Catholics on the Supreme Court
I was stunned by Rosie O’Donnell’s comments on The View today. I don’t watch The View. I heard about what she said on the radio today. I looked for the clip, but I couldn’t find it anywhere. If I come across it later, maybe I’ll put it up. She was commenting on the recent Supreme Court decision to uphold the ban on partial birth abortion. She asked Barbara Walters how many Catholics were on the court (there are five.) Then, she said that it was a violation of the separation of church and state. To have judges who are Catholic on the Supreme Court. Riiiight. Because separation of church and state demands that all public servants must be atheist, or at least agnostic. I must have missed that day in Civics class.
Whatever. The fact that Rosie’s got a beef with the Catholic church is nothing new. Were her comments outrageous? Absolutely. As a Catholic, I could get all indignant and offended, but I won’t. What blows my mind is that she defends abortion at all. If I recall correctly, Rosie O’Donnell’s children are adopted. That means that her children were prime targets for abortion at one time. They were rescued by women (their biological mothers) who chose life, and adoption. Why would any adoptive parent defend abortion? More abortion = less adoption. I just don’t get it. If anyone should be pro-life, its Rosie (although I suppose her kids have an even more compelling reason to be pro-life…It will be interesting to learn their opinions when they are old enough to study the issue.)
Iheard Rosie’s statement – I wasn’t surprised. She was raised catholic, yet hates the Church. Why? She’s a lesbian and promotes that agenda – in it’s radical form – “they” promote abortion as a woman’s right to choose – it protects her right to choose an unnatural partnership with her female companion. It’s a disconnect of reason, to be sure – it’s also insane. She loves kids, yet promotes infanticide. It is a diabolical delusion.
April 20th, 2007 at 10:49 pmTo be honest I don’t blame Rosie for not understanding the Church’s teaching on human sexuality. I think that within our culture it is counterintuitive and frankly not easy to understand. I was raised Catholic and I had to make a serious effort to make sense of the teaching against homosexual behavior, and I wanted to understand.
I think that Rosie hates the Church because she feels persecuted and rejected. It is a shame that she feels so wounded that she can’t see anything that the Church teaches as beneficial, even when it is staring her right in the face in the form of her children. I guess all we can do is pray for her, and pray for an end to abortion.
April 21st, 2007 at 10:44 amI have worked in the Church, and just from my own experience, I have found that when people are often so violently outspoken against the Church, it is because somewhere along the way, someone connected to the Church hurt them. Maybe a priest brushed her off when she was younger and looking for truth. Maybe a Catholic teacher made a sarcastic remark at the wrong moment. It is usually something small and not a big, obvious hurtful thing. It just happened, but at a bad moment.
April 25th, 2007 at 9:12 amYou are right – we need to pray for her. And educate our youth (and adults) better concerning the beautiful teachings of our Church