tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18842286.post5394829393298308691..comments2024-02-26T09:30:54.111-06:00Comments on Domine, da mihi hanc aquam!: ObamaCare ruling no favor to B.O.Fr. Philip Powell, OPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14970857401221305221noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18842286.post-56736490463086890432012-06-29T16:15:24.296-05:002012-06-29T16:15:24.296-05:00Since the Acts of the Apostles the Church has been...Since the Acts of the Apostles the Church has been a communitarian enterprise. Western-style liberal democratic individualism is a relatively new social invention, basically, a product of the debauched post-Cartesian "Enlightenment." The Church is obligated to uphold a certain level of basic human cooperation in light of the imago Dei. We can't be full-blown libertarians. I agree that gov't is more often the problem rather than the solution and our contemporary addiction to gov't programs is killing us. If the Church is to be faulted for anything, it's for not being more pro-active in doing what Christ told us to do in Matthew 25. Yes, we do a lot of that now, but there is always more and more and more to do.Fr. Philip Powell, OPhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14970857401221305221noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18842286.post-16389839298729069892012-06-29T15:07:11.292-05:002012-06-29T15:07:11.292-05:00The Catholic Church's recently concocted so-ca...The Catholic Church's recently concocted so-called "social doctrine" supports the creation of a welfare state with open borders and a mindless obsession with "the poor", regardless of real world consequences. To me it has not one jot more legitimacy than the Church's former alliances with monarchy or with the global colonizing projects of Europe. Mother Church just makes this stuff up as she goes along, to curry favor with whomever she thinks is her current dance partner. The US Catholic Church has been a major accomplice in the destruction of this country through its support of massive illegal Latino immigration and the expansion of government power through "social programs for the poor."<br /><br />I can see now why the US Nativists were so fearful of Catholics. In the end, Rome supports collectivism.OreamnosAmericanushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15602268350813211243noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18842286.post-25287464309367600842012-06-29T10:03:44.535-05:002012-06-29T10:03:44.535-05:00Scott, I agree. Unfortunately, that's what po...Scott, I agree. Unfortunately, that's what politics is all about right now. I'm all in favor of civility, so long as everyone plays by the same rules. "Civility" has become a way for the Left to keep the Right quiet.Fr. Philip Powell, OPhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14970857401221305221noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18842286.post-69953176182173226022012-06-29T10:02:17.738-05:002012-06-29T10:02:17.738-05:00I'm not a lawyer, so I won't argue that la...I'm not a lawyer, so I won't argue that law with you. In purely political terms, this is a defeat for B.O. He now has to go out on the campaign trail and defend a overwhelmingly unpopular law that includes 22 new taxes!Fr. Philip Powell, OPhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14970857401221305221noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18842286.post-51280686280031273392012-06-29T09:21:48.463-05:002012-06-29T09:21:48.463-05:00All this politicizing, sectarianism, and namecalli...All this politicizing, sectarianism, and namecalling is demoralizing.Scotthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01373462435440587675noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18842286.post-61977658701837675562012-06-28T22:42:50.332-05:002012-06-28T22:42:50.332-05:00Father, in re your points:
First: The GOP has mad...Father, in re your points:<br /><br />First: The GOP has made an art form out of snatching defeat out of the jaws of victory. I frankly lack confidence they will make good use of this potent weapon. Plus, I don't believe Romney will really move heaven and earth to get rid of Obamacare: he is on record as supporting an individual mandate. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y6DrH6P9OC0<br /><br />Second: The Commerce Clause may not be infinitely malleable under this decision (a result, by the way, that could have been better achieved by striking down Obamacare <i>in toto</i>), but now the taxation power IS. The enumerated taxes in the Constitution are now a dead letter. <br /><br />Third: This result also could have been better achieved by striking down the law <i>in toto</i>.<br /><br />Fourth: Even if we succeed in repealing Obamacare, we are still left with this lousy, rotten, putrescent Supreme Court precedent that we can never get rid of. This precedent will open doors to even further usurpations of our liberty.<br /><br />Sorry, Pater, but as Churchill said when Neville Chamberlain came home from Munich: we have sustained a total and unmitigated defeat.Anita Moorehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11305092097247290243noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18842286.post-13131534030380971502012-06-28T14:06:22.700-05:002012-06-28T14:06:22.700-05:00I hope you're correct, Fr. Powell, about this ...I hope you're correct, Fr. Powell, about this being no victory for the Obamanation of Desolation.Lucius Quinctius Cincinnatushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05269978181247175900noreply@blogger.com