Posted on 09/02/2012 2:41:42 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
..........The British have never been especially keen on enthusiasm, either in its modern sense, or in the older meaning of seized by religious fervour. Americans ideological descendants, in many ways, of those regicides differ from us perhaps more in this than in any other regard.
.....One after another, friends and colleagues of Mitt Romney lined up to tell us about the many acts of kindness which he had performed unremarked. Parents choked back their tears as they recalled the time he had spent with their dying children. Former employees spoke of his humility, his industriousness, his quiet charity. In a stroke of genius, one of his sons told us that, as boys, he and his brothers had always had to go to their mother for pocket money, their father being tightfisted which, given Americas present circumstances, strikes me as the best possible recommendation.
........The greatest pleasure I know, wrote Charles Lamb, is to do a good action by stealth and have it found out by accident. A lot of us have just learned, almost by accident, about several of Mitt Romneys good actions. We are building up an image of the man which is rather more appealing than we had expected: workaholic, uxorious, quiet, prayerful, more than a little dull, but fundamentally decent. What a relief after the soaring but (in both senses) vain rhetoric of the past four years.
Modest, calm and obsessively private, Mitt Romney seems more British than American. He is obviously fond of this country, making it the first place he visited on his tour as a candidate..........
We have had four years of a president who scarcely troubles to hide his disdain for Britain. What a pleasure it would be.....
(Excerpt) Read more at blogs.telegraph.co.uk ...
Call me a Mittbot, I’ll call you an Obamabot, and we both look equally childish.
Mormons are theologically wrong, but a lot of them are still very nice people on earth.
If actual Christians in America do not behave that way, well why don’t they begin? I think that when they started to expect the country to do most of their being Christian for them, is when the personal specialness of Christianity began to be lost. The ecstasy of being a saved soul was exchanged for a little niceness in Caesar’s realm.
Let us hear your support for turning your party pro-abortion.
The First Amendment: The Foresight of Our Founders to Protect Religious Freedom
The first provision of the First Amendment concerns freedom of religion. That guarantee reflected Thomas Jeffersons Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom, which declared that no one should suffer on account of his religious opinion or belief, but that all men shall be free to profess, and by argument to maintain, their opinion in matters of religion . That assurance has never been more needed than it is today, as liberal elites try to drive religious beliefsand religious believersout of the public square. The Founders of the American Republic universally agree that democracy presupposes a moral people and that, in the words of George Washingtons Farewell Address, Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, religion and morality are indispensable supports.
The most offensive instance of this war on religion has been the current Administrations attempt to compel faith-related institutions, as well as believing individuals, to contravene their deeply held religious, moral, or ethical beliefs regarding health services, traditional marriage, or abortion. This forcible secularization of religious and religiously affiliated organizations, including faith-based hospitals and colleges, has been in tandem with the current Administrations audacity in declaring which faithrelated activities are, or are not, protected by the First Amendmentan unprecedented aggression repudiated by a unanimous Supreme Court in its Hosanna-Tabor v. EEOC decision.
We pledge to respect the religious beliefs and rights of conscience of all Americans and to safeguard the independence of their institutions from government. We support the public display of the Ten Commandments as a reflection of our history and of our countrys Judeo-Christian heritage, and we affirm the right of students to engage in prayer at public school events in public schools and to have equal access to public schools and other public facilities to accommodate religious freedom in the public square. We assert every citizens right to apply religious values to public policy and the right of faith-based organizations to participate fully in public programs without renouncing their beliefs, removing religious symbols, or submitting to government-imposed hiring practices. We oppose government discrimination against businesses due to religious views. We support the First Amendment right of freedom of association of the Boy Scouts of America and other service organizations whose values are under assault and condemn the State blacklisting of religious groups which decline to arrange adoptions by same-sex couples. We condemn the hate campaigns, threats of violence, and vandalism by proponents of same-sex marriage against advocates of traditional marriage and call for a federal investigation into attempts to deny religious believers their civil rights.
..The Sanctity and Dignity of Human Life
Faithful to the self-evident truths enshrined in the declaration of Independence, we assert the sanctity of human life and affirm that the unborn child has a fundamental individual right to life which cannot be infringed. We support a human life amendment to the Constitution and endorse legislation to make clear that the Fourteenth Amendments protections apply to unborn children. We oppose using public revenues to promote or perform abortion or fund organizations which perform or advocate it and will not fund or subsidize health care which includes abortion coverage. We support the appointment of judges who respect traditional family values and the sanctity of innocent human life. We oppose the nonconsensual withholding or withdrawal of care or treatment, including food and water, from people with disabilities, including newborns, as well as the elderly and infirm, just as we oppose active and passive euthanasia and assisted suicide.
Republican leadership has led the effort to prohibit the barbaric practice of partial-birth abortion and permitted States to extend health care coverage to children before birth. We urge Congress to strengthen the Born Alive Infant Protection Act by enacting appropriate civil and criminal penalties on healthcare providers who fail to provide treatment and care to an infant who survives an abortion, including early induction delivery where the death of the infant is intended. We call for legislation to ban sex-selective abortions gender discrimination in its most lethal formand to protect from abortion unborn children who are capable of feeling pain; and we applaud U.S. House Republicans for leading the effort to protect the lives of pain-capable unborn children in the District of Columbia. We call for a ban on the use of body parts from aborted fetuses for research. We support and applaud adult stem cell research to develop lifesaving therapies, and we oppose the killing of embryos for their stem cells. We oppose federal funding of embryonic stem cell research.
We also salute the many States that have passed laws for informed consent, mandatory waiting periods prior to an abortion, and health-protective clinic regulation. We seek to protect young girls from exploitation through a parental consent requirement; and we affirm our moral obligation to assist, rather than penalize, women challenged by an unplanned pregnancy. We salute those who provide them with counseling and adoption alternatives and empower them to choose life, and we take comfort in the tremendous increase in adoptions that has followed Republican legislative initiatives. [end excerpts Republican Party 2012 Platform]
Try that again after some sleep.
So what’s the waffle of the week?
If you are insisting on caviling over a little roughness in grammar to avoid the plain truth that American Christians have too much leaned upon their government to be Christian for them, and too little looked to themselves, then what hope is there for you to return to integrity and truth and honesty.
The whole article is worth reading. Thanks for posting this.
Since your nominee Mitt Romney announced that his party is now pro-abortion, what is your point?
You want to rub it in that you people won?
You’ve run out of steam ansel12.
Bump!!
You tell me, I’m a conservative, I’m not tracking you, and yours.
One thing that you will not do, is become pro-life.
You certainly are busy running from thread to thread on this forum announcing that people aren’t pro-life.
What do you hope to gain by your subterfuge?
Look at post 33.
“obammy’s not only an empty chair...”
I’d like to see a poster showing the empty chair alongside Obama’s head. The words would be “What do these two objects have in common?”
I’m lOOking at you!
When you become a conservative, then let us know,
Mitt Romney is pro-life. He believes it speaks well of the country that almost all Americans recognize that abortion is a problem. And in the quiet of conscience, people of both political parties know that more than a million abortions a year cannot be squared with the good heart of America.
Mitt believes that life begins at conception and wishes that the laws of our nation reflected that view. But while the nation remains so divided, he believes that the right next step is for the Supreme Court to overturn Roe v. Wade a case of blatant judicial activism that took a decision that should be left to the people and placed it in the hands of unelected judges. With Roe overturned, states will be empowered through the democratic process to determine their own abortion laws and not have them dictated by judicial mandate.
Mitt supports the Hyde Amendment, which broadly bars the use of federal funds for abortions. As president, he will end federal funding for abortion advocates like Planned Parenthood. He will protect the right of health care workers to follow their conscience in their work. And he will nominate judges who know the difference between personal opinion and the law.
Because the good heart of America knows no boundaries, a commitment to protecting life should not stop at the waters edge. Taking innocent life is always wrong and always tragic, wherever it happens. The compassionate instincts of this country should not be silent in the face of injustices like Chinas One-Child policy. No one will ever hear a President Romney or his vice president tell the Chinese government that “I fully understand” and wont second guess compulsory sterilization and forced abortion.
Americans have a moral duty to uphold the sanctity of life and protect the weakest, most vulnerable and most innocent among us. As president, Mitt will ensure that American laws reflect Americas values of preserving life at home and abroad.
Where's the inquisitor's list?
Name the "us."
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