Many in the conservative pro-life movement are getting fed up with Barack Obama’s overtures to pro-lifers by offering a new take on the issue, vowing to reduce demand for abortion rather than curtailing abortion rights.
This growing frustration is evident in comments on this blog from National Right to Life Legislative Director Douglas Johnson in response to the pro-Obama advocacy of pro-life advocate Douglas Kmiec.
Many traditional pro-life activists think it’s absurd that a strict pro-choicer like Obama, who opposed the Infant Born Alive Act as a state legislator and denounced last year’s Supreme Court decision upholding the Partial Birth Abortion Act, is wooing pro-life voters. They think it’s deeply offensive.
How offensive? Check out Catholic League President Bill Donohue’s new piece on Inside Catholic parodying the argument that pro-life Catholics could back Obama with clear consciences. Donohue’s article is a line-by-line send up of a recent piece in the National Catholic Reporter by an Obama supporter entitled “I’m Catholic, staunchly anti-abortion, and support Obama.”
Donohue compares that position to a staunchly anti-racist Catholic supporting David Duke. With all the attention Obama and the Democrats have received by courting the pro-life community, Donohue’s piece is a helpful reminder of how starkly hardcore pro-life advocates see the issue.
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posted October 7, 2008 at 2:52 pm
What about UN-GODLY talk?
Many Evangelicals are getting fed up with the McCain campaign and Sarah Palin’s hate-filled language. If you didn’t know Sarah Palin, you would NEVER identify her as a “child of God” after listening to all the things she has said lately about Barack Obama. Believers don’t talk like that.
Why can’t she stand up to her values and tell the McCain campaign she can’t do smears, that she wants to stick to the issues? She’s damaging her repuation and making Evangelicals look bad. TRUTH-O-METER should penalize UN-GODLY, un-Christlike talk.
Why can’t Sarah Palin take a page from Mike Huckabee who ran a bottom-up uplifting campaign? If politics causes her to ‘sin’ or stray from Christian virtues, then she should “cut it off”.
Questioning the character of both Obama and McCain is ludicrous. These men are both nominees of their Parties after a leghthy process where investigators, Journalists and the American people had a chance to dig into their background and their records. They both came on top. The only person who’s not been properly vetted is Sarah Palin.
As it becomes clearer day by day that Obama will be our next President, Sarah Plain should consider that her latest actions are ensuring that he inherits a highly polarized country. She’s going to regret it!
posted October 7, 2008 at 2:58 pm
Sarah Palin should take a page from Mike Huckabee’s bottom-up campaign!
God-O-Meter should penalize UN-GODLY talk!
Many Evangelicals are getting fed up with the McCain campaign and Sarah Palin’s hate-filled language. If you didn’t know Sarah Palin, you would NEVER identify her as a “child of God” after listening to all the things she has said lately about Barack Obama. Believers don’t talk like that.
Why can’t she stand up to her values and tell the McCain campaign she can’t do smears, that she wants to stick to the issues? She’s damaging her repuation and making Evangelicals look bad. TRUTH-O-METER should penalize UN-GODLY, un-Christlike talk.
Why can’t Sarah Palin take a page from Mike Huckabee who ran a bottom-up uplifting campaign? If politics causes her to ‘sin’ or stray from Christian virtues, then she should “cut it off”.
Questioning the character of both Obama and McCain is ludicrous. These men are both nominees of their Parties after a leghthy process where investigators, Journalists and the American people had a chance to dig into their background and their records. They both came on top. The only person who’s not been properly vetted is Sarah Palin.
As it becomes clearer day by day that Obama will be our next President, Sarah Plain should consider that her latest actions are ensuring that he inherits a highly polarized country. She’s going to regret it!
posted October 7, 2008 at 3:51 pm
The Far Right Religious see only one thing, pro-life. They would vote for the Devil if he supported their stand on abortion. As a pro life Christian, I am also anti war, poverty, abuse of the elderly, Wall Street Greed and deregulation. I have to take my stand on what effect the majority of Americans.
And when David Duke became a Republican, I was glad that I had left the Party. I found it very sad that as soon as the White Supremacists left the Democrats and joined up with The party that freed the slaves, the Religious Right Evangelicals joined with them. Talk about strange bed fellows.
When LBJ became the driving force on Civil Rights, the GOP abandoned the core of their beliefs and became the opposition to human dignity for all Americans. Now the fanatics in the Roman Catholic Church who once empowered the churches to fight for these rights are abandoning the principles of St. Francis, St Augustine, Mother Teresa and Fr. Serra to support the GOP in the effort to reward the rich and deny the rest.
Abortion is the least of our problems and it is the only one they care about.
posted October 7, 2008 at 11:58 pm
You know if you are going to post the KKK as the white oppressionists, let’s look at the Black Muslims, who radically hate white people. Oh, but we aren’t a minority so it’s okay to hate white people, I forgot.
posted October 8, 2008 at 12:00 am
There’s nothing wrong with Sarah Palin having good morels.
posted October 8, 2008 at 10:54 am
Sarah Jane writes:
God-o-Meter is not aiming to play God or determine what’s Godly or un-Godly about the candidates. Rather, it’s tracking how the candidates attempt to use God/religion in their campaigns. For GOM adjustment criteria, click here.
posted October 8, 2008 at 10:55 am
Scruffy writes:
This is what makes abortion one of the biggest dividing lines in the culture war. Pro-lifers don’t feel like abortion is the least of our problems. They think the tens of millions of abortions since Roe v. Wade represent a holocaust.
posted October 15, 2008 at 2:08 am
I couldn’t believe what I just read!!! Scruffy said,”Abortion is the least of our problems” and still claims to be a prolife Christian!!! When 25% of all pregnancies in our country end in abortion (which is the destruction/killing of human life) and with the trail of emotional, physical and spiritual devastation these abortions cause, this person makes this more than ignorant claim. Obviously this person has not felt the pain of abortion or is in so much denial he/she is not thinking clearly. Have the nerve to view images of abortion and I am certain you will, at least, see clearly what the truth is!
posted October 17, 2008 at 12:17 am
In the third presidential debate Senator Obama made the claim that he would ban Partial Birth abortions if protection was given with regards to the health of the mother. This is an empty argument since the baby is killed after it has been 90% delivered and only its head is still in the womb. The mother’s health is not in jeopardy for that last second it takes to deliver the baby. He is just being dishonest. Take a look at this video which goes into detail of the procedure.
posted October 17, 2008 at 1:47 pm
Hey Birdie57, nothing wrong with hating white people, being white I see more reasons for it. In fact most of the really despicable people I know are white. Christians even more so. They all practice religion but never master it. Since when was it good morals to lie repeatedly? (morels are mushrooms by the way, no evidence if Palin has good ones or not.)