http://www.catholic.org/video/?v=1762

Justin

It’s been several days since you posted your reply to me and I’ve been thinking things over. I was hoping to come up with something new, some way of making my position clear, since it seems we are talking past each other, not really connecting. Please find my reply here.

http://festungarnulfinger.blogspot.com/2008/10/answer-to-my-friend-rob.html

Yours For A Better World — Dutch

What is worse is than the factual error is that you are supporting unadulterated evil. This is the worst candidate ever presented on the most important issues, and you want to give him a pass. I am sorry, brother, but you are on the wrong path here - and you are working for those who would do evil.

Your quote about Republican justices is irrelevant. It isn’t about the party, it is about whether the justices are pro-life or not. Only one more justice is needed to overturn the evil that was done in 1972. The next president is likely to nominate up to 3 justices - all pro-abortion replacements.
Both Obama and McCain acknowledge that abortion hangs in the balance. That you disagree says a lot about you.

Two, there is more to abortion and life issues than the court. Obama would pass FOCA - a law that would eliminate all state restrictions on abortion. He would also provide funding in foreign countries for abortion (not done currently). He also favors paying for abortions with tax dollars. There is a lot at stake here. You just want to stick your head in the sand.

Three, Obama is a liar. He will say anything to get elected. The war will not end sooner because of him, the economy won’t get better because of him. All a vote for Obama does is extend evil.

Finally, just as I could never vote for a pro-slavery candidate, I can never vote for a pro-abortion candidate. It does not matter what others say. Right and wrong are not issues for voting.

I for one will not stand with evil and seek inadequate arguments to justify it. I wish you would turn from doing that - but you are the one who has to live with your choices.

Abortion won’t change no matter who you vote for, but if you want more war, then McCain’s your man!

God is amazing, and we really need to learn trust. I recently got done writing a paper about the historical background of Isaiah. God’s scourge comes from our own false alliances; when we trust in Him, yes we may suffer, but He is present and that suffering is purifying. But He will leave us to our own devices if we reject His call to remain close to him, no matter what comes our way.

I’m fully prepared to lose my house, to lose everything. And it’s OK, because my credit rating isn’t something that comes with me to eternity. (Um…I DO hope I won’t lose the roof over my head…or not be able to pay debt…not trying to be irresponsible!) In all things, God is good, and I’d rather have nothing but the clothes on my back and love God, than have all the riches of the world…and be empty.

I’m told that the logic behind it is that abortion involves the reproductive organs, therefore “reproductive health” is an appropriate term.

By the same logic, you could call the gas chamber a “respiratory health center” — after all, it involves the respiratory organs!

But Gianna was lucky. A nurse recognized her as a baby, not just a fetus ex-utero, and sent her to the NICU.

It is in the case of Ximenia Renearts that we more clearly see Obama’s attitude in action. Ximenia’s mother underwent an abortion, thought her fetus was dead, then showed up at a hospital in pain. The staff at the hospital elected to respect her choice, to refrain from further burdening her. They stuck the fetus in a bedpan. They left the fetus, cold and alone, in a closet. It wasn’t until another hospital employee mistook the fetus for a baby that care was sought.

Ximenia’s adoptive parents sued on her behalf, arguing that since she’d been born alive, she was a baby and entitled to care.

BC Minister of Health, Michelle Stewart, was dismissive of the issue of infants born live during abortions, commenting, “As you know, this Ministry is very much in favor of giving women choices about their reproductive health.” British Columbia’s Chief Coroner Larry Campbell included a letter in a report on such live births, and dismissed them as to be expected in abortion and therefore outside the purview of BC coroners, who only get involved if a death is “unexpected”.

This is the stand Obama took. That providing care for babies like Ximenia was too much of a burden on the mother’s choice.

If you’re okay with that — if you think that the wrongdoing was by the people who provided Ximenia with care, not by the ones who left her in a bedpan to die — then by all means, vote for Barak Obama.

As for Ximenia herself, she is too profoundly disabled to speak out. About anything. Which is lucky for Obama. One less fetus with attitude to challenge his assertion that the proper thing to do with them is stick them in a closet and wait for them to die.

Perfect way of explaining, true contrition- (is it equal to an act of perfect contrition, I don’t know…Possibly)
and atrrition- Good enough for the Sacrament of Penance.

I get accused from the accuser quiet often to think that im not properly disposed for confession.
This post was perfect

In Christ,
Brian

P.S. Good blog!