CNSNews.com is reporting that Bishop DiMarzio's column, entitled "Deeper into the Culture of Death," points a harsh finger at President Barack Obama for his persistent support of the abortion lobby.
“The so-called ‘pro-choice’ movement has its roots in the ideology of Margaret Sanger, the founder of Planned Parenthood, who understood her call to be one who would ‘assist the race toward the elimination of the unfit'. Of course, a young Barack Obama was precisely the sort of unfit child that Sanger and her allies would want to eliminate,” he writes.
“Tragically, the President has not been an advocate for those young children faced with similarly difficult circumstances. He has chosen to use the bully pulpit not to call upon us all to be nobler and to embrace each child, regardless of origins and circumstances; rather, he has been a proponent of an expediency that is shameful and criminal in the eyes of Almighty God.”
He also criticizes the birth control mandate for its unjust coercion of religious employers to fund contraceptives, sterilization and abortion-drug insurance.
“We know that, today, an administration that is hostile requires contraception and sterilization,” the bishop writes. “However, as government involves itself in our internal affairs, there is little doubt in anyone’s mind that the government would seek to compel religious institutions to provide abortion services in the future.”
He continues, “In my view, those who voted for President Obama bear the responsibility for a step deeper in the culture of death. Under the cover of women’s issues, we now see an assault on religious freedom and personal conscience.”
He goes to say that he “would have hoped that the first African-American president of the United States would have stood on the side of freedom for all. Instead, he stands on the side of political expediency. Mr. Lincoln, with great difficulty, put out into the deep and paid with his life. Would that our political leaders today would have some of the same courage.”
Unapologetic for the harsh tone of his column, he writes: "Some may think my tone a bit strident and even un-nuanced. Maybe the time has come for more direct conversation on these matters, if we hope to preserve what is left of our God-given and Constitutionally-protected rights."
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