I think many conservatives (esp the politicians) tend to be mean and selfish people, and terrible anti-life, even pro-death. Lynnvinc, I don’t under stand how you could begin with this sentence and sign off with “preach the Gospel; use words if you have to.” Most of your post is hyperbolic, ad-hominum attacks without reason or subtance. I don’t mind a hyperbolic argument if it’s based on facts, but your post is based on your personal animus toward a group of people.
For one thing, they simply say they want to pass laws against abortion. That is, they want to put women in prison after having abortions. (And having been a young person in the 50s and 60s when abortions were illegal, I can tell you that laws do nothing to prevent abortion…lots of women were having illegal abortions back then…I think that was a way some medical students paid for their education.) Catholic convert and former abortionist Dr. Bernard Nathanson passed away this year. He personally performed thousands of abortions and presided over a business that performed ten-thousands more. After he became pro-life he admitted that he had helped the pro-abortion lobby fabricate huge numbers of “back-alley” abortions in order to make the case for legalized abortion. Also, I think it’s the abortionist who would be held legally accountable, not the woman. Who says that women who abort should be imprisioned? And laws have a tremendous impact on people’s behavior. There were not a million illegal abortions in the US each year prior to 1973 as we have had every year since. Dr. Nathanson told the media at the time there were 10,000 and this was an inflated, made-up number.
aboutabortions.com/Confess.html
The conservatives are totally against the things that really help reduce abortion, such as universal health care, higher minimum wages (2/3 of min wage earners are women), cheap (or free) professional childcare (as in France), paid maternity leave (my niece in France had complications from her pregnancy and got some 9 months paid leave), welfare as a right (not a shameful experience), and other supports that make women less likely to havee abortions. Note that nearly all European nations (which have these benefits) have much lower abortion rates than in the U.S Social conservatives are pro-marriage because it is the first and best social saftey net instituted by God. A woman who waits to get married before becoming sexually active is not a likely candidate for abortion as birth control, or welfare. Social liberals believe everyone should have sex without any moral constraints. This more than anything has torn apart the family; and as the family goes, so goes the culture.
If one REALLY wants to reduce abortion and not just put women who have had abortion in prison, then it usually makes more sense to vote for the liberal candidate. This just makes no sense at all. Now I’m beginning to think your post is a gag to made liberals look irrational.
Now when we talk about anthropogenic climate change – which I’ve been following closely for over 20 years, and now looks like will in the next few centuries kill off a large portion of life on earth, if not all of life – most conservatives not only are against doing anything to reduce it (they are even against advising people to turn off lights not it use), they are denying its existence. They are extreme pro-death people. And there are other life-threatening environmental problems, that they refuse to admit or do anything about. It is rational to believe that when God made humankind as the crowning glory of His creation that He designed us to exhale a gas (CO2) that is actually harmful to the climate and therefore the ecosystem of the Earth? Is it rational to believe that CO2–which is necessary for plants to make food and therefore is the basis of all life in the food chain–is so harmful that it had to be declared a toxin by the EPA? Lynnvinc, I say this in charity–you need to do some research because the “Green” movement is the pro-death movement and it is an open secret. The basis of the green movement–and you simply cannot have failed to see this–is that PEOPLE are the problem. To them, fewer people will help solve the problems plaguing mother earth. Farming is responsible for releasing tons of greenhouse gases into the atmostphere. Farming is also how human beings grow food to eat so they can live. If you are an extreme environmentalist you see a problem here.
Now when it comes to the death penalty, conservatives tend to be more in favor of it than liberals, and there are lots of innocent people who get executed (one my Republican gov Perry executed KNOWING he was innocent…but there is this conservative desire for blood), not to mention the Catholic Church is against the death penalty.I have written several posts on why this statement is a myth. The burden is on you to back this up with evidence.
So, in all conscientiousness, I really don’t see how a good Catholic could vote for a conservative of today. I know the conservatives of the past were fine – like Nixon. I used to be a Republican myself back then. But now they are exceedingly pro-death. It would be impossible for me to vote for them, even if I thought they might help the economy (and I think they are out to unwittingly destroy that too).
Life is precious. God’s gift. We should not be in the business of snuffing it out, or voting for those that would cause society to do so.
