{"id":8804,"date":"2002-10-26T11:40:41","date_gmt":"2002-10-26T16:40:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/2002\/10\/26\/personally-opposed-to-so-called-catholic-politicians\/"},"modified":"2002-10-26T11:40:41","modified_gmt":"2002-10-26T16:40:41","slug":"personally-opposed-to-so-called-catholic-politicians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/2002\/10\/personally-opposed-to-so-called-catholic-politicians\/","title":{"rendered":"Personally opposed to so-called Catholic politicians"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=#3333ff>SANTA FE, New Mexico, Oct 23, 02 (CWNews.com) &#8211; The<br \/>\nArchdiocese of Santa Fe on Tuesday defended its decision to distribute a flier<br \/>\nhighlighting the views of gubernatorial candidates on abortion at all its<br \/>\nparishes over the weekend.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=#3333ff>The fliers, published by Right to Life of New Mexico,<br \/>\nhighlighted Republican John Sanchez&#8217;s pro- life views in contrast to Democrat<br \/>\nBill Richardson&#8217;s pro-abortion views. Father Bennett Voorhies, chancellor of the<br \/>\narchdiocese, said he apologized if the fliers were construed as an endorsement<br \/>\nof a candidate.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=#3333ff>The flier detailed Richardson&#8217;s 1984-1997 record as<br \/>\ncongressman from New Mexico and said: &#8220;Richardson&#8217;s record shows a lack of<br \/>\nrespect for human life. As governor, he would not serve the people of New Mexico<br \/>\non the life issues any better than he did as a congressman.&#8221;<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=#3333ff>Richardson has said he is a Catholic and is personally<br \/>\nopposed to abortion, but doesn&#8217;t believe the government should interfere in a<br \/>\nwoman&#8217;s decision to have an abortion.<\/font><\/p>\n<p>I am sick and tired of hearing the &#8220;personally opposed&#8221; crap, I wish they<br \/>\nwould come up with a new lie. Bravo to the <a\nhref=\"http:\/\/www.archdiocesesantafe.org\/Offices\/Communications\/PressReleases\/02.10.22.PoliticalCandidate.htm\">Archdiocese<br \/>\nof Santa Fe<\/a> for their flyer. Unfortunately opposition to abortion almost<br \/>\nalways eliminates all but one candidate and is an implied endorsement. Where are<br \/>\nthe separation of church and state activists when it comes to the government<br \/>\ninterfering with free speech rights in churches? Steven Riddle brought it to my<br \/>\nattention that in <a\nhref=\"http:\/\/www.wevoteprolife.com\/mississippi.htm\">Mississippi<\/a> in a couple<br \/>\nof races you actually have a choice between two 100% pro-life candidates. <a\nhref=\"http:\/\/www.wevoteprolife.com\/massachusetts.htm\">Massachusetts<\/a> is<br \/>\nextremely pro-abort, even the Republicans are promoting the culture of death. I<br \/>\nthink tomorrow would be a good day to start a pro-life novena for the Nov 5<br \/>\nelection.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SANTA FE, New Mexico, Oct 23, 02 (CWNews.com) &#8211; The Archdiocese of Santa Fe on Tuesday defended its decision to distribute a flier highlighting the views of gubernatorial candidates on&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8804","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8804"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8804\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}