David Duke? Big fan of Tulsi, Omar and so on and the Trump administration certainly is not for eliminating about half of the black population with birth control policies and funding Planned Parenthood clinics all over minority neighborhoods.
Actually, indirectly it does…
If you support a candidate who votes to preserve execution, you’re supporting execution as a remedy for whatever crimes it’s provided for.
Freedom of movement was permissible all over the Roman Empire. Are you saying Octavian was a Democrat?
Still, Democrats keep blacks in crime-infested, poverty in all the major cities, providing only abortion as the “remedy”. So, as between having some racist say he supports you and actually keeping an entire race down, the former is less blameworthy, particularly since Trump has no control over that.
You would rather sow distrust in God’s appointed shepherds of the Church than lose a political battle? . . .TheLittleLady:
No, USCCB is politically compromised. Received over $2 BILLION in Government funding (largely to push Democrat policies) means Catholics cannot rely on them for Catholic teaching on abortion. You can’t receive $2 BILLION from politicians and remain politically neutral.
I think it is comforting that the US government is in agreement with at least some of the Catholic values these grants support. In some countries the Catholic Church does not even get permission to build churches, let alone grants to administer charitable works.
I agree. While I am sure there are some very worthwhile works the various Church organizations perform in using this money, some of them are, to me, pretty questionable. Given that Democrats control much of government, now including the “power of the purse”, the likelihood is that distrust ought to be there.
It is a tad misleading to claim the policy of non-funding “actually increases abortions.” Besides the fact that the paper you referenced uses very tenuous language like “could have the unintended consequences of…,” the truth is that directly funding abortion is evil, and that while other ‘forces’ then become militant in support of abortion, it isn’t very truthful to claim that abortion ought to be funded because if it isn’t the other sources of funding will be forced to provide the funding.This wasn’t directed to me, but…
HarryStotle:
You mean the policy that studies indicate actually increases abortions?
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It ought to be noted that Republicans have been Democrats lite from Reagan until Trump, while Trump has given Republicans something resembling a spine since being elected. He deserves a chance to follow through on his stronger pro-life position and, hopefully, will win a majority in both the House and Senate in November.
No, the Democrats are bad too. My argument is to forget both of those parties and support the American Solidarity Party instead.
Well, no. The Democrats and Republicans are NOT equally bad on the abortion issue.
In the assessment of “good” and “bad” I suppose we can only properly undertake it in “good conscience” when what is determinably good or bad gets separated from what is merely apparently so.
I agree with this, though I also throw Republican politicians and pundits in there. Best just to stick with the Church for moral teaching. And just to clarify, totally rejecting the character of the current incumbent in no way necessitates being “completely on board” with abortion.
How does having laws against abortion attempt to control womens bodies?
BXVI answered that question when he was prefect pf DoF