{"id":3530,"date":"2007-05-30T20:55:40","date_gmt":"2007-05-31T01:55:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/2007\/05\/30\/abortion-is-the-civil-rights-issue-of-our-times\/"},"modified":"2007-05-30T20:55:40","modified_gmt":"2007-05-31T01:55:40","slug":"abortion-is-the-civil-rights-issue-of-our-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/2007\/05\/abortion-is-the-civil-rights-issue-of-our-times\/","title":{"rendered":""Abortion is the civil rights issue of our times,""},"content":{"rendered":"

Stephen Dillard was on Chris Matthew’s Hardball to talk about his group Catholics Against Rudy along with E.J. Dionne.<\/p>\n

You can see a video of Part I<\/a> and Part II<\/a>.<\/p>\n

As you would expect Chris Matthew took the single issue approach asking Stephen Dillard about the war in Iraq, capital punishment, etc in the normal moral equivalence lump that is so often used. Democrats are always talking about nuance except when it comes to abortion, just war theory, and capital punishment and then everything is black and white.<\/p>\n

It was also pretty funny when Chris Matthews said that the hierarchy is populated by a lot of Republicans. Yeah I guess that really explains the bishop’s tepid voting guide and their taking several years to comment when the Democratic Party turned hard-core abortion rights. Though it is always rather dumb to try to divide up the bishops into Democrats and Republicans and giving that as their primary rationale for the way they act. Though I think historically the Bishops mostly have been quite sympathetic to the Democratic Party since there was such a long alliance between the two groups.<\/p>\n

E.J. Dionne was fairly good and even mentioned Ramesh Ponnuru’s excellent column on Rudolf Giuliani made available today<\/a>. Though he did wonder if the the Bishops would "intervene" the same way they did with John Kerry. Well I don’t remember much intervening, but no doubt the same Bishops who did say they would not allow Kerry to receive Communion would be the same ones who would act the same towards Rudy.<\/p>\n

After Stephen’s appearance I got a lot of searches to my site looking for Catholics Against Rudy (the website won’t appear till July 4th) and a bunch of comments on a previous post. I did have to go through and delete a bunch of them since their were rather vulgar and mostly anti-Catholic. Considering Chris Matthew’s audience I am not exactly surprised.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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