Pete Buttigieg did NOT say a pro-life person was not welcome in the Democrat party...

he essentially said anyone who votes democrat is welcome.

This encounter Saint Pete had with a pro-life democrat is making the rounds.

First of all, there is no such thing as a pro-life democrat. We'll get to the truth of that statement in a bit.

What did the woman ask Saint Pete at a Sunday evening town hall with Fox’s Chris Wallace?

“I’m a proud pro-life Democrat. Do you want the support of pro-life Democratic voters? There are 21 million of us. And if so, would you support more moderate platform language to insure the party of diversity and inclusion does include everybody?”

What she is asking the democrat party to do is impossible.  They can't be pro-life and "pro-choice" at the same time. The democrat party has chosen to be the party of death. They don't even try to hide their abortion position behind weasel word language anymore.

Saint Pete responded:

“I’m not going to try to earn your vote by tricking you. I am pro-choice. I believe a woman ought to be able to make that decision. If we can’t agree on where to draw the line, the next best thing we can do is agree on who should draw the line. In my view it’s the woman faced with that decision in her own life.”

She continues:

“He didn’t answer the second part of my question. The Democratic platform contains language that says we don’t belong. We have no part in the party because it says abortion should be legal up to 9 months and the government should pay for it. And it doesn’t say people with diversity of views should be included in the party."

She's still asking for an impossibility. She mentioned that in back in '96 or so the platform of the party said they recognized that some people hold different views, but they were still welcome in the party. Remember what I said way back at the top of the page?  Anyone who votes democrat is welcome. 

You see - what she really wants is to have her conscience soothed by a platform that pats her gently on the head and says "there, there little lady"  so she can vote for a pro-death candidate without feeling guilty.

Now Wallace jumps in and asks Saint Pete of the mangled Bible scripture:

“What do you say to Democrats who are pro-life? What do you say to them on an issue of such deep conscience? That they should overlook this issue and look at the whole sum of views or go find another party?”

And Pete says: 

“I never encountered a politician or another person that I agreed with 100% of the time. Even on very important things. At the end of the day, this is what I believe. People I care about and respect view it differently. But this is something I believe is so important. Especially because I’m never going have to make that decision.”

This is essentially an offshoot of the seamless garment argument.  It was the late Joseph Bernardin, archbishop of Chicago, who coined that expression  - drawn from John 19:23.  In what he called the “consistent ethic of life” he lumped care for poor people, workers' rights, capital punishment, human trafficking, and abortion as being equal in sinfulness and requiring the same amount of attention. 

No they're not.

There's a very high hurdle people are trying to jump over to justify voting for a pro-abortion politician.  If the politician spouts off about caring about poor people (don't they all?) or backing the downtrodden illegal aliens, well then we'll just overlook his pro-abortion position and that will be just fine with God.

No it won't.

What they're refusing to address is an action that falls into the category of a non-negotiable.  Abortion is a non-negotiable. If you fashion yourself as a Christian you may not, under any circumstances, vote for a pro-abortion candidate. I don't care how many sandwiches he/she hands out to street people.

Remember also what I said about there being no such thing as a pro-choice democrat? If you support the democrat party and vote for democrat politicians you can no longer call yourself "pro-life."

It's non-negotiable!



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Adrienne's Corner:  Pro-life Democrats (2012) remember Bart Stupak?

Wandering in the wasteland called the Huffington Post...

and it's not pretty.

I wasted a few moments reading an article this morning over at Huffington Post by Frank Schaeffer, a failed film maker and mediocre author, in which he makes the assertion that the debt ceiling problem is a Born Again Religious Problem.

Mr.Schaeffer claims that he, along with his father, Francis Schaeffer, author of The Christian Manifesto, and other "influential" Christians, co-opted the Republican party back in the 1980's by stuffing it full of crazy "right wing" evangelical types who are surely going to bring down this country because they believe in Jesus - or something.  He takes credit for influencing his father to take on the issue of abortion. As a matter of fact, he takes credit for doing lots of things, and for being a major player in this take-down of the Republican party. Taking credit is what Schaeffer does best.

He starts off with a bang by throwing around the terms "educated" and "reasonable" because surely anyone who believes in a Higher Power is neither.  And the debt ceiling debate?  It's all the fault of crazy right-wing Christians.  This is, of course, on the heels of Shirley Jackson Lee informing us it's all about racism.  So confusing. 

"Foreigners, visitors from another planet and Americans living in a bubble of reasonable or educated people might not know this but the reality is that the debt ceiling confrontation is by, for, and the result of, America's evangelical Christian control of the Republican Party. It is the ultimate expression of an alternate reality, one that has the mistrust of the US government as its bedrock "faith," second only to faith in Jesus." 

 It doesn't take him long to invoke Michele Bachmann as the "head crazy" of all time.

"To understand why an irrational self-defeating action like destroying the credit of the USA might seem like the right thing to do, you have to understand two things: that the Republican Party is now the party of religious fanatics and that these fanatics -- people like Michele Bachmann -- don't want to work within our system, they want to bring it down."

He claims later on in this article that his father's books were a major influence of Ms Bachmann's decision to enter politics.

It appears that Mr. Schaeffer's real problem is with his father. He even wrote a book, "Crazy for God", in which he trashes his father, mother, the way he was raised, and, in particular, evangelical Christians.   

Allow me to sum up the main themes of Schaeffer's article.

• If you are pro-life and don't believe in chopping up a baby before, or even after, it is born you are crazy.
• If you believe in the Bible, you are crazy.
• If you believe in the Constitution, you are crazy.
• If you believe in limited government, you are crazy.

"To understand the extremism coming from the right, the fact that there are members of Congress who seem to be genuinely mentally unhinged leading the charge on the debt ceiling, you need to understand that this hatred of all things government has theological roots that have nothing to do with facts.

Theology is -- by nature -- not about reason but about faith. If God's will is to be served then so be it if America is plunged into chaos! This debt ceiling fiasco is just another chapter in the "culture" wars."

Actually, theology is rooted in both fact and faith.  Granted, for someone like Schaeffer, who for some reason seems to have lost his faith, and at 50 some odd years of life, is still rebelling against his father like some whiny teenager, the above statement makes perfect sense.

And the debt ceiling is not about "God's will", Mr. Schaeffer.  It's about a federal government that has ignored the powers enumerated to it in the Constitution, high-jacked the rights of the states and, by extension, the people.  It is about a government that no longer operates under the rule of law, but instead by regulation, fiat, and executive orders.  The debt ceiling is about a government that takes, by force if necessary, the earnings of Americans, to distribute as it sees fit,  without any real representation.  And that, Mr. Schaeffer, is unconstitutional.

The debt ceiling and the out of control spending of the government is rooted in the faith people place in the facts of math. Math doesn't lie.  If you spend more than you have you will go into debt. It's a fact. It's a fact in which even non-believers will place their faith. 

"The extreme language of Evangelical/"pro-life" rebellion has now been repackaged in the debt ceiling showdown. It is the language of religion pitted against facts.

And the anti-government charge is being led by people who are either true believers, thus unable to reason, or people catering to the true believers so that they can remain in the good books of the Tea Party, which is nothing more than the Evangelical far right repackaged and renamed"

Wow!  If you go to church on Sunday, say some prayers, and believe that maybe something more than a big explosion was at the root of creation, you "are unable to reason."  That's pretty harsh, Frank. 

Obama's Corruption

I'm about half way through Michelle Malkin's book, "Culture of Corruption." I had to wrestle it away from my hubby who somehow managed to snatch it when it arrived last week. Some of what is outlined in this book I knew about, but the detail Michelle provided managed to connect quite a few dots.

Glenn Beck has been talking about the depth of corruption in this administration and how it must be rooted out and thrown in the nearest trash pile. The way to do this is through educating ourselves with the facts.

Valerie Jarrett, Obama's right hand "person", is completely steeped in the Chicago way of doing politics. Is Jarrett the top of the food chain? I doubt it. But she is definitely a big part of the puzzle and her machinations must be brought to light.

Some "must reads"...

Today in Front Page Magazine is an excellent article by Ben Johnson, "Valerie Jarrett, the Next Van Jones." I consider it a must read. It's a long and detailed article, but the time for us to sit back and say, "I'll just wait and see what happens" is long gone. We all must take the time to educate ourselves to the depth of depravity we are witnessing.

And in view of the latest ACORN bust in New York, I highly recommend two articles on the Big Government site, ACORN's Lifeblood and ACORN's Lawless Ways.

There are many days when I am so exhausted and discouraged as I delve deeper and deeper into this swamp of what can only be called evil, that I have the urge to shut down this blog and hide in my gardens. But I remind myself I have readers with way less time on their hands to research and unearth pertinent information than I have. And so I pick myself up and get back to work.

Glenn Beck has asked us day after day to pray for him, his family, and his staff. But most importantly, he has told us to pray for ourselves and our country. In 1Thessalonians, Chapter 5, we are told to "pray without ceasing." I think that's very good advice.

Also to read:

Commentary: Vicious, Venal and Violent…
By Fr. Tom Euteneuer, President, Human Life International

September 14, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) - These are really the only titles that adequately describe the murderous movement known as "pro-choice" or "pro-abortion." It is now frightening, though not at all surprising, how absolutely hardened and inhumane our culture has become because of this satanic force that has grown strong through 36 years of wholesale murder of God's precious innocents. read the rest

Mexico's War on the United States
by Wes Vernon

It's bad enough that terrorist-collaborating communists are taking over much of Latin America. Bad enough that their Venezuelan ringleader, Hugo Chavez, confers with Iran's nuclear bomb-making dictator. And bad enough that this alliance has led to the prospect that Iranian missiles may end up south of our border (pointed guess where?), while our own Marxist president apologizes metaphorically for hitting their fists with our chin.

All of that is horrific enough. But largely ignored is the fact that our next-door neighbor, Mexico, is carrying on an undeclared war on these United States. read the rest