Blackwell: Obama Divides to Conquer

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May 14th, 2009 4:53 PM Eastern
KEN BLACKWELL: Why Is Obama Going to Notre Dame? To Divide and Conquer American Catholics

Many ask why Notre Dame would invite President Obama to speak at their graduation. Ken Blackwell, former vice president of Xavier University (a Jesuit institution) and presently a fellow at the Family Research Council in Washington, D.C., asks why Notre Dame extended the invitation to a pro-abortion president in the first place.

He reports that Fr. James Schall, a highly respected professor at Georgetown University, (another Jesuit institution) offered this judgment on a Catholic Web site.

"So when President Obama goes to Notre Dame this week, we should be sure what is at issue. He goes there for one reason, namely, in this symbolic place, to convince the vast majority of Catholics that his operative definition of “human rights,” not that of the Church, is the correct one.

“Rights” mean precisely what the government defines them to mean. The president is the government."

Blackwell states that if we define human rights in these terms, they are no longer inalienable rights, "They become through intellectual sophistry alienable by government edict."

Our president wants the government to run all health care in America - but he and his group don't recognize the human right to life. Kathleen Sebelius, Secretary of HHS and self-described Catholic, says inalienable rights do not apply in utero. She is in charge of the health care of millions of Americans whose right to life can be taken away through government’s decisions to fund or not fund certain medical care. When Congress passes the new health care bill, she and Obama will even more say in our right to health care.

Another reason Blackwell sees for President Obama going to Notre Dame is to divide and conquer. Look at the debate currently going on within the Catholic community over his speaking at the Notre Dame granduation. Catholics against Catholics, and Obama seems to be enjoying every minute of it. Blackwell notes that Catholic intellectuals, even law professors, are publicly hailing Obama as a way to get past the “toxic debate” on human life. Why do they see the standing up for human lives as a "toxic debate" that must be gotten past by - gotten past by submitting in defeat to the side that condones the killing?

Divide and Conquer. Look around, Obama has been doing that within many groups. But ram-rodding the opposition isn't the way to bring people together and make us all "one" as he likes to pretend. It may have the temporary appearance of having solved the debate, but people of conscience and conviction aren't going to just roll over and go away. We may be in shock right now, but we aren't going to quit on what we know to be true and right.

Obama is exporting abortion around the world, has slashed funding for abstinence education, and intends to strip doctors and nurses of their right to not take part in abortion. I used to be a nurse. I will never return to nursing if it would mean being forced to participate in abortions. I know many in the health care field that will resign rather than be forced to murder. This debate is not over. It will never be over.

When Obama is through, this country will be more divided than it has ever been. I pray it won't be divided to point of destruction. But I'm guessing that there is no turning back. We are two different people's, the extreme liberals and the extreme conservatives, and our visions for the nation are polar. On many of the issues dividing us, there simply isn't any room for compromise. Obama, Ayers, and the rest of their buddies already know that. That's why twenty years ago, Ayers and his friends were talking about what to do with people like us - the unrepentant conservatives.
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