Okay, I Guess I'll Go Ahead and Make It Official ...
But I'm watching you, John McCain. Don't you DARE scr*w me!** The really sad part of it is that I know he will.
posted by Pro Ecclesia 5:32 PM
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Friday, September 05, 2008
But I'm watching you, John McCain. Don't you DARE scr*w me!** The really sad part of it is that I know he will.
About Me
- Name: Pro Ecclesia
- Location: Ohio, United States
A convert to the Catholic Church who became Catholic because of a belief in and devotion to the Real Presence of Jesus Christ in the Eucharist. * A graduate of Baylor University and the University of Virginia School of Law. * Former Mayor of the Town of Columbia, Virginia. * Married with four children: two boys and two girls. * Primary interests include the Catholic Church, family, Early American History, and law/politics * Primary purpose of this blog is fostering enlightened discussion about the roles played by the institutions of religion, family, and state in our daily lives. * Under the protection of St. Thomas More, martyr, and patron of lawyers, judges, civil servants, politicians, statesmen, and large families (not to mention troubled marriages).
Thomas More, counselor of law and patron of statesmen, merry martyr and most human of saints:
Pray that, for the glory of God and in the pursuit of His justice, I may be able in argument, accurate in analysis, keen in study, correct in conclusion, loyal to clients, honest with all, courteous to adversaries, trustworthy with confidences, courageous in court. Sit with me at my desk and listen with me to my clients' tales. Read with me in my library and stand always beside me so that today I shall not, to win a point, lose my soul.
Pray that my family may find in me what yours found in you: friendship and courage, cheerfulness and charity, diligence in duties, counsel in adversity, patience in pain -- their good servant, and God's first. AMEN.
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Prayer to St. Thomas More for Lawyers and Judges
Dear Scholar and Martyr, it was not the King of England but you who were the true Defender of the Faith. Like Christ unjustly condemned, neither promises nor threats could make you accept a civil ruler as head of the Christian Church.
Perfect in your honesty and love of truth, grant that lawyers and judges may imitate you and achieve true justice for all people. AMEN.
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"Give me the Grace Good Lord, to set the world at naught; to set my mind fast upon Thee and not to hang upon the blast of men's mouths. To be content to be solitary. Not to long for worldly company but utterly to cast off the world and rid my mind of the business thereof."
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Litany of St. Thomas More, Martyr and Patron Saint of Statesmen, Politicians and Lawyers
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"The ordinary acts we practice every day at home are of more importance to the soul than their simplicity might suggest."
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"What does it avail to know that there is a God, which you not only believe by Faith, but also know by Reason: what does it avail that you know Him if you think little of Him?"
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"The things that we pray for, good Lord, give us grace to labour for."
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9 Comments:
Welcome to the nervously for McCain caucus. Just don't scr*w us on judges.
Why vote for someone who is going to scr*w you? Not that a pro-choicer is any better, but seriously, both sides can agree that we should reduce unplanned pregnancies, through abstinence. And the president really doesn't have that much power over issues like that anyways...But I will not vote for either of them, I don't think that I could morally vote for a baby killer, or a war-mongerer. ;)
I don't think that I could morally vote for a baby killer, or a war-mongerer.
Yeah, I'm sure the guy who spent five years as a prisoner of war is definitely the kind of guy who just wants to start wars all over the place.
I love your graphic. Can I put it on my blog (with a h/t to you, of course). Huh, huh, huh - pretty pleeeeeze!!???
Yeah, here's hoping (if he wins) that he chooses the right judges.
Adrienne,
It's not my graphic, so feel free to use it.
futu said:
both sides can agree that we should reduce unplanned pregnancies, through abstinence.
No they can't. The first thing the left did when faced with Sarah Palin was point at her daughter and jump up and down screaming that abstinence doesn't work.
The choice of Sarah Palin has caused the left to throw aside the last shred of pretense that abortion might be a bad thing and run screaming through the marketplace of ideas shouting that they must keep killing at all costs. They've come totally unhinged.
We call it a culture "war" because people really are being killed by the millions, and, yes, tortured in it. And McCain is the best remaining choice to advance our goals.
Of course we'll be watching, Jay. We watched Bush, who has been the most pro-life president ever (but who still tried to appoint Harriett Meiers), and we'll watch McCain.
But look who surrounds McCain. Brownback, Palin, and a number of other good pro-life voices who will ensure that he hears the pro-life side. That's much more that we'll get with the other guy.
Who is gonna surround the candidate and shape policies is a compelling argument that Obama can't win.
The really sad part of it is that I know he will.
I understand, Jay. I hope the Palin pick represents a genuine desire on McCain’s part to defend the unborn, but I can’t help thinking that she’s being used as a ploy, as a means of appeasing the fears of pro-lifers, but without any intent on McCain’s part to see the pro-life cause through. I’m a cynic, I hope I’m wrong, but I personally cannot commit to this ticket.
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