Look, I'm worried. If this guy gets in with the Congress he's likely to have, my tax money is going to be taken to fund abortions. They're going to force me to perform same-sex weddings. I've made a decision: I'm not going to do it. I'll have pizza for dinner one night and they can take me to jail the next, but I am not going to participate in this. So giving a homily was the least of what I'm preparing myself for.
Later we ran into a neighbor who was telling us about attending a lecture Archbishop Chaput gave in town within the last couple of days. Someone asked him what Catholics should do when the government starts funding abortion. His answer (paraphrasing):
It'll be time for a national conversation on whether Catholics can pay taxes.We had two other similar conversations, both at random, this morning. This is how people are thinking and talking --quietly-- in my neck of the woods. As indicated: this means war.
