Posted on 10/10/2008 3:29:49 PM PDT by HaplessToad
Ummmmmmmm no. Murder is murder.
“Can there be common ground on abortion?”
Yes. We can stop it.
Tony Campolo, IIRC, is the “evangelical” pastor who counseled Impeached 42 after his Lewinsky admission.
Comfortable with faux repentant liberals, Campolo seems to me to be less than orthodox...I think he is a relativist.
What a pitful excuse for reasoning.
He has no beliefs other than expediency.
Can there be common ground on adultery?
Can there be common ground on thievery?
Can there be common ground on covetousness?
Can there be common ground on lying?
“In this role, I played a part in framing the abortion plank of the party’s platform. I helped the party to take what some have called an “historic step” by having the party become committed to abortion reduction.”
My hero. How about reduction....to zero?
Abortion is wrong. Abortion is being used for birth control and that is wrong.
Partial birth abortion is murder. And I don’t care if the child is retarded or deformed.
Those doctors that preform such procedures are murderers and should be treated as such. Those politicians who support these procedures should be stoned in a public square.
“More than 60 percent of all abortions are economically driven.”
Funny, I thought it was to prevent “saddling...them with a mistake.”
President Bush vetoed the Embryonic Stem Cell federal funding bill. He has had a direct and positive effect in regards to pro-life issues you dope.
Only 4 of the 9 members of SCOTUS are conservative you double dope.
I’m sure Mr. Campolo would say, “Yes,” to all of those, if the person’s emotional, psychological, financial, or physical desires caused them to engage in behavior that causes others to be judgmental.
I wonder if he did anything to remove tax-payer paid abortions from the platform...
He has been a phony christian for a long time!
Absolutely not unless that common ground is that it is evil. You might as well ask if we can all agree that, if I believe that 2 + 2 = 4 and you believe that 2 + 2 = 6, we can therefore agree that 2 + 2 = 5.
The founding fathers were very clear. There shall be no government involvement in religion, but there shall be plenty of religious involvement in politics. God may neither Democrat or Republican, but each party and each member of each party must choose to be with God or reject God. I personally approach politics based upon my faith and core convictions. At the end of it all I usually find my self saying; "hey, what do you know, I'm a Republican" far more often than not.
What was this "historic step" Tony? Your party is absolutely committed to unlimited abortion period. Your nominee is considered radical on abortion by anyone's standard.
The reality is that without provisions for hospital coverage, pre- and post-natal care, maternity leave so that a woman giving birth will not lose her job, and nursing assistance to help single mothers transition into parenthood, millions of women who want to carry their pregnancies to term will not do so.
This is sheep’s cover. There already are provisions for hospital coverage for the “poor” along with pre & post natal care. I do not favor subsidizing the middle & upper classes sexual choices. They are going to have abortions because it is just plain inconvenient. Anyone who fires someone these days for being pregnant will be looking at a lawsuit quickly. Nursing assistance? Huh? I never got that and I raised two kids. and single mothers transition into parenthood? That happens quickly all by itself.
This is all smoke and mirrors. I cannot find any place for abortion on the democratic platform or any other. Murder is not a platform issue, it is legally and morally bankrupt of any consideration.
There already is common ground on abortion. The courts say it is okay and we can’t do crap about it or any other judges that make up laws.
The Standard Bearer of your party has no problem letting babies that survive a botched abortion to die in a closet without any medical help to save them. By supporting him you are supporting infanticide you dummy. You can try and rationalize it all you want but you will need to answer to God.
TC = a lib pretending to be an evangelical
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