One of the American bishops (Burke, I think) rightly censured his fellow bishops and the Catholic News Service for confusing Catholics by intimating that there were other social justice issues which carried as great a weight as abortion. Since I know a fair number of Catholics who did not consider the Iraq war to meet just war principles, Obama's anti-war stance may have played a part. As well, there are many Catholics who share the Democrat vision of social welfare. To balance that 52% out, there were almost as many Catholics like myself who consider abortion to be the ultimate social injustice, and voted accordingly.
I am not Catholic either.
One does not have to be Roman Catholic to know that abortion is evil, wicked, sinful, and totally wrong.
That said, how many of our contemporary Christian faiths are taking a strong stand in upholding the basic right to life?
Last night, O’Reilly kept try to push the Catholic Priest with the argument that SanFranNan was just upholding the Constitution regarding the “freedom of religion”. I thought O’Reilly had a point there, until I thought about it while going to sleep.
It dawned on my that the Catholic priest was being polite, and not reminding O’Reilly (probably a Catholic) on the air, that the Constitution also supports the “right to life”, so as not to embarrass him. But, I’ll bet he mentioned it to him once the cameras were off, or by e-mail!
We can’t cherry pick the Constitution for the pieces we like, as if in a cafeteria line. And, we can’t pick which of the Ten Commandments we like either.
My rant off.....
Yeah... “social justice”, a meaningless phrase intended simply to silence any opposition to the fascist processes that the speaker intends to implement,
is more important than mass infanticide.