Remember what happened with the arab uprising. How overnight, established tyrannies came tumbling down overnight. I suspect there will be a growing pro-life consiousness at some point and a ground swell of support to overturn the law will happen.
Yes. And Canada does not discourage petroleum, mineral or timber development the way our government does. Those things provide jobs and money to an economy. Canada, under recent governance, has also striven to reduce expenditures relative to income; something our government resolutely refuses to do.Random fact: Canada has universal healthcare, and they do not have a budget deficit.
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How do you reconcile voting for a pro-life candidate whose party platform allows for abortion? And if we are ever to get abortion over-turned, we need judges who will rule in harmony with our Constitution and not find loopholes (RvW) in it that are not there. Do you think we are going to get those kinds of judges from the Dems?
I could not agree more that Obamacare is garbage. And you’re right. Obama didn’t want it, Pelosi didn’t want it, the Dem house didn’t want it. They all wanted socialized healthcare. But some senate Dems didn’t want to lose their seats by voting for it, so Obamacare came into being. It was designed to fail, and will fail. The left figures they’ll get a Canadian-type system out of the failure. The right…not sure what it wants, but will probably coalesce around a sort of mixed system like that of France. But yes, Obamacare will fail, and its failure will be a mess.False. We do not have socialized healthcare. The bill that past was a watered down piece of trash, in my humble opinion.
When the plan repeatedly fails it seems to me you have to rethink your strategy. If you are more committed to the plan than the goal then changing it up might not be important. I can come up with any number of other ideas that are less ‘far out’. How about refusing to stand and sing the national anthem to show that you can not in good conscious support a state that creates the right to kill fetuses? How about refusing to serve or encourage others to in an army that enshrines the power of the immoral government? Those aren’t all that radical and can be done quite easily.
You are right that I claimed Roberts said something which he did not. He said Roe was settled law. He did not say he would never overturn it. Having said that I’d be happy to bet any amount of money that abortion will not be overturned by the SCOTUS in my lifetime.
That is easily disproved by me. I do no vote for pro abortion candidates. To the best of my knoweldge I never have voted for such a candidate.
One can only wonder how quickly abortion would become a thing of the past if the Catholic bishops unequivocally opposed not just abortion but the politicians who support it. Instead of offering another vague, find-what-you-want document on our political obligations, if they came out with a one sentence condemnation of politicians who support abortion there is little doubt that it could be eliminated. Catholics represent about 25% of the vote but since they evenly split between pro and anti abortion politicians, as a voting block they have little influence. What a waste.
Well stated. I agree that this could be one BIG part of the solution!
I guess that’s a level of cynicism I’m not yet ready to rise (or fall) to.
I feel like a broken record saying that I was convinced by this by Republican conservatives. I particularly remember reading the great Catholic writer Joe Sobran, who no one can deny was a consistent strong advocate for life, discuss this utter failure by Republicans to do anything.
Name a single Republican who ever claimed he could end abortion. Is this a claim the Constitution Party makes?
Oh, well the Republican party gave us the court that produced Roe vs. Wade, creating a federal right to abortion. Republican courts subsequently upheld that decision. So I would be hoping for a party that did not create abortion and sustain it.
That’s not an uncommon phenomenon in these threads.
Well, judicial activism is what led to the decision in the first place…
I agree. But I will also say that overruling Roe isn’t all there is to think about.
For me it was 2000. I knew Bush would be like his dad. In my opinion he could turn on the religious charm much more authentically than many politicians which frightened me. His campaign promise of a humble foreign policy was quickly forgotten even by his supporters. When he and the Republican party pushed through the biggest expansion of the welfare state since LBJ my suspicions were confirmed.
cnsnews.com/news/article/conservatives-stop-new-boehner-cr-permitted-funding-obamacare-planned-parenthood
Don’t have time to comment on the rest now, but will do so later
I judge it to be a put on. It is not like it is unusual to put on religion. There are plenty of regular folks who do. Anything a politician does should be met with extra skepticism. None of us know how he really is in private. We do know when he thought the mikes were off he called someone a ‘major league *******’. The stories you relate are really public events with restricted attendance. Ultimately I dont know his true convictions, nor do you. I find it safer to ignore his proclamations, especially when his actions are largely inconsistent with his words.
9-11 didn’t really change things it just amplified them and by things I mean the US prerogative to make war on the world. I dont think 9-11 dictated invading another country based on a web of lies. You can still be humble when defending yourself. In fact character is most revealed in difficult situations, not easy ones.