Posted on 10/08/2002 1:49:25 PM PDT by topher
From: The Pro-Life Infonet
Reply-To: Steven Ertelt
Subject: Election 2002 Campaign Updates
Source: Pro-Life Infonet; October 7, 2002
Election 2002 Campaign Updates
Indiana Pro-Abortion Fundraiser Moved After Catholics Complain
A campaign fund-raiser for pro-abortion congressional candidate Jill Long Thompson was moved from a Roman Catholic Church after a group protested her stance on abortion. The Democratic candidate moved the Oct. 16 event to an undisclosed site Thursday after a Catholic lay group pressed area Catholic leaders to cancel her event. The Indianapolis-based Catholics Allied for the Faith Inc., a body of Catholics who promote the church's orthodox teachings, had sent a letter of opposition to area Catholic leaders. Long Thompson is challenging pro-life Republican Chris Chocola in the 2nd District.
More from Newspaper article...
Long Thompson fund-raiser moved after protest
October 5, 2002
Newspaper Article -- Click Here
SOUTH BEND, Ind.- A campaign fund-raiser for congressional candidate Jill Long Thompson was moved from a Roman Catholic Church after a group protested Long Thompson's stance on abortion.
The Democratic candidate moved the Oct. 16 event to an undisclosed site Thursday after a Catholic lay group pressed area Catholic leaders to cancel her event.
The Indianapolis-based Catholics Allied for the Faith Inc., a body of Catholics who promote the church's orthodox teachings, had sent a letter of opposition to area Catholic leaders.
The letter was also mailed to Bishop John M. D'Arcy of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Fort Wayne-South Bend.
[You may contact Bishop D'Arcy at the following address:
http://www.diocesefwsb.org/contact.htm]
Bishop John M. D'Arcy P.O. Box 390 Fort Wayne, IN 46801
All correspondence should include name and address. Thank you]
In the letter, CAFI takes issue with the use of church property for the fund-raising efforts of a political candidate who is pro-choice on the abortion issue.
Long Thompson is challenging Republican Chris Chocola in the race to succeed retiring U.S. Rep. Tim Roemer, D-Ind., in the 2nd District.
She is endorsed by EMILY's List, a national political network that encourages women to vote and raises campaign contributions for pro-choice Democratic female candidates.
Matt Burgess, press secretary for Long Thompson, confirmed Wednesday that Long Thompson is pro-choice, saying she "takes the position of her church ... the United Methodist Church," of which she is a member.[But Granholm a self proclaimed Catholic can't take the position of her church!!!}
He said Long Thompson spoke with D'Arcy and decided to relocate the event.
"Basically, Jill says she doesn't want to put politics and the church together," Burgess said.
House race still toss-up, poll says
Jill Long Thompson and Chris Chocola are neck and neck in key congressional contest.
http://www.indystar.com/article.php?congpoll30.html
Associated Press
September 30, 2002
SOUTH BEND, Ind. -- A new poll shows Democrat Jill Long Thompson and Republican Chris Chocola in a dead heat going into the final weeks of one of the nation's most closely watched congressional campaigns.
The South Bend Tribune and television station WSBT polled 400 likely voters in the 2nd Congressional District. Of those, 47 percent supported Long Thompson; 43 percent backed Chocola. Ten percent were undecided. The poll had a margin of error of plus or minus 5 percentage points.
A survey released Sept. 8 showed Long Thompson with 43 percent to Chocola's 40 percent.
Pollster Del Ali, who conducted the survey, said the results show Long Thompson has withstood this month's campaign visit for Chocola by President Bush. The race remains a toss-up, Ali said, with Chocola having ample opportunity to win, particularly if he gets the support of more women. The Democrat leads by 11 points among women likely to vote.
Research 2000 of Rockville, Md., conducted the phone survey Tuesday through Thursday. The 400 respondents said they were likely to vote Nov. 5.
Both parties see the race as key to their efforts to control the 435-member House of Representatives; Democrats need to pick up seven seats to end the GOP's eight-year control.
Chocola lost the 2000 election to Democratic Rep. Tim Roemer, who did not seek re-election. Long Thompson served three previous terms in Congress from a neighboring district.
Also, since this is an email from Mary Quinn, some of the comments regarding contacting the Bishop is from Mary, not Steve Ertelt.
My source of this is Marys email.
Owl_Eagle
”Guns Before Butter.”
Too many Catholics believe abortion is not a church teaching, but a "choice" -- sort of like Ted Turner on which of the Ten Commandments are valid.
It needs to be viewed as a Catholic issue to oppose abortion, and a Christian issue.
Thank God and all those who worked for this.
Lots of CINO's. Lots of cultural Catholics. Lots of Christmas and Easter Catholics, like most churches.
Well that should depress the turnout!
Agreed! It should also be a fundamental right of the US Constitution -- the Right to Human Life -- should be the most important part of the US Constitution, as well.
It is interesting in the Chapter of Exodus in the Bible AFTER the Ten Commandments, there are very HARSH punishment specified for injurying the unborn (Exodus 21:22-26). In the Old Testament, it was a great gift to have a child and those who did not have children, suffered greatly.
So it can be said that it is truly a Judeo-Christian belief that the killing of innocent, unborn babies is wrong (over thousands of years). It is just a shame that values have been so warped in the last 70 years.
They do contradict each other. But democRATs have been raised to believe that are exempt from the law of contradiction, and they, and only they, can believe in both things at the same time, and both are correct.
It has gotten worse after the klinton years, and all the "definition of 'is' is" stuff. Logic, for them, is whatever they believe it to be at the time. Another way of putting it is, "there is such a thing as a free lunch, and only democRATS are entitled to it."
Well-raised children usually drop that kind of thinking by age 5 or 6.
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