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I feel like I’m watching the same tired and worn out B movie sequel for the fifteenth time reading articles in the latest issue of The Catholic Spirit. The archdiocese is re-releasing its tattered theatrical film on the Minnesota marriage amendment trying to convince every one of the evils of same-sex marriage.  It’s the same old mixed bag of scare tactics and worn out arguments that sound like the Night of the Living Dead 5 that just doesn’t make any type of relevant argument.  In addition, the plot isn’t that good, the script is full of clichés, and the actors can’t deliver their lines very well.
 

The Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis finally acknowledges that women have the right to choose to have an abortion, or at least it started out that way. In his most recent article in the Catholic Spirit (Oct. 13, 2011), Archbishop Nienstedt talks about a real story about one woman’s “choice” to give her child up for an adoption rather than have an abortion. His initial emphasis is on her “choice” rather than chastising her for even thinking about an abortion. Nice going your most worhipfulness, if you would have left it at that.
 

The sky is falling, the sky is falling; it's the end of the world as we know it; cats and dogs living together, mass hysteria! That's what the Archbishop would have you believe in his recent article in the Catholic Spirit about a "very serious threat to the religious freedom of all religious institutions" by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. This comes from his view that the HHS department's imposition of reproductive equality on providers of health plans is a threat to the freedom of all religions. It is not a threat to the freedom of religion, its just a threat to the beliefs of the Holy Roman Catholic Church and the Archbishop has the misguided belief that every other religion should and does believe the same thing. The Archbishop doesn't take into account any other religious belief in his claim about the threat to religious freedom, just his own.