STANEK: Get off your "but," John Kerry
Tuesday, July 06, 2004
By Jill Stanek
illinoisleader.com
OPINION -- On Saturday, pro-abortion senator and presidential candidate John Kerry incredibly recited the John 3:16 of the pro-life movement, “I believe life does begin at conception.”
Kerry, under increasing pressure by Catholics to either denounce abortion or excommunicate himself, was explaining to the Dubuque Telegraph Herald how he could vote pro-abortion as a U.S. senator and still receive communion on Sundays. Kerry’s first action causes his second to be in direct violation of Catholic teaching.
“I oppose abortion, personally. I don’t like abortion. I believe life does begin at conception,” said Kerry. “But I can’t take my Catholic belief, my article of faith, and legislate it on a Protestant or a Jew or an atheist… who doesn’t share it. We have separation of church and state in the United States of America.”
Wait, John. If you believe life begins at conception, there can be no “but.” If your first statement is true, killing innocent human life after conception can only be called murder.
And then, would it matter to you what the law states? In 1857, the Supreme Court said blacks weren’t human. Would you have sided with the Supreme Court then, because it was the law?
Kerry’s admission brought new meaning to the term, "political animal."
Kerry tried to squirm out of the mess by saying his belief was one of religion, not morality.
But killing innocent humans isn’t a religious issue. Otherwise, Kerry would have to stand by as satanists committed child sacrifice, or cultists gave poisoned Kool-Aid to unsuspecting friends.
Perhaps Kerry would stand by if those satanists and cultists were registered Democrats.
In actuality, hand-wringing Kerry has voted 79 times in support of abortion during his tenure in the Senate, according to the National Right to Life Committee.
In all, angst-filled Kerry voted six times against the Partial Birth Abortion Ban.
Poor Kerry was recently forced to vote against the Unborn Victims of Violence Act. Kerry missed 118 of 132 Senate votes in the last year, according to the Associated Press. But his commitment to uphold abortion law in opposition to his personal beliefs compelled him to fly in for that one.
To do so Kerry had to ignore the pleas of Laci Peterson’s mother and Connor Peterson’s grandmother, Sharon Rocha, who reminded him, "two bodies... washed up in San Francisco Bay.”
It must have torn Kerry apart on the inside, unlike aborted babies who are torn apart on the outside, when this past spring he was the first ever presidential candidate endorsed by the Planned Parenthood Action Fund. Receiving their money must be painful.
When Kerry attended a feminist dinner this spring, he must have intended a double entendre when in his speech he said, "More than 30 years after Roe v. Wade became the law of the land, it has never been more at risk than it is today." Feminists apparently had no clue he secretly dreams for that day.
I do wonder why Kerry told the Associated Press earlier this year, "I am proud that I am the only presidential candidate to pledge that I will support only pro-choice judges to the Supreme Court."
And why did he say his first executive order as President would be to reverse the Mexico City policy, which requires organizations receiving U.S. funds to neither commit nor promote abortion in other nations?
These actions don’t sound like those of someone forced to support abortion against his will.
On Sunday, John Kerry received communion at the Church of the Resurrection, a Catholic parish in Dubuque.
Reverend Joseph Hauer introduced Kerry and pro-abortion Catholic Governor Tom Vilsack, using Scripture as his guide: “When it said Jesus sent out his disciples two by two to visit towns, we find the biblical purpose for political advancement," Hauer said, according to the Telegraph Herald.
After Mass, with the Holy Eucharist still in his stomach, Kerry marched in an Independence Day parade, handing out candy to children he voted to potentially allow killed when they were younger.
Then Kerry played baseball with other children he voted to potentially allow killed on the spot where the movie, Field of Dreams, was filmed.
Later that night, Kerry joked with supporters about the premature prediction of his Iowa Caucus demise earlier this year. The Washington Post said he teased, “I was being mentioned on the obituary pages here,” before staging a comeback victory.
At least Kerry will someday get an obituary, unlike millions of aborted children whose deaths he is partially responsible for.
I hope Kerry has a change of heart before that obit is written. Oh, wait. He says his heart is in the right place; he just can't help how he acts. |
