Like I said, that’s why the county is unhealable. These are binary issues that will never go away, nor should they in my opinion.
Au contraire I think the binary issues need to be healed to move forward. And I don’t think that will happen when everything is made to boil down to the abortion issue.
I’m as anti-abortion as they come, I was given up for adoption as an infant by an 18 y.o. single mother with no father named on the birth certificate. And as a male, I take umbrage at the feminist’s presumption that men have no place in the debate. Half of us unwanted babies who are killed are men, and half of us like me who survived, are men.
That said, the ship has sailed here in Canada. The government is reflecting the will of the people, and the “people” is largely un-churched and has lost its moral compass. It occurred to me long ago that fighting this at the political level is a lost cause. I’ve done my bit when it still mattered, by voting, by writing, by letters to my MP. I voted for Harper because of his conservatism on this issue, but was bitterly disappointed when he refused to re-open the debate. I then realized that at the political level, the debate was dead. Only when a critical mass of evangelized people is large enough and votes will it be attainable at the political level. So our work is on the ground, winning people over soul-by-soul At my age (62) I’m unlikely to see the fruits, but to the extent that I may have evangelized a single person who might have had an abortion, I will have achieved something.
In the US, Trump has fulfilled your dream at the Supreme Court level. That by no means guarantees an overturning of Roe vs. Wade. The Supreme court rules on the basis of the law. But basically in the US, the challenge is the same: until enough people are evangelized, the critical political mass to effect real change will be limited. A majority of your citizens did, in fact, vote Democrat in the last presidential election, notwithstanding the quirks of your political system that gave Trump a majority of Electoral College votes. He won fair and square by the rules of your game,
but it should be sobering that the majority did
not vote for him. That makes the Republican hold on power quite fragile actually, and makes it quite hard to effect real change on abortion and for that matter, any other issues near and dear to conservatives’ hearts, especially since your “hero” is such a polarizing figure.
For abortion though, soul-by-soul evangelization seems to me to be the only way to effect a permanent impact on the issue.
Sorry for the thread drift.
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