Does Don Wycliff really think the Obama-invite opponents think God is harmed when people do bad things?
“If President Obama were to be disinvited to Notre Dame because of these protests, it would reflect badly on . . . the puny God who needs mere mortals to protect it from a mere president,”
he said in a 3/31 Trib op-ed, to which letter writer Mary Williams Stone, of Wilmette, replies:
God doesn’t need protection from a mere president. However, we mere mortals need protection from one-side ideology.
But the idea is zany on its face, a straw man to beat all. Hell, if you will pardon the expression, not even host-desecration harms God.
More to the point is the nature of this presidential visit, as explained by letter writer Joseph Chronister, of La Grange, father of an ND spring graduate:
Suggestions that the president’s visit will be an occasion for dialogue and debate are nonsensical to anyone who has ever witnessed a commencement. Instead the day will be filled with symbolic rituals, including Notre Dame’s pronouncement that Obama is now, with his honorary degree, a worthy doctor, or teacher, of the law.
Obama is coming not “to give a lecture or take part in a debate in which there is delicious free flow of ideas,” as I said two days ago, but to receive Notre Dame’s “stamp of approval” in the form of a degree, as Mary Stone writes.
Blithe Spirit 
Said friend Don: “At the same time, I am not, like some of my Domer and would be-Domer friends, upset about the protests being mounted by Catholics upset over Obama’s tolerance of abortion rights and his stance on embryonic stem-cell research.”
Hell, it’s not just Obama’s “tolerance” of “abortion rights” that has people worked up. It’s his active advocacy of “abortion rights,” including his determined opposition to the born alive infant protection act, by which he says, in effect, that nothing–not even a breathing, heart-beating, brain-wave-flashing real person–should stand in the way of this so-called right to choose.
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