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Republicans Resist Curbing Trump’s War Powers Ahead of Iran Decision

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Sen. Tim Kaine (D-VA) is leading an effort to restrict President Donald Trump’s ability to launch military action against Iran without congressional approval, but is finding little GOP support.

Kaine is making a final push to bring his newly introduced resolution to a vote as soon as next week. The measure would prohibit the president from continuing to use U.S. forces in hostilities, such as supporting Israeli airstrikes, unless Congress explicitly authorizes it. It would also mandate a debate and vote before any future military action is taken.

“I have maintained since I came to the Senate, under Democratic and Republican Presidents, we shouldn’t go to war without a vote of Congress. That’s what our troops deserve,” Kaine said this week. “They don’t deserve to have their lives put at risk when Congress doesn’t have the guts to have a debate and vote about war.”

The White House said on Thursday that Trump would decide in two weeks whether to join Israel‘s campaign to dismantle Iran‘s nuclear program. Speculation about imminent U.S. involvement in the conflict intensified after Trump unexpectedly left the G7 summit in Canada early Tuesday, returning to Washington for high-level talks with his national security team and issuing threats against Iran online.

The only Senate Republican on Capitol Hill who appeared visibly concerned about Trump’s apparent willingness to strike Iran was Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY), although he did not commit to supporting Kaine’s resolution. (Read more from “Republicans Resist Curbing Trump’s War Powers Ahead of Iran Decision” HERE)

Kaine Falsely Claims Conservative News Outlet Funded Dossier

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Sen. Tim Kaine falsely accused the Washington Free Beacon of funding the Russian dossier when it is clear they stopped paying Fusion GPS before the firm worked on the dossier.

The Democratic National Committee and the Clinton campaign were revealed as funders of the dossier that alleged collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia. Kaine tried to deflect from that fact during a Tuesday interview on CNN, instead incorrectly blaming the Washington Free Beacon . . .

“If you’re asking about the dossier, that was funded by a conservative, online news publication–the Washington Free Beacon,” Kaine falsely stated. “And they hired a British secret service agent and then when they decided to drop it, apparently…some of the funds used to continue the investigation were used by the Clinton campaign.” . . .

While the Free Beacon paid Fusion GPS for standard opposition research, Fusion GPS did not contract with ex-British agent Christopher Steele until after the conservative news outlet stopped paying. The creation of the dossier also did not occur until the Free Beacon was out of the equation. Thus, the DNC and the Clinton campaign were solely responsible for funding the creation of the dossier. (Read more from “Kaine Falsely Claims Conservative News Outlet Funded Dossier” HERE)

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Drop the Act and Hand Over Your Catholic Card, Tim Kaine

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This week vice presidential nominee Tim Kaine, D-Va. (F, 0%) proved once again that the only “ism” he’s interested in defending is progressivism.

Kaine appeared on ABC’s “The View” Thursday, where he was asked to comment on this week’s Wikileaks email dump that exposed the anti-Catholic views of top Clinton campaign officials, as well as the active role of progressive think tanks in promoting antipathy for traditional Church teachings on marriage, contraception, and abortion.

But instead of taking the opportunity to address the content of the emails, Kaine, a self-professed Catholic, pointed the finger at Russia:

“First thing on the WikiLeaks … I mean, the FBI and the Director of National Intelligence has said that this is hacking that Russians are behind it, the Russian government is behind it. So, anybody that would hack to try to destabilize an election, you can’t automatically assume that everything in all of these documents … are even real.”

Unlike the Virginia senator, Catholic officials did not hesitate to condemn the contents of the leaked emails — as well as the Clinton campaign’s refusal to do so — the Catholic Herald reported.

Philadelphia Archbishop Charles Chaput called the emails “contemptuously anti-Catholic.” On Thursday, the diocesan website posted a column by Archbishop Chaput: “About Those Unthinking, Backward Catholics.”

“Of course it would be wonderful for the Clinton campaign to repudiate the content of these ugly WikiLeaks emails,” he writes. “All of us backward-thinking Catholics who actually believe what Scripture and the Church teach would be so very grateful.”’

Louisville Archbishop Joseph E. Kurtz, president of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, also released a statement in which he called the Clinton campaign emails “troubling both for the wellbeing of faith communities and the good of our country”:

“I encourage my fellow Catholic brothers and sisters, and all people of good will, to be good stewards of the precious rights we have inherited as citizens of this country. We also expect public officials to respect the rights of people to live their faith without interference from the state. When faith communities lose this right, the very idea of what it means to be an American is lost.”

Speaking on “The View” Thursday, Kaine made his case for why voters should trust the Clinton-Kaine ticket despite the leaks:

“The best way to tell about the character of somebody in public life, in my view, is to look and see, do they have a passion that showed up before they were in public life? Something that animates and drives them. And then, have they held onto that passion throughout their life?”

He went on to say that Hillary Clinton has proven herself trustworthy for the Oval Office by displaying a life-long passion for “empowering families and kids.”

Well, we all know about Hillary’s so-called “pro-family” track record, and it’s certainly not compatible with Catholic doctrine. Like Clinton, Kaine has proven time and time again that he, too, holds a “public and private position” when it comes to policy. And judging by his own standards, Kaine’s passion for pushing the progressive Leftist agenda is far stronger than his so-called Catholic values. (For more from the author of “Drop the Act and Hand Over Your Catholic Card, Tim Kaine” please click HERE)

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Just How Many Times Did Tim Kaine Play the Race Card?

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Where to begin with Senator Tim Kaine’s abysmal performance in the vice-presidential debate?

Let’s start here, with this opener:

It is so great to be back at Longwood University in Farmville, Virginia.

This is a very special place. Sixty-five years ago, a young, courageous woman, Barbara Johns, led a walkout of her high school, Moton High School. She made history by protesting school segregation. She believed our nation was stronger together. And that walkout led to the Brown v. Board of Education decision that moved us down the path toward equality.

Stop right here.

How was it exactly that Barbara Johns was forced into a situation that resulted in a segregated school in the first place? Answer: Because Tim Kaine’s political party, the Democrats, had spent the previous 89 years using segregation — racism — as the building block of their party. As Kaine would go on to demonstrate as the debate moved on, playing the race card is still at the core of his party — and the campaign of its latest nominees, Kaine and Hillary Clinton.

Next, incredibly, Kaine said this:

I’ll just say this: We trust Hillary Clinton, my wife and I, and we trust her with the most important thing in our life. We have a son deployed overseas in the Marine Corps right now. We trust Hillary Clinton as president and commander-in-chief, but the thought of Donald Trump as commander-in-chief scares us to death.

Suffice to say, Pat Smith, the mother of State Department Information Officer Sean Smith has a very, very different opinion. Sean Smith was one of the four Americans killed in the terrorist attack in Benghazi. Clinton failed abysmally in taking care of the most important thing in Pat Smith’s life: her son. Smith, in fact, holds Hillary Clinton “personally” responsible for her son’s death. Kaine never mentioned Pat Smith, much less addressed her concerns in the debate.

Kaine never answered the moderator’s question as to why so many millions of Americans think Hillary Clinton is untrustworthy. He responded by praising her passion and career, then, but of course, played the race card by saying this of Trump:

And as a candidate, he started his campaign with a speech where he called Mexicans rapists and criminals, and he has pursued the discredited and really outrageous lie that President Obama wasn’t born in the United States.

It is so painful to suggest that we go back to think about these days where an African-American could not be a citizen of the United States.

This was, of course, a deliberate lie. Trump’s remarks were in the context of illegal immigration, decidedly not a condemnation of “Mexicans.” And all anyone — certainly a sitting US Senator Kaine — has to do to research the subject is check here with ICE, the US Immigrations and Customs Enforcement agency. Here’s but one headline from ICE in 2014:

ICE Texas field offices remove more than 800 sex offenders so far this year

More than 2,000 removed every year in past 3 years

The ICE report begins as follows:

DALLAS — The four Texas field offices within U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) have deported more than 860 sex offenders so far this fiscal year.

Of the 862 alien sex offenders deported by the Texas-based offices, about 27 percent were convicted of sex offenses against children.

What about this does Kaine not understand? Answer? Kaine does understand and chose to, but of course, play the race card and suggest Trump is a racist for stating what the US government itself states is hard fact. So too have Democrats made the so-called “birther” issue into a race card. The hard fact of history is that this issue has recurred five different times with a sitting president and actual or potential presidential candidates (President Chester Alan Arthur and potential or actual candidates Barry Goldwater (born in the then-territory but not-yet-the-state of Arizona), George Romney (born in Mexico to Mormon missionary parents), Lowell Weicker (considering a run in 1976 for the GOP nod, Connecticut Senator Weicker was born in Paris to parents in the foreign service) and of course Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz. (R, 32%), born in the Panama Canal Zone while his Navy-serving father was stationed there. All were white and all Republicans. While I always believed Obama was born in Hawaii, there was and is nothing in the least inherently racist about birtherism — unless, of course, you are a race-card playing Democrat like Tim Kaine.

This is the exact same obsession with using racism as a political ploy that fueled the Democrats’ political power as supporters of slavery, segregation, the Ku Klux Klan and lynching. Now they use race in the illegal immigration issue or inject race into the ancient previously all-white birtherism ploy. Hillary Clinton and Tim Kaine are now playing the same race cards once played by Kaine’s fellow Virginian and race-card player extraordinaire Woodrow Wilson.

Then there was this Kaine whopper, the reference here to the Bush 43 tax cuts:

The second component of the plan is massive tax breaks for the very top, trillions of dollars of tax breaks for people just like Donald Trump. The problem with this, Elaine, is that’s exactly what we did 10 years ago and it put the economy into the deepest recession — the deepest recession since the 1930s.

This is a flat-out lie. The reason the economy was put into “the deepest recession — the deepest recession since the 1930s” — was precisely because of the Democratic Party’s repeated devotion to forcing banks to give loans to Americans who could not afford them. Those Americans eventually and inevitably defaulted on their loans, triggering the “Great Recession.” This mind-blowing reality was documented in detail in New York Times business reporter Gretchen Morgenson’s book with housing and mortgage investment consultant Joshua Rosner, Reckless Endangerment: How Outsized Ambition, Greed, and Corruption Led to Economic Armageddon.

The title says it all … and one of those fingered in this cesspool story involving a prominent Democratic Party lobbyist is, yes, President Bill Clinton and his 1994 National Partners in Homeownership policy. But there is Kaine making up out of whole cloth — looking the American people right straight in the television eye — and lying about what caused the Great Recession.

There’s more — much more, of course. The number of outright lies combined with clever sleight-of-hand deceptions by Kaine is stunning. All of this added to Kaine’s widely-panned style that combined arrogance, rudeness, and agitation in varying measure.

A CNN poll after the debate gave the contest to Pence. Most interesting stat from that poll was this:

Still, 29% of debate watchers said what they saw Tuesday made them more apt to vote for Trump, compared with 18% who said it made them more likely to back Clinton.

Thanks to Tim Kaine, and the contrast with the calm, measured, conservative and decidedly truthful approach of Mike Pence, is this any wonder? (For more from the author of “Just How Many Times Did Tim Kaine Play the Race Card?” please click HERE)

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Tim Kaine Defies the Bible and Makes a Mockery of the Church

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No matter how hard Democratic vice-presidential hopeful Tim Kaine tries to pass off his invented religion as “Catholic,” he will fail. That is because Kaine’s views are not actually Catholic or in any meaningful sense even Christian.

For 2,000 years, Christians have agreed on the sanctity of human life. Kaine’s own church teaches that abortion is always and everywhere a grave evil (Catechism of the Catholic Church, 2270-2275). There is absolutely no wiggle room here. Yet Tim Kaine, who campaigns as a Catholic, supports legalized abortion and touts a 100 percent rating on Planned Parenthood’s scorecard, America’s number one baby killer. He is also endorsed by NARAL Pro-Choice America for his 100 percent pro-abortion voting record.

The Bible is equally clear about homosexual acts, which the Catholic Church teaches are “intrinsically disordered,” “contrary to the natural law,” and “under no circumstances [to] be approved” (CCC 2357). In the same breath, the Church distinguishes between the homosexual acts and the persons with homosexual attraction. About the persons with homosexual attraction, the Church says, “They must be accepted with respect, compassion, and sensitivity” (CCC 2358).

Loving God and loving our neighbor is the Great Commandment upon which “all the law and the prophets” depend (Mt. 22:36-40). The church has always taught to love the person, but hate the sin. This commandment applies to each and every one of us and to all sins under the sun “since all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God” (Rom. 3:23). While we are called to love our neighbor, encouraging our neighbor to commit grave sin is the most unloving thing we can do.

Like Jesus, we must show authentic and unconditional charity to the person who is in sin while rejecting the sinful actions that threaten his soul. We must do this humbly, knowing full-well that we are miserable fellow sinners, in desperate need of God’s saving grace. Charity and truth, both attributes of God himself, work together. They’re not in tension.

Distorting Truth for Political Gain

For political gain, Tim Kaine has distorted and defied Pope Francis’ words, the Church’s teaching, and Holy Scripture itself. Kaine spoke on Sept. 10 at the high-powered LGBT Human Rights Campaign dinner in Washington D.C. where he self-identified as a “devout Catholic.”

In the speech, he admitted that the Catholic Church is opposed to same-sex marriage. However, he held out to the audience the fantasy that the Church will change her 2,000-year teaching to fit the liberal zeitgeist. He then proceeded to distort Genesis 1 and Pope Francis’ comments to match his own ideology. He said that such change may occur “because my church also teaches me about a creator in the first chapter of Genesis, who surveys the entire world including mankind and [says], ‘It is very good,’” referencing Genesis 1:31. “Pope Francis famously said, ‘Who am I to judge?’ And to that I want to add: Who am I to challenge God for the beautiful diversity of the human family? I think we’re supposed to celebrate it, not challenge it.”

Kaine conveniently snipped off the Scripture passages that came before and after. In Genesis, God created them “male and female” (Gen. 1:27) and commanded them to “be fruitful and multiply” (Gen. 1:28) which is only possible within the sexual union of one man and one woman. Adam confirms that Eve is “bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh; She shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man. For this reason a man shall leave his father and his mother, and be joined to his wife; and they shall become one flesh.” (Gen 2:23-24).

The Bible is Clear — And Kaine is Wrong

Could it be any clearer that Holy Scripture affirms that sexual relations and marriage is between one man and one woman? To see the full picture, here are just some of the Holy Scripture passages that directly speak about the grave evil of homosexual acts:

“Do not have sexual relations with a man as one does with a woman; that is detestable” (Lev. 18:22).

“For this reason God gave them up to dishonorable passions. Their women exchanged natural relations for unnatural, and the men likewise gave up natural relations with women and were consumed with passion for one another, men committing shameless acts with men and receiving in their own persons the due penalty for their error” (Rom. 1:26-27).

“But since sexual immorality is occurring, each man should have sexual relations with his own wife, and each woman with her own husband” (1 Cor. 7:2).

“Or do you not know that wrongdoers will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral nor idolaters nor adulterers nor men who have sex with men nor thieves nor the greedy nor drunkards nor slanderers nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God” (1 Cor. 6:9-10).

Nor can Kaine really hide behind Pope Francis’ words, which do not mean what the secular press pretends. As the pope explained his comment (“Who am I to judge?”):

If a person is gay and seeks out the Lord and is willing, who am I to judge that person? … I was paraphrasing by heart the Catechism of the Catholic Church where it says that these people should be treated with delicacy and not be marginalized. … I prefer that homosexuals come to confession, that they stay close to the Lord, and that we pray all together. … You can advise them to pray, show goodwill, show them the way, and accompany them along it.

Confession — that is where Catholics go to repent their sins and gain the grace to avoid them in future. Does that sound like a papal stamp of approval? Pope Francis is calling on us to accompany them in kindness, charity, and truth — most importantly through our own example — yet not to become complicit by praising the sins that damage them.

Truth and Charity: Not Mutually Exclusive

Correcting Kaine’s misleading statements, his own bishop, Francis DiLorenzo of Richmond, responded that “the Catholic Church’s 2,000-year-old teaching to the truth about what constitutes marriage remains unchanged and resolute. As Catholics, we believe, all humans warrant dignity and deserve love and respect, and unjust discrimination is always wrong … Marriage is the only institution uniting one man and one woman with each other and with any child from their union. Redefining marriage furthers no one’s rights, least of all those of children, who should not purposely be deprived of the right to be nurtured and loved by a mother and a father.”

Tim Kaine has no right to treat Church teachings and the Bible like a buffet in a cafeteria, picking the teachings he finds convenient.

The call of the Christian in every generation is to communicate both truth and charity. Truth without charity is a “noisy gong or a clanging cymbal” (1 Cor. 13:1), and charity without truth is plain sentimentality. May we all live out the call to continual personal conversion, as well as the call to charity in truth and truth in charity. (For more from the author of “Tim Kaine Defies the Bible and Makes a Mockery of the Church” please click HERE)

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Kaine Dodges on Whether Clinton Would Keep Promise of Never Putting Ground Troops in Iraq or Syria

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Vice-presidential candidate Sen. Tim Kaine (D., Va.) on Sunday dodged a question about whether Hillary Clinton would keep her promise to never put ground troops in Syria or Iraq.

Kaine appeared on CNN’s State of the Union on Sunday morning where host Jake Tapper asked him about Secretary Clinton’s plans to stabilize the Middle East . . .

Tapper read off this section of the editorial:

Mrs. Clinton has ruled out putting U.S. ground troops in Iraq and Syria “ever again.” That is a politically driven categorical declaration of a sort no president (or candidate) should make

“Do you stand by Secretary Clinton’s declaration that your administration will never put ground troops into Iraq or Syria ever?” asked Tapper after reading this excerpt of the op ed. (Read more from “Kaine Dodges on Whether Clinton Would Keep Promise of Never Putting Ground Troops in Iraq or Syria” HERE)

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Tim Kaine Is Running for the Job of Messiah

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Democratic vice-presidential nominee Tim Kaine belongs to the strange subculture of people fixated on the Catholic Church and eager to change nearly everything about it. Kaine’s latest attempt to play pope unrolled last week, when he addressed the gay activist Human Rights Campaign, assuring them that the Church would drop its 2,000-year-old teaching on marriage.

Kaine thinks that the Church should base one of its seven sacraments not on Genesis, Leviticus and St. Paul, but on Obergefell v. Hodges. Forget the decrees of apostles, popes and bishops: Let’s reshape our faith to suit a secular court’s 5-4 majority, he seemed to say. Thomas More was willing to see his head hacked off rather than let the state tear up God’s rules about marriage, but Tim Kaine is more of a Henry VIII-style Catholic — that is, he makes up the rules as he goes along.

That would explain how Kaine could go from running for office in Virginia as a pro-life candidate to hobnobbing with baby-parts magnate Cecile Richards of Planned Parenthood, and running on the Democratic Party’s rabidly pro-abortion platform — which opposes even the slightest protection for viable unborn children, protections that exist across even socially liberal Western Europe.

Now, I respect people who have lost their faith in one church’s creed and search out another — admitting what they’re doing like honest adults. According to Pew Research, some 40 percent of American Catholics leave the Church and don’t return. There are also those who feel unsure about one piece or another of the Church’s complex teachings, so they quietly ponder and pray.

But Kaine isn’t either such person. Instead, he’s one of those tribal Catholics who grew up believing that they somehow own the Church, so they have the God-given right to knock down its walls and install jacuzzis. Too many Catholics in positions of power and influence seem to agree. As I wrote in the Politically Incorrect Guide to Catholicism:

When a large group of highly educated people who have dedicated themselves to an organization with firm doctrines, strict rules, and stern demands — such as the Catholic Church— reject those doctrines, rules, and demands, what do they do with themselves instead? Shrug and join the United Methodist Church? … When families (like the Kennedys or the Bidens — and millions of less famous Irish and Italian American clans) have strong ethnic and historical connections to the Church, what do they do when they reject its teaching authority? The history of the Catholic Left after Vatican II gives us the answer: Such people focus on the parts of the original mission that still appeal to them — and jettison the rest.

Apparently the “parts” of the Catholic mission that Kaine is willing to cling to are those that can be soldered onto a left-wing political juggernaut. The New York Times reports that back in the 1980s, Kaine went with a band of radicalized Jesuits to Honduras. Once he was there, “Mr. Kaine embraced an interpretation of the gospel … known as liberation theology.” Columnist Ken Blackwell correctly notes that liberation theology (condemned by three popes, including Pope Francis) is “an avowed Marxist ideology inimical to the institutional Catholic Church and to the United States.” Blackwell also observes that

around the time Kaine was there, Jesuits were arrested for gunrunning, and, the next year, the Honduran government banned any more American Jesuits from coming to that country because of their left-wing activism.

They also expelled one American-born Jesuit, who also had to leave that religious community because he was too radical even for them. That priest was Father Jim Carney, and he was the one The New York Times tells us Kaine sought out across the border in Soviet-supported Nicaragua….

I spent my years in Catholic high school contending with Tim Kaine’s ilk: Disgruntled feminist nuns who admitted they hated Pope John Paul II, scraggly ex-seminarians who denied that Jesus’ body had risen from the dead, wizened oddballs who hated our faith but couldn’t find other jobs. They showed us Sandinista propaganda films in religion class. They lied to parents about what they were teaching, and bullied students who disagreed. I’ll never forget what one of those Tim Kaine clones said when I disputed his latest revision of basic Christian doctrine, and I cited the words of Jesus in the Gospel.

The teacher smiled thinly and said, “Jesus didn’t have an M.A. in theology from Catholic University. I do.” (For more from the author of “Tim Kaine Is Running for the Job of Messiah” please click HERE)

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‘Devout’ Catholic Tim Kaine Butchers the Bible to Embrace Gay Radicalism

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Speaking at the Human Rights Campaign’s annual Washington, DC dinner, Democratic vice-presidential nominee Tim Kaine butchered the Bible and made one of the most twisted arguments for same-sex “marriage” that you’ll ever hear. Yet the very article laying out his arguments described him as a “devout” Roman Catholic. How can this be?

Putting aside the obvious question of how Kaine could serve on a presidential ticket with the radically pro-abortion candidate Hillary Clinton — indeed, he has already been challenged for “saying he is both a ‘traditional Catholic’ and a strong supporter of abortion” — Kaine raised further eyebrows when suggesting that the Catholic Church could one day change its position on same-sex “marriage,” just as he has done.

In support of his viewpoint, he cited Pope Francis’s oft-quoted comment about gay Catholics (“Who am I to judge?”), failing to realize that the Pope was not sanctioning homosexual acts and relationships but rather saying, “If someone is same-sex attracted and wants to be part of the Church, who am I to judge?”

This is very different from saying, “If two men are in love and want to have a romantic and sexual relationship, who am I to judge?”

But I am not a Catholic, nor can I predict where the Roman Catholic Church will be in 5 or 50 years. What I can say with certainty is that Sen. Kaine’s use of Genesis 1 to buttress his support of LGBT activism amounts to scriptural malpractrice.

He said, “I think it’s going to change because my church also teaches me about a creator who, in the first chapter of Genesis, surveyed the entire world, including mankind, and said, ‘It is very good.’”

And, he added, “Who am I to challenge God for the beautiful diversity of the human family? I think we’re supposed to celebrate it, not challenge it.”

Seriously? Kaine is going to Genesis 1 to argue for same-sex “marriage,” along with the larger LGBT agenda?

Genesis 1 and the Natural Family

Allow me to give a helpful hint to the senator: Sir, although you will find no support for your position anywhere in the Bible, the worst place you can go to argue your case is Genesis.

It is in Genesis 1 that we see the importance of gender distinctions, as God creates humankind as male and female — not as male, female, and an infinite number of variations, including agender, bigender, and third gender, along with multi-gender options like ambigender, bigender, blurgender, collgender, conflictgender, cosmicgender, crystagender, deliciagender, duragender, demiflux, domgender, fissgender, gemelgender, gendercluster, genderfluid, gendersea, genderfuzz, genderfractal, genderspiral, genderswirl, gendervex, gyaragender, libragender, ogligender, pangender, polygender and trigender.

Is this what Kaine was referring when he spoke of “the beautiful diversity of the human family” that we should celebrate? Genesis 1 states the exact opposite.

It is also in Genesis 1 that God blesses His human creation with the words, “be fruitful and multiply,” and it is only heterosexuals, by design, who can do this. That’s why, to this moment, no homosexual couple has ever been blessed by God with the ability to procreate by themselves.

The Bible and the Natural Family

This sets the pattern for the rest of the Bible, where the only marital relationships blessed by God, without exception, are heterosexual, with the male and female being uniquely designed for one another biologically, emotionally, and spiritually.

Accordingly, it is based on Genesis 1 that Paul explains in Romans 1 that homosexual acts are contrary to nature — meaning, contrary to God’s intended, natural plan for men and women.

And it is based on Genesis 1 that Jesus explains in Matthew 19 that marriage, as intended by God from the beginning, is the lifelong union of a man and a woman.

Does Sen. Kaine now have insight into Genesis 1 that not only escaped his own Catholic Church, but Jesus and Paul as well?

The Fall of Man

As for Kaine’s argument that when the Creator “surveyed the entire world, including mankind [He] said, ‘It is very good’,” — meaning that homosexuality and bisexuality and more are all good — he seems to have forgotten that “very good” was God’s description of His creation before the fall, when sin entered the world.

After the fall, His assessment changed dramatically to this: “The LORD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every intention of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually” (Genesis 6:5).

So much for the “very good” assessment applying to human nature today!

Porneia

As expressed by Jesus, “what comes out of the mouth proceeds from the heart, and this defiles a person. For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false witness, slander” (Matthew 15:18-19).

And note carefully that the Greek word for sexual immorality, porneia, is used in the plural here, referring to all sexual acts outside of marriage, which Jesus defined as the union of one man and one woman (see Matthew 19:4-6).

So, the very thing that Sen. Kaine wants to celebrate, the very “diversity” that he claims God established in creation, is the precise opposite of what God intended for His creation, as stated clearly in Genesis 1 and reaffirmed throughout the rest of the Bible, from Moses to Jesus to Paul.

Mrs. Clinton’s running mate would do well to submit his thinking to the Scriptures rather than twisting the Scriptures to fit his thinking. It is the senator who must change, not the Word of God. (For more from the author of “‘Devout’ Catholic Tim Kaine Butchers the Bible to Embrace Gay Radicalism” please click HERE)

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DEMOCRAT VP CANDIDATE TIM KAINE: Confirmed — He’s a Radical Leftist Gun-Banner

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In May 2000, Tim Kaine, then-mayor of Richmond, Va., used more than $6,000 in public funds to charter eight buses. The buses were used to transport city residents from Richmond to the anti-gun, and inaccurately named, Million Mom March in Washington, D.C.

The Million Mom March was sponsored and organized by extremist gun control organization the Bell Campaign, which was later renamed the Million Mom March Foundation. The Bell Campaign supported a litany of gun control measures, including gun rationing, a ban on the possession of commonly-owned semi-automatic firearms and their magazines, firearm owner licensing, and gun registration. In regards to the right to keep and bear arms, the Bell Campaign contended, “The Second Amendment does not, and never did, protect the private ownership of guns for private purposes.”

Following a public outcry over the use of public funds for political purposes, including criticism from Richmond City Council members, Kaine was forced to seek private funds to reimburse the city. Despite the disapproval of citizens and his fellow public officials, Kaine was reluctant to admit wrongdoing, with the Richmond Times-Dispatch noting, “Kaine defended the subsidy on the ground that Richmond always has supported stricter gun laws.” At the time, the Times-Dispatch also reported that in regard to gun control, Kaine said, “I can’t think of an issue I’d rather be aligned with than this.”

This gross misuse of taxpayer dollars to advocate for extreme gun controls is indicative of Kaine’s 20 year public career, during which he has ceaselessly attacked the rights of law-abiding gun owners. In choosing Kaine as her running mate, Hillary Clinton has chosen one of the rare politicians that comes close to matching her zeal for restricting gun rights.

Even before his anti-gun pilfering of the public coffer, Kaine was hard at work targeting Virginia gun owners. In 1997, as a Richmond City Councilman, Kaine suggested that the Virginia cities of Richmond, Fairfax, and Roanoke should team up to push a gun control agenda in the Virginia General Assembly. On June 1, 1999, then-Mayor Kaine was a noted guest at the White House Rose Garden for speeches by President Bill Clinton and First Lady Hillary Clinton. A primary topic of both Clintons’ remarks was gun control, with the president specifically advocating for legislation that would eliminate traditional gun shows, and for further restrictions on standard capacity magazines.

In 2001, Kaine ran for Lieutenant Governor of Virginia. During the campaign, Kaine staked out several anti-gun positions. On October 29, 2001, the anti-gun Washington Post endorsed Kaine, citing his support for Virginia’s one-handgun-a-month rationing law and restrictions on the Right-to-Carry in restaurants that serve alcohol. Kaine also earned the endorsement of the Brady Campaign, who called him the “clear choice,” noting, “As Mayor of Richmond, Kaine was a strong supporter of enforcing and strengthening Virginia gun laws…”
Democratic gubernatorial candidate Mark Warner sought to differentiate between his views and Kaine’s extreme anti-gun positions. A June 14, 2001 Associated Press item reported, “Warner, who does not favor additional firearms restrictions, already is trying to distance himself from his ticketmate on gun control. He acknowledged at a news conference Wednesday that he disagrees with lieutenant governor nominee Tim Kaine… on the issue.”

In 2005, Kaine ran for Governor of Virginia. During the race, Kaine worked to disguise his anti-gun politics. Doing his best John Kerry impression, Kaine posed as a sportsman at a skeet shooting event, shotgun in hand.

For this race, Kaine staked out a curious position on guns by contending that he was not for further gun control, while openly advocating for further gun control. The Roanoke Times fell victim to Kaine’s ruse when on August 27, 2005 they summarized the candidate’s incongruent position by noting, “Kaine said he doesn’t favor the creation of more gun control laws, but does believe the ones that exist should be enforced – and indicated he would back an extension of instant background checks at gun shows for all sellers, not just licensed ones.” Kaine’s misleading gun stance led Richmond Times-Dispatch commentator A. Barton Hinkle to write, “He isn’t fooling anyone — so why does he continue to try?”

Once governor, Kaine pursued his anti-gun agenda at every opportunity. In April 2006, Kaine vetoed legislation that would have permitted law-abiding gun owners to store a firearm in a locked container within a vehicle without obtaining Right-to-Carry permit.

In April 2007, in the aftermath of the tragic shooting at Virginia Tech, Kaine wasted no time in pushing for gun control. The Roanoke Times reported that on April 26, 2007, only 10 days after the shooting, the opportunistic Kaine “said he thought the time might be right to press the General Assembly to address the gun-show loophole.” On January 8, 2008 Kaine continued his push to eliminate traditional gun shows, stating, “Now more than ever in the aftermath of April 16th, Virginians understand that this is a public safety issue.” Typical of gun control efforts, the legislation Kaine sought to enact could not have prevented the tragedy he cited to advance it. The perpetrator of the Virginia Tech shooting did not purchase the two firearms used in the attack at a gun show. Kaine’s gun show legislation was rejected in committee in 2008, and rejected by the Senate again in 2009.

In March 2008, Kaine again vetoed legislation that would have permitted law-abiding individuals to possess a firearm in a locked container within their car without obtaining a Right-to-Carry permit. Kaine also vetoed legislation that would have allowed Right-to-Carry permit holders to carry concealed in restaurants that serves alcohol.

In March 2009, Kaine once again vetoed vehicle and restaurant carry legislation. Kaine also vetoed separate legislation that would have merely permitted retired law enforcement officers to exercise their Right-to-Carry in restaurants that serve alcohol. Further, Kaine rejected legislation that would have made it easier to obtain a Right-to-Carry permit, by allowing applicants to complete the requisite training online. He also rejected legislation exempting active-duty service members from Virginia’s one-handgun-a-month law.

Overlapping with his term as governor of Virginia, Kaine served as chairman of the Democratic National Committee from January 2009 to April 2011. In this role, Kaine advocated for federal gun control legislation offered by Rep. Carolyn McCarthy (D-N.Y.) that would have banned magazines with a capacity greater than 10 rounds. As pointed out by the Huffington Post, during an appearance on Political Capital with Al Hunt in January 2011, Kaine expressed his support for McCarthy’s bill, stating that it was the “kind of legislation that I’ve long supported.”

Since January 2013, Kaine has served as the junior senator from Virginia, and has continually used his seat to advance an anti-gun agenda.

In the wake of the December 2012 shooting in Newtown, Conn. gun control advocates forced votes on several pieces of gun control legislation on April 17, 2013. The centerpiece of the gun control effort was the Manchin amendment, which would have banned the private transfer of firearms at gun shows and in transactions pursuant to an online or print publication. Kaine voted in favor of the restrictions.

That same day, Kaine voted in favor Sen. Dianne Feinstein’s (D-Calif.) amendment to ban commonly-owned semi-automatic firearms and magazines with a capacity greater than 10 rounds. Worse than the 1994 Clinton ban, the Feinstein amendment would have banned semi-automatic firearms that accept a detachable magazine and have only one disqualifying feature, such as a pistol grip or telescoping stock. Similarly, Kaine voted for Sen. Joe Lautenberg’s (D-N.J.) amendment to ban magazines with a capacity greater than 10 rounds.

When presented the opportunity to vote to protect the rights of law-abiding gun owners, Kaine declined to do so. Kaine voted against a NRA-supported Right-to-Carry reciprocity amendment that would have ensured that Right-to-Carry permits granted in one state would be honored in all others. Kaine also opposed an NRA-supported amendment that would have improved the availability of disqualifying mental health information for NICS, clarified the definition of “adjudicated as a mental defective” to protect due process rights, required more robust prosecutions of federal firearm laws including straw purchases, restricted the unlawful practice of multiple sales reporting for certain types of semi-automatic long-guns, and permitted interstate handgun sales.

Incredibly, despite representing a state with one of the largest per capita populations of veterans, Kaine opposed an NRA-supported amendment to ensure that veterans’ Second Amendment rights would not be stripped without due process of law. The amendment was crafted to address an ongoing Veterans Administration practice where a veteran’s Second Amendment rights are removed following something as cursory as the agency’s decision to assign the veteran a fiduciary to manage their VA benefits.

On December 3, 2015, Kaine made it clear to all that he values the Fifth Amendment no more than the Second, when he voted in favor of terror watch list gun control legislation offered by Sen. Feinstein. The legislation would have illegitimately empowered the federal government to strip the Second Amendment rights of an individual on a secret government watch list absent the due process guaranteed by the Fifth Amendment.

On June 20, 2016, Kaine again voted an iteration of Sen. Feinstein’s terror watch list gun control legislation. Further, Kaine supported legislation offered by Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) that would have required nearly all firearms transfers to be conducted pursuant to a background check and through a Federal Firearms Licensee. The legislation also attacked gun owner privacy by placing a burden on gun owners to report lost or stolen firearms to the federal government within 48 hours.

In addition to his objectionable voting record, Kaine has sponsored or co-sponsored a host of anti-gun legislation in the 114th Congress. Kaine is a cosponsor for the latest iteration of Sen. Charles Schumer’s “Fix Gun Checks Act,” which would prohibit nearly all private transfers of firearms. Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) gained Kaine’s support for a bill to eliminate the three-day safety valve for NICS checks, which would empower the FBI to severely delay firearms transfers. Kaine also signed on to Robert Menendez’s (D-N.J.) legislation that would ban magazines capable of holding more than 10 rounds.

In September 2015, Kaine introduced his, “Responsible Transfer of Firearms Act.” The legislation would hold dealers liable for transferring a firearm to a prohibited person, unless they had “taken reasonable steps to determine that the recipient [was] not legally barred from possessing firearms or ammunition…” This ambiguous burden is presumably in addition to the background checks dealers are already required to conduct on their customers. In a further attack on the firearms industry and its customers, in January 2016, Kaine cosponsored legislation to repeal the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act.

Of all the gun controls Kaine has supported during his time in the Senate, his support for one particular anti-gun measure seems most fitting. In June 2016, Kaine announced his support for efforts to repeal the prohibition on the Centers for Disease Control’s use of public funds to advocate for gun control.

More than 15-years after being rebuked for squandering taxpayer dollars on gun control advocacy as mayor of Richmond, Kaine is still eager to attack gun own owners’ rights by any means at his disposal, and he still isn’t above looting the public treasury to do it.

It doesn’t appear, over this 20 year career, that Kaine has ever seen a type of gun control that he wasn’t in favor of. Clinton, based on her commitment to destroying the Second Amendment rights of law-abiding Americans, couldn’t have chosen a more suitable running mate. (For more from the author of “DEMOCRAT VP CANDIDATE TIM KAINE: Confirmed — He’s a Radical Leftist Gun-Banner” please click HERE)

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Pro-Life Catholics Fight Back, Picketing Tim Kaine’s Parish

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This week I read a report in the indispensable LifeSiteNews about American Catholics who aren’t going to sit idly while their Church drifts toward the socialist, pro-choice left. In the process, it highlighted one practical step faithful Catholics can take to resist these trends.

Apparently some Catholics in Virginia got sick of the scandal of avowedly Catholic vice presidential candidate Tim Kaine receiving Holy Communion like a Catholic in good standing — when canon 915 of Church law forbids him from doing so, and instructs his bishop and pastor to refuse it to him. Neither his bishop nor his pastor has done so. So these faithful citizens decided to go after the scandal at its root, by picketing Tim Kaine’s Catholic parish. As LifeSite recounts:

Roughly a dozen pro-life activists protested Sunday outside of pro-abortion, pro-homosexuality Democratic Vice Presidential candidate Sen. Tim Kaine’s Catholic parish.

“Sen. Kaine has failed in his duty as a Catholic public servant to defend the preborn and Fr. Arsenault has failed in his duty as pastor to admonish Sen. Kaine and to instruct the rest of his congregation on the teachings of the Catholic Church regarding the sanctity of human life,” Virginia pro-life activist Maggie Egger told LifeSiteNews in an email.

“I, along with a group of Catholics from various parishes around the Diocese of Richmond, went to St. Elizabeth’s yesterday to do what Sen. Kaine and Fr. Arsenault will not: defend our preborn brethren by exposing abortion as the decapitation and dismemberment of tiny human beings, instruct the parishioners of St. Elizabeth’s on the teachings of the Church, and inform them that Sen. Kaine publicly supports the decapitation and dismemberment of tiny human beings under the guise of being ‘personally pro-life,’” Egger said.

Every four years, millions of Catholics vote for pro-abortion politicians with an apparently clear conscience. (Obama got majorities of Catholic votes in both elections; imagine the scandal if a majority of Catholics voted for a segregationist.) At the same time, as the Pew Study reports, 40 percent of adults who were raised as Catholics have left the Church never to return. These two trends are linked, as the very same tepidness enables pro-choice Catholics, and drives out some fervent souls who decide to worship elsewhere. Note that GOP vice-presidential candidate Mike Pence seems to be one of the fervent; he joined his wife’s evangelical church and stayed pro-life. Tim Kaine stayed Catholic and became pro-choice.

How does something like that happen? Pope John Paul II, Pope Benedict, Pope Francis, the Catechism of the Catholic Church and almost 2000 years of Church tradition (going back at least to the Didache) have been absolutely clear that abortion is murder. Full stop. For the government to permit it is criminal, akin to Southern states that used to wink at lynching. Politicians who support legal abortion are “public sinners” akin to members of the Mafia. They have no more place receiving Communion than Al Capone.

How could someone like Jesuit-educated, former missionary Tim Kaine go to Mass every week, hob-nob with his local bishop and not get the Catholic pro-life memo? Maybe nobody sent it. LifeSiteNews delved into the parish which Kaine attends, and found the following:

Kaine’s parish, St. Elizabeth Catholic Church, gave him a standing ovation at Mass after he became Hillary Clinton’s running mate. His pastor, Father Jim Arsenault, praised Kaine in an NPR interview.

“I know that he’s definitely against capital punishment and works to help defend those who are on death row,” Arsenault said. “The church has a teaching with regard to we’re pro-life, and we believe in that seamless garment of life. We respect sometimes lawmakers make difficult decisions.” Arsenault was commenting on how as governor of Virginia, Kaine oversaw several executions. The priest told NPR that he thought the issues most important to Kaine were women’s pay and “social justice issues.”

And there we have our answer. Catholics like Tim Kaine have apostatized on the Church’s most fundamental moral teaching, that human life is good and sacred and cannot be snuffed out for our sexual convenience. When they defend such radical evil for the sake of naked ambition, they are applauded by their fellow-parishioners who think it’s cool to have a celebrity with them each week. And such politicians are protected by their pastors and bishops. Priests like Fr. Arsenault latch onto empty, shallow slogans like the “seamless garment” that have never been endorsed by the Church, just repeated as a mantra by countless tenured Jesuits till it’s hard to tell the difference.

God bless Maggie Egger for leading this witness to life and faith, and LifeSiteNews for reporting on it. Egger and company surely had more pleasant things they could have done with their Sunday morning than stand outside some posh parish and denounce its local hero to the glares of his friends and neighbors. They won’t win any prizes or praise from that quarter.

You see, by taking this stand these pro-life Catholics committed the one unforgivable sin in the suburban, lax post-Catholic church: They made a scene. They shattered the facile illusion of worldly, progressive Sadducees who are exquisitely cozy in our poisoned, post-Christian culture. Egger and company stood as a sign of contradiction, around the cross, and can expect to receive the same contempt as their Savior who hung on it.

We need millions more Catholics like that, confronting politicians, pastors and bishops across the country. If only for the sake of peace and quiet, they might start preaching the Gospel. (For more from the author of “Pro-Life Catholics Fight Back, Picketing Tim Kaine’s Parish” please click HERE)

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