American Life League’s 2011 'Moloch' Awards

The American Life League (ALL), the largest grassroots Catholic pro-life education organization in the United States, has developed several new awards for the most outstanding characters of the tribe of Moloch.
 
Moloch was one of the false gods Israel worshipped during its periods of apostasy.  Worshippers of the malevolent Moloch built a roaring fire inside his hollow, bronze statue and placed their newborn babies in its hands, which were then raised by a pulley system to simulating eating but actually tossed the infants into the fire. 
 
This image is wretchedly apt for those who promote abortion, sacrificing “our children and culture to political correctness and false beliefs.”
 
There are seven awards.  First up is the Millstone Award, given to the Upper Hudson Planned Parenthood in Albany (NY) for hiring teen employees to “peer counsel” other teens on the values of unfettered sex and abortion.
 
The St. Thomas Less Award is granted to high profile politicians who proclaim staunch devotion to Catholicism, abortion, and homosexuality, simultaneously.  Former Speaker Nancy Pelosi was a shoo-in for this one.
 
National Catholic Reporter took the Syllabus of Errors Award for claiming a Catholic identity while undermining established Catholic teaching.  This publication has already been condemned by its local bishop for the “poisonous character” of its work and for its “disregard and denial of the most sacred values of our Catholic faith.”  Quite a portfolio.
 
The Detective Monkey Award (as in, See-no-evil/hear-no-evil/tell-no-one-about-any-evil-(because you didn’t see or hear it)-in those-matters-over-which-you- ought –to-be-exercising-watchfulness) went to John Carr, who heads the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops’ annual poverty collection, Catholic Campaign for Human Development (CCHD).  Carr “was able to combine the investigative expertise of Inspector Clouseau and the denial skills of the See No Evil monkey. .. Through his leadership, CCHD’s excellent reforms on vetting potential grantees were stillborn and Catholic dollars donated to help the poor continue to fund groups that also directly or indirectly support Marxism, abortion, homosexual marriage and other activities that are an anathema to Catholics.”  
 
Planned Parenthood’s second honor, the Fuzzy Math Award, was earned for its contributions to the art of lying with statistics. “PPFA distinguished itself by boldly calculating that only 3% of its business is abortion although one-third of its clinic revenues are generated by making sure that only 2-3 in 100 pregnant patients ever leave a PP clinic with their pre-born baby still alive.”
 
The Hemlock Yuk Award went to TV host Rachel Maddow’s celebration of the 50th anniversary of the Pill.   Ms. Maddow’s trophy included a package of Mr. Yuk stickers that can be pasted over her birth control compacts: Yukky!
 
Last in the gaggle, but far from least, Planned Parenthood’s Cecile Richards and Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius have won the “BFF” Award - Best “FIENDS” Forever Award.  ALL writes, “Whether imposing federal will on state governments that defund Planned Parenthood, shredding critical evidence in a criminal investigation, or pushing the morning after pill like candy, rumor has it that BFFs Sibelius and Richards are so in bed together that they need only need one twin sheet for abortion-themed sleepovers. Like love lockets, the awards’ two halves match so each can remember how much they mean to each other in promoting abortion fun.”
 
If there were a Moloch, he would just be so proud. 

Spero columnist Stephanie Block also edits the New Mexico-based Los Pequenos newspaper.