{"id":29295,"date":"2016-09-25T16:54:33","date_gmt":"2016-09-25T20:54:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=29295"},"modified":"2016-09-25T16:54:33","modified_gmt":"2016-09-25T20:54:33","slug":"a-message-from-a-catholic-priest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=29295","title":{"rendered":"A Message From A Catholic Priest"},"content":{"rendered":"

On Friday, Life Site News<\/a> posted the following quote from former Ave Maria Law School<\/a> chaplain Father<\/a> Michael Orsi. He gave this speech at a National Day<\/a> of Remembrance for Aborted<\/a> Children event on September 10:<\/p>\n

\u201cFor too long, pastors and churches have been bullied into believing that they can say nothing political from the pulpit,\u201d said Orsi. The regulation that is used to silence them \u201cwas a piece of spite work\u201d against non-profits that had opposed President Lyndon Johnson<\/a>, he said.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cLet me remind you: the Bible is a political document,\u201d the priest said. \u201cThe prophets, including John the Baptist<\/a>, and Jesus<\/a>, lost their lives because they spoke the truth to power.”<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cThe Constitution is quickly being destroyed,\u201d warned Orsi, and \u201cunless the right choice is made in November, we may not have a court that is fair and balanced in its interpretation of the Constitution.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cToo many of the pastors\u2014too many, practically all\u2014in Germany<\/a> refused to speak against national socialism,\u201d continued Orsi. \u201cAnd look [at] the result: millions of Jews, pastors, priests, homosexuals, gypsies all lost their lives because everyone was afraid. What are you afraid of, a couple of bucks? Your tax-exempt status? What\u2019s that going to do to you? Your churches may be closed anyway, because if a certain party gets elected, this certain party said, if the churches do not agree with our interpretation of women\u2019s reproductive rights<\/a>, they\u2019ll just have to change their doctrine.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cIf a certain party gets elected, I can assure you what kind of judges are going to be on those appeals courts,\u201d he said. And those judges will be charged with deciding whether the government may force churches and religious institutions to pay for abortion, contraception, and abortifacient drugs<\/a>, he noted.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Furthermore, \u201cI\u2019m not going to vote for a candidate who decides that we can redefine the meaning of marriage,\u201d proclaimed Orsi. \u201cOur opponents believe once they destroy the family, once they destroy the churches, they can re-create society in their own image and their own likeness. That, my friends, is not just political. That is diabolical. Get it straight, for crying out loud! The devil is in this!\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cWe are in a battle for the soul of America,\u201d he said.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cSomehow, [Christians] have come to buy the story that you cannot be political in church,\u201d said Orsi. \u201cLet me tell you right now, oh yes, you can, and oh, yes, you better be. Because you might not have a church to go to if you don\u2019t vote the right way in November.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On Friday, Life Site News posted the following quote from former Ave Maria Law School chaplain Father Michael Orsi. He gave this speech at a National Day of Remembrance for Aborted Children event on September 10: \u201cFor too long, pastors … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[10376,10377,675,10378],"class_list":["post-29295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-ave-maria-law-school","tag-father-michael-orsi","tag-lyndon-b-johnson","tag-national-day-of-remembrance-for-aborted-children"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29295","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29295"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29295\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29296,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29295\/revisions\/29296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}