Change Is On The Air
OK, I'll admit it's kind of thrilling to see the first black person ascend to the office of President of the United States. I just wonder if there would be the same excitement in the media and on the National Mall had someone like Alan Keyes been standing there instead of the most liberal former member of the United States Senate.
Rick Warren's prayer did invoke the name of Jesus reverently, as he segued into the Lord's Prayer. Very appropriate to my mind.
It's a big day. It's a historic day, there's no doubt. Nevertheless, it's a bittersweet day for me as I fear that President Obama will usher in a new era of socialistic policies in our declining free republic. It's tragic in the sense that President Obama said during the campaign that he would sign the Freedom of Choice Act as soon as possible. This act will overthrow all the abortion laws in all fifty states, enshrining a statutoral right to abortion on demand! Its final lines read:
Rick Warren's prayer did invoke the name of Jesus reverently, as he segued into the Lord's Prayer. Very appropriate to my mind.
It's a big day. It's a historic day, there's no doubt. Nevertheless, it's a bittersweet day for me as I fear that President Obama will usher in a new era of socialistic policies in our declining free republic. It's tragic in the sense that President Obama said during the campaign that he would sign the Freedom of Choice Act as soon as possible. This act will overthrow all the abortion laws in all fifty states, enshrining a statutoral right to abortion on demand! Its final lines read:
This Act applies to every Federal, State, and localI can hardly imagine a more sweeping piece of legislation. We are in trouble.
statute, ordinance, regulation, administrative order, decision,
policy, practice, or other action enacted, adopted, or
implemented before, on, or after the date of enactment
of this Act.
Two things:
1. "most liberal former member of the United States Senate": Aside from being a really awkward sentence, where are you getting your data? Rush Limbaugh and Bill O'Reilly? The sources I checked stated that The National Review rating was hardly categorical for 2007, as Mr. (now President) Obama had missed so many votes due to being on the campaign trail. And he was rated 13th and 16th most liberal in 2005 and 2006, when he was in Washington to vote. (Before you pick on his absenteeism, McCain didn't even vote enough to be rated.)
2. Again you use "liberal" the same way you'd use "criminal." And I'm dead certain you'd object to someone using "conservative" in the same way, so why is it OK for you to do it?
And yes, I know I'm a coward for not signing my name, blah blah yada yada. Get over it.
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As you must know, the statistic about Obama being the most liberal Senator came from a survey of votes by The National Journal.
According to a Washington Post article:
There are people who use the word "conservative" in a pejorative sense the way that I use the word "liberal." That's OK. I prefer the term "traditional," because "conservative" seems to already put me at a disadvantage, like I'm already losing ground. Liberalism, though, is an ongoing cultural shift away from traditional morality and values, away from traditional Constitutional interpretation and into a practical socialist government, and I reject those ideas. I happen to believe that I'm right to believe that liberal ideas are bad ideas. Those are my convictions, and I intend to stick by them.
Thanks for reading, whoever you are.
Carrie
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OK, there's no way to Obama's alleged policy can do what you say it can as the Supreme Court has already ruled on abortion, as I'm sure you know since the 36th anniversary was recently remembered by hundreds of thousands of pro-life demonstrators in D.C. a few weeks ago. The only way to change policy is to have the Court overturn its previous ruling or add an amendment to the U.S. Constitution. Your information here is misleading and, quite frankly, incorrect.
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I think if you read up a little bit on the policy you'll realize that I am right.
Carrie
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If religionists think this threatens their religious hospitals into "forcing" then to perform abortions, then the hospital should not offer that service. This is, after all, a freedom of choice act. The hospitals don't have to make it available. The act doesn't overthrow any laws, either. That's misleading. The law is already in place that makes abortions legal. See the Supreme Court Case of Roe v. Wade
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The Freedom of Choice Act has a hypocritical name in the first place. It overthrows all state and federal regulations on abortion such as parental notification, waiting periods, informed consent, and the Partial Birth Abortion Ban Act.
The bill will make abortions easier to get by nullifying many important laws already on the books. It should be called the Pro-Abortion "Kill All You Want" Act.
Carrie
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Carrie, I see what you're saying. Why don't hospitals who don't want to perform abortions simply not offer it as a service? Seems like that would be a choice decision to make. The bill you write about here doesn't force hospitals to perform abortions. Does it?
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It doesn't force hospitals to perform abortions, but the Freedom of Choice Act would eliminate conscience clauses that allow faith-based organizations to object to performing abortions and other procedures that conflict with the values of that organization. Out of the nearly 4,900 community hospitals in the United States, the legislation could result in the closure of the 624 Catholic hospitals that would close their doors rather than perform abortions at their facilities.
Such an action would reduce health care for many people out of pressure to do a morally evil thing. If someone is determined to kill their child they can find someone to do that. Just don't eliminate the right of people and organizations to have a conscience about this issue.
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" I happen to believe that I'm right to believe that liberal ideas are bad ideas. "
So you just reject them out of hand without looking at the idea itself to see if it has merit. Hmmmm...
Then why, pray tell, should I not do the same thing to your ideas?
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Every idea should be looked at on its merits, but I have a standard that informs me whether ideas are right or wrong. I can't think right now of an ideologically liberal idea that is objectively right. Liberalism today is just full of one bad idea after another.
Do you have any specifics you'd like to discuss?
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