Below is a taste of the press release the conservative Catholic group Fidelis released this morning on the Palin announcement.
Obama has a Catholic running mate.
Now McCain does, too.
The fight for Catholics is going to heat up big time. God-o-Meter has said it before: this year is for Catholic voters what 2004 was for evangelicals. Catholics are in the spotlight. They're America's quintessential swing voters, and with both party nominees claiming to be post-partisan, they've become one of the nation's most important constiuencies.
Palin a 'Natural Choice for Catholics' Fidelis Urges Catholic Support for Pro-Life, Pro-Marriage TicketCHICAGO - John McCain's decision to pick a pro-family and pro-life running mate will make McCain-Palin ticket a 'natural' for Catholic voters, said Brian Burch, President of Fidelis Political Action.
"A presidential candidate's first major executive decision is selecting a running mate and John McCain's unexpected choice of Sarah Palin inspires real confidence that a McCain Administration will be a strong ally in the pro-life and pro-family cause," said Burch. "Governor Palin is the most pro-life vice presidential candidate ever to run. We are thrilled with this choice."
"John McCain and Sarah Palin have matched their public defense of life with their own personal commitment to life," said Burch.
Burch noted that earlier this year Palin made news with the birth of her fifth child, whom she welcomed into life despite a pre-natal diagnosis that revealed the child had Down Syndrome. The governor made national headlines when she proclaimed: "I'm looking at him right now, and I see perfection. Yeah, he has an extra chromosome. I keep thinking, in our world, what is normal and what is perfect?"
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"Abortion occurs on a helpless victim. The fetus has no choice in the matter, and no power to resist. The mother has all of the power. Is it fair or right of her to use it to terminate her child?
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RAPE also occurs on a helpless victim - for the most part. And if a pregnancy should result, both helpless victims, the unwilling helpless mother and the child suffer and the PROLIFERS insist that this is not grounds for abortion.
So forget about the helpless fetus, who by the way is as helpless as a tapeworm living in your gut. The fetus is a parasite, living off the mother and actually GROWS an entire new ORGAN, the PLACENTA to feed itself.
Can someone ask the GOvernor to have a tubal ligation please? No matter how happy she is to have a Down's Syndrome baby - may be his siblings won't be when it dawns on them that this will be their responsibility later on in life.
I am sure they will do the right thing, but why tempt fate? TUBAL LIGATION NOW FOR ALL LACTATING GOVERNORS!
In a televised debate, I recall Dan Quale, GHW Bush's Vice Presidential pick, asserting he was pro-life. When asked how he would counsel his young teenage daughter if she became pregnant out of wedlock, he replied he would be supportive of whatever she decided. I suspect 8o% of avowed pro-lifers would take this hypocritical stance. Talk is cheap.
This same voting bloc generally opposes head start programs, increased funding for public education, national health care, and most any other program to assist families and mothers in need. They call it "starving the beast of big government", and insist on borrowing from foreign nations to keep their taxes low. They do support vouchers for private schools for their own kids however, which would further weaken public schools.
Challenge a pro-lifer to say how much he personally donated last year to help unwed single mothers, and I can almost guarantee he will stammer some meaningless platitude and walk away.
Paul writes:
By pro-abortion, GOM presumes you mean pro-abortion rights. A recent TIME poll found that 59-percent of Catholics are pro-life. Does that mean that the other 41-percent are not really Catholic? Would the Catholic church take the same view, considering tens of millions of self-identifying Catholics to be mistaken?
I think that Palin's poor judgment in accepting the nomination with an unwed pregnant daughter might be her undoing. She should step down "for the good of her family" in order to remove her daughter's extracurricular activities from the spotlight.
If McCain wanted a Pro-Life, Pro-Drilling, Anti-Earmark fiscal conservative, he should have picked a more conventional choice like former Congresswoman Melissa A. Hart of Pennsylvania. Plus, Melissa Hart is practicing Catholic - a plus in my book!
There's plenty of room under the bus with Obama's granny and Rev. Wright. It's a big bus.
Take one for the home team, Sarah... step down for the sake of the party!
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