Free Republic
Browse · Search
Religion
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

Straw Poll of Conservative Activists Reveals Pro-Life Policies to Be Least Important Issue
Catholic News Agency ^ | 3/2/21 | Kate Scanlon

Posted on 03/05/2021 6:33:51 PM PST by marshmallow

Washington D.C., Mar 2, 2021 / 04:00 pm MT (CNA).- Pro-life leaders responded to a recent straw poll of conservative activists where pro-life policies received the least number of votes for the activists’ most important issues.

Attendees at last week’s Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Orlando were allowed to select up to three issues as their top policy priorities for the Washington Times/CPAC straw poll. Options included “election integrity,” “immigration/border wall,” and “second amendment.”

A mere 16% of conference-goers choose pro-life policies as one of their top three issues, making it the issue that received the least number of votes among attendees. Election integrity, constitutional rights, and immigration were the three top-rated issues of importance, respectively.

The straw poll is conducted at the annual event, and measures attendees’ policy preferences as well as their preferred presidential candidate. CPAC, a project of the American Conservaive Union, describes itself as “the largest and most influential gathering of conservatives in the world,” and the conference is often billed as representative of the wider conservative movement.

The American Conservative Union did not immediately respond to a request for comment on its attendees’ enthusiasm for the pro-life cause.

Several pro-life leaders cautioned that the pro-life cause may already be a high priority for many Republicans, and thus the poll is not necessarily indicative of future GOP priorities.

(Excerpt) Read more at catholicnewsagency.com ...


TOPICS: Moral Issues; Religion & Culture; Religion & Politics
KEYWORDS: abortion; cpac; prolife
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first 1-2021-4041-6061-70 next last

1 posted on 03/05/2021 6:33:51 PM PST by marshmallow
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | View Replies]

To: marshmallow

You have to possess a functioning and honest Republic before you can effectively fight for ANY policy.


2 posted on 03/05/2021 6:38:58 PM PST by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: marshmallow

When your house is on fire, isn’t the best time to measure for drapes.


3 posted on 03/05/2021 6:43:47 PM PST by Trump.Deplorable
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Jamestown1630

Until election integrity is obtained there is no other issue. Democrats and maybe a supreme court justice need to go-to prison over voter fraud.

That is not shot against other issues, just that everything is second to stopping and reversing the coup.


4 posted on 03/05/2021 6:43:57 PM PST by Fai Mao
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2 | View Replies]

To: marshmallow
This grieves me, the Pro-Life issue IS the most important of all moral issues.

If it isn't then we continue to be a lost, amoral nation.

5 posted on 03/05/2021 6:52:06 PM PST by PROCON (Our rights do not come from government, therefore they cannot take them away.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: marshmallow
If you don't protect the absolutely innocent first you are just fighting God.

" We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

6 posted on 03/05/2021 6:52:08 PM PST by frogjerk (I will not do business with fascists)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Trump.Deplorable

Innocent children are not drapes, accessories or afterthoughts.


7 posted on 03/05/2021 6:53:29 PM PST by frogjerk (I will not do business with fascists)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 3 | View Replies]

To: Trump.Deplorable

You won’t put the fire out by fighting against God.


8 posted on 03/05/2021 6:55:22 PM PST by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 3 | View Replies]

To: frogjerk

Looks like you got there before me.

Not that I necessarily believe the poll.


9 posted on 03/05/2021 6:56:26 PM PST by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 6 | View Replies]

To: marshmallow

Democrats and RINOs will NEVER get rid of abortion.

Until we get rid of Democrats and RINOs, we will not get rid of abortion.

Election integrity is the only non-violent means of getting rid of Democrats and RINOs.


10 posted on 03/05/2021 6:56:57 PM PST by chajin ("There is no other name under heaven given among people by which we must be saved." Acts 4:12)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Jamestown1630

And who gave that to us, ultimately?

As our Founding Fathers warned us, there will be no functioning republic without the establishment of public and (especially) private morality. Those that toss private morality aside have undermined the republic.


11 posted on 03/05/2021 7:00:13 PM PST by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2 | View Replies]

To: marshmallow

Abortion will continue until people’s hearts are changed. Legislation wouldn’t be effective. That won’t happen if the current RAT/RINO attack on Christianity and First Amendment is stopped. First things first.


12 posted on 03/05/2021 7:02:30 PM PST by MayflowerMadam (Just because you're offended doesn't mean you're right.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: marshmallow

A meaningful poll would have asked for 7-to-10 top issues to gain any useful perspective on base concerns...

IMHO, the poll result indicates that the genocide issue is in the top 4-to-5...

The “last place choice” might include:
Watching the NBA or NFL,
or gasoline prices,
or Harris’ scarred knees,
or minimum wage,
or the $2000 check,
or the $1400 check,
or the reopening relations with Iran, Hamas, Cuba, Venezuela,
or Etc...Etc...Etc...


13 posted on 03/05/2021 7:02:50 PM PST by SuperLuminal (Where is Joe McCarthy now that we desperately need him sober?)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: chajin

State abortion is the violent act of a violent state. Those who have instituted this and destroyed election integrity laugh at the notion of non-violent means destroying the dystopia they’ve carefully built.


14 posted on 03/05/2021 7:03:16 PM PST by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 10 | View Replies]

To: marshmallow

This is very very sad, if the polls are true.


15 posted on 03/05/2021 7:04:27 PM PST by miserare ( Respect for life--life of all kinds-- is the first principle of civilization.~~A. Schweitzer.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Olog-hai

I take your point; but again, why do you think that only those who follow a single particular religious path are capable of a moral sense? (That seems to be what the OP is about.)


16 posted on 03/05/2021 7:06:07 PM PST by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 11 | View Replies]

To: Jamestown1630

That’s what the Founding Fathers believed.

It has to do with the matter of God protecing the nation. Consider the protections that have already been removed, and the creeping tyranny that replaced them.


17 posted on 03/05/2021 7:09:25 PM PST by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 16 | View Replies]

To: PROCON
I suspect there is a growing number of conservatives who see diabolical, radical leftists killing off their own children in alarming numbers in places like New York, Massachusetts, California, etc. ... and these conservatives are starting to ask themselves a brutally honest question:

"Is there really a downside to this?"

18 posted on 03/05/2021 7:10:35 PM PST by Alberta's Child ("And once in a night I dreamed you were there; I canceled my flight from going nowhere.")
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 5 | View Replies]

To: Alberta's Child

Yes there is a downside. Thise innocents aren’t being avenged, especially when the onus is on us to do so and not stand aside. Yes, such things have to be said.


19 posted on 03/05/2021 7:13:56 PM PST by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 18 | View Replies]

To: PROCON

How do you feel about capital punishment?


20 posted on 03/05/2021 7:13:58 PM PST by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 5 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first 1-2021-4041-6061-70 next last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
Religion
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson