One of my favorite magazines is Touchstone. In the December 08 issue James Hitchcock writes a spot-on editorial addressing abortion and single issue voting.
He writes:
If 2008 is remembered as the year of the “bailout,” when the federal government spent billions to rescue the nation’s financial system, it should also be recalled for another kind of bailout—Christians with impeccably pro-life records who suddenly abandoned what they declared to be a sinking ship.Read the entire article HERE.
Abortion seemed to be one of the few issues on which Senator Barack Obama had an unambiguous and unchangeable position during the campaign, as he promised that “the first thing I’d do as president is to sign the Freedom of Choice Act,” something that would nullify all existing laws restricting abortion...
The role of “pro-lifers” in the Obama campaign was not to persuade the candidate to moderate his stand on abortion (there is no evidence that they even tried to do so) but to persuade pro-lifers to forget about the issue.
But if social conservatives follow this advice over the next four years and beyond, they will be required to overcome their “narrow” outlook on more than just the issue of whether abortion should be legal. The Obama administration can be counted on to initiate systematic government funding of abortions and embryonic stem-cell research, to support efforts by international agencies to promote (and sometimes require) abortion in Third World countries, and to endorse efforts in the United Nations to define abortion as a “right” that must be recognized by all nations.
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Excellent. Thank you so much for posting this.
Not only does Hitchcock insightfully articulate the November election's conservative apostasy, but wisely affirms my long-held (Jeffersonian) conviction that we should cease our futile subsidizing of the U.N. and declare our sovereignty (again). And hopefully, Pastor Pruitt, perhaps your next career could be a run for the Whitehouse! Think about it
The UN is a disgrace. It is as useless as the League of Nations. It props up thugs and even gives them a voice on the security council. It is obscene that American tax payers are required to support the UN.
I would be a disaster as a politician.
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