Cocktail Party Talk

Want to get your name on the "Don't Call" list for cocktail parties?  Have we got a podcast for you - one full of religion and politics!  If you're a Catholic having trouble wading through all the issues of picking your candidate, it's not surprising - there isn't a candidate out there who lines up perfectly.  It is important, however, to realize that how you vote is just another extension of your faith.  One's faith, well-lived, should infiltrate every moment of his life, including (maybe especially) that time in the ballot box. 

Here's someone else who wouldn't be too welcome at a cocktail party:

 "But I feel that the greatest destroyer of peace today is abortion, because it is a war against the child - a direct killing of the innocent child - murder by the mother herself. And if we accept that a mother can kill even her own child, how can we tell other people not to kill one another? How do we persuade a woman not to have an abortion? As always, we must persuade her with love, and we remind ourselves that love means to be willing to give until it hurts. Jesus gave even his life to love us. So the mother who is thinking of abortion, should be helped to love - that is, to give until it hurts her plans, or her free time, to respect the life of her child. The father of that child, whoever he is, must also give until it hurts. By abortion, the mother does not learn to love, but kills even her own child to solve her problems. And by abortion, the father is told that he does not have to take any responsibility at all for the child he has brought into the world. That father is likely to put other women into the same trouble. So abortion just leads to more abortion. Any country that accepts abortion is not teaching the people to love, but to use any violence to get what they want. That is why the greatest destroyer of love and peace is abortion. "

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Comments

[Bob Cleveland]

I'll listen to the podcast momentarily, but I'm sure I'll be confused. I mean, I've never actually BEEN IN a ballot box. I never thought there was THAT much room in there.

[Linda]

This is an interesting podcast. This is a hot dinner conversation in our home. When you think of Iraq, when do you have to consider the human rights of the innocents under the old dictatorship...vs the innocents who die as a result of the war. Can you argue, against the war in Iraq based upon the innocents that will die.....and ignore the intrinsic evil that existed under the regime? It can not be argued that had the US not invaded innocents would not have been raped, tortured and murdered. It is referred to as the Dufar argument in our home. Does the number of innocents who will die in a war, justify turning your back on the innocents who will suffer if you do not interfene?

Hmmmmm.....Religious rights....that is a slippery slope isn't it. When you recall the number of Founding Fathers who were Unitarian....and let's not forget Thomas Jefferson's Bible. None of these men could be elected under the standard set by the far right.

Abortion.....If you want to know the character of a country, look to the way it treats it's most vulnerable. What more is there to say on the issue? It isn't the economy, or the rate of unemployment, or funding for secondary education, or NAFTA...it's the lives of the country's most innocent.

[Snafu]

This is my favorite podcast to date- putting your faith into tangible action in the "real world"!

No political party owns the doctrines expressed in our Judaeo-Christian tradition (unfortunately). Either abstaining from voting, or voting carelessly is a violation of our obligations as citizens and as stewards of this Country, entrusted to us by the Almighty.

[Miz Booshay]

I have always voted for the person I thought would do the most for the unborn.

I have become disillusioned.

I will continue to vote in hopes that the awful abortion law will be changed. But I'm afraid the time is past.

I'm thinking something done on a local level, in our own communities would be even more beneficial.