Just like Moses wandered in the desert for 40 years - Will it take another 40 years for more Catholics to realize that the Democratic Party does not adhere to Christian values?
Bishop Tobin’s long-overdue abandonment
of the un-Christian Democrat Party
Patriot Update – Calvin Freiburger
– 8/20/2013
Catholic Bishop Thomas Tobin
of Rhode Island
has recently made headlines by revealing that he has ended his 40-year
affiliation with the Democrat Party, registering as a Republican this January.
He says his breaking point
was the “just awful” 2012 Democrat National Convention, in which the party
formally endorsed same-sex marriage and solidified its endorsement of abortion
and radicalized its official abortion stance, deleting the platitude that
killing unborn babies should be “rare” and vowing to “oppose any and all
efforts” to restrict it, “regardless of ability to pay.” Presumably the
spectacle of convention-goers raucously booing an attempt to reinstate an
innocuous reference to Americans’ “God-given” potential also made an
impression.
“I just said I can’t be
associated structurally with that group, in terms of abortion and NARAL and
Planned Parenthood and [the] same-sex marriage agenda and cultural destruction
I saw going on,” Tobin says.
Tobin qualifies his remarks
by saying, “it’s a complex world and a complex church,” and that liberal
lawmakers “are very good and very supportive” on other issues—the so-called
social justice umbrella. This is how liberals who profess to be believers often
rationalize their stance—Dems are bad on abortion and homosexuality, but
Republicans aren’t there for the little guy, so it all evens out, right?
But this fundamentally
misrepresents the Bible’s teachings on both the right to life and charity.
Abortion is an intrinsic evil, an act of direct violence against innocent
children that cannot be tolerated. If you take God seriously, you have no
choice but to oppose it however you can, and to avoid any form of acceptance or
promotion of it.
“Charity can only be charity when it is voluntary.
Coerced acts, no matter how beneficial or well-intentioned, cannot be moral. If
we force people to give to the poor, we have stripped away the moral component,
reducing charity to mere income redistribution […] All people have the moral obligation to care for
those who are less fortunate. But replacing morality with legality is the first
step in replacing church, religion and conscience with government, politics and
majority vote.
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