Posted on 01/16/2008 4:36:46 PM PST by wagglebee
What a demented monster!
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Some good news from the pro-infanticide crowd. Remind me to shed some crocodile tears for their inability to find quislings.
I found the statistics to be heartening. Looks like the power of compounding is working it’s magic. It’ll take another 10-20 years, but infanticide for convenience’s sake will eventually go away in the U.S. Not because of anything that happens in the political sphere of course, but because women will stop allowing their unborn children to be eliminated.
Then, there is no right or wrong decision about anything! How can they claim to be religious or moral leaders when they say such things? What kind of moral authority can they claim? These types of religious leaders are only concerned with "social justice", and their own narrow interpretation of that.
I guess anybody can come along and call themselves a "Baptist" church. I wonder what kind of a "Baptist" this turkey is.
Catechism of the Catholic Church
This would suggest that 100% of Catholics oppose abortion. I guess those who have excommunicated themselves still keep showing up and pretending they are Catholics.
General Christianity Ping
Oh yes how shocking that ministers are not in favor of irresponsible sexual behavior or killing unborn children when that behavior leads to pregnancy. How uncompassionate of them to not condone sin and selfishness and irresponsiblity. /s
He is a Baptist Minister in Washington DC, if anyone should be concerned with the well being of his flock, it should be Veazy(like Weezy)...
Instead, he is championing the death of infant life?
My goodness, what is the clergy coming too?
I mean 3/5th of a person isn't a person and neither is someone less than human, right Veazey?
Nope, haven’t heard that one yet. As a Baptist, I hope I never do but I certainly will not be surprised when I do.
As a former (recovering) member of the clergy, this doesn’t surprise me at all.
You see, to be a pastor, you must be elected by the congregation, and those votes are taken by paper ballot as well as paper money (check). Quite frankly, you p*ss off the wrong person, and you’re packing up the parsonage.
So, the “successful” pastors are the ones that keep the peace. The last thing that 99% of their congregations want is their pastor to take a stand that puts them on the front page of the newspaper, where they are somehow made to feel “unsophisticated” or “intolerant”.
In time, those “successful” clergy are the ones who are promoted to positions of supervisory power — bishops, moderators, etc.
I once saw a pastor whose parishioner had been accused of ritual molestation of dozens of kids (Grass Lake, MI). His pastor shunned the guy, not even offering the comfort that one might give to a convicted man on death row. The pastor was horrified to be with the guy, and standing up for his innocence (was found innocent later) was out of the question.
MLKing bemoaned the fact that the clergy of his day might’ve talked a good game, but were all missing when it came time to take action. Many didn’t even talk a good game, instead writing King while in jail asking him to avoid confrontation instead of doing his marches.
Things haven’t changed much today.
Too bad Lifenews.com can't even cite their own stories correctly!
They say...
An August 2007 Pre Research poll also found 64 percent of Americans who want abortions banned or restricted.And they link to their own story... of a Pew Research poll that was conducted in August 2006. And most telling of all is that they totally made up the 64 percent number--it isn't in there.
For example:
Abortion continues to split the country nearly down the middle. But there is consensus in one key area: two out of three Americans (66%) support finding "a middle ground" when it comes to abortion. Only three-in-ten (29%), by contrast, believe "there's no room for compromise when it comes to abortion laws." This desire to find common ground extends broadly across the political and ideological spectrum.and
Public opinion about the legality of abortion is largely unchanged from previous polling. While about one-in-three (31%) prefer for abortion to be generally available to those who want it and one-in-ten (11%) take the opposite position that abortion should not be permitted at all, most Americans fall in between, preferring what might be described as a "legal but rare" stance. One-in-five (20%) say that abortion should be available but under stricter limits than it is now, while about one-in-three (35%) say that abortion should be illegal except in cases of rape, incest or to save the woman's life.As for the CBS News poll claim...
...79 percent take one of the three pro-life stances...Okay, first of all, what they are citing in the poll itself was a number for WHITE EVANGELICALS (yet LifeNews implies that it's either everyone polled, or else [from their previous paragraph] it's "Evangelicals, black evangelicals and Catholics.") I don't know many black evangelicals who consider themselves white evangelicals. Perhaps some Catholics do.
And secondly, they say: "one of the three pro-life stances," so they are saying that "abortion is okay in the case of rape" is a "pro-life" stance. Interesting. Only 9 percent of White Evangelicals (4 percent in general) said abortion should be banned entirely, though 35 percent of White Evangelicals said it would be okay only to save a woman's life.
Bottom line: a lot of sloppy game-playing with the numbers, and lumping "some restriction" in as "pro-life"
Abortion kills people!
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