Hannity asked him at one point where he stood on abortion. Wallis replied that he was a staunch "pro-life" advocate. Wallis then proceded to define "pro-life" as legal abortion on demand (claiming that he would support lots of waiting periods and counseling). When Hannity called him on that one, Wallis argued that he wasn't going to let Hannity frame the issues.
Hannity then turned to Jerry Falwell and asked him whether he would support any form of abortion. Falwell said no and gave a nice, short little monologue about overturning Roe v. Wade, and outlawing all abortions. Falwell also emphasized the importance of supporting women who choose not to have abortions.
In a poignant emphasis of the fact that the democrats have hired a pig to dress them up in sunday clothes, Falwell was silent throughout Wallis's 5 minutes of prevarication and doublespeak. Except for one muffled bit of laughter when Wallis refused to admit that a pro-abortion legal policy is not "pro-life". In contrast, Wallis talked and made viscious comments ("You're a liar, Jerry. You don't speak for evangelicals or christians.") throughout Falwell's entire answer, despite that Wallis literally had 5 full minutes of uninterrupted air time to explain his "pro-life" baby-killing ethics while Falwell did his part in about 45 seconds.
The only scary thing is that there are Christians out there who do not read their bibles, who just want someone to tell them that God didn't *really* mean it that way. "He couldn't have meant that, because that's not how I live."
I think the only one who sounded like a "horse's rear end" today was Hannity, and I usually agree with him.
Wallis was correct - the only way to stop abortion is to make it legal and to convince women who want one that there is a better alternative.
Anyone who thinks otherwise is probably too young to remember when abortions were illegal, common, and too often resulted in the death of the mother as well as her baby.
I suppose people who think that abortion deserves the death penalty will think that's fine, but I don't.
I downloaded the 1st chapter of Wallis' book. He says, "If the Democrats could be persuaded by both good political sense and sound moral values to moderate some of their positions by becoming anti-abortion without criminalizing an agonizing and desperate choice, and being profamily without being anti-gay, they would change politics in America ..".
That sounds like a faith without backbone. Do we want to be against murder without criminalizing it? Do we want to condemn theft without being anti-burglar?