How Obama Repaid Notre Dame
by Sarah Palin on
Tuesday, January 31, 2012 at 1:37pm
Back in May 2009,
during the controversy over Notre Dame’s decision to have President Obama as
their commencement speaker and honorary degree recipient, I gave a short statement to the Boston Herald: “My favorite
grandpa, Clem James Sheeran, was Catholic. Irish to the core, his favorite
place (other than church) was Notre Dame. I can’t imagine what he would
think as the university recognizes someone who contradicts the core values of
the Catholic faith by promoting an anti-life agenda.”
In his latest Washington Post column, Michael Gerson writes about the Obama
administration’s war on Catholic institutions with President Obama's decision
to strip conscience protections from Catholic universities, hospitals and
charities.
As Gershon points out,
the timing of Obama's most recent slap won't go unnoticed by the faithful:
"In politics, the timing is often the message. On Jan. 20 — three days
before the annual March for Life — the Obama administration
announced its final decision that Catholic universities, hospitals
and charities will be compelled to pay for health insurance that covers
sterilization, contraceptives and abortifacients. Preparing for the march,
Catholic students gathered for Mass at Verizon Center. The faithful held vigil
at the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception. Knights of Columbus and
bishops arrived to trudge in the cold along the Mall. All came to Washington in
time for their mocking.”
And in this we see how
the faithful at Notre Dame got snookered and how Obama has shamefully repaid
their faith in him:
Both radicalism and
maliciousness are at work in Obama’s decision — an edict delivered with a
sneer...
The implications of
Obama’s choice will take years to sort through. The immediate impact can be
measured on three men:
Consider Catholicism’s
most prominent academic leader, the Rev. John Jenkins, president of Notre Dame.
Jenkins took a serious risk in sponsoring Obama’s 2009 honorary degree
and commencement address — which promised a “sensible” approach to
the conscience clause. Jenkins now complains, “This is not the kind of
‘sensible’ approach the president had in mind when he spoke here.” Obama has made
Jenkins — and other progressive Catholic allies — look easily duped.
- Sarah Palin
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