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Originally Posted by Sweet Pea
Tstew - I see where you are coming from - however, there are two things at work here.....
1) Yes, we have been disappointed by some of the appointees to the SCOTUS. But - we also have had to deal with confirmation hearings that were very difficult to get REAL pro-life judges through.
2) To me abortion is more than just a political football - I agree with you that it will be VERY difficult - if not impossible - to ever overturn Roe vs Wade - HOWEVER, my personal opinion is that anyone who actively supports the murder of innocent babies has some serious flaws in their character. The character flaws will come out in other areas that as a people we will have to deal with. So to me - a candidate's stance on life is kind of the line in the sand for me.
I don't think that I have said this in a way that you will understand - but I hope it will cause you to stop and think for just a minute about what all is involved when a person so blatantly supports something that is so obviously against God.
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Sweet Pea, I do understand what you are saying, and I guess that still goes back to the heart of my question and frustration. Are we to the point now where we are accepting the murder of millions of babies and are satisfied to give our vote to people
in power (the ones who could do something) based on their verbal disagreement with it? If so, it is just further evidence of how the moral majority was silenced and pacified by rhetoric for 35 years.
Personally, I'm not sure which is worse...someone who believes that abortion is murder and does not do everything in their power to stop it, or someone who genuinely does not believe that abortion is murder in the scientific, religious, and moral sense and therefore doesn't do anything about it.
Either abortion is murder or it isn't. In my opinion if abortion is murder, the conservatives in our country should have approached it with the same passion and demand for action on every level as if a million ten-year-olds were being executed every year. I reject the notion that something could not have been done in 35 years if the majority of Americans had flexed their muscles and demanded it. Instead the GOP found a happy place where they could champion it but not have to do much about it.
It is crazy then for them to approach my generation of pro-life Americans with the same tired talking point. Unless I know exactly what you are pledging to do about abortion, don't try to use it as a religious lever to guarantee my vote. I am looking for the specific plan of action that I can hold you to and judge you by after your term.
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