“However, it was Palin’s choice for life which earned the family the deepest respect from the pro-life community. Governor Palin and her husband Todd knew in the first trimester of her last pregnancy that their youngest son, born this past April, had Down Syndrome. Yet, despite the fact that about 80% of first trimester Down Syndrome children are aborted, the Palin’s lovingly welcomed him into the world.”

The point is missed here … like all pregnancies, God lovingly sent a soul into existence …

The Pastor of a Tarpon Springs, Florida Church can and will verify this, but just 2 weeks before Sarah Palin came upon the world stage I sent to the Bishop of St. Petersburg (not that he will ever intend to respond to this or anything else I sent him) a picture of the 2nd to most amazing Altar Servant I’ve ever seen. He’s a Silver-medal winner, and among the hundreds of Altar Servants in this Diocese, that’s quite a feat. He is only behind Savannah at Espiritu Santo Catholic Church, whose pious and holy nature leads me to believe that in her I’m seeing a real saint in the making.

Here is a picture of what Sarah Palin’s son might someday be …

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This is a time to not celebrate Sarah Palin so much for being such a great mother … but a time to pray for all of those who knew better but to choose to extinguish lives such as this – the Diocese’s Silver Medal Winner of the Altar Servant of the Year out of existence without even a chance to breathe a single breath.

And yes, this is, of course, not to celebrate Downs Syndrome humans as abnormal because they have Downs Syndrome, but rather because they give a diversity to the planet by their gifts that escape we, the so-called “normal” people.

There is a movement within the hundreds of millions of American souls that is not led by Washington, and which truly gains its power and energy from the Holy Spirit and in fact is somewhat dismissive of, if not outright comtemptious of the so-called power of Washington, D.C.

Things may be bad, and everyone with any sense knows that many American families are losing homes, strugging with bills, and working harder for less money. The two schools of thought about how to fix this basically revolve around who we really want to be in control … God or Washington?

It is downright banned by Rome – for good reasons – to allow Priests to openly engage in a political election. Please don’t tell that to the fruitcake Catholic Priest in Chicago who should have been sent out of the Priesthood long ago. This ban on Priests endorsing politcal movments is actually an admission that no political power can really by the nature of the compromises of politics claim to completely do God’s will. As a matter of fact, Earthbound politics is never more than the will of the people, and that is in the good days where the people’s will actually has a role in the direction and fate of a nation – such as in the case of the United States of America.

This ban on priests goes back to the causes and reactions of the so-called Reformation movement where many leaders of the world let their power get to their heads supported by Church leaders and they even dared by “Divine Right” that if they had the Clergy Class behind them, then the Nobility would be able to exercise power and control over the Commoners, and to rebel against secular power ruling by Divine Right (as the Queen of England still claims to do), is by inference to rebel against the will of God.

People can claim that in this world everything is terrible. No. Terrible is when Al-Qaeda gives us the Triple Treat of nuclear explosions in Washington D.C., New York City, and Tampa Bay’s McDill Air Force Base, in fact destroying America’s political, monetary, and for good symbolic the Southern Command that leads America’s hunt of terrorists. There are tens of thousands of bombs in this world, many loose, and only those three needed to completely rewrite our priorities and values of good and bad living as we know it.

The more terrible scenario is not what happens in this life, but what happens to us in the next. God is the only judge of our report card there, but this is truly still a land of opportunity. We all have dozens, if not hundreds of Churches within 100 miles of our home, and no one from government is taking notes when we go and why we go. Church is just a small fraction of our lives, though, and the question becomes whether we are influential or not outside of the safety and privacy of Church walls. Do we live our faith outside, at work, with our friends, and even in traffic? I just ask the question. I leave the answer up to you.

I can’t support either Presidential candidate, but I will be voting for Sarah Palin, and McCain’s just getting my vote only by being lucky enough to be on her ticket.

But, that’s just me.

Most people in this country simply don’t like abortion; they’ve gone along with it for decades, uncomfortably, out of moral ambivalence. But no more. When they see a credible alternative in the person of Sarah Palin, they will support her; and if anyone is uncomfortable about voting a Catholic into office, they needn’t be, because neither McCain nor Palin is one. So their status as faithful Protestants could actually be a help, not a hindrance.

Add to all this the fact that John McCain is a war hero, a former POW who is manifestly qualified to be commander-in-chief in a time of war, and a maverick (everyone in America likes a maverick), and you have, in my opinion, a winning ticket. The democrats should be worried because I think we’ve got them beat this time.