COMMENTARIES ON PRIESTS FOR LIFE: BIDEN FOR PRESIDENT

 COMMENTARIES ON "PRIESTS FOR LIFE: BIDEN FOR PRESIDENT"

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Response: # 1

"You are spreading falsehood. Joe Biden does not stand for or support all these atrocious accusations. Please remove me from your email list. I really do not want to be associated with this bigotry and falsehood". Fr. M...... G........  8/20/2020

Response: # 2 

I am trying to promote the truth. Talk to other priests about this page. Will try to remove you from my email. Your name is not familiar. 

George H. Kubeck - 8/20/2020

PRO-LIFE DEMOCRATS STRIKE OUT

from  pr@catholicleague.org 8/20/2020

Response: # 3 

On May 12, Kristen Day, executive director of Democrats For Life of America (DFLA). wrote a letter to the members of the Platform Committee. She made four recommendations, three of which were specific.

a) "Remove the language opposing the Hyde Amendment and Helm Amendment."  These Amendments bar taxpayer-funded abortions.

b) "Insert the following language committing to making abortion rare." Begins by saying, "As Democrats, we support efforts to make abortions rare." It then goes on to make the case for adoption.

c) "Insert the following language on the diversity of opinion on abortion." This calls on the Platform to "respect the conscience of each American" on issues such as abortion.

The DFLA lost on all three. The Platform calls for "the repeal of the Hyde Amendment," as well as the codification of  "the right to reproductive freedom." Furthermore, the Platform says nothing about making abortions "rare." As for conscience rights, they are nowhere to be mentioned.

                                                 

Response # 4 -WHAT WON'T WE TOLERATE?

By Stephen P. White (https://www.thecatholicthing.org/author/stephenwhite) Thurs. Aug. 20, 2020

Excerpts.

    "Tens of millions of American Catholics believe that a morally serious person can look at the industrial.- scale slaughter of innocent children in this country - close to a million abortions performed each year - and say, "I am willing, not only to defend that butcher's bill, but I promise to expand it, if doing so allows me to pursue justice on other fronts."*   For decades, a large slice of American Catholics has convinced itself (or resigned itself) to supporting just such candidates,not because they also support abortion, but despite their opposition to it. This November, millions of America Catholics will do it again...

     If one is willing to tolerating 60 million abortions in order to pursue justice on other fronts - even assuming all those ancillary causes are, in fact, just- what evil one NOT tolerate.

    To be clear, this is not intended as a defense of the current president or his policies, still less an argument in favor of voting for his reelection. Rather, I mention it because it throws into sharp relief the way in which the politics of abortion - more than any other issue of policy - have degraded the ability of most American Catholics to reason well about the exercise of prudence. Nothing (not even the abuse crisis, I would argue) has done more to undermine the Catholic Church credible witness in political life than her impotence with regard to abortion.*

    Many are exasperated by both choices. We can be sure that each side will look with disdain an horror at the moral compromises the other is willing to make.

   

    Politicians like Joe Biden are politically immune to Catholic criticism of their support for abortion. It is unwavering support from millions of Catholic voters who make them so immune. And does anyone doubt that pro-life Catholics who have made a long-standing alliance with Republicans over the issue of abortion have not only also shaped by that partnership in other ways.

    For many of us will be painfully aware that we will choose between the lesser of two evils. Maybe now is as good a time as any to recall that faith without works is dead, ending injustice is not the measure of the Christian life.*

George H. Kubeck, 

Response # 5 **There is a serious moral crisis with respect to voting for Biden this Nov. by any U.S. Catholic Bishop. Vote for him and quietly resign from your office as a Catholic Bishop.