The USCCB screwed this up the last time. Among other things, they let the liberal bishops persuade them to include several clauses that seems to suggest that abortion is equivalent to “racism.”
Well, Abortion is murder. It is a deadly sin. Racism is an evil, but there is a big difference between, let’s say, killing blacks and calling them names. Neither is nice, neither is good, both are sinful, but it should be obvious that calling someone a bad name is not equivalent morally to killing him.
As it is, too many people say, in response to the charge that Obama is an extreme proponent of abortion, that it would be “racist” not to vote for him.
No, it’s not racism, and in any case, racism is not the moral equivalent of abortion or murder. It’s vital that the bishops’ statement should leave NO ROOM for those who pretend that they are.
Thanks to Pelosi and Biden the USCCB has had their ability to disemble circumscribed. This is a simple issue. To kill or not to kill, that is the question (with apologies to the Bard).