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<BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: rgb(16,16,255) 2px solid">From: Brian Burch - CatholicVote.org <brianburch@catholicvote.com><BR>Subject: Notre Dame Shame<BR>To: arthurkelly@yahoo.com<BR>Date: Monday, March 23, 2009, 2:08 PM<BR><BR>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'">Dear CatholicVote.org Member,</SPAN></DIV>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'"><A href="http://paracom.paramountcommunication.com/ct/2923701:3759206792:m:1:147386598:32A43A2674C19ADEE9539377417D18C8" target=_blank rel=nofollow><IMG id=1237830192 hspace=8 src="http://paracom.paramountcommunication.com/cimages/2fab8fbddcd5c8f3aca57af7ec3f0aa8/nd-goldendome2.jpg" align=right vspace=8 border=0></A>Like many of you, we received the news last Friday that President Barack Obama will deliver the commencement address at the University of Notre Dame this May.</SPAN></DIV>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'">In addition to delivering the address, the President will receive an honorary doctor of laws degree. In short, one of our nation’s premier Catholic institutions will honor the President, and hold out him as an example to its students as someone worthy of emulation!</SPAN></DIV>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'"><STRONG>Given President Obama’s utterly shameful record on life, how could a Catholic university honor him?</STRONG></SPAN></DIV>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'">The University could have politely and quietly told the White House that their standing invitation to the President of the United States was not available this year. Better yet, they could have said that while they would welcome his contributions to the public debate over how to solve our economic crisis, his regrettable policies in favor of a culture of death make it impossible for them to welcome him.</SPAN></DIV>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'">Notre Dame has regrettably hosted pro-abortion speakers in the past, but President Obama is a champion of the abortion cause. </SPAN></DIV>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'">Sadly, it is now indisputable that our President has become the world’s leading promoter of abortion, embryo-killing cloning and research, taxpayer-funded abortion, and a vigorous opponent of conscience protections for medical professionals. His campaign promises to find ‘common ground’ have sadly been ignored, or perhaps were simply lies. And this Administration has only just begun.</SPAN></DIV>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'"></SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'"><STRONG>Is there anything a president could do that would disqualify him or her from delivering such a prestigious address?</STRONG> </SPAN></DIV>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'">If there is such a threshold, Barack Obama has not disqualified himself with Notre Dame officials.</SPAN></DIV>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'">And so we must act.</SPAN></DIV>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'">We have spoken with professors, students, and leaders at Notre Dame over the past 48 hours and have concluded that a massive protest will be practically difficult, and even counterproductive. The University has a right as a private school to prevent all protestors from entering campus, and could legally arrest those who violate this rule. Secondly, a protest could create exactly the wrong impression.</SPAN></DIV>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'">Therefore, we are recommending four courses of action.</SPAN></DIV>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'">1) CatholicVote.org has partnered with the Cardinal Newman Society, a dynamic organization dedicated to the renewal of Catholic higher education in establishing <A href="http://paracom.paramountcommunication.com/ct/2923701:3759206792:m:1:147386598:32A43A2674C19ADEE9539377417D18C8" target=_blank rel=nofollow>www.NotreDameScandal.com</A>. Together our aim is to collect thousands of signatures and present them to University officials. <A href="http://paracom.paramountcommunication.com/ct/2923701:3759206792:m:1:147386598:32A43A2674C19ADEE9539377417D18C8" target=_blank rel=nofollow>Sign the petition now.</A></SPAN></DIV>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'">2) Contact Notre Dame and <EM>charitably</EM> express your outrage. CatholicVote.org is large enough to have a major impact, and we urge you to contact Notre Dame President Father Jenkins at (574) 631-5000. </SPAN></DIV>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'">3) Join your fellow CatholicVote.org members in a prayer of reparation on May 17 from 2-4 PM. We encourage you to organize local groups to pray for mercy for the decision by Notre Dame, but also for our nation for continuing to permit the tragedy of abortion.</SPAN></DIV>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'">***If you live in the Midwest, or near Notre Dame University, we invite you to personally join us in prayer at the Grotto on the campus of Notre Dame from 2-4 PM on May 17, where we will be joined by several Notre Dame professors, alumni, and current students. The gathering will be a peaceful and prayerful.</SPAN></DIV>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'">4) Please forward this message to your family and friends. Let them know about Notre Dame's decision to honor the most pro-abortion President in American history. We must not remain silent over this scandal!</SPAN></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'">Brian Burch, President<BR>CatholicVote.org<BR></SPAN></DIV>
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