President Obama and Notre Dame

I like to stay away from politics as much as possible, but my wife talked me into writing about President Obama and Notre Dame. The debate centers around abortion, so before talking about abortion, I think its important to be sympathic to those people who have had one. Here's why, in basically every case you are dealing with very good people, who have been lied to by the world. This is what makes abortion such a difficult issue, there's real live people involved, and their pain after an abortion is real, but so is God's invition to mercy, and forgiveness, and ongoing peace for life.

A couple things to start the discussion that have happened recently in Philadelphia, 1.) a group of developers purchased an older building to re-devolop for a business use, they found a "bald-eagle" nest in the facility, live "bald-eagle" eggs, and the job was shut down for over a month, while these eggs were safely removed from the building, and the judge in the case made it very clear that if any harm came to the eggs, there would be a mandatory sentence awaiting the person's that harmed these eggs.

2.) In Philadelphia right now there's ads on our major news station about an election that involves "puppy mills", one of the party's involved is vowing to shut down all "puppy mills" across the State.

Let me point out that I totally support protecting "bald-eagle eggs", and I totally support closing "Puppy mills", the purpose of the story is to give the abortion debate some context. Bald eagle eggs and puppy mills, and baby whales are all very important, but they don't rise to anywhere near the protection a child deserves.

That brings me to President Barrack Obama's invitition to speak and receive an honary doctorate at Notre Dame, one of the most famous, if not the most famous Catholic schools in the world, I personally had no problem with Notre Dame inviting him to speak, my problem is with them honoring him. Arizona State is a secular school, and they got it 100% right, please come speak and inspire, but no honary doctarate, because you have only been President for 120 days. Show us why we should honor you. The secular school got it right, the Catholic School got it wrong. President Obama mentioned this in the first paragraph of his speech, and I had to think that the Priests from Notre Dame had to feel embarrassed by this.

Imagine if a popular president believed that Slavery was ok, would Notre Dame ever honor that man. The Catholic Church has an obligation to protect and defend the most innocent among us, and anyone that believes abortion is ok, should never be honored at a Catholic School.