pain in the-you-know-what.  I hope it’s time off of purgatory for me…  (The cynical part of me says that if the first thing in the new space had been a recycling project sponsored by the social justice committee, the staff would have thought it all through perfectly and everything would have gone smoothly; but then, we’ve long known the priorities of our parish.  But our director of religious education did step in to help Sunday morning, and I really appreciated that.)

Edit: In response to a wrap-up report I sent him, I did receive an e-mail from our pastor today apologizing for “barking” at us before mass last weekend.  That is much appreciated.