Candidate Kerry versus the Catholic Church
by Col. Bob Pappas, USMC, Ret.

It was as predictable as the rise and setting of the sun, that is, the storm over the Vatican’s proscription against politicians taking communion, who violate Catholic doctrine. As for Separation of Church and State, the US Constitution covers the matter very clearly: first, is Article VI, which in two parts states:

a. “The Senators and Representatives before mentioned, and the members of the several state legislatures, and all executive and judicial officers, both of the United States and of the several states, shall be bound by oath or affirmation, to support this Constitution;”

b. “but no religious test shall ever be required as a qualification to any office or public trust under the United States.”

(As an aside, our “esteemed” elected officials regularly trample the first part of Article VI, while the second part was affirmed when Jack Kennedy was elected in 1960 as the first Roman Catholic to be President of the U.S.)

Second, is the 1st Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which states: 

“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof…”

It is notable that in neither case has the “state” acted to in any way interfere in the inherent spiritual conflict between Candidate Kerry and his religion, and his continued foray into political opportunism. It does however and not surprisingly, illuminate the fact that he is an unmitigated hypocrite.

This writer believes that Mr. Kerry will lose his bid for the Presidency, primarily because he has no underlying values other than self-serving values that he changes with the winds to satisfy the particular “market” to which he happens to be pandering at the time. Kerry’s self-serving opportunism began before Vietnam, but it matured in that setting. He wanted to show his “patriotic” side when Democrat Johnson was President, by his active involvement; but found that he could “make more ‘political’ money” after Republican Nixon was elected by being the poster boy for the so called “anti war” crowd. In fact he was not anti-war, he participated in it, and now he has the temerity to claim a perverted sort of “patriotism.” If it were not so disgusting and sickening it would be comical.

Kerry will not make it on his own, the only way he has a chance is to select Rodham-Clinton as his VP running mate. But, his lust for power will be his undoing because if they succeed, in so doing he would ultimately, likely suffer the same fate as the other fifty plus Clinton associates including Vincent Foster, who tried to walk away from them and are now “pushing up” daisies.

For Rodham-Clinton it’s a no lose situation; so, predictably there are increasing calls for her to be Kerry’s running mate. If they win, she will be positioned for her own run four or eight years hence. If they lose, she will have stood as a “good Democrat Party soldier” whose main objective was to “unify the Party,” and will have used the opportunity to define herself to the American public. If they succeed, which they won’t, her greatest problem will be to restrain herself, until it is her turn and not upstage the man, whose appearance is more befitting a midnight horror movie than President of the United States. No surprise here.

As for the Catholic Church’s policy that deprives Communion from so called, “Catholic” politicians who violate or support the violation of Church teachings? Right on! This writer applauds Catholic Church leadership, which after its abysmal leadership failure in the pedophile scandal now comes as a breath of fresh air; some may call it hypocrisy, while the writer calls it, getting their heads screwed on straight.

Kerry is no Catholic, as this writer understands the faith, he is a political opportunist of the worst sort who is attempting to persuade Catholics to vote for him while openly violating his faith and pandering to the purveyors of evil that dominates the American religious-socio-political landscape.

Is Kerry’s and other Catholic politicians’ a Separation of Church and State issue? Nonsense! It’s about time that the so called, “Christian Church,” including Catholics, stood up to evil that now pervades all levels of the halls of government. In the “for what its worth department,” nowhere in the Constitution, unless an activist court invents it in the future, is there any proscription against Church influence over government.

Democrat Party led trends including homosexual “marriage,” in the name of “Civil Rights” is to give credence to “Islamofacist” claims that the US is “the great Satan.”

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