Mother Teresa of Calcutta once said: "It is a poverty to decide that a child must die so that you may live as you wish."
The greatest challenge facing the western world is not violence from without, but the tragic decision to take a life within.
Posted on 09/20/2010 8:59:59 AM PDT by julieee
Congressman Paul Ryan Latest to Call For Truce on Pro-Life, Social Issues
Washington, DC -- Congressman Paul Ryan of Wisconsin became the latest potential presidential candidate and Republican with a national profile to call for a "truce" on social issues. He joins Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels and Mississippi Gov. Hailey Barbour, who called for Republicans to back down on pro-life issues.
http://LifeNews.com/nat6697.html
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Doesn’t realize that the Senate Democrats are forcing votes TOMORROW on the following moral issues:
Don’t ask, don’t tell - homosexual rights
Government funding of abortions in military hospitals
illegal alien amnesty - DREAM act
Thirty pieces of silver! Thirteen would baarly buy you a recording of Al Franken discussing Perry Mason re-runs with Sonia Sotomayor these days.
Same old s#@+ from the pubbies. Just can’t we all get along!! One thing you have to understand about the RATS they never back down. There was a Jewish carpenter more than 2000 years ago who didn’t back down.
Hmmm Do I want to spend eternity in Heaven or Hell
Tough Choice NOooooooo. There are issues that can not be compromised.Being Pro-life is one of them. We are creatures deciding who live and who dies is not one of our inalienable rights! That is especially for innocents.
I’m concerned about this development and slowly moving toward alarmed.
Horrendously incorrect thinking. NEVER abandon the key moral principles...NEVER!!!
Much prayer STILL needed for this nation....
The GOP no longer sees abortion as a successful wedge issue to corral votes. The first appointment of GOP favorite, Gov Christie, was his veep. He chose a pro choicer. Pro-life is no longer a GOP exclusive, as one by one, they ‘come out of the closet’.
“Truce” means “Let the Democrats do whatever they want”
“Truce” really means “surrender”.
That might be acceptable if the legt radicals could be counted on not to push. But they can't.
The social issues are far more important than the fiscal ones, as they fuel the increase in spending.
The fiscal issues are just symptoms, the social issues are the root cause.
Lower Taxes and Fewer Abortions playing chicken again.
Maybe when Religious Blacks and Pro Abortion collide in the Dem party.
Otherwise, it’s a two-fer.
On a moral level, abortion and slavery are the same because they both consider the victims subhuman and owned by someone. Mr. Ryan is selling his soul out for power, what a very sad thing to witness.
yeah....how did that work out for Him? He was crucified.
We Tea Partiers are a diverse crowd; some are fiscal conservatives, or libertarians, some are social conservatives, who happen to also be fiscal conservatives. But NONE of us will have a prayer of getting any of our issues heard, unless there are people in the actual positions to do anything about them.
Most of the primaries are over, and the candidates have been chosen for this time around. Lets rally behind the most conservative of the candidates, which, for the vast majority, will mean the Republican one. If we can take over the majorities in the House and Senate, we can either roll back, or stop in their tracks, the changes the Dems wanted to force on us.
When that happens, it will be time for we who are also social conservatives to start working on finding candidates who value life, and are willing to fight against the cultural decline we've seen over the last 40 years, in addition to still upholding the issues of less government and lower taxes.
One of the reasons we've seen such a change in our country is that liberals were willing to work for those changes incrementally. That meant that some elections, they had to put up with someone who wasn't ideologically pure, but would increase the Dem majority in Congress to the point that they had enough actual VOTES to push through the changes they wanted made. That's one lesson we conservatives need to learn. We will NEVER get what we want, if we hold our candidates to such unreasonable standards of purity that they will never be elected by a majority of voters. I'm not saying vote for pro-abortion candidates, because I certainly don't, but don't reject those who could be our allies but for some squishiness on homosexuality or immigration, which, while important, aren't anywhere near as important as the basic issue of life.
“Life, Liberty, and property.”
Good grief ... its the first one. Conservatives value all three — liberals devalue all three. “Moderates” cherry-pick.
SnakeDoc
Time for Mitch to retire when his term ends.We really don't need 'tax and spend Republicans".
No...I answer to G-d Almighty; not to some cadre of earth-bound politicians.
Hey Paul....NO.........can you hear me!
Yes, they will sell their souls for riches or political office. BTW, it isn’t a “truce”; it is surrender. This is why the entire R “tent” needs to be cleaned out.
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