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“When we don’t respect the flag enough to fight for it, we will be the weakest generation”...Jon McNaughton, Artist
Chuckle time…
Earl and Bubba are quietly sitting in a boat fishing,
chewing tobacco and drinking beer when suddenly
Bubba says, "Think I'm gonna divorce the wife - she
ain't spoke to me in over 2 months."
Earl spits overboard, takes a long, slow sip of beer and says, "Better think it over. Women like that are hard to find."
Roger Bannister, first to run mile in under 4 minutes, dies
Associated Press Published 7:24 a.m. ET March 4, 2018 | Updated 9:25 a.m. ET March 4, 2018
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LONDON – Roger Bannister, the first runner to break the 4-minute barrier in the mile, has died. He was 88.
Bannister’s family said in a statement that he died peacefully on Saturday in Oxford, the English city where the runner cracked the feat many had thought humanly impossible on a windy afternoon in 1954.
Bannister, who went on to pursue a long and distinguished medical career, had been slowed by Parkinson’s disease in recent years.
He was “surrounded by his family who were as loved by him, as he was loved by them,” the family said in a statement announcing his death on Sunday. “He banked his treasure in the hearts of his friends.”
Helped by two pacemakers, Bannister clocked 3 minutes, 59.4 seconds over four laps at Oxford’s Iffley Road track on May 6, 1954, to break the 4-minute mile – a test of speed and endurance that stands as one of the defining sporting achievements of the 20th century.
“It’s amazing that more people have climbed Mount Everest than have broken the 4-minute mile,” Bannister said in an interview with The Associated Press in 2012.
The enduring image of the lanky Oxford medical student – head tilted back, eyes closed and mouth agape as he strained across the finishing tape – captured the public’s imagination, made him a global celebrity and lifted the spirits of Britons still suffering through postwar austerity.
“It became a symbol of attempting a challenge in the physical world of something hitherto thought impossible,” Bannister said as he approached the 50th anniversary of the feat. “I’d like to see it as a metaphor not only for sport, but for life and seeking challenges.”
He might not have set the milestone but for the disappointment of finishing without a medal in the 1,500 meters, known as the metric mile, in the 1952 Olympics in Helsinki. Instead of retiring from the sport, he decided to chase the 4-minute mark.
Swedish runner Gundar Haegg’s mile time of 4:01.4 had stood for nine years, but in 1954 Bannister, Australian rival John Landy and others were threatening to break it.
“As it became clear that somebody was going to do it, I felt that I would prefer it to be me,” Bannister told the AP.
He also wanted to deliver something special for his country.
“I thought it would be right for Britain to try to get this,” Bannister said. “There was a feeling of patriotism. Our new queen had been crowned the year before, Everest had been climbed in 1953. Although I tried in 1953, I broke the British record, but not the 4-minute mile, and so everything was ready in 1954.”
His chance finally came on a wet, cool, blustery May afternoon during a meet between Oxford and the Amateur Athletic Association.
When Bannister looked up at the English flag whipping in the wind atop a nearby church, he feared he would have to call off the record attempt. But, shortly before 6 p.m., the wind died down. The race was on.
With Chris Brasher setting the pace on the cinder track, they ran a first lap in 57.5 seconds, then 60.7 – 1:58.2 for the half mile. Chris Chataway, a distance specialist, paced a third lap of 62.3 – 3:00.4. Bannister would need to run the final lap in 59 seconds.
With 250 yards to go, Bannister surged past Chataway, his long arms and legs pumping and his lungs gasping for oxygen.
“The world seemed to stand still, or did not exist,” he wrote in his book, “The First Four Minutes.”
“The only reality was the next 200 yards of track under my feet. The tape meant finality – extinction perhaps. I felt at that moment that it was my chance to do one thing supremely well. I drove on, impelled by a combination of fear and pride.”
After Bannister crossed the finish line, the announcer read out the time: “3…” The rest was drowned out by the roar of the crowd.
The record lasted just 46 days, as Landy ran 3:57.9 in Turku, Finland, on June 21, 1954. That set the stage for the showdown between Bannister and Landy at the Empire Games, now called the Commonwealth Games, in Vancouver, British Columbia on Aug. 9, 1954.
Landy set a fast pace, leading by as much as 15 yards before Bannister caught up as the bell rang for the final lap.
“Around the last bend, I think the crowd was making so much noise he couldn’t hear whether I was behind, or whether he’d dropped me, and he looked over his left shoulder, and I passed him on his right shoulder,” Bannister said.
Bannister won the race in 3:58.8, with Landy second in 3:59. It was the first time two men had run under 4 minutes in the same race.
Bannister considered that victory even more satisfying than the first 4-minute mile because it came in a competitive race against his greatest rival.
Bannister capped his brilliant summer of 1954 by winning the 1,500 meters at the European Championships in Bern, Switzerland, in a games record of 3:43.8.
Bannister, who was chosen as Sports Illustrated’s first Sportsman of the Year in 1954, retired from competition and pursued a full-time career in neurology. As chairman of the Sports Council between 1971 and 1974, he developed the first test for anabolic steroids.
“None of my athletics was the greatest achievement,” he said. “My medical work has been my achievement and my family with 14 grandchildren. Those are real achievements.”
Bannister also served as master of Oxford’s Pembroke College from 1985-93.
Bannister married Moyra Jacobsson, an artist, in 1955. They had two sons and two daughters and lived in a modest home only minutes away from the track where he made history.
Bannister outlived his 4-minute mile pacemakers: Brasher, who founded the London Marathon, died in 2003 at the age of 74. Chataway died in 2014 at 82.
Monica Lewinsky says Bill Clinton abused his power with their relationship
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With the passage of time comes wisdom and clarity, and the young and impressionable intern who was once at the center of an explosive political scandal now views her role in an adulterous affair with an entirely new perspective. In the wake of the #MeToo movement, 44-year-old Monica Lewinsky now believes that her affair with former President Bill Clinton began because of “a gross abuse of power.”
As she reconsiders the “power differentials that were so vast between a president and a White House intern,” Lewinsky writes in a new essay for Vanity Fair that while it’s “complicated,” she’s beginning to think that “in such a circumstance the idea of consent might well be rendered moot.”
Sexual power dynamics
Unfortunately, Lewinsky can now look to the numerous examples of women who — like her — were seduced by a powerful man and compelled to tolerate sexual harassment that they might otherwise believe to be criminal.
After media mogul Harvey Weinstein was exposed as a sexual predator for using his wealth and influence in the entertainment industry to sexually harass and assault women, a long list of justice-seeking victims came forward to out their tormentors.
Almost without exception, the perpetrators of these crimes shared one inescapable characteristic: they took advantage of the transparently unequal power dynamics in their relationships with women to extract sexual favors and elicit silence from their victims. As Lewinsky described Clinton:
He was my boss. He was the most powerful man on the planet. He was 27 years my senior, with enough life experience to know better. He was, at the time, at the pinnacle of his career, while I was in my first job out of college.
Sufficient time has passed for Lewinsky, who was just 22 when she began her affair with President Clinton, to consider her traumatic experience from an external vantage point.
Approaching the 20th anniversary of independent counsel Kenneth Starr’s investigation of her affair with the president, Lewinsky shared her emotional evolution:
I now see how problematic it was that the two of us even got to a place where there was a question of consent. Instead, the road that led there was littered with inappropriate abuse of authority, station, and privilege.
The former intern credits her recent epiphany to the countless other women who were forced to persevere in the face of similar tragedies. Lewinsky was sure to credit these women:
I am in awe of the sheer courage of the women who have stood up and begun to confront entrenched beliefs and institutions.
#MeToo Matron
Lewinsky believes that “something fundamentally changed in our society in 1998,” following her experience, and she feels like “it is changing again as we enter in the second year of the Trump presidency.” However, she is careful to distinguish her own situation from women who lacked the same options — however artificial — as she had 20 years ago, or the ability to say “no” to her seducer.
“There are many more women and men whose voices and stories need to be heard before mine,” Lewinsky wrote. She explained:
There are even some people who feel my White House experiences don’t have a place in this movement, as what transpired between Bill Clinton and myself was not sexual assault, although we now recognize that it constituted a gross abuse of power.
At just 22-years-old, Lewinsky was hardly equipped to rebuff the sexual advances of the leader of the free world. Enchanted by his power, Lewinsky was willing to do Clinton’s sexual bidding and lacked the willpower to push aside his advances.
Not only did she have to contend with the trauma of what many would consider sexual assault, but Lewinsky also had to endure a salacious mainstream media who portrayed the young and powerless intern as a sexually indiscriminate harlot who not only broke a home but did irreversible damage to the Democratic Party.
Today, Lewinsky suffers from post-traumatic stress as a result of her ordeal. It is difficult to determine what was more unbearable — her treatment at the hands of a presidential hustler, or her treatment at the hands of a vindictive mainstream press.
Report: Russia Used Social Media to Disrupt U.S. Energy Markets by Promoting Pipeline Protests, Climate Change Debate
by PENNY STARR
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The House Committee on Science Space and Technology released a report on Thursday detailing how Russia has been using social media platforms to disrupt domestic energy markets and influence domestic energy policies.
The 21-page report includes Russian posts on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram, some with photographs and slogans.
“The committee began investigating Russian attempts to influence U.S. energy markets in the summer of 2017 when Chairman [Lamar] Smith wrote [to] the Secretary of Treasury regarding Russia’s intricate money-laundering scheme. Russian-sponsored agents funneled money to U.S. environmental organizations in an attempt to portray energy companies in a negative way and disrupt domestic energy markets,” the report states.
“Upon discovering that Russia may have exploited American social media platforms to accomplish its disruptive objectives, the committee broadened the scope of its investigation,” the report outlines. “On September 26, 2017, the Committee requested data from Facebook and Twitter as part of this expanded investigation.”
The documents social media companies provided to the committee confirm Russia’s influence peddling, according to the report.
The report also includes an article posted on the Buzzfeed News website that revealed how the Russians used Instagram to influence Native Americans on oil and gas pipelines, including the Dakota Access Pipeline, the site of Native American protests.
Smith requested more information about Russian actvity from social media companies last October, according to the report.
“The committee received and reviewed the companies’ produced documents for evidence of Russian influence,” the report states. “Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram were able to identify Russian accounts linked to the Internet Research Agency (IRA), a Russian company based in Saint Petersburg established by the Russian government for the purpose of deceptively using various social and traditional media platforms to advance Russian propaganda.”
“The information received from Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram shows that Russian agents indeed sought to disrupt U.S. energy markets and influence domestic energy policy by exploiting American social media platforms,” the report states.
Some of the key findings of the report include:
• Between 2015 and 2017, there were an estimated 9,097 Russian posts or tweets regarding U.S. energy policy or a current energy event on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram.
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Between 2015 and 2017, there were an estimated 4,334 IRA accounts across Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram.
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According to information provided by Twitter, more than four percent of all IRA tweets were related to energy or environmental issues, a significant portion of content when compared to the eight percent of IRA tweets that were related to the election in the U.S.
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The IRA targeted pipelines, fossil fuels, climate change, and other divisive issues to influence public policy in the U.S.
The report also reveals that Russia wants to disrupt the cutting edge technology that has resulted in an American domestic energy renaissance, including horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing or fracking.
“Horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing as a means for producing oil and natural gas began in the early 2000s,” the report states. “At that time, there were “approximately 26,000 hydraulically fractured wells” in the United States, which accounted for ‘less than 7%’ of all U.S. marketed natural gas. By 2011, fracking had become the primary method for oil and natural gas development in the United States.”
“Since 2014, fracked wells have ‘accounted for most of all new wells drilled and completed,’” the report states. “The number of fracked wells had climbed ‘to an estimated 300,000’ by 2015, and were responsible for approximately 67 percent of all U.S. natural gas output.”
“In January 2017, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence released a report that contained “clear evidence that the Kremlin is financing and choreographing anti-fracking propaganda in the United States,” the report states.
The report also highlights how U.S. energy exports reaching the global marketplace is a threat to Russia’s dominance in some of those markets. For example, according to the report, Poland recently signed a five-year agreement with the United States to import liquefied natural gas into the country “in an attempt to decrease dependency on Russian energy supplies.”
Climate change is also an issue the Russians are exploiting on social media, according to the report.
Numerous Russian posts focused on the ongoing debate about climate change by linking catastrophic weather events to climate change and divisively labeling one viewpoint as right and one as left,” the report states. “One post characterizes Americans as ignoring major events that are allegedly signs of climate change.
Additionally, these posts frame the conservative viewpoint regarding climate change as a ‘liberal hoax, all in an effort to generate further domestic controversy surrounding the issue of climate change.
The report concludes:
The Committee will continue its ongoing efforts to identify foreign interference in domestic energy policy, whether from Russia or any other country so that the American people can formulate their positions based on facts rather than foreign propaganda.
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Gun Company Selling AR-15’s Unleashes Brutal Attack After Dick’s Unveils Their New Firearm Policy
BY CILLIAN ZEAL
How do you become a media darling after a mass shooting? Just announce that your stores will no longer be selling “assault weapons” like Dick’s Sporting Goods did. Sure, you’ll alienate your customer base, a significant portion of whom likely believes strongly in the Second Amendment. But just look at the press attention you’ll get!
However, there are going to be plenty of gun stores willing to pick up the business that Dick’s is leaving behind. One of them is Palmetto State Armory.
In a statement issued to a local TV station after Dick’s made the announcement that it would no longer be selling so-called “assault weapons” and would raise the minimum age for firearms purchases to 21, the South Carolina store unleashed a brutal attack on the new policy and reminded customers that AR-15s and other such weapons will always be available at the Palmetto State Armory.
“Palmetto State Armory would like to go on record stating that we support the Second Amendment,” the store said in a statement to WCBD on Thursday.
“While this may seem like an obvious statement, we as a company felt it necessary to make our opinion known to the general public. Palmetto State Armory also strongly supports the First Amendment which enables individuals to voice their opinions, even those in contrast with our own,” the statement added.
“We believe that a primary purpose of the Second Amendment is actually to protect the First Amendment.”
The owners of the store then went off on Dick’s Sporting Goods and their demonization of the AR-15.
“In regards to the actions taken today by the CEO of Dick’s Sporting Goods to no longer sell the AR-15 platform, while we do not agree with this decision, we recognize the fact that capitalism gives him the right to make this call,” the statement continued.
“PSA however, does have an issue when misinformation is spread in the very next sentence by referring to the platform as an ‘assault rifle.’ AR stands for Armalite Rifle which pays homage to the company that originally created the platform.”
They also noted that Dick’s statement failed to take into account the real culprit in the case: the killer himself.
“To blame the rifle or a high capacity magazine for the actions of an evil man is illogical and is only applied when referring to firearms,” the statement read.
“Senseless acts of violence are a terrible plague on society that we all recognize we need to try and prevent as a community, but to blame a tool such as a firearm is at very best missing the point of the problem.”
The armory explained that cars can be used as weapons, but nobody goes ahead and blames the vehicle itself.
“When a vehicle is used to commit an act of violence we as a society do not blame the car, we do not blame the speed, or the steering wheel, but rather the driver. It is our hopes that we can approach this negativity with humanity and both sides of the argument can come together and have a civil and intellectual conversation that continues to make this amazing county better,” the armory said.
“We are all in this together, and we all want the same thing,” the statement concluded. “Safety, happiness, and the ‘American Dream.’”
Now, which store do you think is going to see more business for its decision? I don’t know about you, but I know which gun supplier I’d rather shop at: one that honors and respects the Second Amendment.
Please like and share this story on Facebook and Twitter if you support this gun store’s stance on the right to keep and bear arms.
Ross: 'There may be some retaliation' on tariffs but argued any retribution would be "trivial."
BY MALLORY SHELBOURNE
Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross on Sunday conceded that there might be some retaliation over the Trump administration's decision to impose tariffs on steel and aluminum imports, but argued any retribution would be "trivial."
“As to the idea of retaliation, sure they may well be some sort of retaliation, but the amounts that they're talking about are also pretty trivial,” Ross told ABC’s “This Week.”
“It's some $3 billion of goods that the Europeans have threatened to put something on. Well, in our sized economy, that's a tiny, tiny fraction of 1 percent.”
Ross’s remarks come after President Trump last week announced a plan to slap a 25 percent tariff on steel imports and 10 percent on aluminum. The Commerce secretary defended the impact of tariffs on Sunday, saying on ABC that "the notion that it would destroy a lot of jobs, raise prices, disrupt things, is wrong.”
Ross also told NBC’s “Meet the Press” on Sunday that retaliation won’t change the price of consumer goods, even those that rely on imported steel and aluminum.
“Retaliation isn't going to change the price of a can of beer. It isn't going to change the price of a car. It's just not going to,” Ross said.
“The beer industry, you'll notice, hasn't put forward any numbers,” Ross added. “My number is there's roughly 3 cents of aluminum in a can of beer. If you put a 10% tariff on that, that's 3/10ths of a cent. Beer sells for over $1 a can.”
Ross argued on ABC that while any retaliation might affect an individual producer for "a little while," it won’t amount to more than a "rounding error" for the economy.
--Luis Sanchez contributed to this report
“As to the idea of retaliation, sure they may well be some sort of retaliation, but the amounts that they're talking about are also pretty trivial,” Ross told ABC’s “This Week.”
“It's some $3 billion of goods that the Europeans have threatened to put something on. Well, in our sized economy, that's a tiny, tiny fraction of 1 percent.”
Ross’s remarks come after President Trump last week announced a plan to slap a 25 percent tariff on steel imports and 10 percent on aluminum. The Commerce secretary defended the impact of tariffs on Sunday, saying on ABC that "the notion that it would destroy a lot of jobs, raise prices, disrupt things, is wrong.”
Ross also told NBC’s “Meet the Press” on Sunday that retaliation won’t change the price of consumer goods, even those that rely on imported steel and aluminum.
“Retaliation isn't going to change the price of a can of beer. It isn't going to change the price of a car. It's just not going to,” Ross said.
“The beer industry, you'll notice, hasn't put forward any numbers,” Ross added. “My number is there's roughly 3 cents of aluminum in a can of beer. If you put a 10% tariff on that, that's 3/10ths of a cent. Beer sells for over $1 a can.”
Ross argued on ABC that while any retaliation might affect an individual producer for "a little while," it won’t amount to more than a "rounding error" for the economy.
--Luis Sanchez contributed to this report
Trey Gowdy Claims A Second Special Counsel Is Looming
Sunday morning during an interview with Maria Bartiromo on Fox News, Republican Rep. Trey Gowdy explained why he believes “we’re trending perhaps towards another special counsel,” this time, to investigate the Department of Justice and the FISA abuse.
Gowdy began by ripping Adam Schiff, “You know, Maria, this Democrat memo makes me smile. If it were up to Adam Schiff, if it were up to him it would have been a haiku, and not a memo because he did everything he could to keep us from finding out any of the information that was in either one of those memos.”
He then explained why a second special counsel is looming, “So Congress has proven itself incapable of investigating this FISA abuse. DOJ should not be looking into it. We need an independent arbiter that’s either the inspector general or special counsel.”
Trey Gowdy is one of the authors of the FISA abuse memo which was released in early February. The memo, which has been completely ignored by the mainstream media, claims the the Justice Department used improper techniques in order to obtain a FISA warrant to spy on the Trump campaign in the Russia investigation.
Trump tweeted: “The top Leadership and Investigators of the FBI and the Justice Department have politicized the sacred investigative process in favor of Democrats and against Republicans…”
The top Leadership and Investigators of the FBI and the Justice Department have politicized the sacred investigative process in favor of Democrats and against Republicans – something which would have been unthinkable just a short time ago. Rank & File are great people!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) February 2, 2018
Gowdy also said, “Maria over the weekend, I’d counted up almost two dozen witnesses that the inspector general would not have access to, were he alone conducting this investigation, so I think we’re trending perhaps towards another special counsel because of this unique fact pattern and the fact that there are witnesses outside the reach of the inspector general.”
Bartiromo then asked Gowdy, “So we should have then you believe another special counsel to investigate these matters? How does one investigate itself frankly?”
“Well you don’t. I wish that I had been able to grade my own papers in college and law school, but I was not able to. I would have done better first of all, but–we don’t put family members on the jury. We don’t put friends on the jury,” Gowdy answered.
He continued, “You need an independent arbiter, and the Department of Justice cannot investigate itself. Horowitz can– Horowitz is a fair guy, but when there are two dozen witnesses that have left the department or worked for another agency, someone else has to do it and I am reluctant to call for special counsel, but I think it may be unavoidable in this fact pattern.”
Washington D.C. continues to get more and more heated by the day. Will anything actually come from the FISA abuse memo? Only time will tell.
Delusion: More Dems Think U.S. Muslims Mistreated Than Think Islamic World Mistreats Christians
A victim is seen on a stretcher after a bomb went off at a Coptic church in Tanta, Egypt, April 9, 2017. (REUTERS/Mohamed Abd El Ghany)
A February Rasmussen report sheds light on just how divorced from reality millions of American liberal voters are. After pointing out that “Democrats are more likely to think Muslims are mistreated in America than to think Christians are persecuted in the Islamic world,” the report elaborates:
Fifty-six percent (56%) of Democrats, however, believe most Muslims in [America] are mistreated, a view shared by only 22% of Republicans and 39% of voters not affiliated with either major party.
Fewer Democrats (47%) think most Christians are mistreated in the Islamic world, compared to 76% of GOP voters and 64% of unaffiliateds.
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Women are more likely than men to think most American Muslims are mistreated here but less likely to believe Christians are mistreated in the Islamic world. Nearly as many voters under 40 think most Muslims are mistreated in America (51%) as think most Christians are mistreated in the Muslim world (57%).
To put these dismal statistics in perspective, consider some facts. Open Doors, an international human rights organization that publishes annual reports concerning the global persecution of Christians, noted in its most recent report: “215 million Christians experience high levels of persecution.” During 2017, a reported 3,066 Christians were killed, 1,252 abducted, and 1,020 raped or sexually harassed on account of their faith. And 793 churches were attacked or destroyed.
The overwhelming majority of this slaughter and destruction occurred in 50 nations -- 38 of which are Muslim-majority.
“Islamic oppression” is responsible for the “extreme persecution” of Christians -- meaning the abuse, rape, imprisonment, or slaughter of Christians on sight -- in eight of the worst ten nations. “Every day,” the organization added, “six women are raped, sexually harassed or are forced into marriage to a Muslim under threat of death due to their Christian faith.”
The above statistics are actually conservative. Based on the findings of the Italian-based Center for Studies on New Religions, “90,000 Christians died for their faith in 2016” alone, a great many under Islam.
It’s worth noting that the overwhelming majority of Muslims persecuting Christians are not “terrorists” (at least not formally), but rather come from all rungs of Muslim society.
Take Egypt, for example (the 17th worst nation where Christians experience “very high persecution”). According to the report, along with “violent religious groups,” two other segments of society are “Very Strong[ly]” responsible for the persecution: (1) “Non-Christian religious leaders” -- meaning Muslim clerics, sheikhs, imams, and the rest -- “at any level from local to national”; and (2) “Normal citizens (people from the general public), including mobs.”
Similarly, “officials at any level from local to national” are “strongly responsible” for the “oppression” of Egypt’s Christians, particularly “through their failure to vindicate the rights of Christians and also through their discriminatory acts which violate the fundamental rights of Christians.”
Abortion Activist Maria Shriver Will Headline Catholic Church Event
MICAIAH BILGER
A political figure, abortion activist and journalist, Maria Shriver also claims to be a practicing Catholic.
And despite her opposition to many Catholic Church teachings, Shriver is slated to speak at the Archdiocese of Los Angeles Religious Education Congress in March, California Catholic Daily reports.
And despite her opposition to many Catholic Church teachings, Shriver is slated to speak at the Archdiocese of Los Angeles Religious Education Congress in March, California Catholic Daily reports.
Shriver, a journalist for NBC News and the former first lady of California, has not kept her beliefs private either.
Even though I consider myself a Catholic in good standing, I disagree with a lot of the teachings of the Church. …. I’m pro-choice, I believe that a woman should have that right. I often talk to my daughters at my dinner table about the difference between pro-abortion versus pro-choice. I think a lot of people don’t make that distinction in life — they think everybody’s who’s pro-choice is like, ‘Yeah, let’s have an abortion.’ And I believe that choice should be left to a woman.
In a 2014 report for NBC, Shriver also fawned over Texas late-term abortion activist Wendy Davis, claiming, “Her personal story resonated across the nation.” Davis filibustered a bill to prohibit late-term abortions on pain-capable unborn babies in Texas.
Shriver’s beliefs contradict Catholic Church teachings about the sanctity of human life. The church teaches that every human life is valuable and deserving of protection from the moment of conception to natural death.
For her to receive such an invitation to speak, her fame must have been more important than her anti-Catholic positions.
The event comes on the heels of a Catholic bishop denying communion to pro-abortion Democrat Dick Durbin, a top Democrat in the Senate who has long supported and promoted abortion. Durbin joined other Democrats to block a bill banning abortions after 20 weeks.
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