Archbishop Chaput nails it.

Yesterday, I posted the video of Archbishop Chaput from Denver delivering a lecture at - of all places - Houston Baptist University.   I doubt the Archbishop would have been this well received at most Catholic venues.  With the raging debate over Obamacare, it is imperative that we understand that the single issue that stands in the way of its passage is abortion.

In fact, this is the first time in nearly four decades that there has been anything even close to a public referendum on the subject.  We have been "told" during the whole of that time that the majority of Americans favor killing unborn children.  Even if that assertion had any shred of veracity to it, murdering innocent people is antithetical to the Rule of Law and to the continued existence of any society. 

Simply put, God does not wink at the shedding of innocent blood.

That President Obama and the leadership of both the House and the Senate are hell bent on enshrining this barbarity into federal law certainly underscores Chaput's suggestion: "we might profitably ask ourselves whom and what we've really been worshiping in our 40 million 'legal' abortions since 1973."

The list is long. I believe abortion is the foundational human rights issue of our lifetime. We need to do everything we can to support women in their pregnancies and to end the legal killing of unborn children.We may want to remember that the Romans had a visceral hatred for Carthage not because Carthage was a commercial rival, or because its people had a different language and customs. The Romans hated Carthage above all because its people sacrificed their infants to Ba’al. For the Romans, who themselves were a hard people, that was a unique kind of wickedness and barbarism. As a nation, we might profitably ask ourselves whom and what we’ve really been worshiping in our 40 million“legal” abortions since 1973.

Excerpt from Abp. Chaput's lecture at Houston Baptist University.

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