Posted on 03/14/2018 6:49:39 AM PDT by NKP_Vet
Remember when President Barack Obama insulted small-town Pennsylvania voters by saying they bitterly “cling to guns or religion”? In next week’s special election, there is a strange new twist to this condescending attitude towards people of faith coming from the Democratic congressional candidate, Conor Lamb.
In a recent interview, Lamb oddly invoked his religion to defend his position in support of late-term abortion. He tells us that he never learned the term “pro-life” in Catholic school, and therefore he would vote against any limits on abortion, and would even oppose a recent bill to ban abortion past 20 weeks of pregnancy. This late-term abortion ban has bipartisan support in Congress, including that of senior Sen. Bob Casey, D-Pa.
“I’d have voted against it,” Lamb said, adding that although he is Catholic, he would not describe himself as pro-life. “I just want to say, I don’t use the term ‘pro-life’ to describe what I personally believe, because that’s a political term,” he said. “It’s not one that you learn in Catholic school or anywhere else in the church.”
Really? That’s quite a whopper, Mr. Lamb.
The diocese of Pittsburgh promotes Pro-Life Sunday, while the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops has a committee on “pro-life activities.” Catholic schools teach the catechism that states that human life “must be respected and protected absolutely from the moment of conception.”
But it’s not only Catholic teaching Lamb opposes with his extreme position on late-term abortion — it’s common sense as well, and a sense of human decency. Medical technology is constantly improving our ability to save premature babies born after 20 weeks. Babies born at this stage of development can survive outside the womb, yet current law allows more than 12,000 young lives annually to be snuffed out through late-term abortion. We regularly see these perfectly formed babies in ultrasound images sucking their thumbs, and can plainly see whether it’s a boy or a girl.
Lamb’s position is outside the mainstream of public opinion as well. A decade of research of Americans’ views on abortion by Marist, the Wall Street Journal, and NBC News found that Americans consistently oppose abortion after 20-weeks’ gestation. In a recent national poll, Marist found that 63 percent of Americans support banning abortion after 20 weeks of pregnancy, while just 33 percent are opposed.
In small-town Pennsylvania, where many are proud to cling to their religion, those numbers are probably much higher in favor of protecting innocent life. And as Conor Lamb’s Republican opponent, Rick Saccone, pointed out in a debate, the issue of protecting late-term babies from abortion is simply a human rights issue: “This isn’t a matter of religious faith, this is a matter of protecting our most helpless constituents, those that don’t have a voice.”
Maureen Ferguson is a contributor to the Washington Examiner's Beltway Confidential blog. She is a senior policy adviser for The Catholic Association.
No, the first rule of politics is “PEOPLE are easily duped.” If the GOP continues to play the gentleman game, they will be crushed. Why, for example, do Republicans not label every leftist group as “destructive” and “ruinous”, funded by “unapologetic Nazi collaborator George Soros”? Tough words, and these can be added to geometrically, but unless we meet these demons on THEIR playing field, America will soon be dead.
He was trained to lie, he is a lawyer.
The Democrats removed the district because it was a 'red' one and now they have taken out one of their own Congressmen.
His district will cease to exist at the end of this year, due to the recent ruling of the PA Supreme Court. He will serve out the term of the congressman who resigned and that will be it. He’ll have to run in November in another district if he wants to continue in Congress.
http://theconversation.com/in-pennsylvanias-18th-a-very-important-unimportant-election-93342
If they have a D behind their name, they’re a liar. It’s mandatory. And I predict that once Lamb gets to DC he’ll welsh on every conservative-sounding promise he made; like the preppy young creep frkm CA who Tucker has on too often. Adam Schiff’s sidekick. Lot of Pubs,sadly, are the same way.
For Communists, the end justifies the means. Population control = abortions. The use of lies to accomplish their goals explains their affinity with Islam, Taqqiya.
They are called Pelosistas.
He beared false witness.
Yeah, well, Bishop Zubik did not call him on it, so it would appear that Conor Lamb got away with the lie.
If he's pro-killing babies then he's no kind of Christian of any flavor.
That’s the 9th Commandment. The 8th is “Thou shalt not steal.”
Exodus 20:16 is number eight in the list.
Perhaps a more Catholic way to word your question might be: why does the Catholic Church tolerate the mortal sin of abortion––the outrageous offense against God? And the answer Ito that question is that the Catholic Church does not. The Catholic Church is repulsed by it. But I believe you are confusing the “Catholic Church” with the “modern bishops of the Catholic Church”. They are entirely different. The modern bishops of the Catholic Church have essentially abandoned their sheep. They rarely, if ever, speak out in objection to any sinful behavior––either individually or collectively.
Consequently, the only faithful followers of the Catholic Church are those individuals who hold fast to all of the established doctrines and dogmas of the Church. Such followers will not be found in Rome. Nor, for that matter, will they be found in any of the Catholic dioceses around the world. The only priestly order that adheres, unfailingly, to those true teachings of the Church that were extant immediately prior to Vatican II, is the Society of St Pius X (SSPX). The mission of the SSPX is to preserve, for the faithful, the true teachings and liturgy of the Church until such time as the Modernist leaders in Rome reject the heretical beliefs that were adopted during Vatican II.
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