“Religious liberty is under assault today in ways not seen since the Nazi and Communist eras.”
Archbishop Charles Chaput, August, 24, 2010
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Why? Because fifty years ago, just as the sexual revolution was beginning, no one would have dreamt of gay “marriage”. It was universally held that marriage could only be between one man and one woman. News sources never mentioned sex education in schools because teachers weren't giving explicit instruction on sexual practices, handing out condoms to high school students and providing abortion referrals.
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Fifty years ago, it wasn't necessary to publish news stories on abortion. We wouldn't have had to investigate local Planned Parenthood clinics and how they're covering up statutory rape cases. The idea that an unborn child was a distinct human life was understood as plain common sense.
The fact that mothers are now encouraged to choose to kill their own children would have been viewed as something out of a horror movie and an unspeakable rejection of natural law and human dignity.
Fifty years ago giant foundations and international agencies such as the United Nations and the World Bank were not spending billions on aggressive population control measures that include abortion, sterilization and imposing radical social change measures throughout the world.
Lastly, fifty years ago, the entertainment industry and almost all the mainstream media were not severely complicit, as they are now, with massive assaults on life, family and the principles of Judeo/Christian civilization. The Christian media were not nearly as weak and compromised then as very many have been for the past few decades.
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We exist because it has now become necessary to defend our most basic human rights – a concept which would have seemed so ridiculous to those of us in free nations half a century ago. Yesterday's immorality has devastatingly become today's morality.
How did it all come to this?
During his recent visit to Slovakia, Archbishop Charles Chaput of Denver, Colorado, spoke on the disintegration of traditional values in Western culture. Archbishop Chaput warned that we now “face an aggressively secular political vision” that “routinely take[s] actions that undermine marriage and family life.”
Due to their obsession with power and influence, these political authorities reflect the totalitarian regimes of the past, yet they've learned to manipulate the masses through eloquence, charm, and charisma.
His Excellency explained that “when the state becomes an idol, men and women become the sacrificial offering,” thereby exalting the strong at the expense of the weak. This ideology explains how we have come to witness one of the most extreme acts of barbarism in human history – abortion.
Mankind has become so manipulated that we don't even recognize human life anymore.
Archbishop Chaput calls us to “live within the truth” by “telling the truth and calling things by their right names. And that means exposing the lies by which some men try to force others to live.”
LifeSiteNews has uniquely recognized and answered that very same call since the time of our founding as an alternative Internet news service in 1997.
We saw then much of what Archbishop Chaput spoke about on August 24, 2010. And we have been trying with all our abilities and limited resources to convince many others about the dangers we face. We have been trying to report on the real solutions to those dangers – solutions that require taking courageously counter-cultural actions.
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