It seems to be forcing an issue, quite a few more innocents have died through drone attacks under Obama than under Bush but I’m not about to subscribe to the theory that liberals believe innocents should be killed this way.
I disagree with torture but someone like Thomas Merton would point out that you aren’t more righteous using a drone while seated at a computer hundreds of miles away. The worst torture on earth is abortion and it happens daily which is more often than torture of captured enemy combatants.
Because the mother has value and can be forgiven and no woman makes the decision cavalierly. A lot of women were forced into getting an abortion and some were lied to or lied to themselves about what actually happened and they have tremendous guilt and they hate themselves. Fathers often share this guilt. We should support post-abortive women and men. We say it is collective because we all know or should know it is wrong and if all 67 million American Catholics fought for its removal and educated the public it would have been gone along time ago. How many people do you know who pass our Pro-Life literature, go to rallies, pray outside abortion clinics,don’t take contaception, don’t give it to their teenager daughters and call their representatives and tell them to create legislation to get rid of it? Serious how many Catholics have even read Humane Vitae?
I’d wager one big reason is because most women who have abortions are typically very vulnerable and scared to the point they feel they have no other choice. I’m not defending their actions at all, but I do have a lot of compassion for them. On the other hand, people who advocate on behalf of Planned Parenthood, etc., have all the time and resources they need to gain a better understanding of the evil of abortion.
Well, I hope you are right to paint them so sympathetically. And of course I view them as I would any other sinner in my heart. But I am not so sure that many of them are not just this side of those who opt for Plan B contraception or, these days, at least in Europe, consider euthanasia for the ill and elderly. In the end, there has to be personal responsibility for this as with any other sin.
True, I am generalizing, and in their favor. But I don’t see how one could make such a decision without extreme pressure, unless one is a sociopath.
I agree; I don’t know how they can go through with it. I just feel like so many make bad decisions - abortion, euthanasia, gay marriage/adoption, legalized marijuana, etc. - that do so much harm in our culture. This IS the argument for the right, whether you like it or not.
I do vote Democrat and Republican at different times; never very good at toeing either party line in its entirety though (that could be a good thing).The democrat party supports intrinsic evils in the present.
Because the Republican party is not in charge. Hard to be evil on the sidelines.
There is nothing in their platform that is contrary to Church teaching.That is not true for the Democrat Party.
Platforms are pretty useless in determining how a party is going to govern.
It’s a very good thing, IMO.I agree; I don’t know how they can go through with it. I just feel like so many make bad decisions - abortion, euthanasia, gay marriage/adoption, legalized marijuana, etc. - that do so much harm in our culture. This IS the argument for the right, whether you like it or not.
Water boarding and illegal war are not the issues, or if they are they have not been reported to be the issues.
I have great respect for the work of those involved with Project Rachel – the stories I hear from those working with women who have had abortions reveal tremendous fear, pain, and shame. Thank God for spiritual leaders like Saint Pope JPII:
Not really. Abortion and a war against the ‘War on Women’ was very much in the Democratic platform, and they have done all things possible to advance that agenda at every turn.
Have you read a platform? It contains all sorts of stuff that they won’t do and doesn’t contain all sorts of stuff that they do do. The last Republican platform called for 4 Constitutional Amendments.
Actually the Republicans now have control of the Senate and House. It may be argued of the SCOTUS as well. They have full control of 30 states, whereas the Democrats only 9. They need to make a move on those Constitutional Amendments IMO.
You are expecting the Pope to denounce both capitalism and socialism when he may not be of the opinion that socialism is bad. Americans on the right have a very fixed (and mostly incorrect) view of socialism that is not shared in Europe, Australia, South America or parts of Africa. State ownership of utilities, transport networks and the means of production works well on other parts of this planet. State delivery of heath care free at the point of treatment for everyone 24/7 in the form of the British National Health Seevice was resisted by conservatives and the medical profession. But is so loved that even the most swivel eyed Thatherite dare not suggest it is ended. There is a much bigger picture