Hallelujah a Pro-Life, Pro-Marriage, Pro-Family V.P.

Hallelujah a Pro-Life, Pro-Marriage, Pro-Family V.P.
In pursuit of the truth - cinops be gone - Saturday, Aug. 11, 2012

By Ben Johnson - Sat. Aug. 11, Norfolk, VA, 2012, (LifeSiteNews.com)

Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney has chosen Wisconsin Congressman Paul Ryan as his running mate. Romney introduced the pro-life Catholic as his vice presidential choice at a campaign stop in Norfolk, Virginia, on Saturday morning.

In his acceptance speech Ryan said, “America is more than a place; it’s and idea. It’s the only country founded on an idea. Our rights come from nature and God, not government.” “We won’t replace our founding principles,” Ryan promised. “We will reapply them!”

“America is founded on the essential belief that every person has the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness,” Americans United for Life President Dr. Charmaine Yoest said in an e-mail sent to LifeSiteNews.com. “Paul Ryan has been an eloquent defender of life.”

Maureen Ferguson and Ashley McGuire of the Catholic Association (TCA) told LifeSiteNews.com “As a smart, serious Catholic, Congressman Ryan has been steadfast on issues of fundamental principle: defending religious liberty, life, and traditional marriage.”

The selection helped boost Romney’s standing with his party’s social conservatives after word leaked last month that he considered “moderately pro-choice” Condoleezza Rice for vice-president.

“The addition of a second strongly pro-life leader to the ticket energizes the pro-life base - we are thrilled with this pick,” Marjorie Dannenfelser, president of the Susan B. Anthony List, said in a press release. “By selecting Congressman Ryan as his vice-presidential running mate, Governor Romney demonstrates his commitment to protecting American women and unborn children.”

Over 14 years in Washington, Ryan has earned a 100 percent pro-life voting record with the National Right to Life Committee. He voted to confirm that life begins at conception, to grant the unborn 14th Amendment Status, to ban partial-birth abortion, to end federal funding of Planned Parenthood, and to bar abortion coverage from federal health care plans.

In 2010, he vowed, “I’m never going to vote pro-life.” However, Ryan has done more than vote pro-life; he has articulated his convictions. “Rather than seeing children and human beings as a benefit, the ‘pro-choice’ position implies that they are a burden,” Ryan wrote in a 2010 article. That reduces “the number of beings that can make choices.”

“In a justly organized community, however, government exists to secure the right to life and other human rights that follow from that primary right,” he concluded… Ryan’s speech on Saturday focused on economic issue, saying that Obama has “a record of failure,” and America is facing “a different, and dangerous moment.”

George H. Kubeck will be passing out today’s letters, tomorrow, and reporting back to you.