Eeek! Eeek! The Chicken Littles Are Running Amok!

At midnight tonight the government will "run out of money" and will be shut down (except for military, postal workers, air traffic controllers, etc).  Actually it's long been broke, but that's another story.  I regret that the House GOP didn't hold to their principles but are settling only for a year's delay in the obama-care monstrosity, but it seems that isn't enough for the progressive leviathans in the Senate and White House.

So let it shut down.  It's happened before and somehow civilization still struggled on.  Hey!  Does that mean National Public Radio will go dark?  Now wouldn't that be a gigantic improvement for the airways!

Unfortunately, but not surprisingly, we do hear wailing and gnashing of teeth from some of the progressive infestations within the Church.  Father Larry Snyder, president of Catholic Charities, voices much angst at the prospect of a governmental shutdown.  Would that he would voice similar compunctions for those who will suffer under the disaster known as Obamacare.  Of course that includes the babies, but given that five years ago, Catholic Charities of Richmond VA actually aided and abetted an abortion for a minor girl under their care, maybe abortion is not high on their radar screen.  What might be high on the Catholic Charities' radar screen is all that federal funding that might get crimped.  I understand that approximately 60%-80% of CC's budget comes from governmental grants.  Dare I suggest that the feds cut that funding off pronto?  There is no Constitutional mandate whatsoever for the government to be funding charities in that fashion.  Such is the responsibility of private citizens.

The federal government is such an inept mess anyway - life will go on just fine without it for a few days.

USCCB Loses Anti-Sex-Trafficking Grant Over Abortion

LifeNews reports that the USCCB lost a federal grant aimed at the prevention of sex-trafficking.  Under the Bush administration, they were awarded a five-year, $19 million grant to help victims of sex-trafficking.  The bishops made certain that they did not use subcontractors who pay for or promote abortions.

The ACLU had a snit-fit over the abortion prohibition and filed suit.  They alleged the funding was unconstitutional because the bishops forbade the referral of women for abortions.

Ladies and gentlemen, please take deep breaths as you read this slowly.  The ACLU's conclusion that the funding is unconstitutional is, in my opinion, correct.  However, I do believe their reasons for their conclusions are incorrect.  Such funding is unconstitutional.  Nowhere in the United States Constitution do we see delineated that it is within the purview of the federal government to be funding any charity.  The ACLU might want to bear that in mind, for that is the reason why Planned Parenthood should not receive federal funding.

I have a better idea for the USCCB.  They can take the American Life League's report on the CCHD, defund the groups listed therein, and have money to fund the anti-sex-trafficking programs.  That would be a most appropriate use of Catholic donation dollars

How Planned Parenthood Dodges Govt Funding Restrictions

As you watch this, bear in mind that CCHD-funded progressive groups can - and do - pull the same budgetary tricks.  That is why we insist that no Catholic money be given to organizations with questionable partnerships with harmful organizations.

Click here if you can't see embedded video.

House Votes To Ban All Federal Funding For Abortion

This Lifenews article gives further detail and links to today's roll call.

As the article says, there is doubt as to whether or not it will get by the Senate.  Even in the unlikely event that "Dingy Harry" would let it come to the Senate floor and it pass, Obama said he'd veto it, and there would never be the 2/3 vote in the Senate to override the veto.

I still think the House blew it last month during the budget debate.  They (Boehner particularly) blinked when "Dingy" threatened to let the government shut down.  They should have grown a backbone right then and there.