Posted on 11/22/2008 4:56:25 PM PST by Mrs. Don-o
Catholics and, for the love of God, everybody else, please FReep this poll.
http://salsa.wiredforchange.com/o/1548/t/286/survey.jsp?survey_KEY=179
Catholics United is the front group that organized Catholics for Obama. The organizers, Chris Korzen and James Salt, are veterans of Catholics for Kerry, and literally never saw a pro-abort Catholic they didn't try to paint haloes and auras around.
They make very clever use of Catholic symbols, documents and God-talk to promote their Kmiec-style deviationism.
In this poll I'm asking you to FReep, they want feedback on what their lobbying priorities ought to be. Check "common-ground ways to reduce abortions." What they mean by that? Who knows? But I'd like them to be challenged to make that their far-and-away highest priority. Let's try to get it stratospherically high. Just to see.
I voted. I don’t think it will do any good but I voted!
For the sake of the Cyber-Klutzes among us (myself first and foremost) please post and tell us how to do that.
Ping Promiscuously.
In front of all these people!?!
Okay, I voted - even though everything in their “common ground abortion reduction initiatives” plan is probably immoral, proven ineffective, or both.
Yeah, I know their "common ground" thing probably means condomizing the boys and hormally neutering the girls, or some damned thing. But I want them to think "What next? Do they expect us to fight FOCA?"
Yes.
And I want them to know the prolifers are watching them.
As I am. With my flaming Sauron eye.
Promoting homosexuality is a “commonsense” way to reduce abortion, too ... can’t make a baby without one of each sex!
Anyway, a round of applause to you for your vigilance, and I’d better go get dressed before someone sees me in this holey nightgown :-).
From their MySpace Page, just so everyone knows...
Catholics United Responds to Allegations Made by Denver Archbishop Charles Chaput
Catholics United executive director Chris Korzen issued the following statement today in response to Denver Archbishop Charles Chaput’s accusation that Catholics United has “done a disservice to the Church, confused the natural priorities of Catholic social teaching, undermined the progress pro-lifers have made, and provided an excuse for some Catholics to abandon the abortion issue instead of fighting within their parties and at the ballot box to protect the unborn.” The archbishop’s comments were delivered at an Educating on the Nature and Dignity of Women dinner in Denver on October 17, 2008.
“Catholics United welcomes an open, honest, and productive dialogue about how best to represent the values of the our faith in public life. We recognize that Catholics can differ in good conscience about which policies will achieve the most effective results, even on issues as important as abortion. We are concerned that Archbishop Chaput’s comments – even those made in his personal capacity – will have a chilling effect on this dialogue. It is also profoundly unfortunate that Archbishop Chaput has chosen to make personal attacks on lay Catholics acting in good faith to promote Catholic values in the public square.”
“During the past eight years we have watched a president rise to power on a ‘pro-life’ platform only to pursue other priorities: perpetrating an unjust war, opposing expanded health care coverage for pregnant women and children, promoting the intrinsic evil of torture, deregulating the financial markets, and mortgaging the future of America’s hard-working families on tax cuts for the rich and powerful. Scant, if any, progress was made toward ending or reducing abortions – quite the contrary, we fear that the looming economic crisis will impel more women to have abortions as people lose their jobs and their homes. This experience serves as poignant reminder of the need for Catholics and other pro-life Americans to look beyond campaign rhetoric and elect candidates who will deliver real results on the issues that matter most.”
“With due respect to Archbishop Chaput, we believe that by pursuing efforts to de-polarize the abortion debate and bring Americans of varying ideological backgrounds to the table to find common ground solutions, organizations like Catholics United are doing at least as much to promote Church teaching on human life as those who have insisted on the same ineffective strategies of the past 35 years.”
(delusional)
“Catholics United welcomes an open, honest, and productive dialogue about how best to represent the values of the our faith in public life.”
dialogue?
The guy doesn’t seem to get the fact that the Church is not a democracy.
Hey,
They went thru and changed the voting results. Stripping out the newly minted ant-abortion vote.
Hey,
They went thru and changed the voting results. Stripping out the newly minted ant-abortion vote.
They wouldn’t be trying to skew the results in any way, would they? Surely not.
There are fewer anti-abortion votes now then there were when I FReeped it the other day...
They woke up today as a new ProLife group.It looks like they've managed to convince themselves it was all just a dream.
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These people are schismatics. They are creating schism in the Church. They shouldn’t be getting communion or any other sacrament except reconciliation.
liberal RC ping
done.
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