Posted on 10/14/2004 9:46:25 PM PDT by Coleus
could it be becasue he has the courage and fortitude to stand up to Mr. Antichrist Kerry and his demonic minions?
No...it is Kerry who would hand the election to President Bush.
No one is stopping Kerry from accepting the teaching of the Church, and becoming pro-life.
Equating pacifism resulting in genocide to the killing of the unborn is an argument bereft of morality and logic.
"I'm a politician who just happens to be a Catholic."
Looks like the author cannot, in good conscience, vote for either Pres. Bush or Sen. Kerry. She must find some other candidate to support. Or decline to vote.
Of course, any "pro-life Bergen Record writer" has been indoctrinated enough by her employer to know what she is and isn't allowed to write. By trying to have it both ways, she fails miserably at both. She is the wrong writer in the wrong newspaper at the wrong time.
Correct. It doesn't match Catholic teaching for centuries. Unfortunately, the Vatican has been playing a game of moral equivalency for the last few decades; the end result is that a lot of supposed Catholics really don't know what to think any more. You can blame the bishops (and yes, the pope) for their various confusing and ambivalent statements over the last 34 years.
Wow!
=== I believe life begins at conception
Anyone who believes this cannot possibly vote for Bush.
Typical liberal blarney reflecting shallow, wanna-be intellectualism.
Editorials like this make my blood boil. I actually haven't read the whole thing - my blood pressure can't stand it.
John Kerry-10/7/04 (Presidential Debate): First of all, I cannot tell you how deeply I respect the belief about life and when it begins.
John Kerry-10/13/04 (Presidential Debate): I will defend the right of Roe v. Wade.
4/23/04: Democratic presidential candidate Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass speaks in support of baby murder aka abortion at national rally in Washington, D.C. Kerry is flanked by Kate Michelman, President of NARAL Pro-Choice America, left and Gloria Feldt, President of Planned Parenthood Federation of America, right. Feldt also lavishly praised Kerry at the Democratic National Convention.
Kerry on abortion-10/7/04: You know, it's just not that simple.
G.K. Chesterton: Moral issues are always terribly complex, for someone without principles.
Kerry on abortion-10/7/04 But I can't take what is an article of faith for me and legislate it
Being against killing unborn children-abortion is not an article of faith, it is being humane and civilized. It is a scientific fact not an an article of faith that human life begins at conceptionnot birth.
Birth is one day in the life of a person who is already nine months old.
Abortion is murder.
A bump for Archbishop John Myers!
The two defining pictures of Kerry are the one you've posted, and another AP photo of him at a fundraiser with Patty Osama Mama Murphy and Baghdad Jim McDermott, all three of them chummy as all get out and beaming from ear to ear.
But I also believe most wars are wrong.
I believe it's wrong to stand by while half a continent needlessly suffers and dies from AIDS. It's wrong to allow people in this country to die of easily curable illness because they have no health insurance. It's wrong to condemn children to lifelong poverty and waste their minds by denying them even the most basic education. It's wrong to allow corporate greed and influence to take precedence over fairness and generosity in the workplace, in the environment and in how we care for the most vulnerable in our nation and the world.
You can actually make the case that war is wrong. You can launch a searing indictment against America for doing too little about the dreadful death and suffering in Africa. You can chastise her for her greed - which greed permeates almost every aspect of our lives to some degree.
You cannot, cannot, cannot, however, hold these positions with any consistency while looking the other way while the little lives least deserving of death are thoughtlessly snuffed out for no better reason than another person's whim.
You have to subscribe to what I call the "poof" theory: At some arbitrary point along in her development, POOF! the entity suddenly becomes human. That, my friends, is anathema not only to morality, our religious convictions, and science, but to common sense.
He left out the third of Washington's favorite sons and daughters, Maria Can't-vote-very-well.
No one likes wars .. but sometimes one has to go to war to save peoples lives
Hitler murdered Millions of people .. and would have murder millions more if there was no war to stop him
Saddam murdered hundreds of thousands of people and would have murdered more if he had not been stopped
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