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 ...
I don’t remember anything about God ‘protecting the Nation’ in any of our documents. I remember that they spoke of us all having been created by a Creator, and that we had to remaIn a religious and moral nation for our system to work - all of which evidenced a belief in a God, First Cause, etc.
But I don’t recall any of the documents referencing a particular religion or sect of same.
What if Mary had an abortion?
"Is there really a downside to this?"
Abortion is always wrong, IMHO; If a 'conservative' responds in this manner then he misses the importance of the Pro-Life issue completely.
I mean — would anyone have bothered to fight World War II if the Nazis were killing other Nazis?
Hang the guilty bastard, the baby in the womb is guilty of nothing and has done no wrong.
We’ve hung equally innocent people. Human beings make a lot of mistakes; and tragedy ensues.
And I see God’s love for Life as something that isn’t up to mere humans to pick and judge over. It’s either human life, or it isn’t.
Now you’re equivocating. And you’re attributing the establishment of the republic to human efforts alone, or that’s the impression I’m getting.
Lincoln’s 1863 proclamation of a national fast comes to mind. Also John Adams, who called worship of God “the duty of all men in society, publicly and at stated seasons”.
False comparison; the unborn are innocents. A more accurate one might be BLM killing Antifa; but like Nazi Germany, they have declared war on us.
......”A mere 16% of conference-goers choose pro-life policies as one of their top three issues”......
Well that’s because the other three selected have to do with national security ....Pro-Life Issue is a social and independent/personal choice issue.
That's right. The government will never get rid of abortion and politics isn't the most important battleground.
Again, you are talking about God. Not about any specific religious flavor.
There are lots of people in the world who believe in God; but they don’t see every issue exactly as you do. As someone else tonight said on another thread, ‘difference’ is the reason many came to America in the first place.
I don’t believe that God does anything since creation, except feed His life into us; He works THROUGH his creation, including through men and the faculties he instilled in them.
So, yes. The establishment of the Republic was due to human effort, inspired by Ideals which ultimately come from God.
(Just like landing on the Moon was accomplished by human effort fired by idealistic inspiration.)
If you look at many documents from that era you will find references to Christian scripture though, and actual use of scripture in those documents.
No 1. Is LIFE
THEN LIBERTY
THEN PERSUIT
Exactly. My first litmus test is a candidates’ stance on abortion. The second is their stance on the 2A. If they don’t pass both of those, they don’t even get an initial consideration.
You need to read what the Founding Fathers said a bit more.
Even if what you assert is particularly accurate, defending against abortion is among those ideals you speak of.
It was persecution that brought people to the part of the continent that became the USA, and to be free of it. Nowadays, persecution lurks around wvery corner, and there is a reason why.
Abortion is a hidden abomination.
Come Lord Jesus.
It’s a national security issue.
Uh huh...
Quote me some. I’d bet that they are derivative of the O.T., and contain references to sentiments that can be found originally in that text.
The big difference that Jesus made was that He effectively elucidated to us that the way that we choose to THINK and BELIEVE makes our lives what they are. THAT was revolutionary; but the truths underlying it were not; He was born into them.
Truth isn’t the property of any particular ‘religion’. Human beings have developed their truths over millennia, and most beliefs that we generally hold as being true and good have been common all over the world - among individuals who were actually paying attention.
If the Founders stated Truths reminiscent of Christianity, it’s because that’s the tradition that they were born into and which the people they were speaking to largely understood. It doesn’t mean that any one religious flavor has a monopoly on those truths, or ‘invented’ them.
I’m not ‘defending against’ abortion (whatever that means.)
I’ve been making a point in favor of freedom of thought.
Do you want to ‘squelch’ the ability of people who think differently than you do to express themselves?
It seems to me that this is happening all over, right now; and we haven’t particularly liked it.
We have a system that allows us to object, vote against, or even abstain.
The more right-thinking people in the US may have allowed this system to be watered down, by voting for insincere, craven people who don’t really care about anything but money, power, self-importance. But whose fault is that?
I bet there are a lot of very ‘good upstanding’ people who go to church every Sunday, and then are too lazy to go and vote, too disinterested to get involved with their school board or very local government, etc.
We didn’t ‘lose’ the country. We gave it away, and we did it over decades.
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