{"id":4176,"date":"2007-02-01T09:27:07","date_gmt":"2007-02-01T14:27:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/2007\/02\/01\/right-decision-and-only-choice\/"},"modified":"2007-02-01T09:27:07","modified_gmt":"2007-02-01T14:27:07","slug":"right-decision-and-only-choice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/2007\/02\/right-decision-and-only-choice\/","title":{"rendered":"Right decision and only choice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"bi\">I think in many cases it becomes the right decision and the only<br \/>\nchoice.<\/p>\n<p class=\"blog\">So says Bishop Paul Coakley of Salina regarding Obstinate Pro-Abortion<br \/>\nCatholic Politicians. <a href=\"http:\/\/romancatholicblog.typepad.com\/roman_catholic_blog\/2007\/02\/bishop_paul_coa.html\">Roman<br \/>\nCatholic Blog has more<\/a> on a story form LifeSite news.<\/p>\n<p class=\"blog\">Roman Catholic Blog <a href=\"http:\/\/romancatholicblog.typepad.com\/roman_catholic_blog\/2007\/02\/a_priest_writes.html\">also<br \/>\nposts<\/a> an open letter to nancy Pelosi<br \/>\nfrom Fr. Malloy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"bi\">Nancy, you are fooling yourself and I fear fooling many good<br \/>\nCatholics. You are simply not in sync with the Catholic Church. Until you change<br \/>\nyour non-Catholic positions, you should stop calling yourself Catholic. Your<br \/>\nrecord shows that you support embryonic stem cell research, Planned Parenthood,<br \/>\ncontraception, family planning funding, allowing minors to have an abortion<br \/>\nwithout parental consent, and are against making it a crime to harm a fetus,<br \/>\netc. etc.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"bi\"> The fact that you favor married priests and women priests certainly would<br \/>\nnot classify you as conservative, but your answer to the question are you a<br \/>\nconservative Catholic was:<br \/>\n&#8220;I think so. I was raised in a very strict upbringing in a Catholic home<br \/>\nwhere we respected people, were observant, were practicing Catholics, and that<br \/>\nthe fundamental belief was that God gave us all a free will, and we were accountable<br \/>\nfor that, each of us. Each person had that accountability, so it wasn&#8217;t<br \/>\nfor us to make judgments about how people saw their responsibility and that it<br \/>\nwasn&#8217;t for politicians to make decisions about how people led their personal<br \/>\nlives; certainly, to a high moral standards, but when it got into decisions about<br \/>\nprivacy and all the rest, then that was something that individuals had to answer<br \/>\nto God for, and not to politicians.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"bi\"> That sounds fair and tolerant, but your record belies high moral standards.<\/p>\n<p class=\"bi\"> The NARL rates you 100% pro-abortion. Your statement: &#8220;To me it isn&#8217;t<br \/>\neven a question. God has given us a free will. We&#8217;re all responsible<br \/>\nfor our actions. If you don&#8217;t want an abortion, you don&#8217;t believe<br \/>\nin it, [then] don&#8217;t have one. But don&#8217;t tell somebody else what<br \/>\nthey can do in terms of honoring their responsibilities. My family is very<br \/>\npro-life. They&#8217;re not fanatics and they&#8217;re not activists. I think<br \/>\nthey&#8217;d like it if I were not so vocally pro-choice.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"bi\"> Do we not elect politicians to make laws that help people<br \/>\nhonor their responsibilities, such as protecting life itself? Can politicians<br \/>\nnot tell someone else not to<br \/>\nkill? If you can kill a baby in the womb, Nancy, why not outside of it? Oh<br \/>\nwait, you are in favor of partial birth abortion, so-called because the baby<br \/>\nsticks out of the &#8220;mother&#8221; about halfway, while the &#8220;doctor&#8221; sucks<br \/>\nout the baby&#8217;s brain. That seems comparable to the choice the Nazis made killing<br \/>\nsix million Jews.<\/p>\n<p class=\"bi\"> Yes, Nancy, we (together with your pro-life family) would all like it if<br \/>\nyou were not so vocally pro-choice, i.e. pro-death. Until your choice is in<br \/>\nline with Catholic doctrine, please, Nancy, do not receive the Eucharist when<br \/>\nyou attend Mass.<\/p>\n<p class=\"bi\"> Rev. John Malloy, SDB<br \/>\nSan Francisco, CA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I think in many cases it becomes the right decision and the only choice. So says Bishop Paul Coakley of Salina regarding Obstinate Pro-Abortion Catholic Politicians. 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