[unspun]

I’m a lot happier with a lot of small steps. Sure works well for the left. Ten thousand left wing Lilliputian steps have tied our country into knots. We need to do the same, in reverse. Plus, it is in step with our Founding Fathers vision.

I guess I'm not getting through clearly. We should/must save whatever lives we can and make whatever progress to keep marriage, marriage. Incrementalism is important -- but it is no excuse to oppose an ultimate, thorough Human Life Amendment and Marriage Amendment, as Thompson does.

"Leave it to the states" is the Steven A. Douglas approach.

[John Valentine]

...but it is no excuse to oppose an ultimate, thorough Human Life Amendment and Marriage Amendment, as Thompson does.

This statement is not true. Thompson does not oppose these amendments. He merely recognized that they aren't achieveable now. and should not be where our CURRENT effort is directed. As he puts it, with respect to the right to life isseu, "Let's get Roe-v-Wade repealed, then count our marbles and see where we are." It is only a question of emphasis and timing.

[Lexinom]

The little creature in the womb does not know concepts of federalism. In whatever capacity we experience life in these earliest stages, we need love and nurture - not violence. Who would argue that the way we treat the weakest and most defenseless - incl. by way of the beneficence of law - does not reflect our character as a society? Abortion was illegal once. No women went to jail (unless they were the abortionist). Let's make it illegal again and re-inculcate in our society that a human life, no matter how small, how weak, how young, is worth so much it even enjoys protection under the law.

Let's do this.

[Checkers]

“I guess I’m not getting through clearly. We should/must save whatever lives we can and make whatever progress to keep marriage, marriage. Incrementalism is important — but it is no excuse to oppose an ultimate, thorough Human Life Amendment and Marriage Amendment, as Thompson does.

“Leave it to the states” is the Steven A. Douglas approach.”

Didn’t Thompson get the endorsement of National Right to Life?