Posted on 06/19/2002 10:05:02 AM PDT by Jean S
(AgapePress) - In almost stark contrast to a report indicating the White House has written off conservative issues on the domestic front, Associated Press is reporting the Bush Administration is working with the Vatican and Muslim nations to reverse many of President Clintons policies at the United Nations.
It is truly a new day at the U.N., White House spokesman Tim Goeglein tells AP. The Bush Administration has a very important and a different policy position [than the previous administration] -- whether its family, whether its life, whether it is the centrality of marriage and children. In fact, it is the difference between night and day.
And promoters of abortion and homosexual rights are expressing alarm at their loss of influence over the American agenda at the United Nations.
On many of the social-policy questions, Goeglein says, that is to say, the questions of family and children and life and marriage, we tend to be in concert with some of the Muslim countries. He said the U.S. tends to be in concert with the Vatican, and the important thing now is to move the right policy initiatives ahead in the U.N.
For instance, last month, the U.S. delegation worked with nations like Iran and Sudan to block a United Nations declaration that would have said children are entitled to reproductive health services, which could have been interpreted to include abortion.
Where we can find commonality with, perhaps, unconventional allies, we will do so," Goeglein says. "The president has been very clear about his policies of family, marriage, children, and the centrality of the family -- and where we can find commonality, we intend to move ahead.
The Bush Administrations U.N. policy team includes former Vatican advisor John Klink, Janice Crouse of Concerned Women for America and Paul Bonicelli of Patrick Henry College.
Associated Press contributed to this story.
Those are the ones you see on the Bush bashing threads.
Well said.
Aww, com'on! You can't think of a better argument that that? Pretty lame! Guess you figure an insult will hurt my feelings, huh? This is war, buddy, and I'll back my president to my dying breath.
***The Bush Administration has a very important and a different policy position [than the previous administration] -- whether its family, whether its life, whether it is the centrality of marriage and children. In fact, it is the difference between night and day.***
Instead of celebrating President Bush's initiative against the UN, they're complaining about other issues. NOTHING PLEASES THESE PEOPLE.
You Bush bashers are losing your touch. That was an empty argument. You're boring me.
LOL!
Hehehe. Good one.
This describes some unfortunate family members of mine. :)
As madfly so aptly pointed out, it says "Defending Our Constitution" on the FR logo. It doesn't say, "Defending Our President." I'm not about to be silent and compromise my beliefs and/or convictions just because he's a Republican or a born-again Christian (like me).
I voted for him and, unless the Democrats nominate a Conservative Christian defender of the Constitution to run against him (HAH!), I'll vote for him again. He'd have to do something awfully bad to make me stay home or waste my vote on a third-party candidate.
Meanwhile, I'll continue to exercise my First Amendment right to (as you put it) "complain" when I perceive he's voilating his oath of office.
It sends a stronger message.
You say "anti pro-life, anti pro-family". I believe, and you can correct me if I'm wrong, that you want the federal government to pass laws (backed by the threat of lethal force) to promote a pro-life / pro-family society.
I'm very pro-life (abortion is committing violence against another human) and very pro-family (gov't/schools should not undermine family values). But I don't believe the feds have the Constitutional authority to pass such laws.
On the contrary, the feds need to remove the laws and programs that are detrimental to your (and my) endgame agenda.
If you want, I can go into how the alleviation (by the gov't) of consequences for bad, unhealthy decisions has been detrimental to instilling good values in our society.
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