What's so bad about youth in Asia?
Posted on 02/20/2007 4:16:17 PM PST by wagglebee
PARIS, February 20, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) - The Socialist Party candidate seeking to replace Jacques Chirac as President of France in the upcoming April election has promised to legalize euthanasia. Speaking on prime-time television last night, Ségolène Royal said, "It is time to launch a public debate on this question. I would seek legislation which would allow people to face up with dignity to the most intense suffering."
Royal is running ten points behind the frontrunner for the presidency, Nicholas Sarkozy of the centre-right Union for a Popular Movement. The race has been described as a battle for the soul of France as the two leaders are diametrically opposed on matters of life and family.
While Royal has promised to legalize homosexual "marriage" and homosexual adoption of children, Sarkozy has maintained that the family must be protected. "Our model," he said, "must remain that of a heterosexual family: children need a father and a mother."
Sarkozy, currently the French interior minister, has even called for France to repudiate its anti-religious prejudice and look again at a positive relationship between Church and state. In a book-length interview entitled La République, les religions, l'espérance [The Republic, the Religions, and Hope], given last year, Sarkozy recalled critically "the preceding generations" that "scorned, despised, and ridiculed priests and friars."
Moreover he called for churches to be able to take part in state funds allocated for charitable works. Acknowledging that the Church provides hope, help for the helpless, and is generally a positive force for society, he criticizes those who "think it is natural for the state to finance a soccer field, a library, a theatre, a childcare center; but whenever it is a matter of the needs of a place of worship, the state should not spend so much as a penny."
We are seeing this all over the world.
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Won't that cut down her voter base?
What's so bad about youth in Asia?
Hey maybe the French are sick of the socialist agenda...hopefully WE will get there before 2008 (not holding breath).
I'm sure the Muslim immigrants from the Maghreb would be happy to speed up the process if given the chance.
Have at it France!
"Royal is running ten twenty points behind the frontrunner."
Let's hope it stays that way!
We've been seeing a lot of it on FreeRepublic lately. I just hope it turns out better for the French than it seems to be turning out for the Freepers.
that ought to win the old vote.
Hmm, if she's doing so badly that she has to promise everything under the sun there may be some hope yet for France. Go Sarkozy!
Sadly, you're right.
I think a socialist system needs euthanasia. Its just cheaper than costly health care for those who really are not contributing. Sick but true.
It is now looking like a certain win for Sarkovy. He has a very large lead in the first round, 33 to 26 points, over Royal; given that the #3 and #4 candidates are another center-right candidate and the nationalist candidate. In the run-off, Sarkovy is projected to win by 10 points.
Sarkovy has deftly appealed both to nationalist and centrists. Here, in America, when a candidate can combine social conservatives + soft libertarians + moderate Republicans, it spells victory. Apparently, that's the way it is in France as well.
The electorate in France has shifted to the right. It used to be that the Socialists + Communists + assorted other fringe leftists equaled about 50 percent of the vote. But, this year, Royal would have to figure out how to motivate the hard core left to vote for her in the second round, and also appeal to a lot of non-socialist centrists. This is looking more and more impossible.
In my opinion, Royal has moved to the left to shake things up, maybe because she has figured out that appealing to the non-Socialist center ain't going to do the job, so, why not?
We can only hope that Hillary and the Democrats do the same thing next year.
The issue becomes compounded when the State runs the health care system.
I'm wondering when these Socialists are going to come right out and declare that they are the "Death Party"
All over the world, all over FR. Evil is everywhere.
It sure feels like I pray a lot more than I used to.
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