There’s a difference between believing abortion is wrong and wanting to make it against the law (earthly law, that is). What do we make of the fact that murder is wrong, and yet God ORDERED the Israelites to dash out the brains of all the enemy’s babies when they conquered a city?
In any case, I personally don’t vote based on one or two issues. To me, the current Republican administration is primarily characterized by arrogance, ignorance and dishonesty. Rather than finishing the job in Afghanistan, they launched – on spurious grounds – a attack on Iraq, a country unconnected to al-Qaeda or 9/11, and now that country has become a breeding ground for terrorists. At home, they want to cut Head Start and payments to disabled veterans to pay for a tax cut for millionaires. And they’ve launched an attack on our most basic rights – arresting people and holding them indefinitely, in secret, without charges or access to an attorney, turning innocent foreign nationals over to other governments to be tortured, etc. Oh, and they’ve created a deficit which threatens a worldwide financial crisis. They’re running the government for the benefit of their corporate pals, and they’re not even doing a very good job of that.
Meanwhile, the Republican position on abortion remains merely a plank in their platform. I simply don’t believe that abortion is going to be outlawed in this country, under either party. Therefore, if I WERE going to vote on this one issue, I’d vote for the party more likely to create an equitable, enlightened society in which there was less demand for abortion – and I think that party is the Democrats.
But I can of course see how people might view the issue differently, particularly if they’re closer to the Republicans on other issues.
It bothers me that so many posts here seem to strike a strident, self-righteous, judgmental tone, astonishingly quick to condemn, seldom striving for a loving dialogue. But maybe this format, by encouraging brevity, makes people sound harsher than they imagine. I hope so.
