By Judie Brown
There is an old superstition that if a black cat crosses your path on Friday the 13th, something bad could happen to you. This is similar to the sop that suggests that walking under a ladder will bring you bad luck. All superstitions have one thing in common: They are refutable with common sense and result in a belly laugh.
But the Catechism of the Catholic Church states, “The first commandment forbids honoring gods other than the one Lord who has revealed Himself to His people. It proscribes superstition and irreligion. Superstition in some sense represents a perverse excess of religion.”
In other words, bowing to the tales from the crypt, which is what superstition reminds me of, is an insult to the power and love of God.
Yet, there is something far more sinister than what the black cat represents, and that is the idea that the black cat is a harbinger of evil and of all that is wrong with one’s departure from the Lord and His will. In my mind, that is what the latest news about the Harris-Walz stance represents. These two individuals stand on the belief that enshrining “reproductive freedom” into law is a top priority on their agenda.
With this admission comes a deadly package of death on demand cloaked in the word freedom. But as we know, America’s forefathers fought for freedom because they knew that all men are created equal. While some will point out that they never mentioned the preborn in the quest to defend human life and liberty, that is only because the thought of permitting the killing of a baby never occurred to them.
Today, not only have times changed but the values and the actual meaning of virtue have changed as well. The Federalist examines the nonfiction book of Thomas G. West, saying that his words set the record straight: “The founders thought it was the duty of government (at least at the state level) to encourage virtue through public education, support for religious instruction, and a vast network of laws that discourage crime and promote stable families.”
So when we read that West knew that it required honorable people to build a virtuous nation, we realize that without a proper recognition of virtue itself, the door is open wide to the black cat’s havoc, including sanctioning murder under the law.
The most flagrant example of this in current events is the report that the Biden-Harris administration has been allowed by the Supreme Court of the United States to deny funding to Oklahoma because the state will not condone the idea that a pregnancy counselor must provide the expectant mother with all options, including the killing of her baby by abortion.
The report goes on to say, “While this is not the result Oklahoma wanted, this is not the end of the battle over Title X funding. Oklahoma and 11 other states challenged the Biden-Harris administration, and that case is still pending in lower courts.”
Living in a time and under a regime that sanctions and even forces an abortion agenda on the American people and their lawmakers reminds us of a simple truth: The black cat of evil prowls ever in our midst, imposing its will on the weak and the vulnerable. But in response to such threats to honesty and freedom we respond with the wonderful words of the Preamble of the Declaration of Independence: “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.”
As Patrick Henry warned: “The liberties of a people never were, nor ever will be, secure when the transactions of their rulers may be concealed from them.” Those transactions include, most egregiously, the promotion of killing innocent preborn babies under the guise of freedom! Such individuals do not recognize the simple truth that abortion kills!
That is the personification of the black cat of evil.
