Briefly: Can't Hide Their Hate

It’s almost certainly not good politics in the sense that most Americans understand politics. Americans traditionally do not favor wars of extirpation and extermination against political opponents, but this is what we see going on now. The culture war—involving domination of the public space, concerted prosecutorial persecution against hapless and harmless demonstrators, censorship of speech and even thought throughout all societal institutions (education, military, religious, medical, legal, etc.) as well as the dragooning of corporations into that effort—are only signs of what will come. The release of Antifa’s black uniformed hordes on the nation beginning in 2016 are a sign that a more kinetic response will follow success of the cultural war, the cowing of the populace.

Two stories. In the first, a patently unconstitutional attack following the familiar Left pattern: If we inundate the land with these attacks on speech and religion, the courts won’t be able to handle the flood. It’s like a human wave attack. Lose some, win more. But what’s also apparent is the palpable hatred of Christianity:

Biden HHS to Catholic Hospital in Oklahoma: Blow Out Your Candle or Leave

CV NEWS FEED // The Biden administration’s Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) issued an ultimatum to a top-rated Catholic hospital network in Oklahoma, threatening to shut down their services to poor and vulnerable patients unless they remove the sanctuary candle from their chapel.

Saint Francis Hospital South in Tulsa, OK, has kept the candle in question for fifteen consecutive years. The non-profit Saint Francis Health System, which runs the hospital, has kept the tradition of hospital chapels, complete with active sanctuary candles, since they were established in 1960. The network also operates the nearby St. Francis Hospital, which is the largest hospital in the state of Oklahoma.

Now, Saint Francis Hospital South, which serves much of the southeastern Tulsa area, is faced with losing accreditation to serve recipients of Medicare, Medicaid, or Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP), if the Catholic organization does not comply with the administration’s demand.

Religious liberty attorney Lori Windham of Becket Law wrote a pre-litigation letter addressed to HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra and several of his deputies and employees. In the letter, Windham states that by refusing to accredit the hospital, the administration would be effectively stripping the many disabled, elderly, and impoverished patients who currently rely on the hospital of critical life-saving healthcare.

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Clearly organized religion is a key enemy, including among “committed Catholics” like Zhou and Becerra. We also see that in the disappearance of the Nashville religious school massacre.

On a more upbeat note—maybe—it looks like the latest liberal campaign against the SCOTUS is going to come to an ignominous end. That campaign has invoked a series of patently bogus “ethical” lapses—supposed lapses by conservative justices. Unlike the Nashville religious school massacre, this story didn’t disappear—it was trumpeted long and loud by the usual suspects in the MSM. But now we see what looks like a real problem. This may explain why all three liberal justices joined in telling the Dems to back off:

Liberal SCOTUS Justice Caught in Scandal That Blows Up Recent Left-Wing Attacks

Greg Price

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Sonia Sotomayor received over $3 million for her books from Penguin Random House publishing and then didn't recuse herself from a case in which they were involved before SCOTUS where the company stood to lose money.

What did Clarence Thomas do again?

Liberal SCOTUS Justice Took $3M From Book Publisher, Didn’t Recuse From Its Cases

8:37 PM · May 3, 2023

Of course, this is a bit like the ‘lose some win more’ strategy described above. Yes, informed people will see the dishonesty behind the hoax accusations, but how many normal Americans will ever read about Sotomayor’s very real and troubling ethical lapse? It won’t be covered by the MSM, so most Americans will only come away from this episode with a vague notion that conservative justices are somehow ethically challenged. They won’t know exactly how, because it’s a malicious hoax, but the point is to affect attitudes and general impressions, not to communicate truth. It’s the way we live now in a country whose public square is dominated by the Left.