Sad day for the faith.

“President Barack Obama’s time at Notre Dame Sunday will be brief, but how he handles one of the biggest, most public controversies of his presidency so far could have a lasting impact on his relationship with a key constituency – Catholic voters.

It’s not just the few dozen graduates boycotting Obama’s 20-minute commencement address to protest his support for abortion rights and embryonic stem-cell research. Or the bus loads of protestors driving in from Milwaukee, Chicago and Detroit, activists who might never have voted for Obama in the first place.

The controversy — over a pro-abortion-rights president speaking at the nation’s flagship Catholic university — has in fact drawn wider attention to Obama’s views on a divisive issue. Some experts say that could trickle down to those who supported him as a candidate, threatening to upend a political strategy he has carefully tended for the past two years.

“Where it matters is for the Catholics who may have voted for the president but are anti-abortion,” said John Green, an expert on religion and politics at the University of Akron. “It’s those groups where the president faces a challenge at Notre Dame and beyond that as well, because it’s possible that he could alienate them if the abortion issue becomes salient.”

Catholics who voted for Obama have no one to blame for this fiasco. It’s not just Obama’s visit, indeed it would most likely not be a problem, but the conferring of a degree from a private institution which holds as it’s tenants the right to life.

Watching the news reports on this I’ve heard all about how this will open “discourse” over abortion and help to bring us all “together”. Yet there can be no discourse over abortion, indeed how does one justify the murder of a unborn child?

There can be no agreement between darkness and light, between good and evil. It is indeed a sad day, and an Obamanation of Desolation.

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