3,446 Dead

According to Rev. Walter Hoye of Berkeley's Progressive Missionary Baptist Church, that's the number of African-Americans lynched by the Ku Klux Klan during the 31,390 days from 1882 to 1968, AND the number of blacks killed in abortion clinics in THREE days.

Given the xenophobia and the racism of Planned Parenthood's foundress, Margaret Sanger, is anyone surprised? Contraception and abortion may succeed in accomplishing what racists and segregationists failed to accomplish, the removal of blacks from American society. Pastor Hoye predicts that this could occur as early as 2100. He may be wrong on the timing of this demographic implosion, but he is certainly correct about the end result. Below-replacement levels of births in the African-American community necessarily will destroy it, just as the European nations are imploding and will be replaced by Islamic states -- though probably quicker.

Not much experience is needed in order to know human weakness, and to understand that men—especially the young, who are so vulnerable on this point—have need of encouragement to be faithful to the moral law, so that they must not be offered some easy means of eluding its observance. It is also to be feared that the man, growing used to the employment of anti-conceptive practices, may finally lose respect for the woman and, no longer caring for her physical and psychological equilibrium, may come to the point of considering her as a mere instrument of selfish enjoyment, and no longer as his respected and beloved companion.

Let it be considered also that a dangerous weapon would thus be placed in the hands of those public authorities who take no heed of moral exigencies. Who could blame a government for applying to the solution of the problems of the community those means acknowledged to be licit for married couples in the solution of a family problem? Who will stop rulers from favoring, from even imposing upon their peoples, if they were to consider it necessary, the method of contraception which they judge to be most efficacious? In such a way men, wishing to avoid individual, family, or social difficulties encountered in the observance of the divine law, would reach the point of placing at the mercy of the intervention of public authorities the most personal and most reserved sector of conjugal intimacy.

Pope Paul VI in his encyclical letter Humanae vitae accurately predicted where this new sexual frontier would go. In the First World sexual license is leading to depopulation. For the contracepting and aborting population planners in the US and at the UN, the need to impose population control on the Second and Third World grows ever more urgent. Aided and abetting by environmentalists who never met a salamander they didn't prefer to a human being, and global-warming alarmists, the push at the U.N. for universal contraception and abortion to reduce the human population of the world has begun. As Pope Paul predicted, and has already come to pass in China, government mandated and enforced population control won't be far behind.

Saruman's Speech

A reader of Fr. Zuhlsdorf blog (wdtprs.com) had this insight on beguiling rhetoric. Quoting from J.R.R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, it is an explanation of the power of the wizard Saruman's speech. He applies it to President Obama and the way in which he was received at Notre Dame, though no direct analogy between Obama and Saruman is intended. However, it shows, as the Jesuits always taught, that all sin can be rationalized. Even the evil of abortion.

Those who listened unwarily to that voice could seldom report the words that they heard; and if they did, they wondered, for little power remained in them. Mostly they remembered only that it was a delight to hear the voice speaking, all that it said seemed wise and reasonable, and desire awoke in them by swift agreement to seem wise themselves. When others spoke they seemed harsh and uncouth by contrast; and if they gainsaid the voice, anger was kindled in the hearts of those under the spell. For some the spell lasted only while the voice spoke to them, and when it spake to another they smiled, as men do who see through a juggler’s trick while others gape at it. For many the sound of the voice alone was enough to hold them enthralled; but for those whom it conquered the spell endured when they were far away, and ever they heard that soft voice whispering and urging them. But none were unmoved; none rejected its pleas and its commands without an effort of mind and will, so long as its master had control of it.

Some, however, learn the right lessons from history. Here is Newt Gingrich on his ever more conservative turn, as cited on The Curt Jester:

The whole effort to create a ruthless, amoral, situational ethics culture has probably driven me toward a more overt Christianity. I'll give you an example. As a college student at Emory when the Supreme Court ruled that school prayer was unconstitutional [in 1963] after 170 years of American history, I didn't notice it. As a graduate student at Tulane I probably would have said it's a good decision.I've now had an additional 40 years to think about it. And I think about the world of my grandchildren. I don't think American children are healthier, safer, and better off today than they were in 1963. So I have actually become more conservative in response to the failure of the liberal ethos to solve problems.

Our Lord and Savior, ascended to the right hand of the Father, have mercy on us!

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