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.
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I think you missed my point.
I noticed you are not defending against abortion. (Don’t worry; I suspect that isn’t what you meant.)
The problem is not freedom of thought, but moral relavitism masquerading as same.
I don’t know what your beliefs are, since you haven’t disclosed them; but God is very real and without Godly protection the nation will collapse, and one thing that induces God to remove protection is apathy when it comes to moral matters like allowing abortion to happen with impunity.
Well said !
How are you going to stop abortion, beyond just preaching against it?
What’s your practical plan?
That question is no different than if you were asking how do you stop murder?
You stop murder by not committing it yourself. You stop abortion by not committing it yourself. That’s the only power you have - unless you have a greater and actually workable civic plan.
I see people here complaining all the time - but all they do is post inflammatory stuff, with no instructions as to how we can actually end this through a peaceful political process.
I guess that’s too hard and complicated. It’s easier to do the ‘Christian’ version of virtue-signalling.
Moving the goalposts and being evasive, I see. Practicality with respect to spiritual solutions to spiritual problems may evade you too, I fear.
What brought you to this site? The webmasters were clear about its “pro-God” nature, yes? Therefore you’re going to get a lot of talk of the nature I’ve been uttering.
You missed mine, too.
The key statement in the entire thread.
I’ve gotten a lot of ‘talk’ over the years during which I’ve been here; and I doubt that anything in any of my posts suggests that I don’t believe in God - unless you think I don’t because you’re one of those people who believe that if I don’t believe in YOUR God precisely as YOU do, then I’m an ‘atheist’.
If your ‘plan’ is to pray, I’m all for it. I believe in the power of prayer - as far as it goes.
But don’t complain when it doesn’t work. Maybe you don’t know how to pray or how to pray correctly. I’m sure many, many people have prayed for things that never panned-out - what is going to make your ‘spiritual’ approach any different than theirs?
When you’re living on the Earth, believing that all you need to do is to trust God and virtue-signal as an armchair internet warrior, you’re following a recipe for failure.
Jesus told us to ‘render unto Caesar’; and I see many more people here spending hours posting their complaints and concerns, than I see them posting about being out and organizing, joining committees, becoming involved in local government and school boards, etc.
The Lord helps those who help themselves. You aren’t here to have a free ‘Faith Ride’. You’re here to learn something.
Use the money for outreach to help those to keep their baby whom are down on their luck. This way the money has a direct purpose instead of to lobbiers and campaign donations. In the mean time let the left abort themselves. We are losing too many reagan Democrats, independent, and libertarians on this issue.
Frankly, I don’t know what you are suggesting; you’re quite oblique.
This post of yours, however, heavily implies that praying to God will not “work”. One prerequisite is faith, and I see a lack of faith (in general), and also cutting Jesus’ words in pieces (He said “Render unto Caesar the things that are Caesar’s and unto God the things that are God’s”). Also, the “helps themselves” quote is a pagan quote. But you’re trying to guess at what I mean.
I hope you’re taking the “here to learn something” admonition to heart yourself.
This is just more evidence that CPAC is nothing more than a bullschitters forum not worthy of consideration any longer. GOPee Delenda Est!
innocent blood: God will avenge every drop.
Can’t do anything about it when your side has zero power and your party is full of do nothing, scam everyone RINOs
How many decades have the RINOs told us they were against abortion and how many times did the vote to fund tax payer paid abortions? Even Trump asked them to defund planned parenthood and they still funded it when we had both the house and senate.
So getting rid of the RINOs and taking back both houses should be priority number 1, everything else doesn’t matter till that happens.
The wheat is getting separated from the chaff. If you don’t stand for life, you are an empty shell.
You’re not going to stop people from doing what they want to....you can deter it to some extent but your’re talking human nature and self control.
You never have to teach a child to do something wrong...parents teach what’s right in order to show another way.
All other considerations flow from those two issues. If you defend life and the right to defend oneself from a tyrannical government it eliminates many forms of so-called "progressive" variations of government, policies and destructive cultural norms.
You have it backwards. Had the Founders not been born into Christianity (built first upon our great forefathers the Jewish people and their beliefs in the One True God) they would never have founded this great nation because it is built on Christian truths that all faiths can enjoy who recognize these them. Had these truths been so overwhelmingly prevalent in other faiths this nation may have been founded in China, Asia, Europe, Africa or elsewhere. But that is not what happened.
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