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He added: "Abortion is not the issue. This could be about nuclear weapons or Iraq or anything where the Catholic church has a view. To tell practising Catholics how to vote is unacceptable."

Red herring #1: it's not about nuclear weapons or Iraq or anything else. It is precisely about abortion.

Red herring #2: The idea that churches or representatives thereof have no right to express opinions about political issues of the day.

It's almost certain the guy is lying when he says abortion is "not the issue." Of course it's the issue -- one suspects he would be very pleased, for example, if the Catholic church came out against nuclear weapons or the Iraq war.

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He added: "Abortion is not the issue. This could be about nuclear weapons or Iraq or anything where the Catholic church has a view. To tell practising Catholics how to vote is unacceptable."

Red herring #1: it's not about nuclear weapons or Iraq or anything else. It is precisely about abortion.

Socialists love to make irrelevant comparisons and reduce essential, singular things such as Life down to the level of any other policy issue.   That's the only way that they can comprehend it, because their frame of reference doesn't allow for anything more important than a Governmental policy issue.

Red herring #2: The idea that churches or representatives thereof have no right to express opinions about political issues of the day.

Dealing with a perspective that comes forth as a result of a grounding in an appreciation of a Higher Being and a greater Truth than that of the State makes Socialists extremely uncomfortable.  God is not something that they can tax and regulate, and so to them it is something that cannot exist. 

It's almost certain the guy is lying when he says abortion is "not the issue." Of course it's the issue -- one suspects he would be very pleased, for example, if the Catholic church came out against nuclear weapons or the Iraq war.

He would love to talk about anything other than Life, preferably inanimate objects and policy matters.

He added: "Abortion is not the issue. This could be about nuclear weapons or Iraq or anything where the Catholic church has a view. To tell practising Catholics how to vote is unacceptable."

Red herring #1: it's not about nuclear weapons or Iraq or anything else. It is precisely about abortion.

Socialists love to make irrelevant comparisons and reduce essential, singular things such as Life down to the level of any other policy issue.   That's the only way that they can comprehend it, because their frame of reference doesn't allow for anything more important than a Governmental policy issue.

Red herring #2: The idea that churches or representatives thereof have no right to express opinions about political issues of the day.

Dealing with a perspective that comes forth as a result of a grounding in an appreciation of a Higher Being and a greater Truth than that of the State makes Socialists extremely uncomfortable.  God is not something that they can tax and regulate, and so to them it is something that cannot exist. 

It's almost certain the guy is lying when he says abortion is "not the issue." Of course it's the issue -- one suspects he would be very pleased, for example, if the Catholic church came out against nuclear weapons or the Iraq war.