Oct 28 2008
Preach it, Your Excellency!!
This is the first year I’ve put a political sign in my yard. It’s not for any candidate, but to ask my neighbors to vote down Proposal 2. It would amend the Michigan Constitution to allow research on human embryos. That’s right: amend the state constitution. The goal of the proposal is to enfold it in the fabric of our state, thus making it difficult to repeal. Even proponents of embryonic research point out that Proposal 2 allows for NO review NOR oversight of the research.
I wasn’t surprised to hear that Gov. Granholm supported the proposal. She’s been irking me since she blew off a debate sponsored by the League of Women Voters in her first run at the gubernatorial office. Recently she shirked her responsibility by blaming our one-state recession on President Bush.
However, she shocked even me in her words about Proposal 2. She said, “As a Catholic, I can say to be pro-cure is to be pro-life.”
But the Most Reverend Earl Boyea, Bishop of Lansing, gave everyone a spirituality check .
Saint Paul reminds us that we must preach the Truth in season and out of season. The Truth will never go unspoken. To be in favor of Proposal 2 is not to be pro-life. A well-formed Catholic conscience would never lead a person to support Proposal 2 “as a Catholic.”
Bishop Boyea was installed as the 5th bishop of Lansing in April. He’s a young fellow, just 56, and he seems like just the fellow to oppose Gov. Granholm’s consistantly pro-abortion stance.
Whispers in the Loggia has more about the bishop’s statement.
I love Bishop Boyea.
No, wait. Let me amend that:
I REALLY LOVE Bishop Boyea!!!!!
And I’ve no doubt that you’re right: he’s exactly the man to have in the Lansing diocese.
He’s on my list of the good ones, that’s for sure. He’s had to be the one to close parishes and/or merge them into vicariates in Flint, etc. So I’m really hoping people appreciate his leadership.
There’s also the Rev. Robert J. Carlson, Bishop of Saginaw since 2005 or so. He heads my childhood diocese, where most of my family lives. My elder brother has heard him speak and says he’s another good one.
So praise God for the new batch of bishops!