Posted on 07/08/2004 8:02:05 AM PDT by Theodore R.
Kerry on abortion
Posted: July 8, 2004 1:00 a.m. Eastern
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John Kerry says he believes life begins at conception, but he still does not believe in legislation protecting that innocent life.
I would have more respect for Kerry if he hadn't said that.
If Kerry had said he doesn't believe unborn babies are truly human, therefore, they don't deserve legal protection, his argument would have some intellectual merit – if not scientific or moral merit.
But he didn't say that.
Instead, he said in a campaign stop last week: "I oppose abortion, personally. I don't like abortion. I believe life does begin at conception."
"I can't take my Catholic belief, my article of faith, and legislate it on a Protestant or a Jew or an atheist," he said in an interview. "We have separation of church and state in the United States of America."
That's not an intellectual argument, that's an excuse for a political position he believes he must take to get elected.
If John Kerry lived in Nazi Germany, would he suggest that he couldn't impose his religious and moral views on his countrymen by trying to protect the lives of Jews, who were considered sub-human by the ruling authorities?
Perhaps so, given Kerry's line of thinking.
The truth is that all laws – whether they are traffic regulations or matters of life and death – are based on someone's morality.
Environmental laws are based on morality.
Kerry's treasured plans for prescription drug plans are based on morality.
Kerry's ideas about economics are based on morality.
All politics are based on someone's sense of morality – whether it is good morality or bad morality.
Catholics aren't the only people with religious views, by the way. Atheists have religious views. Agnostics have religious views. Protestants have religious views. Jews have religious views. Muslims have religious views.
And all of those people have a moral obligation, I suppose, to make their views known in a free and open society and to try to influence legislation.
What has happened with the issue of abortion is that John Kerry's friends in the courts have taken the matter out of the hands of the people. They have ruled on high, based on their own sense of morality, that the people cannot be trusted to make laws about this particular issue.
Roe v. Wade opened the floodgates for more rulings from the court in which these high priests in black robes have taken other matters out of the hands of the people and legislatures.
Politicians like Kerry love when the courts do that because it takes them off the hook. They can pretend to hold certain popular religious views and get elected by saying the matter is out of their hands. They can pretend that politics is somehow separate from morality – when it is convenient for them to do so.
But just watch Kerry wax eloquent about how immoral George Bush's economic plan is – how it hurts the poor. He might even cite Scripture to suggest we have an obligation to help the poor in doing so.
John Kerry is a phony, and I hope the American people can see through this double-talking charlatan – not so much because I think George Bush is much better. But I hope the American people are smart enough – despite years of dumbing down by pandering politicians and government-controlled education – to recognize what he is trying to do.
He's trying to have his cake and eat it, too.
He knows most Americans detest abortion. But he knows he has to champion it to hold his party faithful together – those who consider killing unborn children a sacred obligation, a kind of sacrament to radical feminist ideology.
Any politician who tells you morality has nothing to do with the law and government is about to do something extremely immoral.
Never listen to what Kerry says look at his record.Look at his past. he will say anything , its all lies, His past doesnt lie, From his made up medals, to the hero Awards he wrots himself thru his commie ties with Jane Fonda, Manuel Ortega, his Senatorial record of votes. You have to look at his record, what he spews forth from his mouth is whatever the crowd he is in front of wants to hear.
The Rats hold that the ONLY "right" that shall not have any limits whatsoever is the "right" of a woman to murder her unborn child.
For Kerry to even think that it is wrong to "legislate my faith" terrifies me as to his level of moral and intellectual ignorance and insufficiency to run a country.
Christianity and Judaism are religions of revelation. God tells us about Himself. It was revealed to us what God wanted, in deeper ways than what was already in our conscience (such as, 'There is a God and He's powerful'). It is revealed to us by God that we are created in His image, not the image of a distant grandfather gorilla. It is revealed to us by God that humans have a spiritual ability in the womb (such as seen in John the Baptist, in utero, leaping for joy when Jesus and Mary enter the room). THEREFORE we legislate to protect the value of humans. Yes it is our faith, but it is our faith because it is TRUE, proven by revelation, truth which cannot be disproven, but is continually confirmed by facts.
Other religions' claims of new revelations can be disproven. The writings of the Koran, or BOM, or of JWs, can be shown to have historical inaccuracies, deceptions, inconsistncies, illogic, etc. But now we have God Himself telling us what He wants, so it's not wrong to create a country, with its rules based on those revelations (we have recorded in the OT and NT, 66 historical documents)! In fact, it's great! We're trying to save life, not end it!
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