Posted on 11/05/2011 12:36:05 PM PDT by NYer
Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Fla.), chair of the Democratic National Committee, said Thursday that for states to enact constitutional amendments that say human life begins at conception is “an extreme and radical step.”
“For the vast majority of Americans, including people on both sides of the abortion issue, this is an extreme and radical step,” she said.
Speaking to reporters on a conference call, Wasserman Schultz said that so-called personhood amendments are a “divisive, dangerous, and destructive” attack on women.
No, Shultz does not mention the Catholic Church or Catholic teaching. But what she renounces in such strong terms—the belief that human life begins at conception—is a clear, emphatic, and consistent teaching of the Catholic Church:
Endowed with "a spiritual and immortal" soul, the human person is "the only creature on earth that God has willed for its own sake." From his conception, he is destined for eternal beatitude. (Catechism of the Catholic Church, par. 1703; cf. 1711)
Human life must be respected and protected absolutely from the moment of conception. From the first moment of his existence, a human being must be recognized as having the rights of a person - among which is the inviolable right of every innocent being to life. (CCC, par. 2270)
For God, the Lord of life, has conferred on men the surpassing ministry of safeguarding life in a manner which is worthy of man. Therefore from the moment of its conception life must be guarded with the greatest care while abortion and infanticide are unspeakable crimes. (Gaudium et spes, 51)
On its part, the Magisterium of the Church offers to human reason in this field too the light of Revelation: the doctrine concerning man taught by the Magisterium contains many elements which throw light on the problems being faced here. From the moment of conception, the life of every human being is to be respected in an absolute way because man is the only creature on earth that God has "wished for himself " (16) and the spiritual soul of each man is "immediately created" by God; (17) his whole being bears the image of the Creator. Human life is sacred because from its beginning it involves "the creative action of God" (18) and it remains forever in a special relationship with she Creator, who is its sole end.(19) God alone is the Lord of life from its beginning until its end: no one can, in any circumstance, claim for himself the right to destroy directly an innocent human being. (Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, Donum vitae)
Note especially the direct and unwavering language used in the 1987 document, Donum vitae, issued by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith under then-Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger:
However, the inalienable rights of the person must be recognized and respected by civil society and the political authority. These human rights depend neither on single individuals nor on parents; nor do they represent a concession made by society and the State: they pertain to human nature and are inherent in the person by virtue of the creative act from which the person took his of her origin. Among such fundamental rights one should mention in this regard:
a) every human being's right to life and physical integrity from the moment of conception until death; b) the rights of the family and of marriage as an institution and, in this area, the child's right to be conceived, brought into the world and brought up by his parents. To each of these two themes it is necessary here to give some further consideration.
In various States certain laws have authorized the direct suppression of innocents: the moment a positive law deprives a category of human beings of the protection which civil legislation must accord them, the State is denying the equality of all before the law. When the State does not place its power at the service of the rights of each citizen, and in particular of the more vulnerable, the very foundations of a State based on law are undermined. (Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, Donum vitae)
Radical!
Liberal Catholics aren’t true Catholics. Liberalism is at direct odds with the teachings of the Church. As for myself, being a Catholic, I have spoken out agaismt the Kennedy’s, Pelosis. and Bidens IMO they should be excommunicated unless they reform their lives and beliefs.
Debbie Wasserman Schultz is, in fact, a Fascist Pig.
What a drag going through like being ugly,stupid and arrogant while believing that people give a shi# what you do or say.
Not exactly marks of erudition, especially when protestant seminaries had begun to fall all over themselves to pamper any minority students. No way they weren't going to make a "success" out of this poser.
And still catholics continue voting for this skank and her buds.
It’s too bad her mother didn’t attend one.
**I can’t help but wonder how ANY Catholic can be associate themselves with the Democrat par**
They can’t because one of the main planks of the dimocratic platform is abortion.
Any person who votes dimocrat is actually a CINO — not a real Catholic.
In other words, our laws should reflect Catholic ideas because Natural Law Theory is the basis of our Laws-—Natural Right come from God-—is what is fundamental to our legal system.
LOL, not quite. Catholic Theology declared itself Natural Law by fiat definition, not by "making itself fit" with preexisting Natural Law. Fr Catholicism, it was Natural Law that was redefined, if necessary, to fit Catholic Theology, not the other way around.
To then use this misaffiliation to invoke the Natural Rights foundation of the US Constitution truly goes to far. The Founders were by almost total extent Protestant, not Catholic, and in those days that difference was rather enthusiastically emphasized. And legally, it is the Catholic Chuch which has historically seized sovereignty away from the person for itself, through the person of the pope, and therefby to create monarchs as sovereigns over their citizen subjects, as well as to corporatize governments specifically in order to differentiate themselves - by legal definition - from natural human beings.
Thanks, Debbie. Please, please, please keep right on talking. Never let anyone shut you up. Shout your ideas from the rooftops and make them loud and long!
“Any person who votes dimocrat is actually a CINO — not a real Catholic.”
There are a lot of “CINO’s” out there then, huh? I compare this situation (in my own mind) with the Jewish community who consistently votes Democrat. Their religious views take a back seat to their allegience to the Dems. What a shame.
No—Natural Law was not redefined at all by St. Thomas—it was added to, but the John Locke/Blackstone version didn’t disagree with the Catholic Church’s understanding of Natural Law. Natural Law where Natural Rights come from God was the same for Locke as it was for the Founders AND, definitely, the Protestants. The individualism and disdain for hierarchy is really where the Protestant religion had such an major effect on the US. All religions, including the few Deists, believed in a Designer of the Universe—which means a teleological design of man and women which has been upheld by law since before Judaism and Christianity.
All Christians, not from the Coptic age, owe their Theology to the Catholic Church, BTW. True, Protestantism has morphed and evolved to such an extent, you now have homosexual clergy which is sanctioned in some congregations and Liberation Theology churches which do not believe in subsidiarity, which is so important in Catholicism. Anglicans, BTW, were much closer to Catholics, than Puritans.
Ha! This just shows the Church is doing God’s work.
The Dems are doing the work of H-E-double hockey sticks.
I periodically post my rant about the fascist democrat party, so now's as good a time as any:
The democrat party is now and always has been the party of slavery, sedition, treason, secession, civil war, KKK terrorism, Jim Crow laws, eugenics laws, vote fraud, voter intimidation, anti-Semitic immigration restrictions (in response to Nazi Nuremberg laws), advocates of titles of nobility for protected classes of citizens, creators of anti-Christian mythology, creators of the welfare plantation system, advocates of infanticide and euthanasia as well as being the fascist party that designed, implemented, and fights to lavishly fund the systematic, eugenics driven, mass murder of minority infants.
The democrat party has to be so thoroughly destroyed as a political party that it is no longer a factor in national politics. Refusing to support less than pure alternatives over a pet peeve, sitting out elections, or doing anything that keeps you from helping or influences others to not help rid ourselves of these parasites while we're force fed democrat arsenic, is either deliberate democrat supporting fifth column activity or your personal agreement that we should commit national suicide. The entire democrat machine, including both government employee unions and the democrat academic rewards and propaganda infrastructure needs to be fought until, to paraphrase Bull Halsey, " ... democrat is only spoken in hell".
Regards
There sure are a lot of DNC members active in the Religion Forum....
Ain't that the truth
Darn, I was excited to have my religion denounced by little debbie cakes.
A couple of historical facts to recall. First, our freedoms have their roots in a document drawn up by English Catholic barons in opposition to the tyrannical impulses of an English Catholic king. In other words, no Protestantism was involved.
And also keep in mind that the "Divine Right of Kings" theory was a Protestant invention (due to James I, of the "King James Bible"), not a Catholic one.
Pretty much. When you're annoying the likes of this bizarre hyphenated creature, you must be doing something right.
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