I find this ironic coming from a person who happen to mischaracterize my views so perniciously (especially given my other comments under the entry “A Different View”), even worse than before.

“What I don’t like is what I am seeing in the Catholic media, particularly the blogosphere and the com boxes, the levels of apoplectic rage that make it seem as if the future of the whole country and the survival of the Church hinge on this. It makes us look irrational and absurd. No amount of rightenousness can make up for the losses we face when people see this ugliness.

Do you really think that it is necessary to get this angry in order to oppose abortion? When this level of rage isn’t accompanied by daily civil disobedience against the government and its policies, it looks ridiculous and it is ridiculous.”

I would’ve also gone to the extent of calling the above comments perverse and immoral if only it weren’t so vile as to tread even beyond that and went straight into outright calumny.

Of course, it isn’t the first time that the views of a prolifer happened to be so maliciously demonized just because he simply happens to oppose giving honor and, even further, a platform to a vicious pro-abort like Obama who in just a matter of days after the election had initiated a global policy for the Culture of Death.

Yet, this kind of vocal opposition to such a president — as even merely regarding the very aggrandizement of his very figure — will simply be perniciously painted by such adherents as nothing more than unreasonable, illogical and even spectacularly immoral ‘rage’ against the U.S. government itself and its policies!

Should one even utter a word of disrespect or disagreement or fail to kneel to these people’s long hailed messiah, you shall be painted as a traitor to the country.

My, how monstrously perverse a Christianity as this where a messiah for the Culture of Death is much preferred to the Messiah of Life — even in such a small case as this!

this poster is not beaten down after years of defeats, he is feeling discouraged, I guarantee this one is not defeated. I’m not saying that we don’t feel bad sometimes, that’s human nature, but that’s not how you describe this “phenomena”. The poster is quite right though, Satan is smiling, although given the level of uproar, he may have woken a sleeping giant.

“All the prolife work done in the last 10 years by Catholics, all the prayers, all the fasting, all the crying, swett and tears, down the drain, at least for now. No wonder people leave the Church. I have been so frustrated I could not even sleep at all last night do to this, so today I offer up the surffering of my sleepless mind and body to Christ for this matter. Satan says thank you Jenkins for causing this scandal. Very Sad!”

I do commend this person for having responded VERY appropriately to his frustration and discouragement by offering it up as a further sacrifice. I am sure many pro-lifers who share these emotions do the same. He is certainly not being self-indulgent — although I wonder if he isn’t being overly pessimistic in his assumption that Obama’s appearance at Notre Dame means that everything the pro-life movement did in the last 10 years is “down the drain”.

With regards to my first statement, I’m suggesting that perhaps some of the people who get as angry as they do don’t really believe in the hearts that it is as bad – that, in keeping what I have been saying all along, the anger is being used as a means of release or self-indulgence.

Or, perhaps, a little more in line with reason, that people who aren’t angry is because they have other priorities to be concerned with.

With regards to my first statement, I’m suggesting that perhaps some of the people who get as angry as they do don’t really believe in the hearts that it is as bad – that, in keeping what I have been saying all along, the anger is being used as a means of release or self-indulgence.