Posted on 05/11/2009 5:42:30 AM PDT by kellynla
Archbishop Raymond Burke, the prefect of the Supreme Tribunal of the Apostolic Signatura, the highest court in the Roman Catholic Church, told a crowd at the National Catholic Prayer Breakfast in Washington, D.C., on Friday that no matter what good positions a politician may hold on other issues it is never justified to vote for him if he supports abortion, euthanasia or same-sex marriage.
“In a nation set so firmly on a path of violation of the most fundamental moral norms, Catholics and others who adhere to the natural moral law are pressured to think that their religious commitment to the moral law as the way of seeking the good of all is a merely confessional matter which cannot have any application in public life,” Burke told a crowd gathered at the Hilton Washington.
“Apparently, a number of Catholics in public life have been so convinced,” he continued.
“How often do we hear Catholic legislators who vote in favor of anti-life and anti-family legislation claim that they are personally opposed to what the legislation protects and fosters, but that they as public officials may not allow religious beliefs to affect their support of such legislation?” he asked.
“How often do we hear fellow Catholics supporting candidates for office, who are anti-life and anti-family, because of political-party loyalties or for reasons of other policies and programs supported by the candidate, which they deem to be good?” he continued.
“How often is such thinking justified by the claim that religious faith is a purely private matter and has no place in the public forum?” said the archbishop. “On the contrary, the common good depends upon the active engagement of religious faith in the public forum.”
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He's got that right.
People are making the illogical leap that the Establishment Clause of the Constitution means that religion has no place in politics. Nothing could be farther from the truth. One's religion should inform all aspects of one's life, including the political life.
It is the religious underpinning of our society that permits our politics to function. If religion is removed, it is only a matter of time before the wolves vote themselves the right to eat the sheep.
I find abortion to be a pretty good litmus test. Red there, red elsewhere. Blue there, blue elsewhere. Waivers there, waivers elsewhere.
Too many are being taken captive...
Col 2:8
See to it that no one takes you captive through hollow and deceptive philosophy, which depends on human tradition and the basic principles of this world rather than on Christ.
I cannot understand how abortion and euthanasia, which involve violence, murder and the breaking of one of the original ten commandments, can be put on par with same-sex marriage?
I cannot understand how abortion and euthanasia, which involve violence, murder and the breaking of one of the original ten commandments, can be put on par with same-sex marriage?
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The same thing struck me.
They all kill. They all cause extreme harm.
I wouldn’t put abortion on par with homosexual ‘marriage’, other than the disgust factor...there was a time not long ago, when the thought of a man having sex with another man would have generated extreme revulsion. I’m still inclined to think Miss California should have replied, “You want to do WHAT? OMG, you are a PERVERT!!!!!”
It isn’t the seriousness of the sin, but its obviousness that disturbs me.
Amen.
They all kill. They all cause extreme harm.
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I don’t doubt your sincerity, but 2 guys getting married kills no one.
Homosexuality kills. Check out the stats. (See wagglebee’s homo agenda links.)
Do not kid yourself about the promiscuity of male homosexuals, in particular, no matter their connection. (See Holland)
Besides all that, they’ll just have to invent a new word to describe a potentially procreative union of male and female. It’s in the state’s interest for mommies and daddies to get pregnant and nurture their own offspring. The natural nuclear family is, therefore, the foundation of a stable society, and the best nesting method for rearing the next generation.
That is the only reasonable explanation for giving benefits to cohabiting adults. I could care less who they like, how they like to have sex, if they have “feelings for one another”, etc.
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Indeed. From the CDC:
Fact Sheets
Cases of HIV infection and AIDS in the United States and Dependent Areas, 2006 (Published in 2008)
Cases of HIV infection and AIDS in the United States and Dependent Areas, 2005 (Published in 2007)
Cases of HIV Infection and AIDS in the United States, 2004 (Published in 2006)
Cases of HIV Infection and AIDS in the United States, 2003
Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) Risk, Prevention, and Testing Behaviors --- United States, National HIV Behavioral Surveillance System: Men Who Have Sex with Men, November 2003--April 2005
HIV and Its Transmission
HIV/AIDS among Women
Abortion and euthanasia are acts of violence perpetrated on innocent victims.
Sodomy may result in death, but 99% of the time there is no victim.
An immoral behaviour cannot be equated with an act of extreme violence.
Nevertheless, 99.99% of those with HIV made the choice to contract the disease by sharing needles, participating in extramarital sexual acts of various types or both.
There are few, very few, innocent victims of HIV.
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Exactly and this has been demonstrated throughout history. NO civilization which I am aware of has EVER done otherwise.
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