One does not have to be an historian to understand that liberalism and feminism go hand-in-hand.

The social construct in the liberal mind is to devalue men and to raise women to an “equality” that defies logic and reason.  Look at what is happening in the US military.  And don’t even get me started on the whole “equality” thing regarding so-called same-sex marriage.

To the liberal, the words “equality” and “freedom” have no weight.  None, whatsoever.  It is because those words have been bastardized to fit a narrative they are constructing, on-the-fly.  To, uh… as they say, “fit the times”.

And this skewed mind-set has long infiltrated the sports arena.  To the point where organized sports leagues for kids don’t keep score.  To the point where purse money is distributed equally to male and female athletes at Grand Slam tennis events.  To the point where NHL teams rise in collective defiance against the one thing plaguing the game  – violence against gays.  To the point where a murder-suicide in the NFL is attributed not to the war that was being waged within the soul of Jovan Belcher, but on the war on… guns.

A 25-year old starting linebacker for the KC Chiefs and his 22-year old girlfriend are no longer alive, and guns and gun ownership are to blame.

Let me borrow from sports writer Jason Whitlock, who entered the fray before Bob Costas’ ridiculous comments during Sunday’s halftime show.

Said Mr. Whitlock, “What I believe is, if he didn’t possess/own a gun, he and Kasandra Perkins would both be alive today.”

This is utter madness.  Whitlock goes off half-cocked on guns, their owners, and for the decision to play Sunday’s game following Saturday morning’s tragic circumstances.

Whitlock goes off on the “god” of football.  He unloads on young people dying senselessly, even calling the 25-year old man a “kid”.  He links the violence of the game, to the violence that tragically happens within the home.  Violence, that has marred the NFL in recent memory.

Jason Whitlock laments “how numb we are in this society to gun violence and murder.”  No, Jason.  What ails society is not guns, laws, or any perceived lack thereof.  The problem is not guns.  The problem is the degeneration of the soul.

But Mr. Whitlock doesn’t see that, and the same can be said of  NBC Sports anchor Costas who, as poetically apt as he is, pied-pipered to millions of viewers the entire tragedy at the feet of owning a firearm.

The canard of the left, lives.  Guns kill people.  And that is not only a lie, it further underlines just how effeminized our culture has become.

I mean, look at how Whitlock paints the term “violence”.  It is the sports world’s answer to the term “discrimination”.  A conservative understands that “discrimination” and “violence” are not only legitimate terms, but – in and of themselves – should be upheld.  It is the “unjust” discrimination… the “unjust” violence that must be scrutinized and clipped off at the knees.  Whitlock’s broad stroke on “violence” is a failure to understand the basic, rudimentary definition of the term within the context of sport.  Body-checking is permissible in hockey.  An open-ice hit on a player caught with his head down is a violent act.  But what the man who metes out discipline in the New York head office has to decide is whether said open-ice hit merits the title “unjust violence”.  I’ve always lobbied hard against the mindset that a hockey player must inflict injury.  No.  The hockey player must remove the puck from the player, not the head.  Like it or not, a hit can be devastatingly violent.  But there is a large liberal faction out there who wants to completely remove the violent aspect out of sports, demanding that all violence on the playing field is “unjust” and, hence, must not be… well… tolerated.

Does that sound familiar?

Unjust violence is what Jovan Belcher inflicted upon his innocent girlfriend.  Just violence would have been a RESPONSIBLY armed neighbour meting out justice in the hope, IN THE HOPE, that that little 3-month old child would have both of her parents around to one day reminisce about daddy’s football-playing days, and how he was able to overcome his trauma of the soul.

But that’s not going to happen, now.  There is absolutely no chance Jovan Belcher will serve to be a TRUE role-model for kids, athletes, business CEOs.  He’ll never be that poster-child on how to overcome the demons that inflict the soul.

Nope.  The misguided liberal would rather you stop talking incessantly about all that “soul stuff”.  It’s guns, stupid.  The inanimate piece of steel with wooden grip, hammer, and a trigger.  That’s the problem.

Jason Whitlock finished his piece with this nugget.  “Handguns do not enhance our safety.  They exacerbate our flaws, tempt us to escalate arguments, and bait us into embracing confrontation rather than avoiding it.”

For the record, I agree.  Except, he forgot to add these words to the beginning of that diatribe – “To the wounded soul…”

More laws don’t make us morally accountable.  But that’s a notion highly intolerable for a liberal.
 

To some who hold to the traditional and TRUE meaning of marriage, there has to be somewhat of an uneasiness surrounding the latest legislative developments regarding marriage.

To others, it’s just another chapter in what has become a long, drawn-out battle that’s been waged for the better part of a decade.

But even those folk should have the tenterhooks on stand-by come Friday.  That’s when the 9 members of the U.S. Supreme court will convene for another private conference to discuss the possibility of reviewing Proposition 8 – California’s gay marriage ban that was deemed unconstitutional and overturned this past February.

Now, I say “possibility” because what could very well happen is that the Justices decide to put off the decision on Prop 8 for next Monday.  Or for next year.

But keep in mind, that is just one of 10 cases up for review.  Yes, the Supreme Court members have lots on their plate where the issue of marriage is concerned.  They face 10 cases which challenge the Defense of Marriage Act which was written into law back in 1996.

Of course, it’s a law Barack Obama is completely ignoring, ordering the DOJ last year to stop defending DOMA in court.

It is obvious where the Obama Administration stands on the issue.  What’s not so crystal clear is how the 9-member high court will stand on it, let alone which cases they decide to take on next June.

Or, next fall, according to some reports.

Listen.  The bottom line is, neither side is letting up in this battle to decide the future of marriage in the United States.

And if pro-marriage supporters thought the heartache of November 6th was a tough pill to swallow, what provides a sobering thought is the fact that things could get a whole lot worse.

And that’s where we come in.

We’ve gotta have faith in what we believe.  We’ve truly got to wear our love of “one man, one woman” on our sleeve.  We’ve got to live it.  Breathe it.  Discuss it.  Drink it all in, during this most festive time of the year.  The lawmakers and justices of the peace will get their say on the contentious topic.  But until then, we MUST be brave in vocalizing our support for the bedrock of civilization – the nuclear family.

My feathers used to get ruffled when someone would commend me for speaking up in defense of marriage.  My response would be “how sad that I’m being back-slapped for supporting one of the oldest institutions known to mankind!”  Well, I don’t think that way anymore.  And why?  Because… well… it’s nasty “out there”.

No longer do we live within a “live and let live” parameter.  It is now, “if you don’t agree, you are worthy of being labelled loathsome.”

This age calls for courage.  And it also calls for standing up and being counted.

As my friend Brian Brown puts it, “marriage is worth fighting for”.

Speaking of Brian, please check out his recent blog post on what awaits marriage in the United States.  It’s a good read.  And it’s a clarion call for all those who understand what’s at stake to rise up as a galvanizing force to turn the tide.  We must support those who are engaged in this crucial battle to save the family.

We can’t wait for next Monday.  The time to act, is now.

Now, let me be clear.

My goal is not to be hated.  My goal is to walk-lockstep in Gospel Truths.

The hate is just an indicator that I’m doing what is right.  Just refer to the Gospel of St. John, Chapter 15, verses 17-19.

That’s right.  I included verse 17.

It reads, according to my Douay-Rheims, “These things that I command you, that you love one another.”

Jesus commands that we love one another.  Did you read that?  HE COMMANDS IT!!!

Don’t ever, ever gloss over the inestimable importance of that directive.  The 1-A, if you will, of everything… EVERY… THING that encapsulates the mandate of the Chrisitan.

Just 10 simple words – “These things that I command you, that you love one another.”

Jesus COMMANDS it!

My.  Goodness.  Do we truly understand the weight of those words?  I don’t.  I’m trying.  Hard.  But I don’t.  And Lord have mercy on me as I try to fully grasp the beauty of those words from the Word Made Flesh.

I am commanded, COMMANDED!, to LOVE each and every one of those pitiable souls on Twitter who are wishing evil to fall upon me.

And I do.  I do love them.  I do not like how they have chosen to conduct themselves, but I love them.  Oh Crucified Christ, give me your Sacred Heart that I may know TRUE love.

So.  Where does that leave me?

It leaves me with the task that I am joyfully taking up.  To live my life in accordance with God’s will.  And God does not want me to “win friends and influence people” AT THE EXPENSE of his Commandments.  I will continue to champion the beauty of marriage… and life.  Come hell, high-water, or even silence from friends and family members.

If the world hates us, remember that He was hated before us.

We are commanded to love.  And we are commanded to pick up our cross, DAILY.

Step… step… lock-step…

Unless you’re Larry Hagman’s pastor, please refrain from telling the world that he is in Heaven.
But then, even JR’s confessor – if he even had one! – wouldn’t be able to make that distinction.
Sorry, but these notions of “once saved, always saved” and “God’s love is greater than your rejection of Him” is Protestant… and heretical.
We Goddards continue to pray for the soul of Andrea’s father. But to ASSUME “Pops” is in Heaven is not only absurd, but mocks the unfathomable beauty of the Beatific Vision.
Also, aborted babies – according to Catholic Church teaching, not according to Damian Goddard! – are not in Heaven. They are in Limbo.
If you’re offended by this post, please partake in a perusal of official Church teaching before you rip my head off!
That said… how’d you like that spin of alliteration, huh? “please, partake, perusal”. (okay, now “Piss-off” Damo!)

Google search “voter fraud”.  Give “electoral fraud” a shot, while you’re at it.

Now, forget about what’s happening in Sierra Leone for the time being.  As awful as it is – and it is awful! – the alleged rigging of elections in the tiny, coastal, north-western African country pales in comparison to what is being broadcast half a world away in the world’s greatest republic.

Oops.  Did I say “broadcast”?  Shucks.  What I meant was “ignored”.

Now, put on that search filter and focus in on what’s been happening in the continental United States.

What do you see?  Yup.  A story being spun on race-bait tactics from a Republican Party chairman in Maine.

Hmm.  Interesting.  But that’s not even what I’m talking about.

Forget about the fact said out-going chairman, Charlie Webster, has some serious misgivings about what went down in his own backyard a fortnight ago.  Webster may have pulled an Akian-Mourdocksin in how he explained it initially, but re-iterated this week that his intention was to “talk not about race but about perceived voting irregularities”

So, yes.  Scratch that story, too.

But you’re heating up.

What is the “voter fraud” story that is being largely ignored by the mainstream media?  It’s this story that saw the light of day a week ago.

According to NBC Chicago, in 37 precincts Mitt Romney received zero votes.

Zero.  Votes.

Shut out in the Windy City, Mitt also got no love in the City of Brotherly Love.

No love, as in, no votes.  In 59 precincts.

A commenter on the NBC Chicago website put his own topping on this turd sundae –

In critical swing states like Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Illinois there are a lot of precincts in Philadelphia, Cleveland, and Chicago which reported 100% of their votes cast for Obama. These add up to many 10’s of thousands of votes for Obama and 0 for Romney. I repeat, 0 for Romney. I have read a number of articles about this and people knowlegable in Political Science and Statistics are starting to take notice of this.Statistically, even if among 10’s of thousands of voters all wanted to vote for Obama, it would not be possible to receive 100% of the vote because at least a few would make a mistake and vote incorrectly for Romney. Not to mention the fact that a least a few of those 10’s of thousands might actually disagree with Obama. These types of election returns are only seen in countries run by dictators.

Did you catch that last part?

“These types of election returns are only seen in countries run by dictators.”

One history course I’ll never forget taking while at the University of Western Ontario was “Totalitarianism in the 20th Century”.

I’ll admit, I’m not one for sooth-saying (actually, it’s against my religion… like TOTALLY against my religion) but there is a writing on the wall that is getting more legible as each day passes.

Stuff is going to hit the fan.

We must brace ourselves.

Check that.  Brace ourselves, and run at it full-steam.

But fear ye not!  We get a most splendid opportunity at etching out sainthood!

And you can take THAT to the bank.

Or, just stuff it under your mattress.

Your call.

“Man should tremble.  The world should quake.  All heaven should be deeply moved… when the Son of God appears on the altar, in the hands of a priest.”

– St. Francis of Assisi

I dunno.  It baffles the mind.

I am absolutely stunned, confused, confounded at how any Christian outside of the Catholic faith can listen to this bit of audio brilliance and remain mired in their utter willingness to partially love Christ.

Maybe, the thing is to hope homilies like this don’t see the light of a laptop screen.

Well, not on this watch.

Calling all folk outside the Catholic Church, and the fair-weather folk already within Her walls, please listen when you get a chance.

Dr. Alan Keyes needs only 2:13 of your time.

Only that much time to explain the harsh, cold fact that is this – the American Republic, if not vanquished outright, is in serious crisis.  A crisis never before seen.

I have yet to read anywhere what I’m about to say, and what I’ve believed for the better part of three years – Barack Obama will not sail quietly into the sunset come 2016.  His administration has all of the earmarks of a legitimate overthrow of everything the American people hold near and dear.

This will most certainly get worse if people refuse to embolden each other… if people fail to be courageous in the face of such tyranny.

Remember this, though – this is a great age in which to live, specifically for those who wish to prove their love for God!  Be not afraid.  Saints are being sculpted.