Who is their god? What is their creed? Whence comes their gospel?

It's ironic, really. Every time the left needs to manufacture a crisis to rally their base we invariably hear angushed cries gins about how "Republicans want to take away a woman's right to choose"! As J. F. Kerry might say, "would that it were!" In fact a significant faction of the G.O.P. leadershup has gotten a bit squeamish about abortion, to the point that the post-mortems on the 2012 election have elicited some "suggestions" that the party might consider de-emphasizing their official opposition to abortion.

Meanwhile the left has no such qualms. In 2008 their standard-bearer was a man who couldn't bring himself to vote for an Illinois law that guaranteed that infants born alive would be entitled to medical care. In a saner and better-informed America that alone would have been sufficient to disqualify him for any further office of public trust. Instead he was elected president. Pundits on both sides referred to him as the most abortion-friendly president ever, and they were right. And so, in his first term we got not only the usual fare from the left: revocation of the so-called Mexico City Policy, abortion as a litmus test for judicial appointments, etc.; but then came something new: a socialized medical insurance plan that not only covered abortion and contraception, but required heretofore exempt organizations - e.g. Catholic schools, hospitals, and other entities - to subsidize it.

To be sure there was an outcry, albeit muted... and ineffective: at this writing nothing has changed save for a fig-leaf "exemption" so narrowly crafted that Mother Teresa would have been unlikely to qualify for it!

Meanwhile, a grass-roots organization called LiveAction.org made a series of undercover videos exposing Planned Parenthood's willingness to defy the few laws fettering access to abortions and even to offer assistance in circumventing child sex trafficking laws! Congress attemted to de-fund Planned Parenthood, which receives over $500,000,000 of taxpayer funds annually - half a BILLION dollars of our money - but this only served to enrage the left. "Terrorism!" they cried. Yep, the same folks who've seemingly never met a real terrorist who's nothing but a misunderstood kid do are fine with the notion that buchering babies is such a fundamental right that anyone who exposes the fact that it is insufficiently regulated or attempts to withdraw public fundig for it is... a terrorist!

It's now 2013. America has re-elected the most radical and pro-abortion president ever to a second term. With the right to a taxpayer-subsidized dead baby seemingly safeguarded for another four years the media felt free to ignore the gruesome facts of the Gosnell case. "We don't cover local crime stories", sniffed one national outlet of the MSM. Were it not for the yeoman work of several blogers and non-traditional news outlets the MSM probably wouldn't have been shamed into even the minimal coverage they finally deigned to give it.

With the trial ongoing President Obama judged the time apt to accept an invitation to address the annual convention of Planned Parenthood, conveniently held in Washington, DC; the only president ever to do so. Unlike the MSM the President had shown a prior willingness to comment on "local crime stories", but like the rest of the abortion industry, their political supporters, and media enablers he didn't bother to acknowledge this horrific story. Instead all was sweetness, light, and lies: the oft-repeated canard about mammograms (which are not performed at ANY Planned Parenthood facility) and two typical happy-ending anecdotes. He ended with perhaps the most chilling words ever uttered by an American president: "Thank you, Planned Parenthood. God bless you. God bless America. Thank you."

"God bless you" to the largest provider of abortions in America? Makes your blood run cold.

During his speech the President quoted a remark by Cecile Richards, president of Planned Parenthood, about "opponents" who “literally got up every day trying to figure out how to keep us from doing our work.” Imagine that. Might not a thinking person ask himself: "what kind of work is this they so, and what kind of people would be so single-minded in opposing it?" Alas, many in America have lost their capability for critical thinking. But not the folks at LiveAction.org who are amongst those who do in fact get up every morning and try to figure out how to put PP out of business - or at least out of the abortion business - permanently. Their latest undercover investigation has produced footage of an abortionist promising a client - the investigator - that if the late-term abortion of her baby "failed", resulting in a live infant, steps would be taken to ensure that the baby was dead by the time she left the clinic. How many more of these will it take to prove that Gosnell was not an aberration, and that so-called "partial birth abortion" is neither rare nor necessary, as it's proponents claim.

Incidentally, that clinic is in Washington, DC. It is operated by Planned Parenthood. Amazingly enough, the Washington Post ran a story. Not a story about how viable babies are killed in their fair city every day, whether inside or outside of the womb; more of a 'story-about-the-story'. But they did interview the "doctor" who was caught on tape. "I really consider them terrorists” was his final word. Will Saletan of slate.com tweeted on the WaPo story: "What's more disgusting than late-term abortion? This scheme to exploit it by hiring actors & secretly taping doctors."

Sorry for the length of this post. When we regain our ability to think critically and reason logically, and our moral fiber as a nation perhaps we will ask these questions about Dr. Kermit Gosnell, Cecile Richards and Planned Parenthood, Barack Obama, Dr. Cesare Santangelo, Will Saletan, et al: Who is their god? What is their creed? Whence comes their gospel?

It is frightening to speculate on the answers. All I can say for certain is: as for me and my household, their god is not our God, their creed is not our Creed, and their gospel is not our Gospel.

God bless them indeed.