Romney: Still Supports Embryonic Stem Cell Research U.S. Army Retired |
Posted on 12/27/2007 3:21:46 PM PST by tcg
As the Iowa Caucus draws close, we are happy to present the responses to our questions sent to us by Governor Mitt Romney, a Republican candidate for President. Former Governor Romney was the 70th Governor of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and has an extensive background in executive leadership positions.
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| Romney: Still Supports Embryonic Stem Cell Research U.S. Army Retired |
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Romney claims to have switched to pro-life because of embryonic stem cell research .... but after his supposed conversion, he still supported and supports embryonic stem cell research.
I wonder what Ann Romney's reason was for becoming pro-life at the same time as her husband decided he was going to run for president?
Those phonies disgust me.
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Thanks for posting. I have a parenthetical quibble with one of Deacon Fournier's assertions.
The statement italicized above is a crock, albeit oft-repeated by the Social Teaching (a.k.a. socialist teaching) crowd. A papal document or two (not ex cathedra ones) and a couple of editions of a catechism take a position close to this, but more, excuse me, nuanced than that. The criticism of capital punishment is not couched in moral terms, but practical ones—that if life imprisonment is certain under modern conditions, capital punishment becomes no longer necessary.
As any follower of post-Clinton politics knows, there is no certain life imprisonment anywhere in the world. Governments change, and politicians spring their political favorates—as BJ sprung the Fraunces Tavern murderers in order to help his wife's Senate campaign gain the support of Puerto Rican terrorist sympathizers. And in New Jersey, all I can say is "Remember Mumia."
As a moral question, Augustine and Aquinas wrote yards of prose describing the appropriateness and necessity of capital punishment. So does the Bible from end to end, including the words of Christ. And the Vatican City itself had capital punishment until the late 1960s.
No one can coherently say that capital punishment is unjust under Catholic moral teaching. Social Teaching is something else: a collection of windy nostrums and assertions about the causes of modern problems that were out of date as soon as they were first written about a century ago. They are characterized by a denial of human nature typical of socialist Europe at the turn of the century, and factual ignorance concerning the effect of various policies on economic and criminal behavior. I often think that our bishops, in embracing Catholic Social Teaching, do so to compensate for the fact that they must publicly oppose abortion.
I prefer some one who atleast vouches to have converted to pro-life position Vs those who declare to be pro-choice at present.
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