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To: RKBA Democrat

Pro-death Catholics are a very small minority, this IS NOT the case with libertarians.

Another difference is that Catholicism is a religion, NOT a political ideology.


71 posted on 09/17/2008 5:25:38 PM PDT by wagglebee ("A political party cannot be all things to all people." -- Ronald Reagan, 3/1/75)
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To: wagglebee

“Pro-death Catholics are a very small minority, this IS NOT the case with libertarians.”

I respectfully disagree. I think if you were to survey those who identify themselves as Catholic, you’d find that the differences in attitudes towards prenatal infanticide and those of the general population are not that different. Unfortunately. Here’s an old (but interesting) story from National Catholic Reporter:

http://ncronline.org/NCR_Online/archives2/2005c/093005/093005o.php

As for libertarians generally being in favor of prenatal infanticide, I would tend to agree. But I think you greatly overstate the point. There is a healthy minority who strongly oppose the practice and who are just as libertarian in their views otherwise.

“Another difference is that Catholicism is a religion, NOT a political ideology.”

You apparently haven’t been around libertarians much. They often times are more zealous in their philosophical beliefs than folks who are religious.


88 posted on 09/18/2008 2:17:01 AM PDT by RKBA Democrat (Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on me, a sinner!)
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