Posted on 09/23/2010 4:43:02 AM PDT by tcg
On September 23, 2010, House Republicans will release a carefully guarded and much anticipated agenda for the November elections. The chattering class has debated whether the agenda will include what are dismissively referred to as the "social issues"...
Our insistence upon recognition in the positive law of the fundamental Human Right to Life is not about one political issue; it is about the foundation of freedom itself. Human rights - such as the Natural Law Right to Life - and human freedoms such as the freedom to be born - are goods of human persons. When there is no human person to exercise them all the rhetoric extolling them is nothing but empty air and sloganeering...
...Rights are endowed by a Creator not conferred by the State. Because they are goods of the human person, we must defend the human persons who will exercise them...
Our insistence upon defending marriage is also not simply because of our religious faith. Yes, our faith informs our position. However, the truth about marriage is also confirmed in the Natural Law which is written on every human heart and knowable through the exercise of reason. Marriage, a lifelong union between one man and one woman open to the bearing and raising of children, is accepted across cultures.
The effort to give an enforced legal equivalency to non-marital relations and force all of us to call what can never be a marriage to be a marriage, such as homosexual partnerships, is unjust. It can never serve the true common good.
The defense of marriage is also a defense of the blueprint for building a just society. Marriage - and the family founded upon it- is the first government, first hospital, first economy, first school, first mediating institution and the very foundation of our life together...
(Excerpt) Read more at catholic.org ...
Let me ask this question in reverse: does anyone on the planet believe the democrat ideas would be more in favor of life and marriage than those of the GOP?
Because of our culture, it must be strongly repeated. To set aside the conservative social principles (ostensibly to win an election) would be a GRAVE mistake.
The end does NOT justify the means.
I just wish all my Catholic friends would vote their faith and not who their union tells to vote for....
There are references to faith, family values, Henry Hyde’s abortion amendment, repealing Obamacare.
See Pages 1,2,14 & 15. of the Pledge
http://www.scribd.com/doc/37958976/GOP-Pledge-to-America
They are NOT setting them aside, those of whom have a track record on these issues. They chose not to include them to forestall their use as a democrat lightning rod.
Who instituted the marriage sacrament? In the second Chapter of Genesis God started the Institution of a Man and a Woman as one. The first marriage.
It’s a matter of Church and State. The government needs to abide by the constitution. They are not to set up a new church that decides what marriage is. If the Church gives that right to Government shame on them.
No, the question is, will Republicans take firm stances on those issues or will a third-party like the Tea Party be necessary as outlet to assure they are addressed?
The Republican party can either fall apart or stand firm on social issues.
When the Tea Party becomes an actual political party, let me know. Right now, I take my chances with how my GOP representatives feel and have voted upon the social issues which are important to both you and me whether they have “contracted” to support them.
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