The May 2010 Euthanasia Prevention Coalition Newsletter can now be found at: http://www.euthanasiaprevention.on.ca/Newsletters/Newsletter108(May2010)(RGB).pdf Bill C-384 was soundly defeated by a vote of 228 to 59. Check how the Members of Parliament voted at: http://www.euthanasiaprevention.on.ca/HowTheyVoted.pdf On June 5, 2010, we are co-hosting the US/Canda Push-Back Seminar at the Radisson Gateway Hotel at the Seattle/Tacoma Airport. The overwhelming defeat of Bill C-384 proved that we can Push-Back the euthanasia lobby in the US and Canada and convince people that euthanasia and assisted suicide are a dangerous public policy. Register for the Seminar at: http://www.euthanasiaprevention.on.ca/2010SeminarFlyer(RGB)(LetterFormat).pdf The Schindler family are being attacked by a Florida television station and Michael Schiavo. The Euthanasia Prevention Coalition is standing in solidarity with the Schindler family. My blog comments: http://alexschadenberg.blogspot.com/2010/05/att...
Reflections from the pastoral ministry of an Evangelical Catholic Priest.
When any culture deliberately sets up a class system based on superficial attributes, it does not deserve to survive.
ReplyDeleteAnd no culture which suppresses the rights of some of its citizens should be allowed to claim that it is on the side of equality for all.
We have evolved our own culture from that which only recognizes white male property owners as fully free citizens with all the rights entailed with citizenship to one that embraces women, non-property owners, and people of color and every religion and social status.
"...if every Christian in America who claimed to be pro-life would simply refuse to vote for any candidate—regardless of party—who supports abortion, the abortion laws would change within two election cycles."
No it wouldn't. All that would do would lower the number of pro-lifers at the polls. But politics is not about one single issue, that issue being abortion. It's also about jobs and the economy, which is a MUCH hotter button than abortion. And it's about other things, as well. It's about the immediate future of each and every voter, all of whom have escaped their own potential abortion, and most of whom do not care one fig for the rights or lives of their neighbors across the street, much less the purported life or "rights" of something that has not yet even been born.
Ask any voter: would you give up your house and/or job/income in order to ensure that some woman you don't know is not allowed to have an abortion? Any predictions on the answer to such a question?