Let us call a spade a spade. Pro-choice is hate speech - there are no two ways about it. Liberals and people living in a fantasy world and evil feminists want everyone to think that pro-choice is merely proper etiquette - a loving, caring way to go about helping our fellow human beings. Nothing could be further from the truth. Pro-choice is above all a lie, planted by the Father of Lies, Satan, the great adversary of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. And we must call the Devil great, because that is what he is, in the sense of fooling millions and even billions of people. Pro-choice is Devil worship, and there is hardly anything worse on the list of big sins the Lord puts before us. Some people try to rationalize it, or ignore it, but it is too obviously heinous to rationalize, too big to ignore. No one in their right mind can be pro-choice; it is only minds imbued with a devilish outlook on things, minds that are diabolically oriented, that can be such.

   The rationalists try to use the "seamless garment" theory to explain away abortion. That there are many hurting poor people, and these born people are more important than the unborn. Well, let us consider this theory a little further. Let us first start with the United States. Are there any starving people here? Are there any without shelter? In fact the US taxpayer foots the bill so that no one goes without. It is a huge and involuntary collection of charity for the poor. Even our social security funds have been raided to support the poor. I can tell you personally that my salary is not very high, and yet almost half of it is taken by our Uncle Sam. Is this bad? Well that is another issue. But what is at issue here is how much should we give to the poor so that they have enough. Should we give our whole salaries to the poor save a little for ourselves for minimal subsistence? Is that what Jesus tells us to do? Because if he does, then everyone at this very moment should maybe clean out their assets and provide them to the Church or other charitably-oriented organizations.

   In fact, conservative though I am, I think Jesus goes a bit further. He tells us not just to give our assets but our very lives in the service of others. Every waking moment should be devoted to this, and we can even pray that our sleeping moments are devoted to the Lord and to the needs of our fellow humans, who are created in His image. But then how can we live? Shall we sell our homes and autos? Not necessarily, but everyone with a proper sense of things, with a well-balanced outlook on life, has a little voice, a conscience, our guardian angels and the other angels and saints, even the Blessed Virgin Mary and our Lord Himself, Who guide us in the proper way if we want to hear it. And we should want to hear it, because anything else is by and for the Devil. We must always do, we must always be, wholly devoted to the Lord and all of His precepts and commands. Therefore if the Lord tells you to sell all of your material assets you must do so. But make sure of it, test it first, because He does not say this to everyone. To be sure, all of our assets must be His, if we ever hope to attain life. Laymen must devote their lives to the Lord. Priests and religious must devote their lives and their ministries to the Lord.

   In many cases, although it is not actually ours, we are not called to give up our assets, but rather, to use them wisely, for the Kingship. Who is the wise and faithful servant? The one who builds upon what has been given to him; the one who uses his talents wisely and generates many more. A rich man who uses his funds and influence in service of the Lord does good. We need such people - Holy Mother Church does desperately and so do the poor. There are hardly any big givers and many in need. Churches fall into disrepair, and people too, for lack of funds. Those who spend their lives making a lot of money in the service of the Lord are to be highly commended. They are doing right, and they will be blessed because they have helped the Lord and the Church in a big way. Others, use other special talents, whatever honest work they are best at, to please the Lord. We must remember, the Lord has no need of us individually, he can get along quite fine without us, but it pleases Him when we obey Him. It gives Him glory and shows the world that He, not satan, is right.

   Now many of us have a relatively modest income. We have few spare dollars and therefore each penny must be used very wisely. Is it wise to use our few spare dollars on a new fancy auto? Is it wise to spend our few spare dollars on the kids' college education package? Is it wise to spend our few spare dollars on some other big-ticket item for ourselves or family? We suggest that one should be careful. Those who lavish themselves with expensive gifts are likely to be in extraordinary trouble with the Lord - and we are just quoting Scripture here. Remember, there are many starving people in Eastern Europe and elsewhere.

   But to the point: rationalists tell us that until the poor attain some level of comfort and convenience, some reasonably high standard of living, we are bound to consider abortion as a secondary evil in our voting and in all our actions. That "social justice" is and should be the pre-eminent cause of all time in service to the Lord - and this of course, is the basic thesis of Vatican II. Hogwash! Nothing could be further from the truth. "The poor you will always have with you" - so says the Lord. No matter how much we give of ourselves, there will always be poor. But is this condition bad? Saint Francis was poor. Many of the saints were poor. Our Lord was poor! Priests and religious take a vow of poverty. It is not bad, it is one of many particular states of human condition, all of which can lead to everlasting life if we let them. The only thing that matters is eternal salvation, and "social justice" has nothing to do with it. God's justice only, has something to do with it. It is God Who will judge us, not the social stratosphere, not the humans that sit behind the court of world opinion. We are called to love. And what does love mean? Simply to save as many as possible - nothing else!

   We can preach to the poor, and make sure that they have sufficient food and clothing and shelter. We are not, however, called to ensure that everyone has the same standard of living - that would be Communism. The Lord gives and He takes away. Most all of us, at some point in our lives, have experienced poverty and have also experienced plenty. We have had love and disaster, happiness and sadness. And so it goes, because this is earth, not Heaven. In Heaven those of us who make it will be blessed always and forever after, but not before. In Hell those of us who have earned it will be accursed always and forever after, but not before. So, we must do all we can, but all are not entitled to the same standard of living. It is a myth, a utopia, the dream of Heaven on earth, and it will never happen, though Antichrist will try to make it so. But that is another matter.

   And so dear friends, we come to the question of pro-choice and abortion. We do what we can to love born human beings, our born neighbors. Should we not also help the unborn? It would be despicable not to. But this will require a change in culture, which actually, is coming, whether we like it or not. I am on the NOW (I call it the National Organization of Wicked) email list. I do it to monitor this sinister organization. I can only say as Jesus did: "Father forgive them because they know not what they do." These radical feminists focus their whole lives and energy on "keeping abortion legal." They have an inner rage, not an inner love, which burns in lust for satan, rather than burning in desire for the Holy Ghost and holiness. And they get their wish: they will one day abort themselves out of existence. Each day they go about their evil business promoting abortion. I can tell you also that persons who are indifferent to the pro-choice lobby have the same spirit as these hard-core abortionists. It is one and the same spirit, the evil spirit, just differing in degrees, but all of it leads to death. And it seems there is always a surplus of these leaders in women and girls' reproductive health. Like Hydra, when one dies, when one head of the evil beast is chopped off, 10 more spring forth! This sinfulness has permeated every aspect of life - from schools to commercials to everyday communication with others. It is hate speech in its vilest form, and it must be stopped or we will all die.

   Yet to stop it is not so hard as it might seem. We must simply be like Joshua and Caleb, those valiant soldiers who, seeing the Promised Land, did not shy from it but rather, took up arms and fought their way to victory. It is a battle we have before us, that is part physical but also partly spiritual. First of all we should state that it is dangerous work to oppose abortionists, and one might even get oneself killed. But this is not so bad; it is martyrdom for the cause of Christ. Unless we die to the world, there is no good in us, and so we should be prepared to die physically as well as to die to evil spirituality. We must be like dead men, because only by having an unflinching attitude to attain our goal, to win the world for Christ, can we ever expect to be brought safely to eternal life. So then, let us not flinch at the thought that we may have to physically die for the cause of Christ, and in fact some of us will. Others may not die, but they may lose everything they have for not being politically correct. Certain occupations, certain social statuses, are contingent on playing along with satan in his quest for world dominance and conquest. It means keeping quiet about the things of God, if we do not wish to lose the material things and the good name that the people of satan bestow upon us. But concern for the world rather than for the Almighty is an abomination, it is a playing into satan's hands and licking his clawed hooves.

   No one in his right mind would do such. Others of us, by the grace of God, will go our whole lives working for His Kingdom, and yet not suffer any harm from the world. We might wonder why some suffer for the Kingdom and some don't, but it should be evident why this is so. All are called but the path is different for each of us, tailored to what we individually need. We should hope for the best but accept what comes. The only thing we have a right to pray for is eternal life for us and for our neighbor; everything else is meaningless, a chasing after the wind. So you are praying for God to bring you a wife or husband? What foolishness! It is praying for "me, me, me". It is greed and gluttony and foolishness. Rather, pray for the things of Heaven, that His "will be done on earth as it is in Heaven."

   Now, this is not to say that we should not pray for specific things. I can tell you that I pray morning and night that God and His holy angels provide a special protection for all the virgins throughout the world. I pray for the health of my friends, relatives, and associates. I pray that my work is pleasing before God. I pray for the deceased. I pray for the strength of familial bonds. I pray for the culture of life. The focus of prayers should be salvation: for ourselves, for our loved ones, for the whole world. With this attitude we cannot fail before God, and when we have the right heart and humility He will steer us along the straight and narrow when we pray about it. But prayer is only half the story. Prayer is interaction with God and His holy angels and saints, and with the Blessed Virgin, and on behalf of the Church Suffering, but we must also interact directly with the Church Militant, our fellow human beings here on earth. That is, most are called to do so, except the hermits. We are called to shake up this world for Christ, and I can think of no better way than to call pro-choice what it is: hate speech. Here then, is a game plan for those who believe, as we do, that a priority of the people of God is to rid this earth once and for all of any possibility to exterminate a vulnerable group of people: the unborn, even as many millions have already been destroyed.

   If you want to shake up the world, you can write to your fellow human beings about it. Do you have any relatives or friends who are unmarried teenagers or young adults? Write to them about why fornication and abortion are wrong. You don't think your message will be effective? But we have written some pieces you can use. First of all, pledges of chastity for girls and women, and separately for boys and men. Also, a letter specifically tailored to young women and another to young men. If you don't feel you can write to the young ones personally, write to their parents or guardian. You might lose a friend but then again you might gain a life for Christ. We may have only one shot at it, there may be no second chance, so act now. Be bold for the Lord, and He will take note and count it as merit. Also, why not bring the matter up with your priest or pastor or bishop, or with the religious brother or sister? Maybe even hand them a top ten list on chastity. The liberal ones might tell you that social justice is always far more important a problem than fornication and abortion. So what? Keep after them, in a nice way. Remind them that this issue is of concern to you, as a child of God. Recruit others to do the same. It is hard to argue with numbers and if every laymen in the whole world told his priest and bishop that he will not tolerate abortion and fornication in the land any more, I assure you that the priest and bishop will listen.

   The worthy priest is always wary of the possibility of sins of impurity in his flock, because this is an area in which satan has especially afflicted us presently. But it was predicted by Our Lady through the seers at La Salette in 1846. The Holy See is concerned with child prostitution recently, and that is good and godly; however, it would seem they are only pruning branches, not going after the root. The root is the impurity that has permeated the Church with the new Vatican II instruction, which puts the center and focus of worship on Man rather than God. The Tabernacle has been replaced by the Presider, with the Table (known also as Cranmer's butcher's block), and with the Meal, the focus of our attention during mass. Time is even taken out during mass to honor, applaud, and give medals to First Communicants, 50th wedding anniversary couples, Food for the Poor missionary associates, Bingo winners, and Candy Sales leaders, even while the Lord goes unnoticed amid all the hooting and hollering. And you wonder why there is a lack of purity? The emphasis must be on the purity of ourselves and our families, and then there will be no child prostitution. And so the priests should bang it into the heads of their parishioners as often as is necessary, even every week, that impurity is bad and leads to Hell. Preaching fire and brimstone never hurt anyone, and it probably saved more than a few. Reminding parishioners of Jacinta's vision at Fatima of the many pouring into Hell because of impurity is a most worthy deed, dear Father. And refusing holy communion to the fornicating and aborting is not only a worthy deed - it is Church law. And how does one know? By asking! Particularly if one sees a young unmarried couple week after week at mass and yet avoiding confession. I would like to repeat as we have said before that at Rutgers University, there are college girls who attend Mass given by the campus center priests, yet they believe that fornication is good and holy and a part of their Christian development. How can this be? Because the campus priests refuse to discuss the issue - although they are charged before God with educating college students in the faith. Woe!

   And we should all realize that fornication (and adultery for that matter) is one step away from abortion. It is pre-abortion, because the lives of the unborn are neglected and ill-considered when performing these heinous acts, which are done in intimate communication with satan. Fornicators and adulterers are in bed with the devil, being titillated and aroused by him, and the ultimate act of love for satan is abortion. Just as Jesus asks all to lay down their life for Him, so too does satan ask that we give our lives instead to him. Yet abortion is very popular among so-called Catholics. If I were a priest I would be very afraid for my own salvation if even one person aborted or fornicated even one time under my watch. And when it is repeated over and over by most of the parishioners, woe! It must be stopped, because it destroys the people of God, both the born and the unborn. Well you might say, this is all rather theoretical. Au contraire! Look around you - look at the ravages that have resulted from the Vatican II Council! The Church is decimated and her people are in severe danger of eternal damnation. Who knows how many millions have been thrown into Hell since 1965? We dare not consider, but rather hope that God is merciful to all. But hope is not enough; there must be action.

   Parents are equally to blame when heinous acts of impurity occur. Most kids, who are not saints, will do wrong when left to their own devices, because the devil makes work for idle hands. Freedom leads to dating, dating leads to kissing, kissing leads to fornication, fornication leads to abortion and adultery. The pattern is repeated over and over in almost every "Catholic" home. And the result is a person, our neighbor who we are called to love, in as bad a state, or even worse, as the poor possessed man with a legion of demons in him who cut himself with rocks. It would take Jesus Himself to heal such a broken human, but let us not let it get that far with those we know, on our watch. Children need to be watched and cared for all the time. And the magic age of 18 or 21 doesn't absolve the parent of his or her duty. My mother in her 80's, though her memory is failing a bit, still has some important input into her son's life. God does this, to show that each human being is worthy of great respect, the unborn, the healthy and strong, and the aged alike. So then, when one desires to be married and become a parent, it is the beginning of a very rigorous test as to whether we love Jesus or not. Let us pass it by instilling in our children the need for purity, and for the love of others. And let us vote for righteous politicians, the pro-life ones, even running for office ourselves or encouraging our godly children to do so. But the same holds for all other occupations, from trial lawyers to judges to sanitary engineers; all can help instill a sense of the sanctity of life in whatever capacity that one has been given before God, and the parents should help ensure it is so.

   Lastly we must consider the bishops and the Holy See itself. Much maligned lately for lack of purity, the bishops are in the process of reflection. Saint John Eudes tells us that their skulls will pave Hell and the road to it, and we mentioned elsewhere that this will be a permanent condition. Many of the bishops have lost their heads, so to speak, in their actions on earth, and so in Hell they will be headless. It does not mean that every bishop will suffer this fate, but a great many will, because the floor of Hell is a very large place to contain all the evildoers forever, the road to Hell is also very wide; therefore many, many bishops' skulls will be needed to pave these places. Are you a bishop that is reading this? Good! It is always a good time to think more strongly about the need for salvation. One can start by excommunicating those who support abortion, whether as politicians or in other capacities. I call on the bishops of their respective dioceses to excommunicate Senator Kennedy, Senator Dowd, Mrs. Pelosi, and the legion of other pro-abortion politicians. To not act is to neglect the duty to act in the face of great evil, and woe to that bishop. Although I am no theologian I can tell you that Hell is hot and permanent. It is time to treat pro-choice speech as hate speech. It is hate for God's little children. And we should start right here in the United States, where we are aborting our children to such a great extent that God is giving our country over to foreign invaders without even a fight. I can tell you that any bishop who neglects to take strong action against the glorifiers and proponents of abortion and fornication and adultery is in grave danger at the time of judgement. But it is not me who makes this pronouncement; rather it is the Scriptures. And so let us excommunicate and speak against the politicians and movie stars and sports figures that do harm to God by glorifying evil. Where is the worthy priest, religious, or bishop who will hold up Tiger Woods as an example of evil, which is what he is for living a life of leisure and fornication? We must avoid sins of omission, which will lead to many, many deaths, when we consider how to conduct our lives.

   And so dear friends, it is time to call pro-choice what it is, hate speech, and to take action against it. Actually it becomes easier as our nations are invaded with Muslims and other conservative foreign peoples, who do not destroy their children. The National Organization of Wicked is fading away, but it does us no good and wins us no merit in Heaven if it is fading away due to efforts not our own, but by the invasion of foreign cultures. Let us rather, be like the Mormons, who do vote for the culture of life and who do keep the culture of life, having many children and promoting family values. They adhere to the Moral Law, the most of them, unlike many of the rest of us, and God will reward them for it. I was in the Salt Lake City airport a few weeks ago, and one can see the purity and goodness and loveliness in the faces of the young women there, who are undoubtedly Mormon, something that is quite lacking in most Catholic youth. It should put us Catholics, and Protestants as well, to shame.

"Vigiláte itaque quia nescítis diem neque horam,"
"Watch ye, therefore, because you know not the day nor the hour."

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