[nina0113]

IOW, if one candidate is pro-job and another is pro-life, there’s this logic that says that’s an even trade off.

That's the result of the 'Seamless Garment' gang. I forget if it was Bernadin or Weakland that started it.

[Mrs. Don-o]

Seamless Garment? I know about this. Nina, I worked intensely on precisely this issue for over 30 years. And the problem was not with the true "consistent wthic," but with those who shredded it to pieces.

Actually, the point of the original "Seamless Garment" idea --- and the first person I heard preach it was Mother Teresa's great friend and promoter Eileen Egan --- was exactly the opposite of what you describe: it was that "respect for life" is unbroken and seamless, i.e. NOT a patchwork quilt where you could gash a huge hole in one square of cloth but patch it with another.

Even "Seamless Garment" as preached by Cardinal Bernardin, back in 1983, similarly was based in a consistiency thing, starting with "You can never intentionally kill any innocent person, born or unborn, period."

The problem came in when the patchwork people (the "pro-choice" liberal Democrat Catholics, prominently Mario Cuomo and his posse) turned the concept upside-down and started saying it's OK to throw the baby to the wolves if you're also antiwar or pro-food-stamp or something.

And Bernardin --- and most other USCCB Bishops ----let them get by with it: they did not confront, challenge and repudiate them.

That was the hell-bent scandal of it all.

[Salvation]

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