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To: Askel5
I believe the politicans know what they are doing. They know it conflicts with the religious teachings of their church, yet they fund abortion and pass other laws supporting it. If I were the shotcaller in the vatican or the cardinal of NY etc, They'd be gone.
65 posted on 01/21/2002 1:26:12 PM PST by breakem
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To: breakem
I'm confident the politicians know what they are doing. Abortion is a GOP policy, after all. That's the beauty of their "I'm personally opposed, BUT ..." mantra.

They rely on the faith of their pro-life constituents to power them into office USING abortion and them they consistently vote against the Right to Life.

One of the most egregious example of the late GOP Senate being its claim that -- because the vote on the Schumer Amendment looked like it was going to be a tie and, gasp, give Gore good press from the leftwing media should he break the tie vote -- they were forced to split their consciences and pass the Schumer Amendment. Does 80-17 sound like a near "tie" to you?

For the most part, they are liars. We've handful of men who vote their consciences (including the likes of Ron Paul who, unfortunately, is so conscientious he keeps to his charter and won't touch abortion at the federal level). The rest can rot in hell as far as I'm concerned. I suspect many will.

Particularly those who -- like President Bush -- go so far as to dangle the Scripture of his "favorite philosopher" in prime time as he announces his decision to fund research on "Excess" manufactured human lives that have "already been killed."

You'd think the ACLU, ADL and the like would have been up in arms over his blatant use of Christian Scripture in his first televised addressed. Guess the goods they got were too overwhelming to make a peep about it.

Who'd have guessed the "Moral Majority" would be too busy high-fiving each other over Bush's Clintonesque ability to keep a campaign promised or the prime time Scripture mention to "inform consciences". I'm sure the ACLU, ADL and others were content to know that -- when it all boils down -- ACTIONS speak LOUDER than words.

70 posted on 01/21/2002 1:35:54 PM PST by Askel5
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To: breakem
I find it particularly offensive when "Catholic" politicians trumpet their pro-abortion credentials in their campaign ads on television and radio. It's bad enough to support abortion, but to use abortion to hustle for votes is really low. Gray Davis is running ads like this right now. He should be excommunicated. The problem, though, is that excommunication might end up helping him. About ten years ago, a "Catholic" politician was running for some office (state senator?) in San Diego. She spent so much time bragging about her pro-abortion views that the local bishop announced that she should be denied communion. The media picked up the story and spinned it as "nice lady being picked on by oppressive church," and, sure enough, the woman ended up winning the race in which she had entered as an underog.
84 posted on 01/21/2002 1:55:47 PM PST by irishjuggler
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