lifesitenews--2020-10-19--Bishops’ ‘Seamless Garment’ talk gives moral cover to murder millions of babies

This article is by Joseph Alexander , the pen-name of a long-time pro-life activist both in southern California and in Central California where he now lives .
October 19 , 2020 ( LifeSiteNews ) — Every four years on Election Day , authentically pro-life Catholics share yet again the experience of the man with the withered arm ( Mk .
3:10 ) , the man born blind ( Jn .
9:16 ) , and the man crippled for 38 years ( Jn .
5:10 ) , who all drew the Pharisees ’ wrath when Jesus healed them on the Sabbath @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , “ theologians , ” diocesan and national bureaucrats , and the like — we metaphorically place before them the bodies of the next 4.4 million babies who will be legally murdered over the next presidential term .
We plead , adjure : join us in one voice : stop the mass , legalized baby-murder now !
And their response ?
You can ’ t do that !
It ’ s Seamless Garment Day !
The Seamless Garment ( S.G. ) — also called the Consistent Ethic of Life — is lethal pharisaical @ @ @ @ @ @ @ strains the gnat and swallows the camel , meanwhile also providing proponents their ritual moral purity in the voting booth .
A recent commentary by Bishop Robert Barron at his Word on Fire website provides a useful example .
Barron opens with the ritual purity : “ Every four years , Catholics face an intense dilemma in regard to the vote , ” he agonizes .
Really ?
Intense ?
Then he quickly pivots to the legalism .
The legalism consists in the S.G. ’ s very listing of mass , legalized baby @ @ @ @ @ @ @ among numerous other “ life , ” or “ social justice , ” issues , and on this basis to effectively smother the cause of the babies .
We authentic pro-lifers have never cordoned off legalized baby-murder as a single issue , not even a “ pre-eminent ” one .
Instead , we have screamed for decades , rather , that legalized baby murder — yes , murder , as St. John Paul insisted we must sometimes call out abortion ’ s moral savagery — can never be “ cordoned off ” from @ @ @ @ @ @ @ society altogether .
But Barron writes : Barron thus reinforces a poisonous twofold lie .
First , who says that only Democrats and not Republicans oppose racism or have concern for the underprivileged ?
Democrat candidates and their media echo chamber do , of course .
But why does Barron uncritically parrot their talking points ?
A startling number of black Democrats have joined the burgeoning # WalkAway and Blexit movements , denouncing their party for inciting fear to gain black votes only to ignore their needs once the election is over .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ support Donald Trump , due in large part to the record number of black and other minority workers now employed under his economy , thus helping the underprivileged as well .
Black Republican candidates in liberal Democrat-run hellholes like Baltimore and South Central L.A. furiously denounce the abysmal , decades-long failure of Democrat policies .
Barron thus tells the “ even-handed ” lie , both for the sake of his electoral ritual purity and to retain his “ credibility ” with the liberal media elite who would not only crush the lives of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Church in any event .
Sill worse , he surreptitiously imposes on pro-lifers the onus of “ proving ” that pro-life Republicans aren ’ t racist before we can demand support for candidates who will end mass legalized baby murder .
But since you can never prove a negative , how convenient for Barron ’ s deadly legalism .
The deeper and most destructive lie that Barron repeats is the S.G. ’ s constitutive , structural lie : its originating deception that mass legalized baby murder can be politically or morally cordoned off @ @ @ @ @ @ @ or social justice concern issue .
Five decades of political history since Roe v. Wade shows the utter dishonesty of that notion .
Take immigration .
Under the Mexico City policy , every Republican president from Ronald Reagan through Donald Trump has cut off U.S. funding of international groups that commit or fund abortion .
The two intervening Democrat administrations , Clinton and Obama/Biden , both set the blood money flowing again .
The money does not target Canadian , Japanese , or white European babies , moreover .
As the prohibiting policy @ @ @ @ @ @ @ poor , uneducated , jobless Mexican , Honduran , Pakistani , Ugandan , Filipino , and other “ babies of color ” : precisely the potential future immigrants that Democrats so superciliously claim they love and Republicans hate .
Kill them before they see the light of day , much less catch sight of the U.S. border !
Kill enough , and the immigration “ issue ” — tissue , we might say — disappears .
Pay for a “ clinic ” in Ciudad Juárez ( nota bene , Bishop Steitz ) ; @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , Bishop McElroy ) ; in Nogales , too ( Bishop Kicanas ) .
That ’ s where liberal Democrats ’ immigration policy begins .
The birth canal is the world ’ s most lethal border crossing ; data from the U.N. and other agencies show some 40 million global abortions annually , 160 million over a presidential term .
Joe Biden wants to pay for more .
Donald Trump opposes all such funding .
The same murderous duplicity pertains to liberal claims about “ the underprivileged.
” Recently deceased pro-abortion Supreme Court @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Joe Biden voted to confirm — gave away that deadly fraud here decades ago .
Speaking to the New York Times Magazine about a Court decision that upheld the Hyde Amendment that annually prohibits federal funding of abortion in the United States , she said , “ Frankly , I had thought that at the time Roe was decided , there was concern about population growth and particularly growth in populations that we don ’ t want to have too many of .
So that Roe was going to be then set up @ @ @ @ @ @ @ funding : She means kill poor babies .
Joe Biden , who once opposed it , sold his Catholic soul to keep climbing the greasy pole of Democrat party political success .
Donald Trump adamantly opposes the funding .
It ’ s the same with — supposedly — opposing racism .
Aborting “ poor ” babies is liberal code-speak for racially targeted abortions .
Planned Parenthood founder Margaret Sanger made no secret of her racist intentions , and Planned Parenthood still follows her mandate .
Its baby-murder-for-hire centers are targeted to poor , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ neighborhoods — and , all too tragically , “ successfully.
” Black Americans , who constitute just 13 % of the U.S. population , have had 33 % of U.S. abortions since Roe v. Wade : 20 million of 60 million dismembered children .
Joe Biden supports funding Planned Parenthood , which in turn vehemently endorses his election .
Donald Trump has done more to successfully defund Planned Parenthood than any previous president , and it hates him for it .
The list goes on .
Medical care ?
Biden supports Obamacare , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ 700 health care plans that , in turn , subsidize abortion .
Women ’ s health ?
Abortion significantly increases the risk of infertility , complications in future pregnancies , breast cancer , depression , and suicide , the data overwhelmingly show .
Pre-existing conditions ?
Abortion is routinely used as a prenatal search and destroy mission against children with Down syndrome , those with spina bifida , or any other disability .
Family policy ?
Legalized abortion culturally destroys the parental-child link ; dissolves the maternal-paternal connection ; and inherently dissolves paternal @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , effectively , sexual adventurers , even predators .
“ We had sex , but you had the baby ” is increasingly the default reaction of young men to women they impregnate , an attitude especially acute in poor , urban black neighborhoods , where some 70 % of black children are now born to single mothers , an almost guaranteed path to intergenerational poverty .
Or as Joe Biden might put it , “ Poor kids are just as smart as white kids.
” ( Notice again , that “ poor ” @ @ @ @ @ @ @ black ” ) .
Abortion also increases — it does not decrease — the likelihood of child abuse in the future because it culturally declares that children exist to please parents ; “ unwanted ” children must die .
Crime reduction ?
That ’ s another supposed “ benefit ” of mass legalized baby murder .
( Yes , liberals do say so , even though mostly sotto voce , in “ academic ” studies and among themselves .
Don ’ t rile the deplorables . )
But those same 13 % of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ % of abortions now commit 47 % of U.S. murders and are 52 % of murder victims , according to the U.S. Bureau of Justice statistics .
How tragically are thus confirmed St. Teresa of Calcutta ’ s prophetic words : “ Any nation that allows abortion is not teaching its people to love , but to kill to get whatever they want.
” Let ’ s close the loop by returning to immigration .
One of uncontrolled immigration ’ s most vicious consequences is the large-scale sex-slavery trafficking it enables — a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ States .
But this satanic industry is , in turn , enabled here by legalized , tax-funded abortion .
Pregnant sex slave ?
Just take her in for a tax-funded abortion at Planned Parenthood , which will conveniently ignore the ages of the girls — not even teenagers yet — who are sex-trafficked along with adult women and teenagers .
Abortion-enabled sex slavery also undergirds the spreading the plague of pornography that now destroys tens of millions of lives .
Pregnant porn sex slave ?
Again , just take her in and have @ @ @ @ @ @ @ pay for it .
Barron ’ s whole premise , the S.G. ’ s foundational premise , is a wicked , manipulative lie — a complete and total fraud .
Legalized baby murder is not , has never been , and can not ever be a “ single ” political issue cordoned off from any other social , political , or culture concern .
Perniciously , it poisons and destroys everything of human value .
Abetting the Mass Suicide and Mass Murder of Consciences But why ?
Why can ’ t it be @ @ @ @ @ @ @ can not endure the wicked reality of direct or indirect participation in child murder .
As Abraham Lincoln said about slavery , intoning with Jesus ’ s own words .
The house of human conscience is not at all different .
Both those directly involved in mass child murder and those implicitly guilty by their votes , must anesthetize their consciences or go mad .
“ Out , out , damned spot , ” at it were .
And because legalized baby-murder is a public matter , these consciences can suppress themselves only @ @ @ @ @ @ @ participation by all public opponents .
Why else does Bishop Barron suppose that the Obama/Biden administration declared legal war on the Little Sisters of the Poor for refusing often abortifacient contraception in employee health plans ?
Their consciences must be destroyed .
Legalized abortion inexorably , necessarily becomes a war of annihilation against all consciences .
And the toll is horrific .
The suicides come first .
Americans have committed some sixty million abortions since Roe v. Wade .
A third , perhaps , are the mother ’ s second or more , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a child .
And while fathers are often excluded altogether , not even informed of the pregnancy , and others try futilely to save their children , tens of millions of men have also participated , even pressured and coerced their children ’ s mothers into killing them .
Authentic pro-lifers also know that grandparents are often the primary drivers of an abortion , and millions of “ friends ” are complicit in the murder .
That totals perhaps 100 million ravaged consciences .
We can only wonder how Seamless Garment proponents propose @ @ @ @ @ @ @ foundation .
The Seamless Garment does even more evil , however ; it was invented , it is constructed , to enable the political complicity of tens of millions of more consciences : to constrain , hobble , and even murder the consciences not only of those of Catholics , but of others who hear and internalize to this political moral scam .
For the S.G. is , at root , designed to enable a classic case of compartmentalization .
That is the usually subconscious psychological defense mechanism that people use to avoid @ @ @ @ @ @ @ values : like being a Catholic and a de facto participant in mass legalized baby-murder by virtue of the candidates one supports in the voting booth .
Its moral self-delusion works like this .
Start — as can not be emphasized too often about this deadly fraud — with the S.G. ’ s deceitful listing of multiple “ pro-life ” issues that makes legalized child-murder just one politically separate , compartmentalized “ single ” concern .
Next , make a column for each candidate ; then assign each a rating as “ pro-life @ @ @ @ @ @ @ “ separate ” issue .
Add up the results and — mirabile dictu !
— I can in good Catholic conscience vote for the pro–mass legalized baby-murder candidate because , well , the math says so !
Some more slightly self-aware Catholic consciences , like Bishop Barron ’ s , make a layover at “ Oh , it ’ s so difficult to choose !
” But the destination is the same : a compartmentalized , hence deadened conscience .
The Seamless Garment ’ s structure thus goes beyond abetting these suicides already @ @ @ @ @ @ @ outright murder of vastly more consciences .
It impinges , would cripple the consciences of the very , very many Catholics who can not in good conscience vote for legalized baby-killing candidates , oppressing them with the false claim that they are morally wrong to make their vote pivot on ending the mass murder .
How do we know ?
“ Single issue ” voting was never a moral concern when American Catholics made our first great electoral impact from the 1880s to the 1950s by voting overwhelmingly for candidates pledged to make @ @ @ @ @ @ @ “ single ” social justice issue of all American politics .
Nor was such concern evident into the 1960s and ’ 70s when securing black civil rights or ending the Vietnam War became the sine qua non of Catholic voting morality , precisely among the morally self-preening , liberal , big-government , overwhelmingly Democrat party Catholic ecclesial elite who would shortly weave the Seamless Garment in the late 1970s and 1980s .
Thus , for example , famed ( infamous , for some ) Notre Dame president Theodore Hesburgh stopped mentioning abortion as @ @ @ @ @ @ @ after being hissed at a Yale University speech for linking the two .
No , “ single issue ” voting became a “ moral ” concern only when this liberal Catholic elite who had long preened themselves as moral heirs of earlier heroic “ single issue ” pro-labor and pro–civil rights voting now saw substantial numbers of Catholics abandoning the liberal , big-government Democrat party political consensus that had long dominated Catholic voting over the “ single issue ” of mass legalized baby-murder .
Only then did they suddenly “ discover ” — @ @ @ @ @ @ @ enforce on the consciences of recalcitrant Catholic pro-lifers the Seamless Garment ’ s utterly fraudulent moral claims .
For the S.G. was never about morality — and here we reach the taproot of its wickedness .
From the start , it was purely and intentionally a political strategy .
It was crafted , one might say , to suffocate Catholic consciences : to enable , on one hand , or enfeeble , on the other , them into voting for liberal Democrat , pro–mass legalized baby-murder candidates .
It was woven as a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ — for pre-born babies .
The Seamless Garment moral claims , to employ another image , are a “ whitewashed tomb , which outwardly appears beautiful , but within is filled with ” dead babies ’ still pitifully malleable “ bones ” ( cf .
Mt .
23:27 ) .
It is inherently evil , pure political calculation posing as moral “ consistency.
” Proponents continue to this day the S.G. ’ s assault on Catholic consciences .
Take the death penalty .
Is Bishop Barron actually serious that Democrats oppose the death @ @ @ @ @ @ @ their abortion business allies impose pre-emptive capital punishment against tens of millions of the most innocent humans of all .
These poor babies are executed because they — might , someday — commit actual crimes ( like petty theft ? )
, because they are “ guilty ” of having poor parents , being disabled , potentially jobless , or badly educated , or for the capital crime of being “ unwanted.
” Let ’ s also run the numbers .
In the early 1970s , the Supreme Court briefly halted , then @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , and since then , about 7,800 criminals convicted of capital crimes have been executed , according to government statistics .
Meanwhile , since Roe v. Wade , also in the early 1970s , more than 60 million completely innocent American pre-born children have been summarily executed by private persons and agencies .
That ’ s a ratio of 7,700 innocent babies executed to 1 convicted capital criminal .
Opposition to the death penalty today begins with stopping mass legalized baby murder .
But not a single Democrat in Congress in either house @ @ @ @ @ @ @ 24 Democrat governors .
But Barron deliberately misuses his magisterial status to oppress the consciences of Catholics who realize the truth of the matter .
And , yes , deliberately .
If not with malice aforethought , by his astonishingly culpable negligence he does so .
Bishop Barron is supposed to be the bright one among the bishops , the shining light of the USCCB ’ s latest iteration of the New Evangelization .
How could he be so stupid , so mindless , as to fail to connect these most obviously linked @ @ @ @ @ @ @ not .
Like far too many bishops : He .
Just .
Doesn ’ t .
Care .
Not really .
If he ’ d ever actually been actively pro-life , he ’ d know how to think about the matter ; he ’ d have seen how legalized baby-murder corrupts everything from politics to language to medicine to society as a whole ; he ’ d at least have learned of legalized abortion ’ s inherent entanglement in racism , murdering the poor , the immigrant , as well as its horrifying @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Barron has plainly never bothered .
His attained knowledge and careful consideration of this “ single issue ” is as shallow as his thinking .
“ This people honors me with their lips , but their actions are far from me , ” as Jesus might put it ( cf .
Mt .
15:8 ) .
Barron is far from alone in the Seamless Garment episcopal assault on pro-life Catholics ’ consciences .
To name just two of far too many more , Bishop Robert McElroy of San Diego and Bishop John Stowe @ @ @ @ @ @ @ election year about the supposed electoral threat of “ single issue ” anti-abortion fanaticism submerging the matter of climate change .
But democracies exist in part on the premise that the wisdom of the many is superior to the wisdom of the few .
The same moral logic also undergirds our system of trial by a jury of one ’ s peers .
Expert testimony is necessary in both instances .
But in both cases , it is given to ordinary people to assess not only the credibility of the evidence , but @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the more arcane the evidence , the more the experts ’ credibility is the crux .
In neither case , moreover — the jury room or the voting booth — can Catholics shirk our legal and moral responsibility to make that judgment for ourselves .
But that is exactly what McElroy and Stowe would have us do : check our consciences at the voting booth door when it comes to climate change ; surrender wholesale and unquestioningly to the “ experts.
” But there are two fatal flaws with their insidious demand .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ change ” have become symbiotically connected to demands for huge political power , as everyone knows .
There are vast amounts of government money for studies that affirm climate alarmism , virtually none for failing to do so ; conversely , the studies that get funded serve to propagandize vast increases in government power and tax collection .
But why should voters take a climate scientist ’ s demands for certain political solutions , such as carbon taxes ?
Why should we morally invest scientific expertise in politicians like former vice president Al @ @ @ @ @ @ @ money from his climate change crusade , and gee , won an Academy Award ) or media figures like David Attenborough ?
It is our task as voters to assess the proper types of political responses .
Carbon taxes disproportionately burden the poor , for example ; they are powerfully regressive because the poor spend a far greater portion of their income on gasoline — used by hundreds of thousands of immigrants on their way daily to and from the ag fields of Central California in sometimes 100-mile round trips — and household @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ” is now a real thing in California .
That ’ s a political dilemma if one is concerned about both climate change and the poor , a dilemma about which Catholic voters must employ our consciences — which McElroy and Stowe implicitly denounce us for doing .
Even more to the point , science always progresses by proposing hypotheses and then seeking evidence that verifies them or not .
But for almost half a century , repeated dire warnings of only ten ( or twelve or fifteen ) years before climate Armageddon @ @ @ @ @ @ @ be supported by the data of actual events .
At this point , most American voters have thus made the most scientific judgment that the climate alarmists have cried wolf too often .
Even the endless name change , from Global Cooling to Global Warming to ( the oh , so conveniently vague ) Climate Change raises the suspicion that the politicians and experts are playing us with a three-card monte political con designed to separate us from our money and our liberty .
Good conscience demands we make this assessment .
Still @ @ @ @ @ @ @ major “ climate change ” figure or organization is vehemently anti-human .
Attenborough , for example , calls humanity “ a plague upon the earth.
” Bill Gates wants to reduce the world population by up to a third , by more than 1.5 billion .
Every U.N. proposal on climate change also includes plans for still more abortions , especially in third-world countries .
( Catch the racism again , Bishop Barron ? )
Does this not raise still greater moral suspicions about the “ climate change ” agenda ?
And again @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , are horrifying .
Data indicate that over the last 70 years , 1.4 billion pre-born babies have been legally murdered by abortion ; in the next ten years , another 400 million are going to be murdered .
That ’ s almost 2 billion .
And the climate change toll ?
Not so much .
Despite the angry moral fulminations of bishops like McElroy and Stowe , Catholics dare not surrender our electoral consciences wholesale to climate change “ experts ” and their — repeatedly proven — anti-life agenda .
Unable to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ indignation , however , McElroy launches the most brutal frontal assault possible on Catholics ’ electoral consciences .
In an appallingly dishonest and truly evil attack , he recently inveighed , “ To reduce that magnificent , multidimensional gift of God ’ s love to a single question of public policy is repugnant and should have no place in public discourse.
” One is left almost speechless at his dishonesty .
One could well ask : well , what about the Church ’ s “ magnificent , multidimensional teaching on God ’ s @ @ @ @ @ @ @ duty of governments to legally protect authentic marriage , between one man and one woman , as the very foundation of a just and healthy society ?
As soon as McElroy makes that duty an equal element of his Seamless Garment , equal even to climate change , and declaims it with equal vehemence , we might believe his goodwill .
But he won ’ t , ever .
So neither will we .
McElroy ’ s hypocrisy is what ’ s repugnant .
The Destruction of Government , the Death of Civilization @ @ @ @ @ @ @ abetting the mass suicide , and attempting the mass murder , of consciences that is inherent in the Seamless Garment is the destruction of the moral foundation of government as such , as well as the dissolution of civilization itself .
All governments have their basic justification in the task of protecting the right not to be murdered .
That is why every government has the final legal authority to determine the justified use of force .
Citizens always retain our natural law right to self-defense , whether by kitchen knife ; baseball @ @ @ @ @ @ @ States , firearm .
But governments always determine whether the force , the violence , is legally justified in individual cases .
Making mass murder a purely private matter , then , destroys the moral cornerstone of government .
It is also why — to reiterate yet again the critical point — mass legalized baby murdered can not be cordoned off as a “ single issue.
” Once government allows privatized murder , it not only looses social chaos ; government can not restrain itself from resorting to the same means it allows @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Legalized murder is just too convenient , too powerful a “ tool ” to be left in the hands of individuals alone .
“ Power tends to corrupt , and absolute power tends to corrupt absolutely , ” both for governments and societies ; legalized murder is the ultimate social power .
The Seamless Garment is thus a theology , a political religion , of child sacrifice , offered to the idol of omnicompetent government .
Every four years , it tells us by design : just a little more mass child dismemberment @ @ @ @ @ @ @ sliced and diced fetal corpses tossed as “ medical waste ” to be incinerated — and we ’ ll have paradise on Earth !
Just vote for Joe Biden !
Vote for the legalizers of mass baby murders and this time , we promise , there will never again be the need for it .
As if lust , greed , pride , manipulation , and the like are at last going to be purged from our hearts — by politics !
by the Provider State , as St. John Paul II labeled @ @ @ @ @ @ @ our whole civilization is being destroyed by this annihilation of basic human decency .
It ’ s the conscience count , not the body count , that most threatens us who live among the moral ruins .
Many , perhaps most bishops voiced public support of the Black Lives Matter movement this summer .
Even after at least some BLM activists and Antifa-followers descended into rioting ; into looting — of black owned businesses ; arson that destroyed many black neighborhoods ; took numerous black lives ; targeted sometimes black police officers execution-style @ @ @ @ @ @ @ could not bring themselves to invoke that very garment to condemn the violence .
Even more frightening , the U.S. bishops apparently fail to see the truly demonic rage in the faces of so many BLM/Antifa rioters and arsonists .
So many of them are not even black , but middle- and upper-class , often college-educated , mid-20s whites .
Why are they destroying black businesses , rendering black neighborhoods “ food deserts ” where no grocery stores can now be found ?
Exorcists have long lamented unhinged rage as a clear sign @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Moreover , for more than a decade , they have increasingly warned that demonic possessions are becoming more resistant to exorcism , taking many more sessions and more time to accomplish .
Do our bishops really fail to see the demonic in many of these Antifa/BLM faces ?
Still more telling , can they possibly imagine that even one of these faces belongs to an active , committed pro-lifer , an actual opponent of baby murder ?
These same exorcists tell us that Satan is a confirmed legalist , who thus not only @ @ @ @ @ @ @ mandate in God ’ s name by an exorcising priest , but who also demands his “ due ” from God regarding the psyches , souls , and lives of those who plunge themselves into his power by this horrifying sin .
Sixty million U.S. abortions since Roe v. Wade have beyond reasonable doubt loosed a horrific demonic comeuppance .
We have sown the wind 60 million times , and we are now reaping the whirlwind .
In at least one diocese , the bishop has approved monthly exorcisms outside a local abortion @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the bishops would raise their voices to exorcise the voting booth , too , release it from the satanic power of mass legalized baby-murder for profit of Christ ’ s littlest ones .

This article is by Joseph Alexander, the pen-name of a long-time pro-life activist both in southern California and in Central California where he now lives.
October 19, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) — Every four years on Election Day, authentically pro-life Catholics share yet again the experience of the man with the withered arm (Mk. 3:10), the man born blind (Jn. 9:16), and the man crippled for 38 years (Jn. 5:10), who all drew the Pharisees’ wrath when Jesus healed them on the Sabbath. Approaching the Catholic establishment — bishops, “theologians,” diocesan and national bureaucrats, and the like — we metaphorically place before them the bodies of the next 4.4 million babies who will be legally murdered over the next presidential term. We plead, adjure: join us in one voice: stop the mass, legalized baby-murder now! And their response? You can’t do that! It’s Seamless Garment Day!
The Pervasive, Not Single, Issue
The Seamless Garment (S.G.) — also called the Consistent Ethic of Life — is lethal pharisaical legalism, in other words, that strains the gnat and swallows the camel, meanwhile also providing proponents their ritual moral purity in the voting booth. A recent commentary by Bishop Robert Barron at his Word on Fire website provides a useful example. Barron opens with the ritual purity: “Every four years, Catholics face an intense dilemma in regard to the vote,” he agonizes. Really? Intense? Then he quickly pivots to the legalism. The legalism consists in the S.G.’s very listing of mass, legalized baby murder as a “single” issue among numerous other “life,” or “social justice,” issues, and on this basis to effectively smother the cause of the babies.
We authentic pro-lifers have never cordoned off legalized baby-murder as a single issue, not even a “pre-eminent” one. Instead, we have screamed for decades, rather, that legalized baby murder — yes, murder, as St. John Paul insisted we must sometimes call out abortion’s moral savagery — can never be “cordoned off” from any other political issue, that corrupts society altogether. But Barron writes:
The Democratic Party advocates a number of … principles reverenced by the Catholic tradition: concern for the underprivileged, for the migrant and refugee, and for the environment, as well as opposition to capital punishment and to all forms of racism[.] … [B]roadly speaking, the Republican Party sides with Catholic teaching [on] opposition to abortion and euthanasia, defense of the traditional family, advocacy for conscience protection and freedom of religion. (Word on Fire, 10/6)
Barron thus reinforces a poisonous twofold lie. First, who says that only Democrats and not Republicans oppose racism or have concern for the underprivileged? Democrat candidates and their media echo chamber do, of course. But why does Barron uncritically parrot their talking points? A startling number of black Democrats have joined the burgeoning #WalkAway and Blexit movements, denouncing their party for inciting fear to gain black votes only to ignore their needs once the election is over. Unprecedented numbers of black Americans now also support Donald Trump, due in large part to the record number of black and other minority workers now employed under his economy, thus helping the underprivileged as well. Black Republican candidates in liberal Democrat-run hellholes like Baltimore and South Central L.A. furiously denounce the abysmal, decades-long failure of Democrat policies. Barron thus tells the “even-handed” lie, both for the sake of his electoral ritual purity and to retain his “credibility” with the liberal media elite who would not only crush the lives of the pre-born, but hate the Catholic Church in any event. Sill worse, he surreptitiously imposes on pro-lifers the onus of “proving” that pro-life Republicans aren’t racist before we can demand support for candidates who will end mass legalized baby murder. But since you can never prove a negative, how convenient for Barron’s deadly legalism.
The deeper and most destructive lie that Barron repeats is the S.G.’s constitutive, structural lie: its originating deception that mass legalized baby murder can be politically or morally cordoned off from any other political, cultural, or social justice concern issue. Five decades of political history since Roe v. Wade shows the utter dishonesty of that notion.
Take immigration. Under the Mexico City policy, every Republican president from Ronald Reagan through Donald Trump has cut off U.S. funding of international groups that commit or fund abortion. The two intervening Democrat administrations, Clinton and Obama/Biden, both set the blood money flowing again. The money does not target Canadian, Japanese, or white European babies, moreover. As the prohibiting policy’s name indicates, it targets poor, uneducated, jobless Mexican, Honduran, Pakistani, Ugandan, Filipino, and other “babies of color”: precisely the potential future immigrants that Democrats so superciliously claim they love and Republicans hate. Kill them before they see the light of day, much less catch sight of the U.S. border! Kill enough, and the immigration “issue” — tissue, we might say — disappears. Pay for a “clinic” in Ciudad Juárez (nota bene, Bishop Steitz); one in Tijuana (you, too, Bishop McElroy); in Nogales, too (Bishop Kicanas). That’s where liberal Democrats’ immigration policy begins. The birth canal is the world’s most lethal border crossing; data from the U.N. and other agencies show some 40 million global abortions annually, 160 million over a presidential term. Joe Biden wants to pay for more. Donald Trump opposes all such funding.
The same murderous duplicity pertains to liberal claims about “the underprivileged.” Recently deceased pro-abortion Supreme Court justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg — whom then-senator Joe Biden voted to confirm — gave away that deadly fraud here decades ago. Speaking to the New York Times Magazine about a Court decision that upheld the Hyde Amendment that annually prohibits federal funding of abortion in the United States, she said, “Frankly, I had thought that at the time Roe was decided, there was concern about population growth and particularly growth in populations that we don’t want to have too many of. So that Roe was going to be then set up for Medicaid funding of abortion.” Medicaid funding: She means kill poor babies. Joe Biden, who once opposed it, sold his Catholic soul to keep climbing the greasy pole of Democrat party political success. Donald Trump adamantly opposes the funding.
It’s the same with — supposedly — opposing racism. Aborting “poor” babies is liberal code-speak for racially targeted abortions. Planned Parenthood founder Margaret Sanger made no secret of her racist intentions, and Planned Parenthood still follows her mandate. Its baby-murder-for-hire centers are targeted to poor, inner-city, mostly black and now Latino neighborhoods — and, all too tragically, “successfully.” Black Americans, who constitute just 13% of the U.S. population, have had 33% of U.S. abortions since Roe v. Wade: 20 million of 60 million dismembered children. Joe Biden supports funding Planned Parenthood, which in turn vehemently endorses his election. Donald Trump has done more to successfully defund Planned Parenthood than any previous president, and it hates him for it.
The list goes on. Medical care? Biden supports Obamacare, the government-subsidized health care that currently subsidizes 700 health care plans that, in turn, subsidize abortion. Women’s health? Abortion significantly increases the risk of infertility, complications in future pregnancies, breast cancer, depression, and suicide, the data overwhelmingly show. Pre-existing conditions? Abortion is routinely used as a prenatal search and destroy mission against children with Down syndrome, those with spina bifida, or any other disability. Family policy? Legalized abortion culturally destroys the parental-child link; dissolves the maternal-paternal connection; and inherently dissolves paternal responsibility altogether, reducing young males to, effectively, sexual adventurers, even predators. “We had sex, but you had the baby” is increasingly the default reaction of young men to women they impregnate, an attitude especially acute in poor, urban black neighborhoods, where some 70% of black children are now born to single mothers, an almost guaranteed path to intergenerational poverty. Or as Joe Biden might put it, “Poor kids are just as smart as white kids.” (Notice again, that “poor” is a Democrat dog whistle for “black”). Abortion also increases — it does not decrease — the likelihood of child abuse in the future because it culturally declares that children exist to please parents; “unwanted” children must die.
— Article continues below Petition — PETITION: Stand with the priest who rebuked the Democratic Party and admonished the bishops Show Petition Text 96863 have signed the petition. Let's get to 100000 ! Thank you for signing this petition! Add your signature: Show Petition Text Country... State... Sign this Petition PETITION UPDATE (7/9/2021) - Father James Altman was informed late last week that he has been removed as pastor of St. James the Less parish, and that his priestly faculties have been suspended indefinitely. Please Click Here to WATCH LifeSite's exclusive interview with Fr. Altman, and Click Here to READ more about this turn of events. As Bishop William J. Callahan’s decree explains, this means he is forbidden from celebrating “The Holy Eucharist” with any members of the faithful present, except for his elderly parents. He is also “no longer allowed to preach,” administer baptism, or assist at marriages. Altman said that he wasn’t issued restrictions from hearing Confessions or Anointing of the Sick. The decree also states that he is to continue to live within the Diocese of LaCrosse, where he has been instructed to meet with the Vicar for Clergy at least once a month, and has been “invited to begin” a month-long “spiritual retreat” to help him to “spiritually heal” and “address the issues that caused the issuance of this decree.” The order states it is in effect as long as “cause” is present, but it does not specify what the cause is. Callahan said he asked Altman to resign on May 23 for being “divisive and ineffective.” Altman first triggered backlash from his bishop when his video “You cannot be a Catholic and a Democrat. Period” went viral last year. Altman shared that in response to this, his office “got the most vile, despicable phone calls, letters” and “some terrible, really foul messages.” Callahan criticized Altman at the time for his “manner and tone,” to which Altman countered, “what about the manner and tone of the 10,000 babies that are chopped up last Saturday?” “What I would hope would always come through no matter what people think about my manner and tone, is that they would recognize that what’s coming through there is God’s love,” Altman told LifeSiteNews. “A love that I recognize because He’s loved me, and I didn’t deserve that.” “If I seem angry at times, it has nothing to do with me, it has to do with the people. And I asked the question recently, how can they love? If you love, how can you not feed your children?” In late April, Altman chided the U.S. bishops for needlessly shutting churches and denying the faithful sacraments during the COVID-19 pandemic, saying the hierarchy showed “an abundance of cowardice.” In his interview with LifeSite, Altman alluded to the fact that some don’t like seeing him “upset.” “I’m thinking well, if you’re denying my child food, the Bread of Life – [Bishop Fulton J. Sheen] said, if you can’t get angry about stuff like that then you can’t love either. Because greater love has greater anger towards those things that are contrary to the salvation of eternal souls, which is the only thing that matters in the end,” said Altman. "I don’t care what they do to me, honestly, in the end… what troubles me is the interference with the feeding of God’s children, which is through word and through the sacrament. Both of which were denied to people over the past 15 months." Please continue to SIGN and SHARE this petition, and to continue to contact the Diocese of LaCrosse's Chancery Office, to politely voice your opposition to the removal of Fr. Altman from his parish. The Chancery's phone number is: 608-788-7700. _______________________________________________________________________ PETITION UPDATE (5/24/2021) - Father James Altman, the Wisconsin priest whose video message last fall "You can’t be a Catholic and a Democrat" went viral and who has fearlessly admonished the U.S. bishops for shutting churches and denying the faithful Sacraments during the COVID-19 crisis, announced on Pentecost Sunday that his bishop has asked him to resign for being "divisive and ineffective." Please CLICK HERE to READ LifeSiteNews' latest article related to Fr. Altman's ongoing persecution, just to continue shepherding his flock. Bishop William P. 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"In response my canon lawyer asked for clarification – asked for the justification and a chance to review what was in my file that suggested I was so divisive and ineffective,” explained Altman. “And I say all this only because, I'm no expert on canon law, but understand only that while we are contesting bishop's request — and we are — he could in theory appoint a parish administrator whilst I remain a pastor without duties until the appeal goes through Rome, which could take up to a year or more." Bishop Joseph Strickland of Tyler, Texas, offered his support for Altman via Twitter. Please continue to SIGN and SHARE this petition with your like-minded family and friends. And, after signing and sharing, please take a minute to contact the LaCrosse Diocese to politely voice your support for Fr. Altman, and against leftist pressure groups like 'Faithful America.' Please ask Bishop Callahan to prayerfully reconsider his decision and allow Fr. Altman to remain as pastor of St. James the Less parish. The phone number for the diocese office is: 608.788.7700 Thank you! PETITION UPDATE (9/15/2020) - Just this past weekend a prayer vigil was held outside the Cathedral in LaCrosse, Wisconsin, on behalf of Fr. James Altman, the priest facing Church penalties for saying that you cannot be a Catholic and a Democrat in 2020. Hundreds of faithful Catholics turn out to pray for Fr. Altman. Though Fr. Altman did use strong language to warn his flock against spiritual perils, what he said about the Democratic Party's platform is true! Motivated by a deep sense of justice, supporters gathered at the Cathedral to pray for the priest, and for Bishop Callahan to stand by his priest rather than punish him. "Fr. Altman is a rare breed. He’s a modern-day St. John the Baptist," declared one woman who attended the prayer vigil. "He’s really changed my life and so many others he’s had that impact on. We need more priests who are true shepherds." Fr. Richard Heilman, who is the founder of the U.S. Grace Force and who was also present to help lead people in prayer during the vigil, had this to say about Fr. Altman: "Bottom line: he loves, loves, loves his flock. And so, like a good shepherd, if he sees the wolves invading, he sounds the warning alarm." Please consider SIGNING this petition if you have not already signed. And, please SHARE this petition and video with your family, friends and colleagues. Thank you! If after signing and sharing you wish to make an even greater impact, we encourage you to contact the Diocese of LaCrosse's Chancery Offices to politely let them know that you support Fr. Altman and want to see him continue in his essential ministry. Diocese of LaCrosse's Chancery Office phone number: 608-788-7700. ___________________________________________________________________________________ ORIGINAL PETITION TEXT: Father James Altman, pastor of St. James the Less parish in the Wisconsin Diocese of LaCrosse, has been threatened with canonical punishment by his Bishop, Most Rev. William Patrick Callahan. Fr. Altman's alleged "offense"? Stating what every faithful Catholic knows to be true in 2020: "You cannot be a Catholic and a Democrat." Please SIGN this petition which will go to Bishop Callahan and ask him to stop any canonical proceedings against Fr. Altman. In a strongly-worded YouTube video, designed to shepherd the faithful out of harm's way (supporting the Democratic Party's evil platform), Fr. Altman states the following: "Here's a memo to clueless, baptized Catholics out there: You cannot be Catholic and be a Democrat. Period. Their party platform absolutely is against everything the Catholic Church teaches. So, just quit pretending that you're Catholic and vote Democrat. Repent of your support of that party and its platform, or face the fires of Hell..." Strong stuff to be sure, but Fr. Altman was taking his cue from Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI (whom he quotes) – the Church has a "duty and obligation" to speak up when politicians act in an immoral way. In other words, a pastor must give strong warnings, at times, to guide souls away from grave danger, even when the dangers come from politicians or a political party. When your house is burning down...or, more appropriately, when someone is attempting to burn your house down, it's time to dispense with the niceties of politically correct language. And, as Fr. Altman suggests, the Democratic Party's evil platform which promotes the desecration of God's plan for humanity is, in effect, trying to burn down our house (i.e., the Church). Not only do the Democrats openly advocate for abortion (i.e., killing innocent human beings), but they also promote the destruction of the natural family and the desecration of human nature in support of the homosexual and transgender agendas. Remember the following: The Obama-Biden Administration attempted to force the Little Sisters of the Poor to participate in the provision of abortion-inducing drugs and contraception and threatened schools with the loss of federal funding if they wouldn’t let boys in girls’ bathrooms and vice versa.
Democratic Senators Kamala Harris and Mazie Hirono grilled a judge, who is a Knight of Columbus, on his membership in the Knights, absurdly suggesting that membership in the Catholic mens' fraternal organization should disqualify someone from sitting on the bench.
And, in 2017, the DNC Chairman said that pro-lifers were not welcome in the party. No faithful Catholic should even think about voting for such a platform. And, the bishops should be on the frontlines, speaking this truth to power. Thankfully, the Bishop of Tyler, Texas, Most Rev. Joseph Strickland, has come out in support of Fr. Altman's statement, tweeting: "As the Bishop of Tyler I endorse Fr. Altman’s statement in this video. My shame is that it has taken me so long. Thank you Fr Altman for your COURAGE. If you love Jesus & His Church & this nation...please HEED THIS MESSAGE.” With this petition, we now ask that Fr. Altman's own bishop, Most. Rev. Callahan, likewise support his priest and stop any canonical proceedings against him. Devoid of united leadership from the Hierarchy, individual priests must do their best to inform the laity of the mortal dangers on full view in the Democrats' platform. And, threatening to silence priests for strongly speaking the truth only plays into the hand of those who actually hate what the Church stands for...and who will, if elected, most likely seek to injure, or even eradicate, the Church. The bishops should know that the legacy of the Democratic Party being the party of the small man and of the Catholic immigrant is now over. The Democratic Party of today is the party of radical individualism, not the common good. And, rabid support for abortion and the homosexual agenda are practically obligatory. As such, the Democratic Party is not a friend of the Church and any priest or bishop who thinks otherwise is being deceived, or allowing himself to be deceived or bullied. This is not just an abstraction! This is a serious threat to Christianity and their party's platform needs to be met with strong opposition. Thank you for SIGNING this petition to the bishop of LaCrosse, Wisconsin, Bishop Callahan, asking him to support Fr. Altman rather than bringing any canonical proceedings against him. FOR MORE INFORMATION: 'Bishop threatens ‘canonical penalties’ for priest whose viral video warned Catholics can’t be Democrats': https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/bishop-threatens-canonical-penalties-for-fr-altman YouTube Video - 'Fr. James Altman: You cannot be Catholic & a Democrat. Period.': https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-7eoTN2vNM Statement regarding Fr. James Altman from Bishop Callahan: https://diolc.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Statement-Father-James-Altman-090920.pdf 'Bishop Strickland echoes priest: ‘You cannot be Catholic and be a Democrat’': https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/bishop-strickland-echoes-priest-you-cannot-be-catholic-and-be-a-democrat **Photo Credit: Screen capture from Fr. James Altman's YouTube video on Alpha News MN Hide Petition Text Sign this Petition
Crime reduction? That’s another supposed “benefit” of mass legalized baby murder. (Yes, liberals do say so, even though mostly sotto voce, in “academic” studies and among themselves. Don’t rile the deplorables.) But those same 13% of Americans who are black and have 33% of abortions now commit 47% of U.S. murders and are 52% of murder victims, according to the U.S. Bureau of Justice statistics. How tragically are thus confirmed St. Teresa of Calcutta’s prophetic words: “Any nation that allows abortion is not teaching its people to love, but to kill to get whatever they want.”
Let’s close the loop by returning to immigration. One of uncontrolled immigration’s most vicious consequences is the large-scale sex-slavery trafficking it enables — a plague now almost epidemic in the United States. But this satanic industry is, in turn, enabled here by legalized, tax-funded abortion. Pregnant sex slave? Just take her in for a tax-funded abortion at Planned Parenthood, which will conveniently ignore the ages of the girls — not even teenagers yet — who are sex-trafficked along with adult women and teenagers. Abortion-enabled sex slavery also undergirds the spreading the plague of pornography that now destroys tens of millions of lives. Pregnant porn sex slave? Again, just take her in and have her vacuumed out. Joe Biden will pay for it.
Barron’s whole premise, the S.G.’s foundational premise, is a wicked, manipulative lie — a complete and total fraud. Legalized baby murder is not, has never been, and cannot ever be a “single” political issue cordoned off from any other social, political, or culture concern. Perniciously, it poisons and destroys everything of human value.
Abetting the Mass Suicide and Mass Murder of Consciences
But why? Why can’t it be cordoned off? Because the human conscience cannot endure the wicked reality of direct or indirect participation in child murder. As Abraham Lincoln said about slavery, intoning with Jesus’s own words.
“A house divided against itself cannot stand.” I believe this government cannot endure, permanently half slave and half free. I do not expect the Union to be dissolved — I do not expect the house to fall — but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing, or all the other.
The house of human conscience is not at all different. Both those directly involved in mass child murder and those implicitly guilty by their votes, must anesthetize their consciences or go mad. “Out, out, damned spot,” at it were.
And because legalized baby-murder is a public matter, these consciences can suppress themselves only by silencing, co-opting, or forcing participation by all public opponents. Why else does Bishop Barron suppose that the Obama/Biden administration declared legal war on the Little Sisters of the Poor for refusing often abortifacient contraception in employee health plans? Their consciences must be destroyed. Legalized abortion inexorably, necessarily becomes a war of annihilation against all consciences.
And the toll is horrific. The suicides come first. Americans have committed some sixty million abortions since Roe v. Wade. A third, perhaps, are the mother’s second or more, meaning some 40 million women have murdered a child. And while fathers are often excluded altogether, not even informed of the pregnancy, and others try futilely to save their children, tens of millions of men have also participated, even pressured and coerced their children’s mothers into killing them. Authentic pro-lifers also know that grandparents are often the primary drivers of an abortion, and millions of “friends” are complicit in the murder. That totals perhaps 100 million ravaged consciences. We can only wonder how Seamless Garment proponents propose to build social justice on that pulverized foundation.
The Seamless Garment does even more evil, however; it was invented, it is constructed, to enable the political complicity of tens of millions of more consciences: to constrain, hobble, and even murder the consciences not only of those of Catholics, but of others who hear and internalize to this political moral scam. For the S.G. is, at root, designed to enable a classic case of compartmentalization. That is the usually subconscious psychological defense mechanism that people use to avoid — to suppress — conflicting notions or values: like being a Catholic and a de facto participant in mass legalized baby-murder by virtue of the candidates one supports in the voting booth. Its moral self-delusion works like this. Start — as cannot be emphasized too often about this deadly fraud — with the S.G.’s deceitful listing of multiple “pro-life” issues that makes legalized child-murder just one politically separate, compartmentalized “single” concern. Next, make a column for each candidate; then assign each a rating as “pro-life” or “not” on each “separate” issue. Add up the results and — mirabile dictu! — I can in good Catholic conscience vote for the pro–mass legalized baby-murder candidate because, well, the math says so! Some more slightly self-aware Catholic consciences, like Bishop Barron’s, make a layover at “Oh, it’s so difficult to choose!” But the destination is the same: a compartmentalized, hence deadened conscience.
The Seamless Garment’s structure thus goes beyond abetting these suicides already mentioned. It intends and attempts the outright murder of vastly more consciences. It impinges, would cripple the consciences of the very, very many Catholics who cannot in good conscience vote for legalized baby-killing candidates, oppressing them with the false claim that they are morally wrong to make their vote pivot on ending the mass murder. How do we know? “Single issue” voting was never a moral concern when American Catholics made our first great electoral impact from the 1880s to the 1950s by voting overwhelmingly for candidates pledged to make workers’ rights the supreme, definitive “single” social justice issue of all American politics. Nor was such concern evident into the 1960s and ’70s when securing black civil rights or ending the Vietnam War became the sine qua non of Catholic voting morality, precisely among the morally self-preening, liberal, big-government, overwhelmingly Democrat party Catholic ecclesial elite who would shortly weave the Seamless Garment in the late 1970s and 1980s. Thus, for example, famed (infamous, for some) Notre Dame president Theodore Hesburgh stopped mentioning abortion as a civil rights issue in the 1960s after being hissed at a Yale University speech for linking the two.
No, “single issue” voting became a “moral” concern only when this liberal Catholic elite who had long preened themselves as moral heirs of earlier heroic “single issue” pro-labor and pro–civil rights voting now saw substantial numbers of Catholics abandoning the liberal, big-government Democrat party political consensus that had long dominated Catholic voting over the “single issue” of mass legalized baby-murder. Only then did they suddenly “discover” — invent, really — and try to enforce on the consciences of recalcitrant Catholic pro-lifers the Seamless Garment’s utterly fraudulent moral claims. For the S.G. was never about morality — and here we reach the taproot of its wickedness. From the start, it was purely and intentionally a political strategy. It was crafted, one might say, to suffocate Catholic consciences: to enable, on one hand, or enfeeble, on the other, them into voting for liberal Democrat, pro–mass legalized baby-murder candidates. It was woven as a winding sheet — a political burial shroud — for pre-born babies. The Seamless Garment moral claims, to employ another image, are a “whitewashed tomb, which outwardly appears beautiful, but within is filled with” dead babies’ still pitifully malleable “bones” (cf. Mt. 23:27). It is inherently evil, pure political calculation posing as moral “consistency.”
Proponents continue to this day the S.G.’s assault on Catholic consciences. Take the death penalty. Is Bishop Barron actually serious that Democrats oppose the death penalty? In truth, they and their abortion business allies impose pre-emptive capital punishment against tens of millions of the most innocent humans of all. These poor babies are executed because they — might, someday — commit actual crimes (like petty theft?), because they are “guilty” of having poor parents, being disabled, potentially jobless, or badly educated, or for the capital crime of being “unwanted.” Let’s also run the numbers. In the early 1970s, the Supreme Court briefly halted, then restored, use of the death penalty, and since then, about 7,800 criminals convicted of capital crimes have been executed, according to government statistics. Meanwhile, since Roe v. Wade, also in the early 1970s, more than 60 million completely innocent American pre-born children have been summarily executed by private persons and agencies. That’s a ratio of 7,700 innocent babies executed to 1 convicted capital criminal. Opposition to the death penalty today begins with stopping mass legalized baby murder. But not a single Democrat in Congress in either house opposes the slaughter, and one of 24 Democrat governors. But Barron deliberately misuses his magisterial status to oppress the consciences of Catholics who realize the truth of the matter.
And, yes, deliberately. If not with malice aforethought, by his astonishingly culpable negligence he does so. Bishop Barron is supposed to be the bright one among the bishops, the shining light of the USCCB’s latest iteration of the New Evangelization. How could he be so stupid, so mindless, as to fail to connect these most obviously linked dots? Actually, he’s not. Like far too many bishops: He. Just. Doesn’t. Care. Not really. If he’d ever actually been actively pro-life, he’d know how to think about the matter; he’d have seen how legalized baby-murder corrupts everything from politics to language to medicine to society as a whole; he’d at least have learned of legalized abortion’s inherent entanglement in racism, murdering the poor, the immigrant, as well as its horrifying imposition of pre-emptive capital punishment. But Barron has plainly never bothered. His attained knowledge and careful consideration of this “single issue” is as shallow as his thinking. “This people honors me with their lips, but their actions are far from me,” as Jesus might put it (cf. Mt. 15:8).
Barron is far from alone in the Seamless Garment episcopal assault on pro-life Catholics’ consciences. To name just two of far too many more, Bishop Robert McElroy of San Diego and Bishop John Stowe of Knoxville have waxed indignant in this election year about the supposed electoral threat of “single issue” anti-abortion fanaticism submerging the matter of climate change.
But democracies exist in part on the premise that the wisdom of the many is superior to the wisdom of the few. The same moral logic also undergirds our system of trial by a jury of one’s peers. Expert testimony is necessary in both instances. But in both cases, it is given to ordinary people to assess not only the credibility of the evidence, but that of the experts themselves, and the more arcane the evidence, the more the experts’ credibility is the crux. In neither case, moreover — the jury room or the voting booth — can Catholics shirk our legal and moral responsibility to make that judgment for ourselves.
But that is exactly what McElroy and Stowe would have us do: check our consciences at the voting booth door when it comes to climate change; surrender wholesale and unquestioningly to the “experts.” But there are two fatal flaws with their insidious demand. First, scientific claims about “climate change” have become symbiotically connected to demands for huge political power, as everyone knows. There are vast amounts of government money for studies that affirm climate alarmism, virtually none for failing to do so; conversely, the studies that get funded serve to propagandize vast increases in government power and tax collection. But why should voters take a climate scientist’s demands for certain political solutions, such as carbon taxes? Why should we morally invest scientific expertise in politicians like former vice president Al Gore (who has made lots of money from his climate change crusade, and gee, won an Academy Award) or media figures like David Attenborough? It is our task as voters to assess the proper types of political responses. Carbon taxes disproportionately burden the poor, for example; they are powerfully regressive because the poor spend a far greater portion of their income on gasoline — used by hundreds of thousands of immigrants on their way daily to and from the ag fields of Central California in sometimes 100-mile round trips — and household energy costs. “Energy tax poverty” is now a real thing in California. That’s a political dilemma if one is concerned about both climate change and the poor, a dilemma about which Catholic voters must employ our consciences — which McElroy and Stowe implicitly denounce us for doing.
Even more to the point, science always progresses by proposing hypotheses and then seeking evidence that verifies them or not. But for almost half a century, repeated dire warnings of only ten (or twelve or fifteen) years before climate Armageddon have proven false — have failed to be supported by the data of actual events. At this point, most American voters have thus made the most scientific judgment that the climate alarmists have cried wolf too often. Even the endless name change, from Global Cooling to Global Warming to (the oh, so conveniently vague) Climate Change raises the suspicion that the politicians and experts are playing us with a three-card monte political con designed to separate us from our money and our liberty. Good conscience demands we make this assessment.
Still more concerning for Catholic consciences, every major “climate change” figure or organization is vehemently anti-human. Attenborough, for example, calls humanity “a plague upon the earth.” Bill Gates wants to reduce the world population by up to a third, by more than 1.5 billion. Every U.N. proposal on climate change also includes plans for still more abortions, especially in third-world countries. (Catch the racism again, Bishop Barron?) Does this not raise still greater moral suspicions about the “climate change” agenda? And again, the numbers, the human data, are horrifying. Data indicate that over the last 70 years, 1.4 billion pre-born babies have been legally murdered by abortion; in the next ten years, another 400 million are going to be murdered. That’s almost 2 billion. And the climate change toll? Not so much. Despite the angry moral fulminations of bishops like McElroy and Stowe, Catholics dare not surrender our electoral consciences wholesale to climate change “experts” and their — repeatedly proven — anti-life agenda.
Unable to contain his bitter, left-wing, big-government indignation, however, McElroy launches the most brutal frontal assault possible on Catholics’ electoral consciences. In an appallingly dishonest and truly evil attack, he recently inveighed, “To reduce that magnificent, multidimensional gift of God’s love to a single question of public policy is repugnant and should have no place in public discourse.” One is left almost speechless at his dishonesty. One could well ask: well, what about the Church’s “magnificent, multidimensional teaching on God’s love” on the grave, inalienable duty of governments to legally protect authentic marriage, between one man and one woman, as the very foundation of a just and healthy society? As soon as McElroy makes that duty an equal element of his Seamless Garment, equal even to climate change, and declaims it with equal vehemence, we might believe his goodwill. But he won’t, ever. So neither will we. McElroy’s hypocrisy is what’s repugnant.
The Destruction of Government, the Death of Civilization
Finally, the sum impact of this abetting the mass suicide, and attempting the mass murder, of consciences that is inherent in the Seamless Garment is the destruction of the moral foundation of government as such, as well as the dissolution of civilization itself. All governments have their basic justification in the task of protecting the right not to be murdered. That is why every government has the final legal authority to determine the justified use of force. Citizens always retain our natural law right to self-defense, whether by kitchen knife; baseball bat; or, in the United States, firearm. But governments always determine whether the force, the violence, is legally justified in individual cases.
Making mass murder a purely private matter, then, destroys the moral cornerstone of government. It is also why — to reiterate yet again the critical point — mass legalized baby murdered cannot be cordoned off as a “single issue.” Once government allows privatized murder, it not only looses social chaos; government cannot restrain itself from resorting to the same means it allows private individuals in pursuing its ends. Legalized murder is just too convenient, too powerful a “tool” to be left in the hands of individuals alone. “Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power tends to corrupt absolutely,” both for governments and societies; legalized murder is the ultimate social power.
The Seamless Garment is thus a theology, a political religion, of child sacrifice, offered to the idol of omnicompetent government. Every four years, it tells us by design: just a little more mass child dismemberment — well, four of five million sliced and diced fetal corpses tossed as “medical waste” to be incinerated — and we’ll have paradise on Earth! Just vote for Joe Biden! Vote for the legalizers of mass baby murders and this time, we promise, there will never again be the need for it. As if lust, greed, pride, manipulation, and the like are at last going to be purged from our hearts — by politics! by the Provider State, as St. John Paul II labeled its vile moral pretentiousness.
Ultimately, our whole civilization is being destroyed by this annihilation of basic human decency. It’s the conscience count, not the body count, that most threatens us who live among the moral ruins. Many, perhaps most bishops voiced public support of the Black Lives Matter movement this summer. Even after at least some BLM activists and Antifa-followers descended into rioting; into looting — of black owned businesses; arson that destroyed many black neighborhoods; took numerous black lives; targeted sometimes black police officers execution-style — still, these Seamless Garment paladins could not bring themselves to invoke that very garment to condemn the violence. Even more frightening, the U.S. bishops apparently fail to see the truly demonic rage in the faces of so many BLM/Antifa rioters and arsonists. So many of them are not even black, but middle- and upper-class, often college-educated, mid-20s whites. Why are they destroying black businesses, rendering black neighborhoods “food deserts” where no grocery stores can now be found?
Exorcists have long lamented unhinged rage as a clear sign of demonic influence, even possession. Moreover, for more than a decade, they have increasingly warned that demonic possessions are becoming more resistant to exorcism, taking many more sessions and more time to accomplish. Do our bishops really fail to see the demonic in many of these Antifa/BLM faces? Still more telling, can they possibly imagine that even one of these faces belongs to an active, committed pro-lifer, an actual opponent of baby murder? These same exorcists tell us that Satan is a confirmed legalist, who thus not only submits to the orders given with episcopal mandate in God’s name by an exorcising priest, but who also demands his “due” from God regarding the psyches, souls, and lives of those who plunge themselves into his power by this horrifying sin. Sixty million U.S. abortions since Roe v. Wade have beyond reasonable doubt loosed a horrific demonic comeuppance. We have sown the wind 60 million times, and we are now reaping the whirlwind. In at least one diocese, the bishop has approved monthly exorcisms outside a local abortion mill. Would that the rest of the bishops would raise their voices to exorcise the voting booth, too, release it from the satanic power of mass legalized baby-murder for profit of Christ’s littlest ones.
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lifesitenews--2020-10-19--Big Tech censorship of political news could undermine 2020 election

October 19 , 2020 ( LifeSiteNews ) – Some weird things have been happening online recently .
If you search for certain words or phrases on Google , you are directed not to the website or news story about the thing you are searching for , but a series of sources attacking or debunking it .
When you try to post about certain things on Twitter or Facebook , your followers see your words accompanied by a link to an article attacking what , according to some algorithm , you may be promoting , or else you can find yourself @ @ @ @ @ @ @ I ’ m not talking about searching for racist political parties , pornography , or how to make a bomb .
This happened to the ‘ Great Barrington Declaration ’ , a statement by a group of scientists about government policy on the coronavirus .
Even with the weight of the New York Post behind it , a major story about Hunter Biden , the son of the Democratic Presidential candidate Joe Biden , disappeared from social media and Google results .
Even tweets by President Donald Trump have been vanishing .
Rather @ @ @ @ @ @ @ countering its effects , mainstream media outlets have in many cases been following the tech companies ’ lead in burying particular stories .
This is not wholly new .
If you type ‘ Hillary Clinton ’ into Google , masses of suggested searches pop up .
If you type “ Hillary Clinton e ” , the suggestions suddenly disappear .
It ’ s because you might be about to search for a forbidden topic : the 2016 Presidential candidate ’ s alleged carelessness with confidential emails .
One odd thing about this is @ @ @ @ @ @ @ algorithms—even if the algorithms have themselves been manipulated—it makes no difference if you want to read people defending Hillary Clinton or attacking her on the emails issue .
Twitter doesn ’ t know if you are praising the Great Barrington Declaration or criticizing it .
The effect is less to direct a specific debate , but to silence it , which itself serves to distort the wider debate .
It means , in fact , that an open debate about the pros and cons of different strategies to combat the epidemic , or @ @ @ @ @ @ @ impossible .
As I have written on LifeSite before , I am far from being a free-speech absolutist .
My view is that these questions have to be addressed on the basis of prudence .
Is this kind of censorship a good idea ?
What are the effects going to be ?
The hubris of the technology companies at this point is staggering , and it seems to have blinded them to some pretty obvious problems with what they are doing .
Assuming they want to help Joe Biden win the presidential election @ @ @ @ @ @ @ little further than election day and ask themselves if they want a lot of people who ’ d supported the other side to come away with the impression that the election had not been won fairly .
In any reasonably close election there will be parts of the country overwhelmingly opposed to the winner , and it is essential to the functioning of any state that they accept the legitimacy of the outcome , even if they don ’ t like it .
Wholesale censorship by partisan , private actors who have found @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the internet is going to undermine the popular mandate of their favored candidate , even if he wins .
Similarly , whether it is the coronavirus , global warming , or the safety of vaccines , a widespread impression that our digital masters have stifled the debate is a terrible outcome , because it creates the ideal environment for conspiracy theories .
On none of the substantive issues I have mentioned do I , personally , have the expertise to judge who is right and who is wrong .
Then again , I @ @ @ @ @ @ @ know what the best washing machine might be , let alone what car to buy , and I could easily be deceived by a clever salesman .
The way we manage this problem is to allow a debate between experts , and indeed people claiming to be experts , and commentary on their arguments by journalists and popular writers who may know a bit more than we do .
In this way a wide range of considerations have some chance of influencing decision-making , from ordinary folks choosing a car , to politicians @ @ @ @ @ @ @ it can do us a favor by taking one side out of certain debates because it is wrong , but even if it iswrong , the effect of this censorship is to deprive us of the debate .
I never thought I ’ d have to defend the right of journalists , scientists , and politicians , to argue out the most important issues of the day , about ordinary , empirical , topics .
But we have got to the point where it is not the government , but corporations keen to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ are posing a threat , a threat not to some outlandishly extreme conception of free speech , but to the basic mechanisms of civil society .

PETITION UPDATE (12/11/2020)
Right before Thanksgiving, YouTube deleted a LifeSite video of a distinguished Canadian physician protesting the "unfounded public hysteria" over COVID-19 and accused us of spreading "medical misinformation."
Our account was suspended, and we were prohibited from posting videos on our YouTube channel for one week. And, while that may not seem like a big deal, it's a huge deal for a news organization like LifeSite.
Then, earlier this week, YouTube again suspended our account – this time for two weeks – over an episode of The Bishop Strickland Show wherein Bishop Strickland said he would not take an unethical COVID-19 vaccine.
We were able to appeal the suspension, and our request was granted.
This means that in YouTube's three-strikes-and-you're-out content-policing, idea-cleansing scheme, we are back down to one strike. But, we still face the threat of losing our account permanently.
And, we're not the only ones.
In a recent turn of events, YouTube just announced that it will remove videos alleging widespread voter fraud in the 2020 presidential election.
But, what is YouTube afraid of? The truth???
Thankfully, however, there is a one, big bright spot on the horizon: 48 states filed suit against Facebook just this week.
And, although this seems like a step in the right direction, the draconian measures which YouTube just rolled out, which are already wielded by Twitter, are an assault against free speech.
So, the fight for freedom of speech against Big Tech goes on. And, we must do everything we can to protect it!
Please SIGN and SHARE this petition today!
FOR MORE INFORMATION:
https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/breaking-youtube-reverses-ban-on-lifesitenews?
https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/youtube-bans-lifesite-over-video-of-bp-strickland-refusing-to-take-corona-vaccine
https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/lifesites-channel-was-suspended-by-youtube-heres-how-you-can-still-watch-our-videos
https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/youtube-starts-removing-videos-that-contain-allegations-of-mass-voter-fraud
https://tennesseestar.com/2020/12/10/facebook-sued-by-48-states-federal-trade-commission-over-allegations-of-monopolistic-practices/
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PETITION UPDATE (11/18/2020)
Everyone thought the censorship by Big Tech corporations would decrease after the 2020 election, but the truth is that censorship is being felt just as much as it was before the election.
And, given the election outcome, perhaps Big Tech censorship now is even more consequential than it was before the election!
The two biggest social media platforms, Facebook and Twitter, and other Big Tech companies, are still censoring and suppressing stories and posts favorable to conservatives, and especially anything that has to do with election fraud.
Here are a few recent examples:
Women for America First organized the March for Trump on November 14, which was shut down by Facebook, MailChimp and Eventbrite. Despite Big Tech’s best efforts to cancel the event, the march went on and gathered a huge crowd.
Twitter has been suppressing a large number of President Trump’s Tweets. Most of his Tweets have been flagged arbitrarily with a warning stating: “This claim about election fraud is disputed."
Please READ this recent article about Big Tech's attempt to choke information conerning the recent Million MAGA March in Washington, DC: '5 things mainstream media won’t tell you about massive DC ‘Stop the Steal’ rally'
Then, please SIGN and SHARE this urgent petition, which calls on the Congress, the president, and governors to defend freedom of speech as Big Tech continues their rampant censorship.
PETITION UPDATE (10/15/2020)
In a remarkable development, Republican Senators Ted Cruz and Lindsey Graham have announced that the Senate Judiciary Committee will be issuing subpoenas to Twitter's Jack Dorsey and Facebook's Mark Zuckerburg for their company's suppression of two critical expose news stories about how Hunter Biden and the Biden Family allegedly profited from business deals made because of Joe Biden's position as Vice President.
Please WATCH LifeSite's exclusive video of the announcement by Senator Ted Cruz below.
According to the Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Senator Lindsey Graham, the subpoenas will be issued next Tuesday, for hearings to be held on Friday of next week.
This is a MASSIVE development, and should be welcomed by those who champion freedom of speech.
Again, this is all happening because Twitter and Facebook refuse to allow their members to share stories which would be favorable to conservatives.
Here's the timeline:
Yesterday, Twitter and Facebook suppressed a NY Post story about how Hunter Biden allegedly profited from introducing a Ukrainian businessman to his then-Vice President father, Joe Biden. The story also alleges that Vice President Biden then subsequently pressured Ukrainian authorities to fire a prosecutor who was investigating the businessman's company.
And, just this morning, Twitter suppressed another expose by the NY Post alleging that the Biden Family improperly profitted from deals made with one of the largest Chinese energy companies because of Vice President Biden's position in government.
But, right after the story broke, Senator Cruz tried to share the latest story on Twitter and was blocked. Twitter says that they are blocking the stories because they claim that the information was obtained illegally. However, Twitter showed no problem allowing illegally obtained information about President Trump's tax returns to be shared.
Please SIGN and SHARE this urgent petition, which calls on the Congress, the president, and governors to defend freedom of speech as Big Tech continues their rampant censorship.
FOR MORE INFORMATION:
'GOP senators decry Big Tech censorship of NY Post story exposing Biden corruption' - https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/gop-senators-decry-big-tech-censorship-of-ny-post-story-exposing-biden-corruption
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PETITION UPDATE (9/17/2020)
Big Tech is out to kill free speech. LifeSite is out to protect it!
LifeSite has been digging deep into the many claims of liberal bias and selective censorship of pro-life, pro-family, and conservative voices on social media.
And, we are now launching our new series 'Uncensored: Big Tech vs. Free Speech', which will unpack how the actions of Big Tech censors actually affect conservative and Christian organization and individuals.
Please WATCH the first video in our series featuring Brigitte Gabriel, the Founder of ACT For America, one of the nation's premier national security grassroots organizations.
Ms. Gabriel's organization, ACT For America, has been targeted by Big Tech especially in the manipulation of search results.
Big Tech “think[s] they are God and they are exercising their godly power over everybody else,” Gabriel explained. "Because in today's world, anytime you want to find out any information about somebody, what do you do? Google. You go to the internet to find out some information about them. When you research anything about somebody, the first thing that comes up [in the search results] is the Southern Poverty Law Center’s labeling of ‘hate groups.’”
“And who are the ‘hate groups’? Family Research Council is a hate group because they are pro-family. American Family Radio is a hate group…LifeSiteNews is a hate group. My organization is a hate group because we sound the alarm about terrorism and protecting our constitutional freedom. And so they try to character assassinate you. And they control the language.”
LifeSite's research shows that Facebook, Google, YouTube, Twitter, and others have become far too dangerous for democracy.
They can and do sway elections and public opinion in whatever direction they want, primarily by manipulating search results, tracking our online behavior, and by blocking truthful content from their platforms.
Today, LifeSite is starting to fight back, with facts and with stories of conservatives and Christians who are being negatively impacted by Big Tech's liberal bias.
Please continue to follow our 'Big Tech vs. Free Speech' series which aims to launch a new video each week for the next eight weeks.
And, please sign our petition demanding that Big Tech monopolies are broken up. Thank you!
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ORIGINAL PETITION BACKGROUND TEXT:
The outrageous erasing of the White Coat Summit from the internet is only the latest in a long series of brazen acts of censorship against conservatives and all those who support legitimate free speech.
You may agree or disagree with the efficacy of Hydroxychloroquine against the coronavirus, but everyone should agree on this point:
No Big Tech company should have the power to erase from the internet the medical opinions of licensed practicing doctors simply because they do not like what they have to say about the coronavirus or their experience treating it. Americans and other free peoples do not need leftist computer programmers deciding what the best course of medical treatment is for them.
Google/Youtube, Facebook, Twitter, Apple and their Big Tech friends want to control what you see, what you read, what you think, and ultimately, how you vote. Not only do they spend hundreds of millions of dollars on lobbying congress and buttering up big Washington DC think tanks, but now they brazenly and directly censor any content they don't want you to see.
Big Tech, like other interest groups, aggressively lobby to help their businesses thrive, but increasingly, Big Tech is using blatant internet censorship to impose its radical world view over those they consider to be "deplorables."
This must stop, but it won't unless we demand it as forcefully as legally possible. We believe that we have reached the point were Big Tech must be broken up if legitimate free speech is going to survive and continue to thrive on the internet.
Please sign our petition to demand real consequences for Big Tech's suppression of legitimate free speech.
In 2016, emails revealed by Fox News' Tucker Carlson proved that Google tried to influence the election by affecting voter turnout. Thankfully they failed. But they didn't give up. Instead, they have been preparing and testing how to manipulate information to continue to abuse their monopolistic power.
In 2018, Google/Youtube et. al. succeeded in manipulating the Irish abortion referendum by blacklisting pro-life videos, manipulating pro-life search terms and results and intentionally withholding pro-life information. Again, this is not an opinion or a conspiracy theory, Project Veritas obtained first hand information proving the intentional censorship by Big Tech.
And the Coronavirus has just made things worse. You see, scared people are more easily manipulated into giving up their freedom of speech. Children are being kept from going to school, tens of millions of Americans are out of work, and rioting has broken out in most major American cities.
Now, more than ever, freedom of speech is necessary to secure all of our freedoms. Freedom of speech is crucial to truly exercise the freedom to vote for the person that best represents one's own views, or the freedom to decide what course of medical treatment to accept - especially the decision to control what vaccines are administered to our children.
Some experts, like Dr. Robert Epstein, a behavioral psychologist who has testified before congress against Big Tech believes that we may already be too late to control Big Tech's tyrannical control over information.
President Trump took a step in the right direction with his Executive Order calling for increased regulation of Big Tech. But much more can be done and needs to be done right now.
In an era where almost everything is polarized, there is an overwhelming support for breaking up the Big Tech monopolies. A recent Pew poll found that 75% of Americans believe that Big Tech companies have too much influence.
It is time to bring serious accountability to Big Tech for their attempts to use their monopolies to kill free speech.
It is time to break up Big Tech.
FOR MORE INFORMATION:
Google, Facebook, Twitter shut down ‘frontline’ US doctors who promote ‘cure for COVID’ - https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/google-facebook-twitter-shut-down-frontline-us-doctors-who-promote-cure-for-covid?utm_source=featured&utm_campaign=standard
Americans overwhelmingly agree Big Tech has too much power: Pew poll - https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/americans-overwhelmingly-agree-big-tech-has-too-much-power-pew-poll
Leaked Google employee's email reveals effort to boost Latino vote, surprise that some voted for Trump - https://www.foxnews.com/tech/leaked-google-employees-email-reveals-effort-to-boost-latino-vote-surprise-that-some-voted-for-trump
Undercover video proves Google interfered in Irish abortion referendum - https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/americans-overwhelmingly-agree-big-tech-has-too-much-power-pew-poll


lifesitenews--2020-10-19--Twitter, Facebook censored Trump at least 65 times, leave Biden untouched

October 19 , 2020 ( NewsBusters ) — Twitter and Facebook have censored the president ’ s social media accounts and the accounts belonging to his re-election campaign at least 65 times .
In contrast , the companies have not censored former Vice President and Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden and his campaign accounts at all .
Twitter composes the bulk of the problem , with 98 percent of all the instances of censorship .
Thus , it shouldn ’ t come as a surprise that Twitter has made the decision to censor major headlines about the Biden family , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ York Post ’ s story about Hunter Biden ’ s dealings with Ukraine .
The Media Research Center ’ s Techwatch department analyzed two years of social media posts from Trump , Biden , and their respective campaigns .
The analysis did not include any ads from PACs or Super PACs that had made ads in favor of either candidate .
It also focused on social media posts , not paid advertisements , from the campaigns .
These numbers were collected from between May 2018 to October 16 , 2020 .
In addition @ @ @ @ @ @ @ money into Democrat campaigns .
In a previous study released by MRC Business , the numbers showed that Facebook and Twitter had given over 90 percent of their political contributions to Democrats in 2020 .
Twitter has been far and away the biggest offender , labeling , fact-checking , and removing Trump ’ s tweets and the tweets from his campaign accounts 64 times since the president ’ s election .
Tweets about the president ’ s concern over mail-in voting , COVID-19 , and the Black Lives Matter protests have been given @ @ @ @ @ @ @ by the president depicting a satirical version of Biden walking on stage to the song “ F*** Tha Police ” have been deleted as well , after a fact-check from Poynter Institute ’ s PolitiFact .
The actual video showed Biden playing the song “ Despacito.
” Twitter fired first in the war between Trump and Big Tech when it completely deleted three tweets from the president on July 28 , 2020 .
It removed tweets about the drug hydroxychloroquine .
Memes apparently are not allowed on the president ’ s account either @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in reality , they ’ re not after me .
They ’ re after you ” was removed from his June 30 tweet .
Meme videos and meme creators who make pro-Trump content have suffered at the hands of Twitter .
One instance is Carpe Donktum , the meme creator who made a video mocking the Democrats ’ reaction to the 2019 State of the Union address .
The video , retweeted by Trump , was removed after a copyright complaint .
Donktum , whose real name is Logan Cook , was also @ @ @ @ @ @ @ tweeted another one of his videos showing two toddlers hugging each other , with fake CNN chyrons at the bottom .
This censorship goes back as far as the beginning of the Trump presidency .
A rogue Twitter employee in 2017 deactivated Trump ’ s account on his last day at work , leaving it offline for 11 minutes .
Trump ’ s two tweets of Drudge headlines in 2018 were given the “ sensitive content ” filter over top of the tweets .
Users who have been retweeted by Trump play a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ According to the Daily Beast , “ Nearly 10 percent of the unverified accounts retweeted by President Trump since his inauguration are currently suspended from Twitter for various violations of the platform ’ s policies.
” One user was quoted in the Daily Beast as saying , “ Twitter ’ s always been fair to me , until the president of the United States retweeted me.
” Seventeen accounts at least have been suspended since Trump ’ s inauguration .
The Trump campaign ’ s accounts have also been struck by censorship on @ @ @ @ @ @ @ videos removed , including one that talked about pro-life policies .
In addition , the Trump campaign was also suspended for sharing the controversial Hunter Biden emails story from the New York Post .
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said in a speech given at Georgetown University on Oct. 17 , 2019 that Facebook would “ continue to stand for free expression.
” But since then , Trump and the Trump campaign have been censored on the platform five times .
Instagram , Facebook ’ s sister company , removed one video as well @ @ @ @ @ @ @ made the statement that it opposes whatever Trump and the campaign have said or stood for .
A video attacking Antifa was removed from the platform , because it violated the platform ’ s “ organized hate policy ” for featuring an upside-down red triangle .
The ad asked supporters to sign a petition and “ stand with your President and his decision to declare ANTIFA a Terrorist Organization.
” The ad was removed from both the president ’ s page and his campaign ’ s page .
However , multiple violent Antifa @ @ @ @ @ @ @ information about — members of the Senate remain on the platform , unscathed .
Facebook fact-checkers , certified by the liberal Poynter Institute ’ s Independent Fact-Checking Network , also fact-checked a video that showed Biden saying , “ We can not win this re-election .
Excuse me , we can only re-elect Donald Trump.
” The video was labeled “ partially false ” and given an interstitial , or a filter , that suppressed the spread of the content on the platform .