Québecois, te souviens-tu?

It’s about time: a part of Québec finally gets it. The mayor of the Québec city of Saguenay, Jean Tremblay gets it. With the rise of secularism, the Culture of Death has been inculcated in the people of Québec and Canada. Québec is about 95% Catholic and has forgotten its roots. Suicide (self/life-hatred), abortion (child-hatred), and sexual perversion (God-hatred) have gutted the perpetuation of Québec (Catholic) culture (Ma grande-grande-grande mère était québecoise). It’s not just about keeping the French language vibrant. Stand up and pray that The Blossoming of Canada will start with Catholic Québec. Amen. (Most of the links above came from Lifesitenews.com.)

UPDATE (1-7-09):
This is a very good analysis of this song and the culture of Québec.

Prop. 8 Comment

I wrote the following at Ales Rarus today:


This quote is telling from lifesitenews.com regarding the legal issue of CA:

[Pacific Justice Institute president Brad Dacus] believes the ongoing vandalism and protests against Prop. 8 will backfire. He noted, "Californians are among the most tolerant people in the world. They are also not stupid, and they deliberately rejected forced acceptance of gay marriage, while leaving in place domestic partnerships and a host of other special rights based for homosexuals."

The "marriage" definition question of Prop 8 is just a revision (under CA law). There are many "domestic partnerships" laws in place. The definition of marriage is only a revision since the "rights", ie money matters, of "domestic partnerships" are in place in CA.

This whole debate is about whether CA legitimizes same-sex "marriage". (I think it should not for these reasons.) Further, it is not a debate whether law enforcement officers should go around arresting those in "domestic partnerships".

When you get down to it, what's the uproar really about? A very important word: marriage.

I watched part of the interview with M. Ethridge (sp) and her "partner" on Oprah today. They were sitting on a couch as a "married couple". What will they get if Prop. 8 is struck down? They will get no more money or property rights. They will get legitimacy for their relationship as a "married couple".

The voters of CA spoke with their vote: they do not legitimize their relationship as such.

(Of course this is only about CA. It's not my state, but it is a State issue.)

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Hail Emperor Palpatine!

From the Witherspoon Institute’s “Public Discourse” Website by Robert George entitled "Obama's Abortion Extremism":

[Senator Obama] has co-sponsored a bill-strongly opposed by McCain-that would authorize the large-scale industrial production of human embryos for use in biomedical research in which they would be killed. In fact, the bill Obama co-sponsored would effectively require the killing of human beings in the embryonic stage that were produced by cloning. It would make it a federal crime for a woman to save an embryo by agreeing to have the tiny developing human being implanted in her womb so that he or she could be brought to term. This "clone and kill" bill would, if enacted, bring something to America that has heretofore existed only in China-the equivalent of legally mandated abortion. In an audacious act of deceit, Obama and his co-sponsors misleadingly call this an anti-cloning bill. But it is nothing of the kind. What it bans is not cloning, but allowing the embryonic children produced by cloning to survive.

Who is Emperor Palpatine? Every Star Wars fan knows who he is, but not being a Star Wars fan myself, let me lay out some basic details for clarity (I’m sure Star Wars fans will correct me if I’m wrong on any of the fictional facts).

Before becoming Emperor Palpatine, he was Senator Palpatine. When the Chancellor of the Republic had a vote of no confidence, Senator Palpatine became Chancellor. While Chancellor, a clone army was commissioned indirectly by Palpatine (cloned off one individual Jango Fett). During a type of civil war, the clone army killed almost all the Jedi. After some time, Chancellor Palpatine of the Galactic Republic became Emperor Palpatine of the Galactic Empire.

Before becoming President (elect) Obama, he was (Junior) Senator Obama. When President (W.) Bush had a very low approval rating, Senator Obama became (Super Senator) President. It is very possible that during his term(s) in office, President Obama will “authorize the large-scale industrial production of human embryos for use in biomedical research in which they would be killed.”

The rest is to be played out (it is already written, but we are to try to stop it by speaking out).

Hail Emperor Palpatine!

"So this is how liberty dies—with thunderous applause." ―Padmé Amidala

“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.” -Thomas Jefferson

FOCA Animation Part 2

Below is part two of the FOCA animation.

FOCA Animation Part 1

Please see the videos below. Email otaaac@yahoo.com with "I am otaaac" (without the underlining of otaaac) in the subject line if you would like to produce an animation, live action, or combination video of parts that have been already written.

Note: Sen. Obama co-sponsored this Act that will eliminate all state laws that limit abortion.





© 2008 OTAAAC Productions

My Musical CV

Sacred Pieces

Tertius Dies – Exodus 19: 16-20 – 2007
SATB divisi, Bass solo, Organ, and Percussion

O Quam Gloriosum est Regnum – 2007
I. O Quam Gloriosum. SATB, Three Trumpets, Trombone, Bass Trombone
II. Justorum Animæ. – Wisdom 3: 1-3 – SATB a cappella
III. Alleluia. SATB, Three Trumpets, Trombone, Bass Trombone

Lux et Veritas – 2006
I. Lux et Veritas. SSATB a cappella
II. Lux. SATB a cappella
III. Veritas. SATB, piano

Christmas Day – 2006
SATB, guitar

Une Voix dans Rama – Mt 2:18 – a cappella SATB choir – 2008
Une Voix dans Rama – four a cappella SATB voices – 2005

This Christmas Joy – a cappella SATB – 2005
This Christmas Joy – SATB, cello – 2005

Jesus in the Psalm – Psalms 22-23 – 2005
SSAATTBB a cappella

Tandum Dic Verbo – Mt 8:8 – 2004
SATB a cappella

An Irish Blessing – SATB, Piano, Flute – 2004
An Irish Blessing – SATB, a cappella – 2006

Non-Sacred Pieces

Shane’s Cheesecake Passion
"Shane's Cheesecake Passion" by Sarah Holmes – 2007
SSAATTBB a cappella

Garden Party
“Garden Party” by LA Crompton – 2007
SSATTBB a cappella, Tenor solo


Mother of Exiles
“The New Colosus" by Emma Lazarus – 2006
SSATB, Soprano solo, piano

Contraception Causes Market Instability

“Are you serious? You think that “Contraception [Caused this] Market Instability”?” You’ll see by the end of my argument.

Way back in 1919, all major Christian denominations viewed contraception as evil. Then in 1920, the Church of England allowed (said it was moral for) married couples to use them, and then eventually all Christian denominations except the Catholic Church allowed them to be used by all.

The daughters of contraception are abortion, pornography and prostitution, same-sex “marriage”, spousal abuse, divorce, extreme selfishness, and all things that lead to the objectification or dehumanization of the human person (IVF, sperm banks, surrogates, genocide, etc). Through the widespread use of contraception, the actual statistical frequency and severity of all its daughters have increased.

Especially to the (usually masculine) rich, if their spouse was being objectified in the use of contraception, why not objectify and exploit the workers for all they’re worth. Eventually, many employees were loosing their jobs and their pensions to workers overseas.

The workers, who also used contraception because they thought they couldn’t afford children, instead spent the saved money on themselves and their pets. Their debt grew larger and larger.

Eventually, all the money being passed back and forth was credit because the greedy employers wouldn’t hire fellow citizens and the poorer citizens spent beyond their means. The employer couldn’t pay back the bank since no one was buying his goods.

By the way, people would buy their homes with no money down, beyond their means, and essentially sub-prime, interest-only loans.

By all the increased selfishness caused by contraception, the market was heavily burdened by heavy credit debt. Without the banks able to solidly secure debt, the global economy suffers with instability.

Can I prove that my thesis is true about the connection with contraception? No. I just wanted a forum to introduce the idea that contraception is the root of its daughters listed above.

What do you think? (Be nice now.)

Institutionalizing Same-sex “Marriage” is Detrimental

I’ve heard it asked – I’m sure you have too – how will legalizing, or institutionalizing same-sex “marriage” (or civil-unions or the like) detriment you personally or society as a whole in secular terms? It’s all about what is legitimate and what isn’t.

Let’s start in assuming that same-sex “marriage” will continue to become legalized (as in, now, MA and CA). The view that marriage is only for two people in eros love will be promulgated and strengthened. In the inevitable juncture that the two people fall out of (eros) love, the marriage effectively becomes de facto, if not de jure, void in the resulting separation, annulment, or divorce. Marriage effectively becomes a temporary state of life as if a couple was not married. In legally making this blanket judgment on the marriage definition, there will be no institutional safeguards for traditional marriage (the legality of no-fault divorces is also detrimental to marriage – another topic).

What is traditional marriage? Traditional marriage is a contractual, covenantal, or sacramental arrangement in which the union of a couple is fortified in mutual fidelity for the upbringing of children. The only people that can naturally have children of their own in this union are a man and a woman (Creating human children any other way is unethical – another topic. Also, human adoption is another topic).

If marriage is redefined, not just in the narrow sense of allowing same-sex couples to legally “marry”, but to redefine it to mean “marriage only in the throws of passion (eros)”, society will break down as marriages break down in response to the diminishment of couples’ passion for one another.

For the state to only and explicitly espouse heterosexual marriage, it legitimizes marriage only in the traditional sense. Thus, when eros love diminishes, extinguishes, or changes, the married couple has a state-backed institution that upholds their marital duty to live in mutual fidelity (even agape, charitable love) for the upbringing of children.

Further, research has shown that children who live with their natural parents in a low conflict home become happier kids overall than those in other family situations, including that of a same-sex couples’ home. Also, married parents are also happier than (an) unmarried parent(s) and live longer.

So, I am against same-sex “marriage” not because I hate homosexual people (I know some personally) but because I think that we will be better off in the long run if we uphold traditional marriage as the norm for a better society today and tomorrow.

I personally believe same-sex “marriages” as well as heterosexual couples living or having sex together is wrong. However, since this behavior does not literally take the life of anyone (as in abortion), people engaging in this detrimental behavior are not to be arrested per se (although I believe sodomy is harmful even if consensual – another topic). This is not because it’s part of a private choice (there is no such thing as a private choice since society as a whole is effected by its members decisions), it’s because this is a free country.

Yet, as the above argument shows, legitimizing same-sex “marriage” via state law will further breakdown society due to the breakdown of the family in general.

We are already in the midst of a societal breakdown. The number of unwed mothers and the number of broken families (through divorce or other means) is up from the 1920’s. Beliefs of some interviewed teens reveal the state of the traditional marriage that is the foundation of a healthy society.

From the blog “Positively in Control”, given the following list of four relationship types, teens report that they are equivalent.

• Two people who are seeing each other exclusively for some period of time
• Two people living together
• Two people who live together and have children but are not married
• Two people who have taken public vows.

If same-sex “marriage” is legitimized throughout the country, there will be no state institution that will uphold the reality that marriage is an arrangement in which the union of a couple is fortified in mutual fidelity for the upbringing of children. It is in the state's interest - us - to uphold traditional marriage.