Illinois: land of the free and home of
the spineless
Rev. Thomas J. Euteneuer
August 29, 2005

The recent decision by a legislative rules committee of the State of Illinois to confirm the April executive order of Governor Blagojevich wiping out conscience protection for Illinois pharmacists is, quite frankly, heinous. Professional pharmacists in Illinois who have serious conscientious concerns about killing babies with powerful chemicals are now just going to have to shut up and sit down and ally their practices to a communist-style dictat from the governor from hell. Where, really, is this country heading?

The current state of the leadership of the culture of death in America is frightening. In their fear that pro-lifers may actually be acting out of their own deeply-held convictions—which generally indicates a person who will be difficult to sway in the opposite direction when it comes to elections—we are faced with a growing threat to our very consciences which could very well be violated by extreme decrees like governors’ executive orders or other power-hungry public officials. California did this a few years ago in mandating abortifacient birth control coverage by Catholic institutions; and now Gov. Blagojevich and the Illinois legislature has seriously upped the ante of coercion by his executive order which a rules committee, acting like a little tin-god, has upheld as legitimate.

Let’s face it, radicals like Blagojevich have already gutted the very few social and legal protections innocent people have left against the depredations of killers in our society. Marriage lost its legal protection with no-fault divorce laws in the 60s and 70s. Families lost protection for the sanctity of the home when Hollywood junked its self-censorship code in the mid-sixties. Unborn babies lost their legal protection in 1973 when they were declared non-persons by the Supreme Court. Even child murders like Joseph Duncan are let off the hook by judges whose decrees and whose careers are totally detached from reality. It seems that the most protected entities in this highly regulated protectionist culture are sea turtles, manatees and any other non-human animals that don’t even know they are being protected.

When the radicals in South Africa took over after apartheid one of the first acts of the new “democratic” government was to legalize the most extreme abortion law in the world with the 1996 Termination of Pregnancy Act. This devastation was wholly inspired and manipulated by Planned Parenthood and a host of other western radicals who decided that no physician could “opt out” of abortion legally, or if he did because of reasons of conscience, he was legally required to refer women for abortions—another violation of conscience.

This is what our society is approximating—coercion of conscience—where the last bastion of freedom is breached by the barbarians of the culture of death. Governors and judges and legislature are leading the way. Unfortunately Illinois will soon be known as the land of the free and the home of the spineless, and the reputation will be well-deserved.

 

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