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Evangelical leader: Vote for Hillary Clinton, she’ll cut abortion rate in half
LifeSite ^ | Tue Apr 21, 2015 | Ben Johnson

Posted on 04/23/2015 7:27:08 PM PDT by presidio9

A national evangelical Christian leader has written that his fellow believers should vote for Democratic presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton, because she will radically reduce the abortion rate.

Hillary, in whose campaign abortion industry lobbyists play a conspicuous role, favors abortion-on-demand throughout pregnancy. Yet Tony Campolo believes a second Clinton presidency will halve the number of abortions nationwide.

“Hillary Clinton is one of the few candidates on the political stage who has a plan for cutting the abortion rate in America by at least 50 percent,” Campolo, a sociology professor emeritus at Eastern University, wrote in a debate on Religion News Service on April 13.

His piece, entitled “Why Christians Should Vote for Hillary,” admitted that “some of my Evangelical friends raise questions about her views on abortion,” but that is misplaced.

“Abortions will not be ended through legislation,” he wrote. Instead, America needs a president committed to implementing interventionist economic programs and “diminishing the urgency that drives so many oppressed women into having abortions.”

Campolo, who acted as an adviser to President Bill Clinton following his affair with Monica Lewinsky, praised Hillary's faith and role as a committed wife.

“I know Hillary Clinton to be a committed Christian,” because she “was one of the most faithful attendees of the Senate’s weekly prayer meetings,” he vouched.

Her decision not to divorce Bill Clinton after his serial philandering went public, he said, “showed that the promises she made to her husband on their wedding day were binding through better and worse.”

On the subject of marriage itself, Campolo favors government-recognized civil unions for homosexuals. Hillary recently endorsed same-sex “marriage” as a constitutional right.

In the opinion piece for the liberal religious news outlet, Campolo extolled Hillary's public record from her days as first lady of Arkansas through her service as Secretary of State, calling her a “brilliant negotiator.” Although she was “by no means perfect in making policy decisions,” particularly her decision to vote for the authorization of the use of force to topple Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein in 2002, she is committed to “progressive” policies, and “her future carefulness will keep her from making that kind of mistake again.”

“As a pro-life Democrat, I am encouraged by the possibility that Hillary could be our next president,” he concluded.

Hillary Clinton has attempted to present herself as an evangelical, saying last year that “the Bible was and remains the biggest influence on my thinking.” However, enthusiasm is notably absent from most Christian brethren, among whom Clinton polls poorly. Her record on abortion and other social issues contradicts their most deeply held views.

When Bill Clinton vetoed the partial birth ban, which passed the Republican-controlled Congress, he said that he and Hillary had prayed about it before killing the life-saving legislation. As a U.S. senator, she earned a 100 percent voting record from NARAL Pro-Choice America, including votes against the partial birth abortion ban, parental notification, and in favor of expanding embryonic stem cell research.

During her 2008 presidential campaign, the pro-life group Democrats for Life of America deemed her “pro-choice in all circumstances,” adding that Clinton was “not directly opposed to physician assisted suicide.”

In his rebuttal to Campolo, National Review writer David French also questioned her competence, dismissing her eight years in the U.S. Senate as “undistinguished at best, with no notable legislative accomplishments” and casting doubt on her tenure as the Obama administration's top diplomat.

“After the United States launched an undeclared air war to drive Muammar Gaddafi from power” in Libya, Obama and Clinton “so mismanaged the transition of power that the American ambassador and three other brave Americans were not only killed, but jihadists drove Americans from our embassy and later filmed themselves swimming in the ambassador’s pool,” he wrote.

“In Egypt, the United States actually backed the Muslim Brotherhood – the same organization that helped launch al-Qaeda and Hamas,” he added.

Clinton's tenure as Secretary of State was so light that she once boasted the U.S. Embassy “played an instrumental role in bringing Lady Gaga to Italy” for a gay pride concert in Rome.

Although she seems unlikely to have the same appeal among evangelicals that her husband did, Hillary is considered the likely 2016 Democratic nominee. Potential challengers including Martin O'Malley and Elizabeth Warren likewise favor abortion-on-demand, often at taxpayers' expense.

None of the declared or likely Republican presidential candidates support abortion.


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To: presidio9

Campolo and Jim Wallis...use the term “evangelical” like some people float names to make you think they are important.
There is no way this woman cuts the abortion rate in half. Hillary will be a disaster as POTUS
Freegards
LEX


21 posted on 04/23/2015 7:44:54 PM PDT by lexington minuteman 1775
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To: presidio9

I wouldn’t listen to Tony Campolo on how to boil water.


22 posted on 04/23/2015 7:46:13 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Be a blessing to a stranger today for some have entertained angels unaware)
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To: Gamecock

Evangelical leader?

Never heard of him.

$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$

It was Tony Campolo that was walking next to Billy Jeff at Ron Brown’s funeral, when Billy Jeff was smiling his face off, noticed the cameras, and broke into the fake cry:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pr8Y9qguTgc#t=34


23 posted on 04/23/2015 7:47:02 PM PDT by Eccl 10:2 (Prov 3:5 --- "Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding")
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To: presidio9

Yeah, I got an email about him. Did a little research and discovered his connection to bill and that was all I needed to know. He is nuts.


24 posted on 04/23/2015 7:47:46 PM PDT by MamaB
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To: Genoa

In the MSM, “evangelical” means “left-wing Christian who likes Democrats.” Right-wing conservative Christians are “extremists.”


25 posted on 04/23/2015 7:48:50 PM PDT by chajin ("There is no other name under heaven given among people by which we must be saved." Acts 4:12)
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To: presidio9

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“Tony Campolo” must mean mindless moron!
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26 posted on 04/23/2015 7:49:15 PM PDT by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: mrsmel

” I’m glad to be a fundamentalist, so far our definition hasn’t been watered down.”

Worse, that word is synonymous with ISIS.


27 posted on 04/23/2015 7:52:13 PM PDT by sagar
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To: MamaB
"Yet Tony Campolo believes a second Clinton presidency will halve the number of abortions nationwide."

$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$

How that will work is that whenever a man gets an erection, the woman will show a picture of Hillary, and voila, erection gone:


28 posted on 04/23/2015 7:52:34 PM PDT by Eccl 10:2 (Prov 3:5 --- "Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding")
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To: presidio9

Oppressed women is not the cause of abortion, BTW, not that I’m responding to the totally outrageous premise of this insane article.

From ‘The Gospel of Life’(Evangelium Vitae):

They are linked by a common mentality, which is that I may stifle the power of sex to produce a new life. Pope John Paul II wrote in his encyclical The Gospel of Life, “ It is frequently asserted that contraception, if made safe and available to all, is the most effective remedy against abortion. The Catholic Church is then accused of actually promoting abortion, because she obstinately continues to teach the moral unlawfulness of contraception. When looked at carefully, this objection is clearly unfounded. It may be that many people use contraception with a view to excluding the subsequent temptation of abortion. But the negative values inherent in the “contraceptive mentality”—which is very different from responsible parenthood, lived in respect for the full truth of the conjugal act—are such that they in fact strengthen this temptation when an unwanted life is conceived. Indeed, the pro- abortion culture is especially strong precisely where the Church’s teaching on contraception is rejected” (n. 13).


29 posted on 04/23/2015 7:53:27 PM PDT by stanne
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To: sagar

Well you have a point there. But I think that even the most disingenuous leftist knows at least in their shriveled black hearts that Christian fundamentalists don’t go around decapitating people for being “infidels”.


30 posted on 04/23/2015 7:55:22 PM PDT by mrsmel (One Who Can See)
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To: presidio9

Hillary lives for the death of others. Don't be fooled.

31 posted on 04/23/2015 7:58:39 PM PDT by Slyfox (If I'm ever accused of being a Christian, I'd like there to be enough evidence to convict me)
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To: BenLurkin

yeah he’s the one yucking it up with BJ at the Ron Brown funeral until the bent one saw the cameras then pretended to wipe away a tear


32 posted on 04/23/2015 7:59:08 PM PDT by Lib-Lickers 2
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To: presidio9

Reduce abortions by half?

Hang a picture of Hillary in the bedroom....


33 posted on 04/23/2015 7:59:53 PM PDT by JJ_Folderol (Diagonally parked in a parallel universe...)
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To: lexington minuteman 1775

well perhaps....men would be far less likely to want to mate with their wives after seeing the thoroughly repulsive hillary..day after day.... on TV?


34 posted on 04/23/2015 8:00:01 PM PDT by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
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To: JJ_Folderol

GMTA please see above!


35 posted on 04/23/2015 8:00:27 PM PDT by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
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To: presidio9

Tony Campolo is a Judas goat.


36 posted on 04/23/2015 8:05:02 PM PDT by madison10
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To: presidio9

If he means because people looking at her face every day will lose all interest in sex, or because young men will be persecuted if they look at a young woman slightly, sorta, kinda, that everyone will be too nauseated to have sex and produce a fetus to be aborted .... I could see that.


37 posted on 04/23/2015 8:09:17 PM PDT by Tanniker Smith (Rome didn't fall in a day, either.)
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To: presidio9

There are wolves among the flock hiding as sheep.


38 posted on 04/23/2015 8:12:29 PM PDT by RginTN
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To: faithhopecharity
There have been numerous polls of aborted women asking the reasons for their decision to have abortions. Lack of interventionist economic development programs is never among them.
39 posted on 04/23/2015 8:15:36 PM PDT by hinckley buzzard
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To: WKUHilltopper

cutting the abortion rate in America by at least 50 percent,” —

OK, here’s how to calculate that.

Make it illegal for men to get abortions. That’s 50% right there.


40 posted on 04/23/2015 8:24:47 PM PDT by Scrambler Bob (an icon of resistance within the oppressed patriots, who represent resilience in the face of SSV)
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