State’s righter’s like me want this battle fought on all fronts, we don’t make either side the enemy. We want the national people to fight while we fight on the State battle. We don’t go around saying that the national-only people are really pro-abortion because they don’t agree with us, we just see it as a tactic difference.
I am a State’s righter because I believe it brings the fastest change to start saving babies and it will also give us a guidepost when we know when to pull the trigger on a national Constitutional amendment. I don’t for an instant, believe the national folks are pro-death.
It is like the Air Force and the Marines both involved in a battle.. they are both battling the same enemy, just from different logistical viewpoints. When do you ever see someone from the Air Force saying that a Marine fighting on the ground is actually working for the enemy because he isn’t flying also?
Then yours is hardly the normal "state's righter's" argument.
One becomes tired of the incessant bleating about the right of states to determine this issue- A right never given to them in any sense whatsoever.
I am a State’s righter because I believe it brings the fastest change to start saving babies and it will also give us a guidepost when we know when to pull the trigger on a national Constitutional amendment.
However well intentioned, I believe that 30 years of history are quite telling against your position. Furthermore, what man giveth, man taketh away- Even if you do get your state victory, all it will take is one federal jurist to overturn that work with another newer edict, regardless of how many states you might get to follow your lead.
And finally, relegating any of the enumerated unalienable rights to the mere authority of man, not to mention the states, endangers them all- And while Life is undoubtedly the most significant, folks might assume that one might have passed them by, as they have successfully made it beyond the womb. But it will not stop there. If those unalienable rights are merely declared by old men, then any old man can come and take them ALL away.
When do you ever see someone from the Air Force saying that a Marine fighting on the ground is actually working for the enemy because he isn’t flying also?
I will welcome my "state's rights" FRiends under the Pro-Life banner, and I will exchange friendly words with you here, and argue the finer points, as much as my patience will allow, but I will not allow deviation of the Pro-Life agenda. not one inch of variance. Nor will I stand by and see that agenda back away from goals which are set_in_stone. Our friendship *ends* when a candidate arrives sporting less than the full-fledged dyed-in-the-wool Pro-Life platform, and attempts to don the Pro-Life mantle.
As a Social Conservative, as a Reaganite, and as a true defender of the Constitution, I will rise up with all four feet against such a candidate, to include Sarah Palin.
And I will serve you this warning, too. I will predict that if Sarah Palin runs, it will be the Christians that hand her defeat, more than any other faction.
Do *not* mess with Life.