Saturday, November 15, 2008

Obama's Kulturkampf

More required reading from First Things:
...This awareness that Christians are different, and different in ways that make a very big difference, will, I expect sharply increase in the months and years ahead. For all of President-elect Obama’s wafting language about bringing us together, healing divisions, and so on and so on, if he seriously intends to follow through on his extremist abortion views, we are headed for the intensification of an American version of the Kulturkampf that Bismarck came to rue. The focus is on FOCA, the Freedom of Choice Act, that Obama says he wants to sign on his first day in office. This act would eliminate the very modest restraints and regulations established by states, provide government funding for abortions, and in its present form, require religiously sponsored hospitals and clinics to perpetrate abortions or go out of business....
The aggressor in the opening phases of this Kulturkampf is the Obama administration. ...
...If President-elect Obama does what he says he wants to do, this champion of national unity will preside over one of the most divisive periods in American history.

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