"Young girls who engage in sexual activity are looking for affirmation. Older men who want to have sex with them know how to exploit that," says Forney, 44, of Pittsburgh. "Abortion makes this easier for the perpetrators. If the victim gets pregnant, typically she follows the perpetrator’s lead and lays herself out on the table at an abortion clinic, completely clueless as to what’s about to happen to her. At 16, I had no idea they were going to put a vacuum hose in my body and suck a baby out. They just did it." - Georgette Forney, anti abortion cousellorWhat does this have to do with Condi Rice? Well... NRO quotes LA Times exit polling to the effect that "[M]ore than half of Bush's voters cited moral issues as a principal reason for their support — more than any other issue, including even terrorism." In fact, morals trumped terrorism by seven percentage points..." Condi Rice is pro choice on abortion. If Americans are indeed increasingly concerned about morals (Tom Wolfe's phrase "The Great Relearning" seems apt), it should come as no surprise that abortion will come into play; it is a great enabler in moral confusion and degeneration, as the testimony above proves. If Rice wants to make a run for president she will have to do a re-think on her position in order to tap into the kind of hard core support that came out for Bush last night. Her record of service will not be enough, nor will her minority credentials. Not unless the Dems really are dumb enough to run Howard Dean.
Ecce Homo I haven't done a quote from Pope Ratzinger's Introduction to Chistianty in a while and even though I have finished the book there are still one or two passages I want to share, including - perhaps even especially - this one. When I first began to look over what Christianity teaches, to look at the gospel story and to try penetrate why it has been so compelling to so many for so long, this was one of the things that leapt out at me. I was happy to see our Pope confirm it. Expanding on the Apostles Creed where it says "... suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, died, and was buried," Ratzinger writes: The fact that when the perfectly just man appeared he was crucified, delivered up by justice to death, tells us pitilessly who man is: Thou art such, man, that thou canst not bear the just man - that he who simply loves becomes a fool, a scourged criminal, an outcast. Thou art such because, unjust thyself, thou dost always need the injustice of the n...
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