Like just about everyone else around St. Blog, I have had a wonderful time this past month fisking Tim from Catholics for Dean. Yet the campaign seems to have wisened him a little, so I wish to draw everyone’s attention to a serious project he’s undertaken. This is a heart-felt plea on behalf of pro-life Democrats to Democratic hopeful Dennis Kucinich, urging him to return to his pro-life convictions. Seriously Tim, my prayers are with you in this brave effort and pray other Casey Democrats will support you.
Author: Pete Vere
Did abortion kill Kucinich’s presidential bid?
I was reading an interesting essay at Democrats for Life the other day, in which it is alleged that abortion is the one issue that continues to sap the Abortion Party of its electoral strength. Somewhere else, I read that almost half the Democrat grass-roots rejects their party’s hardline pro-abortion stance. Which got me wondering…
Prior to the primaries, Dennis Kucinich was a reliable pro-life democrat. However, he crossed over to the dark side at the start of the primaries in order to give his campaign traction. At least, this is what was suppose to happen. Instead, he’s consistently found himself in a tight race with Al Sharpton for last place.
Which makes me wonder, did the abortion issue kill Kucinich’s campaign from the start? What traction would Kucinich have gained within the campaign among alienated pro-life Democrats had he stuck to his pro-life principles? He might not have been the eventual nominee, but would he have gained enough support to finally break the Abortion’s Party culture-of-death plank?
I think he might have. Unfortunately, he didn’t. Where he had a real opportunity to influence the party, he sold out instead. This is sad because pro-life Democrats consistently out-poll pro-life Republicans in elections. The results are even more devastating for the GOP where a pro-abortion Republican goes head-to-head with a pro-life Democrat.
Which brings me to another point: the only candidate for Casey Democrats in the upcoming general election is George Bush. Now is the time for pro-life Democrats (or their sympathizers like myself) to galvanize and send the party a message we will not vote for a candidate who supports the destruction of our children in the womb and of the traditional family. 2004 is gonna be one of the toughest campaigns in a long time, and a loss for the Democrats might finally awaken them to their bleak electoral prospects as long as they remain the Abortion Party.
So pro-life democrats should send the party a message by either voting Republican or sitting this one out.
“Actually, the Americans treated me well in Cuba.”
As a civil Libertarian, I find the following piece quite reassuring about what’s going on in Guantamo Bay. While this young lad denies having been Taliban, and while he was initially angry at America for having captured him, he states he soon came appreciate how nicely the American soldiers were toward him.
Support Gay Marriage
Something hit me this morning as I got out of bed. Namely, when did the homosexual lobby successfully co-opt the word “gay”? The word use to mean “happy”, which from many accounts I have read, the homosexual lifestyle is anything but.
That being said, every marriage should be gay. That is, every marriage should adhere to the pro-life principles that make for a happy marriage. Unfortunately, the homosexual lifestyle contradicts many of these principles.
For example, the foundation of a gay marriage lays in the complementarity between a man and a woman. So for a marriage to be truly happy, it must be heterosexual in nature. This in itself will not ensure happiness in marriage, but it is constituative of all happy marriages. So gay marriage is by its nature heterosexual.
So is gay sex. This sounds a little strange, but as we read in Familiaris Consortio, there are two functions of conjugal relations that cannot be separated from one another. The first is unitive, in which the spouses enjoy each other’s natural complementarity. Which is why homosexual relations can never be gay — it lacks the unitive function because it fundamentally lacks this complementarity.
The second function of conjugal relations is the procreative function. It is also lacking within homosexual relationships. Thus a homosexual marriage can never be gay since such a relationship is intrinsically sterile.
Kevin Miller vs. Bill Cork
Kevin Miller blogs an excellent response to Bill Cork in the debate over pro-life and abortion, President Bush, and the current crop of nominies for the Abortion Party. This is not the first time Bill and Kevin have locked horns, as evidenced by this post a year ago on Just War theory.
Of course, I find myself agreeing with Prof. Miller in the current debate over whether or not abortion is a defining issue. As most of my regular readers know, I have the highest respect for Kevin Miller as a theologian. Nevertheless, I’m somewhat confused by how Bill appears to raise the issue of the Iraqi War in order to challenge Dubya’s pro-life credentials. If we go back exactly one year, I recall that I strongly opposed the War in Iraq, but who was so favorable to the war that he was bandying about the word sedition to describe its opponents, because he intrinsically trusted the President and simply dismissed as ridiculous the arguments of the war’s opponents to which he now appeals in the abortion debate?
Anyway, while Bill is a pretty good ecumenist (since that’s his professional specialty within the theological sciences), I think I will stick to Kevin Miller when it comes to moral theology since that’s Kevin specialty within the theological sciences. (Also, throughout the Church’s history canonists and moral theologians have traditionally been allies). That being said, having consistently opposed the war, I still maintain abortion trumps this issue when it comes to the ballot box.