Tyranny takes a holiday

Donald  Trump appears to be rolling back Obama's great hammer stroke against the First Amendment.  Beyond the quibbles about Obamacare, it was the HHS mandate that set off warning signals among the vigilant.

Many Americans today approach the issue from the vantage point of their genitals, which is where modernity keeps most people's minds.  That's why the press - modern liberalism's propaganda ministry - goes out of its way to ignore all negative consequences of the sex and drugs culture.  After all, turning people born into a land of liberty and freedom into sexed up, drugged up idiots is the best way to seize power.

Obama's little sleight of hand, which played the Catholic Bishops for absolute fools for having supporting him, was a stroke of genius.  The media kicked into full propaganda mode, using such superficial events as Sandra Fluke's testimony and Rush Limbaugh's boorish observation as the Pearl Harbor of the revolution.

For the longest time, even somewhat progressive Catholics rang the bell of alarm, seeing where such things as the HHS mentality could end up going.  Most understood the ramifications of America being convinced that religious liberty takes a back seat to our libidos.

The Left, however, is a jealous god.  And those Christians, including Catholics, who would ally with the Left against the common enemy of tradition, conservatism, and the heritage of the Christian West, were called upon to obey in the most servile way possible.  So over the last several years, the HHS mandate increasingly diminished as a priority.  Bishops stopped talking much about it (compare to this Bishops' initial response toward defending freedom), and pundits and apologists increasingly swept the issue under the rug. 

Nonetheless, this now diminished fight for liberty just got a shot in the arm.  Whatever you think of President Trump, I'll give credit where it is due.  The struggle for the heart and soul of the civilization the Church built, and subsequently the Church itself, is not over.  Things might be bleak, such as the fact that it takes someone like Donald Trump to be its most prominent defender.  But bleakness is never a reason to cry quits.