The fight for our own words is amusing in a sad way. If that makes any sense…

craig on August 7, 2008 at 2:27 PM

+1 – Makes a lot of sense. Sad, but true. A “fetus born alive” makes it so much easier for the leftards to kill than killing a “baby.”

Motion carries. Right?

Right now we live in a society where 10% of the population pays 60% of the taxes.

MarkTheGreat on August 7, 2008 at 2:21 PM

Barry wants to raise that second number to about 80%.

“fetuses born alive” are typically called babies.

Not to mention jgapinoy’s PC correction…

It’s more accurate to say we support rights (of children).

The fight for our own words is amusing in a sad way. If that makes any sense…

Not exactly true..the israeli “welfare” system was essentially: you are only allowed to harvest through your fields once.

Don’t forget that you are talking about a society in which almost everyone was a farmer. So once again, this was not a requirement to take other people’s resources.

I have never understood why Catholics are overwhelmingly Democrat.

In what part of the country is this true? The men’s group at my parish should register as an Elect McCain committee (not that I’m complaining). And I agree with many here. This isn’t going to work, particularly with Casey.

The junior Bob Casey rode to his current office on the coattails of his dad’s reputation and the Rahm Emmanuel, Move-on machine, defeating a fine, committed, national-security conscious, pro-life supporting conservative, Rick Santorum.

Young Bob Casey is another empty suit now taking up space in the Senate, who is just as ineffectual and empty as he was previously, serving as Lt. Gov. in Pennsylvania. He is a rubber stamp for the Dems, having no prevailing philosophy of his own.

I cannot think that practicing Catholics who are politically aware will be taken in by this ruse.

Exactly and it isn’t charitable giving when your money is seized from you, under threat of being sent to prison.

Hey, look over there! It’s a distraction.

Yet, when we Catholics do come to that conclusion, we are derided as throwbacks to the Dark Ages. I believe a lot of my fellow Catholics view giving away canned food (they no longer want or is approaching expiry date) to the community food closet somehow absolves them of their going along with the anti-life party.

But how is that helping the poor w/ other people’s money?

jgapinoy on August 7, 2008 at 9:58 AM

If you would have gone through your fields harvesting them two or three times you could have sold your crops = more money.

Btw, nice write-up, Ed.

Jaibones on August 7, 2008 at 9:19 AM

Very nice write-up, Ed!

My sister, and her husband, are likewise swayed by this line of thinking.

They, too, view the Dems as the party of the compassionate.

For all their education, you’d think they could add 2+2…

Party of the compassionate, indeed. Which is why the number of people we have to be compassionate towards keeps growing and growing year after year…still giving the man fish instead of teaching him how to fish.

Conventional Catholic wisdom among older Yuppie Catholics?

Casey…he’s such a nice charming man, a great family man, and didn’t he offer a resolution in Congress welcoming Pope Benedict XVI to America? Too many Catholics think this way. Casey showing up on the rostrum would be enough for a lot of unthinking Catholics to swing to Obama.

Party of the compasionate? Bull! And not a Papal Bull, either.

in Illinois he opposed a ban on the killing of fetuses born alive.

“fetuses born alive” are typically called babies.

AZCoyote on August 7, 2008 at 9:21 AM

As a fetus that was born alive, I would like to thank my parents and the medical team on-hand for rescuing me from a possible fate based on the Democratic party’s use of extermination as birth control which is sanctioned by the hypocritical Catholics that hold membership is said party, and no value for the sanctity of human life.

I also call upon my fellow fetuses that experienced being born alive, to join with me in the occasion of voting these proponents of murdering our less fortunate brothers and sisters of the fetus/creation movement out of office.

I’ve read the Bible through, several times, and while it does say that we should help the poor, there is absolutely nothing in it that supports the notion that we should be using other people’s money to fulfill that obligation.

MarkTheGreat on August 7, 2008 at 9:01 AM

Not exactly true..the israeli “welfare” system was essentially: you are only allowed to harvest through your fields once. You could get a lot more out of your field if you went through it twice or three times, but you are only allowed to go through it once…the poor and (yes even poor foreigners) were allowed to go through the fields and harvest all the remainder and procure enough food for themselves for the winter etc..

SaintOlaf on August 7, 2008 at 9:31 AM

But how is that helping the poor w/ other people’s money?