GORE: A Friend to REAL Catholics?

NOTE: This is NOT a statement from from any particular parish or diocese. Rather, it is an entirely PERSONAL opinion offered.

Well, the election is over and while not saying for whom we should have voted, we still have the freedom to voice an opinion about the personalities and their views. As an important elected official, Vice President Gore has deserved our prayers and his office, our patriotic respect.

Abortion Opposes the Gospel of Life

His FRIENDS may not be our friends, but they also need our prayers and kind consideration. We do not judge one's ultimate salvation, that is left to God; however, we must make determinations about justice and truth while we still walk the earth. Abortion is murder. But, instead of violence and punishment, we seek to convert the physicians and technicians while giving comfort to grieving confused women. Homosexual actions are a violation of divine positive law in Scripture and of the natural law. Nevertheless, God is infinitely merciful and we are all sinners in need of forgiveness and healing. Racism is a sin. However, so is reverse-racism and race baiting-- activities opposed to the brotherhood and dignity of man. Nothing is said here to be mean-spirited. Not to speak out would be a violation of love.

Is citizen Gore a friend to Catholics?

Where do we begin? Vice President Gore opposes vouchers for Catholic and private schools. While this may not offer a pressing moral issue, it is certainly a matter of importance to Catholics and poor families fed up with poor Public schools. While he would allow CHOICE in regards to killing babies; he will not tolerate CHOICE for education alternatives, notably private and Catholic schools. The same education he had, because of the influence and large purse-strings of his elete family, he will not permit the poor. Instead, if they want such an education, they must be taxed for the public schools and assessed again for the funds to pay private school tuition. Endorsing Gore, certainly this makes the NEA happy. It removes any incentive to improve the teaching pool and allows further misguided and unchecked spending as well. Such opposition is not simply because there might be God-Talk in these private schools; rather, it is because Christian values in opposition to his liberal agenda might be fostered upon the children.

Vice President Gore flip-flopped along with his wife regarding a rating system for the music industry and he has done nothing about excessive violence and gratuitous sex in movies. Empty "get tough" words were uttered during the campaign, but the truth was well known by the liberal Hollywood crowd. Gore was their man. They gave him their money, campaigned for him, and celebrated with him at all the parties. If President Clinton was the first MTV President; then, Al was their first poster child for all their aspirations. Together, they would continue the liberal formation of our children. The Ten Commandments would be replaced with the Seven Deadly Sins, the latter which constituted an approving special on MTV.

Citizen Gore believes in reverse racism under the double-speak code term of "equal opportunity". This reached an obscene high when his supporter Jesse Jackson seemed to urge insurrection and race war in the streets over the Florida election. The NAACP endorsed him and even ran an ad that insinuated that Bush was implicated in a race-hate murder. Eventually the ad was withdrawn but the impression remained. Gore defended the continuation of a cycle of dependence in social help programs. The irony is that so many men and women of color do not see such manipulation as a new form of bondage.

Citizen Gore would raise perverse and unseemly lifestyles to a level equal with marriage. While Christians would urge a respect for privacy; he would perpetuate progressive education in the schools and seek the formal recognition of same-sex life-styles and marriages. No nod of respect is given to the Scriptures or the sensibilities of heterosexuals.

Citizen Gore has supported the free condom giveaways and "artificial contraceptive" education in our schools; thus endorsing a permissive attitude toward sexual activity from the young.

Citizen Gore has allowed himself to be bought and paid for by the abortion industry, going so far as to accept partial birth infanticide. NARAL, PLANNED PARENTHOOD, CATHOLICS FOR CHOICE (an anti-Catholic front organization) all spoke in his favor at the National Democratic Convention. These are the arch-enemies of the Gospel of LIFE and the Church of Christ.

While some have criticized Bush for the use of the death penalty in Texas; Citizen Gore has remarked that he would have no qualms, being consistent at least, in the death penalty for feloneous pregnant women. This his opponent said, he would never do.

Vice President Gore promoted the gay pride activism in Rome despite the fact that it coincided with special Jubilee celebrations of importance to Catholic pilgrims. He even had a letter of support read to the participants. Meanwhile, just as in San Francisco, prominent gay activists dressed as priests and nuns, mocked the Jubilee and a few appeared naked. It is common at these events to hear vulgar language and to see the feigning of lewd sex acts. Back in the States, such activists are finding a receptive home in the liberal and controlling branch of the Democratic Party and even among so-called Christian ministers (on the left) and in the black churches. Jesse Jackson was one of the first to embrace their agenda as his own in the Rainbow Coalition.

When the presidential election dispute reached the U.S. Supreme Court, the Associated Press (Dec. 11, 2000) noted that "Gore's allies in the Democratic Party's liberal base plan to apply political pressure Monday when the Rev. Jesse Jackson and AFL-CIO President John Sweeney hold a news conference to call for prayer vigils across the country as the Supreme Court deliberates the case." In otherwords, we actively pervert divine providence to the selfish purposes of sinful men and women. We will bend to our own will that of the God of righteousness; brushing aside the Gospel of Life in favor of a political agenda that distorts truth and furthers a culture of death. Prayer should not be seen as political pressure. While some may maintain that Bush's agenda is more in line with traditional Christian morality, even borrowing the Pope's words in the encyclical, EVANGELIUM VITAE, there is a widespread hesitance for such outward shows by sympathetic Christian leaders. Does the liberal base actually believe that God approves of killing babies? While traditional Christian ethics allowed room for capital punishment in certain cases, and has preached the forgiveness of sins; the Church throughout the ages has spoken with a virtually unanimous voice against abortion, infanticide, and promiscuous and/or lewd sexual behavior. What we have in the liberal base is a NEW church, a NEW morality, and a NEW god. Or is it really NEW? Some have contended that it is the return of very ancient gods and goddesses. Maybe it is Baal come back with a thirst for innocent blood? Maybe the excesses in certain pagan religions have been revived for a new hedonistic age? Vice President Gore says that he and Tipper were the inspiration for the movie, LOVE STORY. As I recall, then President Nixon saw the film and could only remark his distaste against it as a "dirty movie". I suppose such a comment deserves another embarrassingly passionate kiss between the Gores in public before the cameras.

Can we forget Mr. Gore's role at the Cairo Conference on population issues? He lead a U.S. delegation largely composed of current or past members of Planned Parenthood. They deliberately slammed pro-life and Catholic delegates as dangerous terrorists so that the Egyptian government would harass and incarcerate them. Such underhanded tactics were done with his approval to inhibit their participation in the discussions and to prevent their voting against pro-abortion and anti-marriage measures, no matter how racist against the Third World and heinous against human life. He publicly encouraged and endorsed the pro-abortion agenda of the United Nations, offering no corrective to the EARTH NEWS mockery of the Papal Office as the "Holy Semen" instead of the HOLY SEE.

Mr. Gore and his wife, along with the Clintons, will also never forget the prayer breakfast they shared with Mother Teresa. She told on them and while everyone else applauded her, they remained frozen and outwardly inexpressive. It was often said that meeting Mother Teresa was like being in the presence of Jesus, himself. If this is the case, Jesus was not happy with the Gores when this living saint said, "I feel that the greatest destroyer of peace today is abortion, because it is a war against the child, a direct killing of the innocent child, murder by the mother herself." Oh, how much he must have hated her for saying this. Afterall, along with Hillary Clinton, he had become the major spokesman for the wholesale murder of babies. Surely he was boiling over inside when Mother Teresa remarked, "By abortion, the mother does not learn to love, but kills even her own child to solve her problems." I suspect that even Mrs. Gore was seething by now. She had surrendered her pro-life status and her fight against vulgarity in the music and entertainment industry for her husband's political career. This little woman was saying she had betrayed her own children and those of all America. But Mother was not finished. "Any country that accepts abortion is not teaching its people to love, but to use any violence to get what they want." Both Mrs. Gore and Mrs. Clinton had recently spoken before Planned Parenthood and the National Abortion Rights League. They stood behind their men. Mother Teresa stood behind Jesus and the God of life. The U.S. planners of the event were aghast. Mother Teresa was warned prior to the event that she was NOT to mention abortion. Instead, she made it the hallmark of her speech and told on the enemies of life. Turning directly to President Clinton and Vice President Gore, and their spouses, she pleaded, "Please don't kill the child, I want the child. Please give me the child. I am willing to accept any child who would be aborted and to give that child a married couple who will love the child and be loved by the child." The picture opportunity was ruined. Gore was wide-eyed and silent. The President rebutted, "We will always have our differences. We will never know the whole truth." History repeated itself. Jesus said that he came to testify to the truth. All who would know the truth hear his voice. Pilate answered, what is truth? Clinton and Gore had made truth subservient to political and selfish goals. That which was written by the finger of God, they would make subjective and seek to invalidate.

Vice President Gore has not acted alone. He rides the tide of a party that has largely surrendered traditional values so as to appeal to Hollywood New Age eletes, closet socialists, and hordes of uneducated pawns eager to swallow the empty slogans thrown their way. They tell old people that the nasty Republicans are going to take their social security checks away and throw them into the streets. They tell women that they are the party of CHOICE as if all women want to kill their babies. With some help from the NAACP, they tell African Americans that the guy running for president in the other party is culpable for the oppression and murder of innocent black folks.

Vice President Gore kisses his wife on national television and he goes up in the polls. What does this say about the electorate? It is a dangerous time for America. He sells us out to Russia and China and now he comes to finish the job with a kiss. As I recall, the last one to kiss Jesus was his betrayer, Judas.

Let it be clearly said, pro-choice (meaning pro-abortion) Catholics are NOT true Catholics at all. Their support for any political candidate cannot be construed as an element of the Catholic vote. A separate category should be made for Catholics who fail to attend Mass and say their prayers-- the Fallen-away Catholics. I suspect lapsed Catholics went heavily for Gore because they also hold grudges and much anger against the Church and her teachings.