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| 2008-08-30 |
| Another left-wing perspective. |
| Posted by:tipper |
| #11 Archbishop Charles Chaput is pretty special. An utterly fearless man of God (in the literal sense - you meet him, you innately KNOW he has handed himself fully to God, which scares a lot of the lukewarm types). I'd say you'd might put more than a little faith in Charlie if you ever had a chance to meet him and get to know him as I have. I can safely say he'd rather you put the faith in God. |
| Posted by: OldSpook 2008-08-30 22:54 |
| #10 Great post OS. Sadly, I put little faith in Bishops or Kings. |
| Posted by: .5MT 2008-08-30 21:05 |
| #9 Just to reiterate, I'm happy as I can be with Gov. Palin. Not only am I happy with her as VP, I strongly suspect I'll be happy with her as President in 2012 or 2016. Brilliant strategic stroke by Johnny Mac! The lefties are eviscerated. |
| Posted by: Jolutch Mussolini7800 2008-08-30 19:22 |
| #8 Remind them of several Archbishops words on abortion and politicians that support it like Obama. Archbishop Chaput: So can a Catholic in good conscience support a “pro-choice” candidate? The answer is: I can’t and I won’t. But I do know some serious Catholics — people whom I admire — who will. I think their reasoning is mistaken. These issues [war, deth penalty] are different in kind, not merely degree, from the violence involved in abortion. Anyone rooted in Scripture and Catholic tradition will understand the distinction if he or she reasons honestly. Genocide, euthanasia, abortion, and deliberately targeting civilians in war — these things are always grievously wrong. But in Catholic thought, war and capital punishment can be morally legitimate under certain carefully defined circumstances. Abortion is never morally justified. The first principle of Christian social thought is: Don’t deliberately kill the innocent, and don’t collude in allowing somebody else to do it. The right to life is the foundation of every other human right. The reason the abortion issue is so foundational is not because Catholics love little babies — although we certainly do — but because revoking the personhood of unborn children makes every other definition of personhood and human rights politically contingent We should see ourselves as Catholic first — not white or black, or young or old. or Democrat or Republican, or labor militant or business owner, but Catholic first as the main way we identify ourselves. Our faith should shape our lives, including our political choices. Of course, that demands that we actually study and deepen our Catholic faith. The Catholic faith isn’t a set of clothes that we can tailor to a personal fit. We don’t “invent” our faith, and we don’t “own” it. If we really want to be Catholic, then we’ll live by Catholic teaching. Otherwise we’re just fooling ourselves and abusing the belief of other Catholics who really do try to practice what the Church teaches. Faithful Catholics want to live their faith fully — and one of the principles of Catholic social teaching is that we can never deliberately kill innocent human life. Abortion always, deliberately kills an innocent unborn child. Nobody can honestly claim to be a faithful Catholic and then support a false “right” to abortion; it’s just an elegant way of evading the brutality of what abortion actually does. If we say we’re Catholic, we need to back it up with proof. Our faith needs to be the North Star of our lives. Our behavior needs to match our words, including in our political choices. "The 'choice' in abortion always involves the choice to end the life of an unborn human being," Archbishop Chaput wrote. "For anyone who sees this fact clearly, neutrality, silence or private disapproval are not options. They are evils almost as grave as abortion itself." Ask them if they are genuinely Catholic, or are they just fooling themselves and trying to fool God with their evasions. Ask them to decide what means more - their faith and religion or their politics. |
| Posted by: OldSpook 2008-08-30 19:19 |
| #7 I am, NS, but I'm certainly not taking any shit from them..well, actually, I never did.. (I expect that most RBers aren't shy about expressing your opinions, that's why we're here) |
| Posted by: Frank G 2008-08-30 19:16 |
| #6 They're Dems. They're thinking. It's probably a new experience. Give them time. |
| Posted by: Nimble Spemble 2008-08-30 19:09 |
| #5 My Mother and Sister are Dems, they supported Hillary. Being Catholics was suborned to pro-Hillary. I sent them an email and said "here's a smart woman running for VP, declined an abortion and is raising a Downs Syndrome baby, will you switch your vote?" To my dismay, neither will respond. They (not just Mom and sister) are screwed up. We could be seeing a real crack in the Dem bloc |
| Posted by: Frank G 2008-08-30 18:57 |
| #4 And the "Big Oil" crap Obamessiah's minions try to fling? Due to her actiosn and pressure and ethical reforms laws: the Alaska Legislature has repealed an oil and gas severance taxation system that Murkowski had negotiated behind closed doors with BP, ExxonMobil, and ConocoPhillips, replacing it with a slightly higher tax structure negotiated transparently and at arms' length. The Obamanuts are not only stupid, they appreantly are blind as well, and incapable of reading, or else are bettign on the MSM to stifle the truth and spread the falsehood for them. |
| Posted by: OldSpook 2008-08-30 18:35 |
| #3 They're doing a great job of driving undecideds and independent females to the GOP side. There are Trunks who'll only vote Trunk. There are Donks who'll only vote Donk. There are Blacks who'll only vote on the color of the skin. There are Whites who'll only vote on the color of the skin. Then there are women who'll vote only because its a woman. The Donks have always taken the latter for granted. Today is a new day and those ladies are headed elsewhere. It adds to their panicked tone in the response so far. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2008-08-30 18:26 |
| #2 B A R R A C U D A! |
| Posted by: Spike Uniter 2008-08-30 18:17 |
| #1 I worked on the Tony Knowles gubernatorial campaign 2 years ago that Sarah emerged from with a huge portion of the vote Sarah is a shark. She is smart, and she is shrewd. However, she comes across as extremely personable; you can't help but like her in person. She is a good public speaker, I've seen better from her in Alaska, and considering how little time she had to prepare for today's speech, I think we'll see much better from her in the near future. The people that know her and have run against her all seem to agree that "Sarah-cuda" is a serious campaigner whose looks belie a hard edged fighter. I hope the urban hipster-doofus web lefties keep "misunderestimating" her -- and slagging her with all kinds of crude sexist crap. They're doing a great job of driving undecideds and independant females to the GOP side. And they are inadvertently setting the bar low for her, so that any modicum of success against Biden will be viewed as a huge upset victory. I say.. Never interrupt your opponent when he is making a mistake. |
| Posted by: OldSpook 2008-08-30 18:02 |