Found this video at JillStanek.com. Excellent. Below article and advertisement below is the actual sermon preached that was posted at Values Voter News on 01/31/2009 so do watch the artistic video but then watch the preacher himself call out Obama for another minute or so with more great points and grace. Great example of speaking the truth in love. And expresses the sentiment of many of a pro-life people for our President.
White House spokesman downplayed Notre Dame protests. He said, "I think there's one group organizing a boycott, and, as best I can understand it, there are 23 groups that have formed in support of the president's invitation....I think I saw a figure that 97 percent of the students are supportive."
Fact Check:
LifeSiteNews.com reports that "ND Response, the force organizing Sunday's prayer vigil and peaceful pro-life rally against the Obama invite, is actually a coalition of 11 different student groups."
And, "According to an Associated Press report, 97 percent of the 95 Notre Dame seniors who wrote to the student newspaper The Observer supported the invitation. 2,001 undergraduate seniors will graduate on Sunday."
And "A Pew Forum poll last month showed that 50% of Catholics agreed with the decision to invite President Obama to Notre Dame, while 23% opposed it. Among Catholics who attend Mass on Sundays, 37% agreed, while 45% disapproved.
However, the statistics were drastically different on whether the president ought to be awarded an honorary degree, despite a 2004 directive by U.S. bishops forbidding Catholic schools from honoring pro-abortion politicians.
A Rasmussen Reports survey last week found that 60% of Catholics agree Notre Dame should obey U.S. bishop's guidelines and refrain from awarding an honorary degree to the president, with only 25% disagreeing. 52% of all Americans agreed with the statement, while 25% disagreed."
And not to mention that over 360,000 petitions have been signed online in protest. Over 70 bishops have listed themselves in support of the petitions and boycotts. The recipient of Notre Dame's highest award declined the award and opportunity to speak at the commencement. ND Alumni thus far are withholding 14 million in funding. Seniors at Notre Dame to boycott their own commencement will have pro-life speaker to commence an alternative abortion free commencement..."Yes, Obama. We will indeed be the happiest people on the planet!!! We will welcome you with open arms. Do what's right. Until then we will lovingly call you to that which is right.
Proverbs 29:25 "The fear of man bringeth a snare: but whoso putteth his trust in the LORD shall be safe."
