tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9695096.post316513982131541288..comments2024-02-14T03:56:12.027-08:00Comments on La Salette Journey: Dalton McGuinty, Premier of Ontario: Anti-Catholic BullyPaul Anthony Melansonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08455719838570381999noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9695096.post-9847760308157436532011-12-07T11:12:34.628-08:002011-12-07T11:12:34.628-08:00It was Cicero who said that:
"..right is bas...It was Cicero who said that:<br /><br />"..right is based,not upon men’s opinions,but upon Nature. This fact will immediately be plain if you once get a clear conception of man’s fellowship and union with his fellow-men. For no single thing is so like another,so exactly its counterpart,as all of us are to one another…And so,however we may define man,a single definition will apply to all.”[ Cicero,Laws I x 28-30]<br /><br />It was Pope John Paul II,who said that: "Democracy cannot be idolized to the point of making it a substitute for morality or a panacea for immorality. Fundamentally, democracy is a ‘system’and as such is a means and not an end. Its ‘moral’ value is not automatic, but depends on conformity to the moral law to which it,like every other form of human behavior, must be subject: in other words, its morality depends on the morality of the ends which it pursues and of the means which it employs. If today we see an almost universal consensus with regard to the value of democracy, this is to be considered a positive ‘sign of the times,’as the Church’s Magisterium has frequently noted. But the value of democracy stands or falls with the values which it embodies and promotes. Of course, values such as the dignity of every human person, respect for inviolable and inalienable human rights, and the adoption of the ‘common good’ as the end and criterion regulating political life are certainly fundamental and not to be ignored.<br /><br />The basis of these values cannot be provisional and changeable ‘majority’opinions, but only the acknowledgement of an objective moral law which, as the ‘natural law’ written in the human heart, is the obligatory point of reference for civil law itself. If, as a result of a tragic obscuring of the collective conscience,an attitude of skepticism were to succeed in bringing into question even the fundamental principles of the moral law, the democratic system itself would be shaken in its foundations and would be reduced to a mere mechanism for regulating different and opposing interests on a purely empirical basis."(Pope John Paul II,Evangelium Vitae,No. 70).Paul Anthony Melansonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08455719838570381999noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9695096.post-1645718788241952942011-12-07T11:01:05.352-08:002011-12-07T11:01:05.352-08:00The idea of a government panel examining ways to s...The idea of a government panel examining ways to silence Christian opposition to homosexuality is the stuff of fascism. I hadn't heard about the Ontario Panel. Thank you for writing about this. Dear God what is happening to Canada?Alexnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9695096.post-10588467062014652312011-12-07T10:32:02.089-08:002011-12-07T10:32:02.089-08:00I left this comment at Protect the Pope but it rea...I left this comment at Protect the Pope but it really applies here as well:<br /><br /><br />"...if we are mere products of evolution, then anything can - and will be - justified. When British atheist and evolutionist Christopher Hitchens engaged in a debate with Christian apologist Dr. William Lane Craig, an audience member twice asked him to label bestiality as an immoral act and he refused:<br /><br />http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FofDChlSILU<br /><br />Dr. Craig [correctly] noted that the question posed to Hitchens was a good one and that it helped to illustrate that atheism cannot offer objective moral standards.<br /><br />If we abandon the objective moral standards which come to us from the Decalogue and from the Natural Law, who will decide what is moral and what is immoral? Majority consensus? Let us not forget that a lynch mob is a majority.Paul Anthony Melansonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08455719838570381999noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9695096.post-2392436603686651962011-12-07T09:24:46.030-08:002011-12-07T09:24:46.030-08:00Are you noticing a pattern here? When Protest the...Are you noticing a pattern here? When Protest the Pope in the UK iniated its hate campaign against Pope Benedict XVI and the Church, it employed the tactic of bullying. Likewise, atheist nut job Brian Bridson has used his hate propaganda blog "philosophers haze" (at least he acknowledges that his mind is in a haze) to lash out at Pope Benedict XVI, the priesthood and Catholic Church in general. These are angry and militant and potentially violent individuals who have such a deep and abiding hatred for the Church founded by Christ that they will, if they have the opportunity, commit violence. Remember Protest the Pope and the calls to "bomb the Vatican"?<br /><br />These people are absolutely chilling.Ellen Wironkenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15037753678014941848noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9695096.post-11798703244556152512011-12-07T07:51:05.285-08:002011-12-07T07:51:05.285-08:00McGuinty's attitude toward the Catholic Church...McGuinty's attitude toward the Catholic Church and the Catholic schools is reprehensible. No matter how hard he strains to force the "gay" agenda on us, we will not abandon God's Commandments and the Church's teaching for a measly bowl of rotten porridge. Let's all work to get this militant pro-homosexual, anti-Catholic bigot out of office.<br /><br />For our children and for a better future.RogerinOntarionoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9695096.post-79991829599691438202011-12-07T07:28:29.637-08:002011-12-07T07:28:29.637-08:00McGuinty is a Christianophobe who wants to cram LG...McGuinty is a Christianophobe who wants to cram LGBT propaganda down our throats and the throats of our innocent children. He is committed to evil.Frank Meersennoreply@blogger.com