As you may have heard, while Brussels was trying to cope with the aftermath of Tuesday’s horrific terrorist attacks, Barack Obama and fellow Marxist Raul Castro were having a high old time at the ball park… Woo-Hoo! ~
The two share more than a warped worldview and an affinity for front row baseball seats afforded by their privileged lifestyles. Neither of them are particularly tolerant of Christianity, the Catholic church in particular.
To begin with a little history; Raul is the younger brother of the infamous Fidel ~
Born in 1926 of wealthy Cuban Roman Catholic parents, the megalomaniacal (Fidel) Castro hated Spain, resented the United States and the fact that his father had come to Cuba as a “soldier of Spain,” even as he also resented the Catholic Church and frequently rebelled against its authority and that of the Jesuit priests who taught him from grade one through awarding him his University of Havana law degree in 1945.
Preferring insurrection, riot and rebellion to the rule of law and practice thereof, Castro, in 1947, undertook an unsuccessful effort to overthrow the Dominican Republic dictator Rafael Trujillo. In 1947, as an attendant at the Ninth Pan American Conference in Bogota, Colombia, in protest of American domination of Latin America, Castro’s fervent political activity fired the Bogota riots in which, at day’s end, he boasted: “I had a good day today – I killed a priest!”
Source: CubaNet
Imprisoned for a couple years in the 50’s, upon their release the Castros teamed with fellow mass murderer Che Guevara and launched the Cuban Revolution. After Fidel rose to power, he turned his rage against the Catholic Church ~
August 1960, Castro-controlled mobs attack worshippers emerging from mass; all Catholic radio and TV programs are cancelled. April 1961, all Catholic publications are halted; churches are vandalized by Castro’s mobs; Cuban Cardinal Arteaga seeks political asylum in the Argentine Embassy.
June 1961, Castro expropriates all religious schools (about 350 Catholic), removing parents’ right to determine their children’s education – their only choice is Castro’s public schools where the children are discouraged to believe in God and are indoctrinated for a communist society where hatred for Castro’s enemies is highlighted.
September 1961, Castro expels Bishop Boza Masvidal along with 131 other Catholic clergy; by years end 3,400 priests and nuns are forced into exile. November 1965, Castro calls remaining priests and believers “social scum” sending many of them to the newly created UMAP concentration and labor camps in the province of Camagüey along with gays and others “unfit” for his communist revolution. By 1971 the population of Castro’s gulag was 100,000, while conservative estimates place the number of executed at 5,000.
Source: The Church and Cuba
According to Genocide Watch the estimates of Cubans killed between 1959 and 1987 range from 35,000 to 141,000.
Raul, who succeeded his brother Fidel as dictator, is often portrayed by the left-leaning media as a soft-hearted, pragmatic man. In truth, sources say, he has as much blood on his hands as his big brother.
Yet our esteemed leader is apparently thrilled to be sitting next to this communist thug.
Which brings me to what appears to be Obama’s deliberate infringement of religious freedom for American Catholic nuns ~ Pepsi, Visa, and Chevron are Exempt From HHS Mandate, But Little Sisters of the Poor are Not.
For some devious reason the O’Ministration seems intent on denying these nuns their rights under the First Amendment to the free exercise of their religion ~
On Wednesday, the U.S. Supreme Court heard an appeal from the Little Sisters of the Poor and 37 other religious groups to stop the Obama administration from forcing them to comply with Obamacare’s abortion mandate. The mandate compels religious groups to pay for birth control, drugs that may cause abortions and sterilization. Without relief, the Little Sisters would face millions of dollars in IRS fines […]
Previously, the U.S. Supreme Court temporarily protected the Little Sisters from the mandate. The Little Sisters then went before the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals in Denver to extend that protection, but a panel of the appeals court ruled against them. Eventually the full appeals court ruled in the nuns’ favor, but the Obama administration appealed?!
Why??
This particular order of nuns cares for the elderly poor and basically begs for the funds to run their ministry ~
This is the second time the Sisters have been forced to ask the Supreme Court for protection from the government’s efforts to make them to provide contraceptives to their employees.
“The Little Sisters spend their lives taking care of the neediest members of our society —that is work our government should applaud, not punish,” said Mark Rienzi, Senior Counsel of the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty. “The Little Sisters should not have to fight their own government to get an exemption it has already given to thousands of other employers, including big companies like Exxon and Pepsi Cola Bottling Company.”
Micaiah Bilger, writing at LifeNews.com, explains ~
These facts seem to point to a more underhanded motive than simply ensuring Americans have “essential health care” services. Some have speculated that the Obama administration’s real motives in the case are to chip away at religious liberty in the U.S.
Ya think?!
Unfortunately it’s true. Our lawless and amoral president wants to cruelly force these selfless women to violate their faith and their vows to God by making them pay for practices their believe are sinful. Are you kidding me?!
At least you can see now why he and the godless Raul Castro are such good buds eh?
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Related:
What’s Good, Bad, And Ugly About Obama’s Cuba Trip
Watching the thaw from a Cuban prison cell
Fidel Castro’s greatest atrocities and crimes
Obama’s Inglorious Speech ~ Anticipating the historic visit from a U.S. president, the Cuban people were no doubt hoping for some encouraging words. Instead they only got the usual B.S. from B.O. ~
A classic example of Obamaspeak, this boilerplate speech consisted of four essential elements: some truths (few in number), several myths (plentiful), many platitudes (even more plentiful), and a string of lies (all braided with the myths and platitudes) […]
The Cuban people are as innovative as any people in the world,” said Obama, “we have a clear monument to what the Cuban people can build: it’s called Miami.” True enough, but only half true. What he could have said and should have said was this: “If the Castro brothers had not come along, all of Cuba would now be better than Miami.”
Ideology at work
And there’s the rub. The speech left out the nefarious presence of the Castro brothers in Cuban history, and the pain and suffering these criminals have have caused the Cuban people.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg Wants to Force Catholic Nuns to Pay for Abortion Drugs: “It Can’t be All My Way” ~ (So sad. Another reason to mourn the passing of Justice Scalia)
“It is ridiculous for the federal government to claim, in this day and age, that it can’t figure out how to distribute contraceptives without involving nuns and their health plans.” said Senior Counsel Mark Rienzi.
News flash: The Washington D.C. oligarchy and their European counterparts aren’t going to stop the next Brussels. On the contrary, Europe’s leaders have actually enabled the creation of Eurabia – the wishes of their native populations be damned.
“The belief in a God All Powerful wise and good, is so essential to the moral order of the world and to the happiness of man, that arguments which enforce it cannot be drawn from too many sources nor adapted with too much solicitude to the different characters and capacities impressed with it.”
“The chief cause of his success… were his general soundness and moderation of his views in all public questions. He was candid, conscientious, just …and high-minded. I can say conscientiously that I do not know in the world a man of purer integrity, more dispassionate, (selfless) and devoted to genuine ‘Republicanism,’ nor in the whole scope of America and Europe [am I able to] point out an abler head. He is the greatest man in the world!” ~ Thomas Jefferson
