- @yostsa Yes, it is troubling they both support the death penalty. We’ll need to work with Obama to help him change that when he gets in. #
- I recorded an episode of This I Believe for NPR this year. They’ve now produced a book of the talks. http://tinyurl.com/4jphwk #
- @rosevines I’ll try tweeting from London, Rose, but don’t know whether I’ll get the chance. #
Sister Helen Prejean
So you are supporting a presidential candidate who supports abortion and infanticide????? How Catholic is that????
I’m always intrigued by the number of people who seek to deflect Sister Helen’s work against the death penalty by refocusing on abortion. Anyone who knows Sister Helen knows she is profoundly pro-life, in the deepest sense.
I think people are very simplistic about abortion stances. It is not at all contradictory to be anti-abortion and pro-Obama. In fact, I think you can easily be pro-choice and anti-abortion. On that front, it’s worth quoting Frank Schaeffer, a dedicated anti-abortionist, who puts the case for anti-aborition/pro-Obama so well:
“I’d say something else about the choice issue. I am pro-life. I haven’t changed in that regard. If people read my book, Crazy for God, they’ll see that I’ve gone left, if you want to put it that way, in many, many areas, but not that one. But I actually believe that if your interest is not ideology and ideological purity, but rather abortion itself, i.e. you want more or less abortions, that the medical and social programs that Barack Obama is talking about for our country, in terms of care of women and children and families, improvement in education and possibilities for all Americans, actually will result in less abortions. So my interest in the abortion issue is that I think abortion is a tragedy. My interest is not the politics of it, as in always appearing to vote for the person who has the correct ideology.
“And so, I think there’s a choice for Americans interested in this issue who are like me, pro-life, and that is, do you want to choose ideological purity attached to a party that will so destroy our economy and all the social programs that there will be more abortions, i.e. as there have been through the Republican-controlled years, when they’ve been talking about this issue for thirty years and done nothing about it for actually helping women and children, or would you rather have a president like Barack Obama, who you disagree with on this one ideological point, in terms of what you might call the theology of the issue, but whose program would practically result in a more conducive environment for families to prosper, for people to have children, for kids to go to school, for women to be taken care of? And I would rather vote for a person who’s going to do the job rather than just have the correct ideology.”
dear sister helen president obama needs to abolish the death penalty for all crimes of murder and keep up pressure to have him do away with death penalty. Have you shared platform with chuck coloson of prision felloship blessings stuart lawrence