If you don't vote for these pro-life candidates, u r not a Christian
true story...
- Cruz
- Jindal
- Rubio
- Huckabee
- Paul
the other ones say abortion is OK in some situations. Yeh, murder is OK depending on the circumstances.
Right... as long as you don't murder THEM, eh??
I like what Reagan said about abortion
[slight paraphrase]
The reason some people are not against abortion, not terribly upset about it being legal
is because
they are already born
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Yeah, as if a president could succeed in changing something SCOTUS has already ruled on... Maybe if we cared enough about abortion congress as a whole would reflect it?
yes I do
"You will know them by their fruits"
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What fruits, rpchick? What is Christian fruit? Maybe if you can adequately describe that, then you can give statements about it that we can take seriously. There is every indication aside from it being plainly spelled out, that the Apostle Paul himself was a mass murderer. He also didn't condemn slavery because he know he wouldn't accomplish anything doing that.
It's perfectly possible for a politician to have sentiments against abortion, but know that if he militates against it in his platform, it will only cut short his chances of being elected. With the way our government works, anyways, the real place to take a stand on this issue is in the Senate, and the people we've elected for the Senate have not been representative of a godly view on this issue for some time, hence them either voting nay against anti-abortion House initiatives or not even giving it any time on the floor.
Presidential candidates have always had to say certain things to get elected, and they have always known that in spite of their wanted position, what they say about issues that are legislative and judicial has more to do with marketing themselves than
really telling us what they're going to accomplish at the capitol. A president has some clout in congress but not nearly as much as people think. It is the vice president who does most of the legislative legwork for the president, by participating in Senate committees, and helping to present bills.
A president can push for something, but they don't personally write any piece of legislation, or determine what exactly that legislation means as SCOTUS does. What the president can do aside from approving or vetoing a bill, is he can exercise jurisprudence in carrying out the law.
So, to reiterate: what these candidates are saying about abortion may not be indicative at all of their personal feelings on the issue. They would not be in a position to actually present a bill on it in the first place, so they are merely marketing themselves to voters when they discuss such things. It is the vice president that tries to work in accordance with the president's legislative inclinations, and through what the VP does you can often discern how that person really felt about such issues as a candidate.