YOU PRO-ABORTS WILL FIND IT GRATIFYING.
Time to stop sugar-coating this subject. This shot was taken by a pro-life activist behind an abortuary. But those aren’t human babies. The One has told us so.
Posted on 12/07/2008 10:32:07 AM PST by wagglebee
Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- Nationally syndicated columnist Kathleen Parker made herself the scourge of the pro-life community when she blamed emphasis of pro-life issues for allowing Barack Obama to win the presidential election. In a new article, Parker is backing down slightly from those arguments, but still bungles the facts.
Parker drew guffaws originally for blaming the presidential election loss on "oogedy-boogedy" pro-life advocates.
In her new column she urges the evangelical and conservative Catholic pro-life advocates to give up their religious-based pro-life arguments and tells them to "take a cue from Nat Hentoff, a self-described Jewish atheist, who has written as eloquently as anyone about the 'indivisibility of life' and the slippery slope down which abortion leads."
"Hentoff's arguments, and others on related issues, ultimately may fail. But at least they will fail for reasons other than that oogedy-boogedy got in the way," she says.
Ramesh Ponnuru, a writer at National Review, responds to Parker, and informs her that pro-life advocates already advance their arguments in non-theological terms.
"Most pro-lifers agree with this too," Ponnuru says, adding that "the National Right to Life Committee doesn't base its arguments on ensoulment."
"My book on the life issues, widely praised by pro-lifers, does not advance a single theological argument or differ in any significant respect from the argument that Hentoff makes," he adds. "The Catholic Church doesn't even base its argument for protecting the unborn on Scripture or any doctrine about ensoulment."
Parker still argues that Republicans are too associated with "white Christians" for their political health and therefore need to distance themselves from the religious conservatives.
Ponnuru says that would be a recipe for disaster.
"This line of argument continues to strike me as misguided," he explains. "Is it really true that Republicans would have more appeal to blacks and Hispanics if they downplayed the social issues or were more careful to frame their socially-conservative arguments in non-theological terms?"
"That seems to me to be a very hard case to make, which is perhaps why I have never seen Parker try," he says.
Parker also continues to ignore how pro-life issues have helped presidential candidates such as President Bush.
"As long as the religious right is seen as controlling the Republican Party, the GOP will continue to lose some percentage of voters," Parker claims.
But that contention doesn't square with the facts.
In the 2004 presidential election, John Kerry lost to President Bush in 2004 in part because of his pro-abortion views.
A 2004 Wirthlin Worldwide post-election poll found that 42 percent of voters said abortion affected the way they voted for president. Twenty-four percent of voters cast their ballots for President Bush while 15% voted for Kerry, giving Bush a 9 percent advantage on the issue of abortion.
Eight percent of voters in the Wirthlin poll indicated abortion was the "most important" issue affecting their votes and Bush won among those voters by a six to two percent margin, leading Kerry by four percentage points among the most intense abortion voters.
This exactly what the Whigs said about abolitionists, look how that turned out.
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Kathleen....PLEASE LEAVE THE PARTY NOW!
you are obvioulsy in the wrong place.
If it takes starting a new party I will never vote for a Pro-Choice(read that pro-death)candidate.
Does this woman mean anything? Anything at all? She needs to join the lefities and their mad leader Obama.
The girls voted for Obama because they are in love with him. They are all looking for daddies. Abortion had nothing to do with it.
Women’s Voting Patterns in Election 2008
“Unmarried women supported Barack Obama by a 70-to-29 percent margin, and they voted for Democratic House candidates by a similar margin — 64-to-29 percent. These margins mean that unmarried women edged out both younger voters and Hispanic voters as the demographic with the strongest support for President-elect Obama.”
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No, we lost because we had a RINO as our nominee, we were facing a fundraising machine with superior organization, and we had the cloud of GWB hanging over our heads. I actually think 46% was pretty good considering the circumstances.
And on down ticket races was the same thing, except to top it off we had the worst NRSC chairman since Liddy Dole. I didn’t think it was possible to do worse than her, but somehow John Ensign managed to do it!!!!
She sounds like another idiot like Fred Barnes, Mort Kondracke, Bill Kristol, Peggy Noonan, o’Reilly and other faux conservative RINOs.
Our conservative talk show “heroes’ have been AWOL cowards on the Leo Donofrio story too.
YOU PRO-ABORTS WILL FIND IT GRATIFYING.
Time to stop sugar-coating this subject. This shot was taken by a pro-life activist behind an abortuary. But those aren’t human babies. The One has told us so.
“I’m the Oogedy Boogedy Man!”
And take Margaret Hoover with you!!!!
It is the leftist media which characterizes pro-lifers as fringy Christian zealots. Most Christian pro-lifers I know also consider it to be a rights issue and have no trouble articulating that aspect of the debate if the listener is not swayed by purely theological reasoning.
Don’t leave Hannity off the list, he spent years giving Rooty Toot cover for his pro-abortion beliefs.
The best thing to do with this stupid woman is ignore her. And the same goes for Peggy Noonan.
She is a Lo$er. Is clueless. Who cares about what she has to say.
BTW - I am not part of the religious right. But, am part of the extreme right. :-)
Never heard of her.
I think Parker and Noonan need to find new audiences. No point in preaching to religious conservatives as if they were about to turn into baby killers.
Maybe Kathleen could get a job working for Dr. Tiller. I hear the pay is good.
I remember when Peggy wrote that piece about Mother Teresa speaking the truth about abortion at the White House prayer breakfast, in front of bill and hill. That may have been her single best column. it’s been all downhill since.
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