Posted on 12/01/2009 3:55:53 PM PST by wagglebee
Contact: Jeff Walton, Institute on Religion and Democracy, 202-682-4131, 202-413-5639 cell, jwalton@TheIRD.org
WASHINGTON, Dec. 1 /Christian Newswire/ -- The lobbying offices of the mainline churches have joined with abortion rights advocacy groups in opposing the Stupak-Pitts restriction against government health insurance funded abortions. Unlike the evangelical left, which has sought to consolidate liberal evangelical support behind Obamacare by promising protections against government funded abortion, the old religious left is urging constituents to tell the U.S. Senate to drop the abortion restriction.
"It is now up to the Senate to keep health care reform free of religious doctrine and restrictions that will prevent women from making their own reproductive health care choices," explained the Reverend Carlton Veazey of the Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice (RCRC), which includes agencies of the United Methodist Church, Episcopal Church, Presbyterian Church (USA) and the United Church of Christ.
In an alert that the United Methodist lobby office sent out to supporters, health care reform passage in the House was honored as a "major milestone." But the office lamented that "what should have been a celebratory moment" had been tarnished by "restrictive language" that "politicized health care and posed the possibility of a tremendous setback for access to comprehensive reproduction health coverage."
IRD President Mark Tooley commented:
"For the mostly new Evangelical Left and the old Religious Left, government-imposed universal health care is a long-time totem for which their activists have toiled across years and decades. Politically liberal evangelicals who still are pro-life, or who at least care about gathering support from the majority of evangelicals who are, remain anxious to preserve Stupak-Pitts.
"The old Religious Left, which has enthusiastically supported unrestricted abortion since the 1960s, sees the proposed abortion funding restriction in Obamacare as a nightmarish stain upon their utopian dream of socialized medicine.
"United Methodism officially opposes partial-birth abortions and abortions for gender-selection or birth control. But the ultra-liberal United Methodist Capitol Hill lobby office interprets the stance as supporting unrestricted abortion rights.
"Evangelical Left activists like Jim Wallis desperately want Obamacare -- even if it entails abortion restrictions -- and see Stupak-Pitts as a sweetener for their constituency. Hard-line old Religious Leftists portray Stupak-Pitts as an outrageous accommodation of theocracy.
"Both Evangelical Left and Religious Left are united in their messianic hopes for socialized health care and almost certainly will support Obamacare ultimately in any form."
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“Religious Left”
Scary thought unto itself.
Don’t worry, wagglebee, the Lord knows his own.
Maybe we grop all those who make up the Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice (RCRC)and have one huge Sodom and Gomorrah Party. What a blast and burn that would be....
Abortion is murder. In is killing the most defenseless members of our society.
“Religious Left”
Sounds like an oxymoron to me............no such thing??
I assume the term “Religious Left” is inspired by such verses as Matthew 25:33 and 25:41.
The Partial Birth Abortion Procedure
Guided by ultrasound, the abortionist grabs the baby's leg with forceps. |
The baby's leg is pulled out into the birth canal. |
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The abortionist delivers the baby's entire body, except for the head. |
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The abortionist jams scissors into the baby's skull. The scissors are then opened to enlarge the hole... |
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The scissors are removed and a suction catheter is inserted. The child's brains are sucked out, causing the skull to collapse. The dead baby is then removed. |
It’s time Christians show some courage. All Christians who know that killing babies is against God’s law should refuse to participate in the government’s hellcare plan. Christian churches should set up their own medical care system as they do in foreign countries. We will not be free unless we behave as free people. Being lapdogs for the Socialists and Communists in this country is a denial of the Faith and will mean the death of Christianity in the next generation.
not only for abortion but funded...really?
I take back my assertion that there are Christians on the left.
Graphs help.
That is certainly a human body, not an egg.
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