1,000 Rabbis Joins Vatican Cardinal in Prohibiting Voting for Anti-Life Candidates

LifeSiteNews.com ^ | November 1, 2010

[topher]

Monday November 1, 2010

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1,000 Rabbis Joins Vatican Cardinal in Prohibiting Voting for Anti-Life Candidates

NEW YORK, November 1, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Rabbi Yehuda Levin, spokesman for the Rabbinical Alliance of America, which represents more than 1000 Rabbis, has on behalf of his organization welcomed and endorsed the recent election-themed statements by American Cardinal-designate, Raymond L. Burke, Prefect of the Catholic Church's highest court. 

In a 25-minute video interview with Catholic Action for Faith and Family, which was broadcast last week on EWTN and other networks, Archbishop Burke stated: “You can never vote for someone who favors absolutely the right to choice of a woman to destroy a human life in her womb or the right to a procured abortion.”

He added: “You may in some circumstances where you don’t have any candidate who is proposing to eliminate all abortion, choose the candidate who will most limit this grave evil in our country, but you could never justify voting for a candidate who not only does not want to limit abortion but believes that it should be available to everyone.”

"In these crucial times in which we live, where many clerics tread with fear, Cardinal-designate Burke is to be commended and emulated as a voice of leadership,” said Rabbi Levin. “This moral teaching of the Catholic Church set forth in Burke's interview with Thomas McKenna, is clearly found in the Torah and serves to give solid guidance to voters whether they are Christian, Jew or any man of faith.”

"We must implement this teaching now, in the closing hours of the 2010 election cycle,” stressed the spokesman for the Rabbinical Alliance of America. “We hope in the ensuing two years to have many other denominations sign on to this prohibition. This historic alliance announced today is far more important than working together for tuition tax credits for our parochial schools. Today is nothing less than the declaration of a 'spiritual civil war.'”

Rabbi Levin concluded: "Let no person think that this directive is merely an intellectual exercise. This is a call to action to uphold the natural and moral law with pro-active voting according to our religious values. There can be no middle ground when it comes to the Sacred Laws: Marriage is between one man and one woman, and respect for all human life is obligatory. Now go out, spread the word and vote accordingly."

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[topher]

I am tempted to put this as Breaking News.

But as Red Skeleton used to say: "If I dood it, I get in trouble. I dood it anyway."

I will resist this time...

[Brian Kopp DPM]

This really is momentous, groundbreaking news. I would ask the moderators to please consider putting this in “Breaking News.”

[topher]

For other article on this (Freerepublic thread on LifeSiteNews.com article):

Catholics Can't Vote for Pro-Abort Politicians: Cardinal-Designate Burke

[topher]

We need some Evangelicals and other Christian leaders to join in this.

Focus on the Family -- Someone has access to that leadership?

and so on...

[Servant of the Cross]

This really is momentous, groundbreaking news.

I agree. 1,000 Rabbi's of the Rabbinical Alliance of America uniting with American Cardinal-designate, Raymond L. Burke, Prefect of the Catholic Church's highest court, spells big trouble for the Libs. This will negatively impact the votes in two of the voting blocks that gave the socialists their election victory in 2008.

[Emmett McCarthy]

I concur whole heartedly - because it sure won’t be part of “breaking news” anywhere else - and it damned well should be!

[topher]

This possibly could sway votes in Connecticut and Delaware.

Additionally, Los Angeles has one of the largest Jewish populations in the world. Los Angeles and New York City used to be the two largest. I don't know what the current numbers.

But Carly Fiorina could benefit from this, as well as the candidates in Connecticut and Delaware...

[JerseyHighlander]

The RAA is like the RC Cola to the Rabbinical Council of America’s Coca-Cola.

Also, the RAA spokesman in the original article is batshiate crazy and blamed the Haiti earthquake on voodoo worship and homosexuality back in February.

The RAA did however condemn Kagan when she was up for the Supreme Court seat.

The RAA is also the group that endorsed then unendorsed NY Republican candidate Carl Paladino for his condemnation and then apology for anti-gay remarks.

ALl in all, the RAA make great theatre, I strongly doubt even their pews follow then national leadership as they go off half cocked on political tangents pretty often.

[JerseyHighlander]

Forgot to mention this one... oldly but goody,
the scum of the earth over at the Southern Poverty Law Center once included the RAA in it’s list of domestic hate groups. Currently the “People for the American Way” frontgroup also have RAA and Yehuda Levin listed as a hategroup.

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:hn8OT8SPoq4J:mysite.verizon.net/vze4mzty/id15.html+%22Rabbinical+Alliance+of+America%22+%22southern+poverty+law+center%22&cd=3&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us

ABRAHAM HECHT AT BORO HALL: A visit to Brooklyn Borough Hall by controversial Rabbi Abraham Hecht and his Rabbinical Alliance of America drew the ire of one of our readers.
In June 1995, Hecht offered a religious justification for the assassination of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin. Four months later, Rabin was assassinated. Hecht was banned from Israel for two years, but eventually apologized and was given a reprieve.
According to a Jewish Press article, at the group’s conference at Borough Hall, Borough President Marty Markowitz spoke of his long friendship with Hecht, who in turn spoke of Markowitz’s long friendship with the alliance.
The alliance has been described by Hatewatch.org (a subsidiary of the Southern Poverty Law Center), as “an extremist organization opposed to basic human rights.”
In 1997 the group said it would boycott the U.S. Holocaust Museum if it referred to gay victims of the Holocaust. Such material would be “a perversion” an alliance spokesman testified before Congress, adding, “Do we have a prostitutes’ exhibit?”
The alliance’s homophobia apparently persists: The Jewish Press account of the Borough Hall event included a detailed description of the group’s fight against gay rights in Jerusalem.
We e-mailed the reader’s complaint to Markowitz, who replied:
“This group asked permission to hold one of their breakfast meetings at Borough Hall and at no time did I or any member of my staff participate in their agenda, and other than a brief opening remark, I was not present during the course of their meeting. Many organizations have meetings and receptions at Borough Hall. It is a “public” facility. I do not have to personally agree with each group’s agenda nor do I or my staff “screen” the organization’s purpose or agenda for their gathering in Borough Hall.”
That didn’t satisfy the reader, who asked rhetorically if a Muslim cleric who’d called for the Israeli prime minister’s assassination would be welcome at Borough Hall.

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[pillut48]

Not Catholic, but wondering why, oh why aren’t abortion-promoting liberal *Catholic* candidates and politicians BANNED from the Church???

[topher]

In 2004, Archbishop John Franics Donoghue of Atlanta ex-communicated pro-abortion politicians.

The Archbishop who followed him lifted that ban.

So it has been a hit/miss proposition. Mostly miss.

But there is an exception.

Ask Congressman Patrick Kennedy (of Rhode Island) about that.

He was in private discussions with his Bishop [Tobin of Providence].

Then Congressman Patrick Kennedy took these discussions public.

As a result, so did the bishop.

Result: Patrick Kennedy is not running for re-election...

The Patrick Kennedy-Tobin situation (discussions between the Bishop and pro-abortion politician) seem to be the exception and not the rule.

It is possible that there are dialogues going on between some Bishops and some poltiicians (probably in vain).

[Integrityrocks]

For the same reason that Jess dined with tax collectors and prostitutes...

[Integrityrocks]

For the same reason that Jesus dined with tax collectors and prostitutes...

[MrB]

What kind of “church” would allow Tiller the Killer to attend, either?

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I have seldom seen such moral clarity as Rabbi Levin's statement below:

Rabbi Levin concluded: "Let no person think that this directive is merely an intellectual exercise. This is a call to action to uphold the natural and moral law with pro-active voting according to our religious values. There can be no middle ground when it comes to the Sacred Laws: Marriage is between one man and one woman, and respect for all human life is obligatory. Now go out, spread the word and vote accordingly."

[Niuhuru]

This is fabulous. Talk about epitomizing putting doctrinal differences aside for a common cause. Now all we need to do is stop the interfaith squabbling in America and Christianity and we will be able to more than take on the Muzzies.

[The Comedian]

Not Catholic, but wondering why, oh why aren’t abortion-promoting liberal *Catholic* candidates and politicians BANNED from the Church???

Because they put a lot of coin in the baskets.

Frowning takes 68 muscles.
Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.

[pillut48]

Awesome! :-)

[Lucius Cornelius Sulla]

‘why aren’t abortion-promoting liberal *Catholic* candidates and politicians BANNED from the Church???’

Same reason murderers aren’t banned from the Church.

[trisham]

Exactly right.