It's about time - Catholics stand up!
For the purpose of our readers, I am a Roman Catholic. I didn't ask his permission but Jake is as well. One of the issues that has always troubled me in the Catholic community are elected politicians who are practicing Catholics and promote abortion. I am not talking about someone who balances belief in the tenets of a politicians philosophy with a passive agreement with abortion. I am talking about someone who promotes abortion as a talking point to make them unique in New Jersey or the US.
Our Catholic Bishops are late in dealing with this issue. They have too often watched idly as politicians like Kerry or Biden or Pelosi mis-state Catholic doctrine. The also seem to tacitly agree to shut up while accepting some alleged benefit for their congregation but in doing so become a part of the practice themselves. But apparently now, Catholic Priests are standing up.
Check out this site. My wife and I know a lady who is far more agressive than we are at challenging people to explain their support for liberals and abortion. Her heart is most definitely in the right place and maybe she doesn't go far enough. You can't support life while supporting people who promote abortion for convenience. Period.
It isn't about the inflexibility about the girl who was raped. It is about retaining the right to kill a child born alive through a botched abortion. Only one hypothetical is discussed but the facts don't match up. I am not a radical in this regard. But I also don't believe that deciding to match a lack of attention to birth control enables someone to abort an "inconvenience" on demand. I call that a child and frankly, if the liberal community is honest, the only real systematic hollacaust in this country is the mass abortion of black children for convenience and promoted by the Democratic party. Period.
Labels: abortion, Democrats, priests for life
posted by Dennis @ 9:13 PM
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1 Comments:
The funny thing is that American Catholics tend to believe in government-based charity (i.e., welfare and the social safety net), the elimination of capital punishment, stewardship of the Earth (including taking drastic action to forestall global warming), getting out of the war, etc. They'd be natural Democrats if the Democrats weren't so virulently pro-abortion-"rights".
Not that you must think that way to be Catholic, mind you. I personally think capital punishment should be "safe*, legal, and rare", and that stewardship of the Earth is critically important but that Global Warming looks fishy. Moreover, Democrats tend to like higher-order governments, while I prefer subsidiarity, which would reduce the power of the UN and the US Federal Government.
In other words, conservatism is consistent with Catholicism, even though American Catholicism tends toward liberalism.
But the Catholic liberal politicians -- Pelosi, McGreevey, Kerry, Biden -- are beyond the pale. They claim that things are true that can easily be proved false, and they claim to have studied things when they clearly don't know what they're talking about, which shows them to be disingenuous or incredibly stupid or both. And they contradict themselves: I forget where I saw it, but Biden recently said that in his faith tradition he was taught to take care of those less fortunate than us. So why is it not mixing religion and government when he forces people to give money to the poor using welfare, but is mixing religion and government when we want to prevent prenatal infanticide?
Anyway, Priests for Life is a great organization and well worth supporting.
Thanks for the great non-tax-related post, Dennis.
* By "safe" I mean safe for society, of course. Even in abortion rhetoric, "safe, legal, and rare" means safe for the mother, not for the child being killed.
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