The Debate That Won't Go Away after Nov. 4

I've been asked to post this link to Public Discourse's new article on the pro-life case vs. Barack Obama and Doug Kmiec. This debate within the church is not going to go away after the election tomorrow. The principles and issues involved here are quite timely and important to the inner life of the church, across the board. They are primarily moral and not political first, with possible political implications depending on how politicians play these issues from year to year or day to day. With Obama promising to enact a Freedom of Choice Act, he's a player in not merely a political drama but a moral and ethical drama. In the long view moral concerns are often how we look at past societies: not the details of their political performances but the force for good or evil in the world they represent. The focal point of the story of mid-19th-century America is slavery, which had political implications, and worse. Whenever blood is shed in great quantity whether legal or not, it cannot, in the long view, remain silent.

Comments

[labrialumn]

If Soetoro is elected, the debate - at least the debate in the open, in public, -will- go away, because to oppose abortion and infanticide would be a violation of the civil rights laws, and a hate crime.

Christians would have to leave the medical profession in order to not have to commit brutal murder of babies.

And that is just FOCA. Add DOMA and the thoughtcrime bill, and we will find ourselves less free than those 19th century slaves.

[Bob]

"We cannot continue to rely on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives that we've set. We've got to have a civilian national security force that's just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded."

From June, but no major media outlet reported it.

Video: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=5128294616187563612&ei=gDoPSc7SIZHuqALZ6PDzAQ&q=%22civilian+national+security+force%22

[Howard]

With North American politics as intense as they are, everyone needs a little comic relief. Fortunately, the baby boomer generation are crawling back out of their holes (... wherein boomers start questioning everything again) at www.sociafarts.com

Cheers,
Howard

[labrialumn]

Here's some humor. While it is still legal.

http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/e62444aa8c