{"id":5630,"date":"2005-09-19T13:24:03","date_gmt":"2005-09-19T18:24:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/2005\/09\/19\/thoughtful-critic\/"},"modified":"2005-09-19T13:24:03","modified_gmt":"2005-09-19T18:24:03","slug":"thoughtful-critic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/2005\/09\/thoughtful-critic\/","title":{"rendered":"Thoughtful critic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"blog\">From a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.commonwealmagazine.org\/article.php?id_article=1370\">Commonweal magazine article on Judge Roberts<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p class=\"bi\">As a result, many Catholics will ask whether the bishops will apply the same &#8220;all or out&#8221; standard to Judge Roberts that they applied to Kerry or, more disgracefully, to longtime Congressman David Obey (D-Wis.), a thoughtful critic of abortion who failed to support the whole prolife agenda.<\/p>\n<p>And just exactly what is there definition of a thoughtful critic of abortion? Well I guess it include someone who correctly voted the partial birth abortion ban, but also opposed President Bush&#8217;s &#8220;Mexico City initiative&#8221; (which limits foreign aid funding of abortion-providers overseas)  and voted to allow them for  abortion in military hospitals. Beyond that he also opposes the Presidents restrictions on Federal embryonic stem-cell research.<\/p>\n<p>The rest of the article is typical Commonweal boilerplate of widening the issues to just abortion, embryonic stem-cell research, same-sex marriage, and other and other &#8220;non-negotiable&#8221; (The scare quotes are his) What he refers to as &quot;so-called life issues.&quot; You can learn a lot about what an author thinks by the scare quotes used and what gets proceeded by a &#8216;so-called.&#8217; And of course he also appeals to the late Cardinal Bernadin. As <a href=\"http:\/\/papabile.blogspot.com\/2005\/09\/rocco-and-dom.html\">Papabile emphasized the other day<\/a> that what often is left out is the fact that the Cardinal&#8217;s said that abortion was the first concern in his speeches on a consistent life ethic. Too often the seamless garment is used to smother babies in favor of government supported programs for the poor. <\/p>\n<p class=\"bi\">Some early reports associated Roberts with the Federalist Society and its hankering to return to pre-New Deal restrictions on federal powers. That position is at odds with important elements of Catholic social teaching.<\/p>\n<p>Gee I must have missed the magisterial documents on how the Federal government is responsible for all these programs and how subsidiarity would mandate this. I had the opposite impression.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From a Commonweal magazine article on Judge Roberts: As a result, many Catholics will ask whether the bishops will apply the same &#8220;all or out&#8221; standard to Judge Roberts that&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pro-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5630","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5630"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5630\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}