ABORTION IS A MATTER OF FAITH AND IN A COUNTRY WITH ABSOLUTE FREEDOM OF RELIGION, NOT A MATTER OF LAW
CATHOLIC BISHOPS AND EVANGELICALS PERSISTENTLY ATTEMPT TO VIOLATE THE WALL THAT EXISTS BETWEEN CHURCH AND STATE
Because the Catholic Church dictates the politics of many of the countries where it is the dominate religion, it can have its way with elected government officials on questions as abortion.
The United States is not such a country and the Catholics Bishops as is their tendency announced that it will attempt to persuade president-elect Barack Obama to move toward a “no abortion” stance.
My advice to the Cardinal George, the present president of the American bishops, and his colleagues to keep their hands off and noses out of the politics of this country.
Separation of church and state is one of the most cherished tenets of this nation’s founding.
What truly angers me is that the issue of abortion is a very personal matter. My faith which does not condemn abortion allows my wife or daughter to have this procedure if the woman and the doctor believe it to be in the best interest of the health of the mother or the fetus.
No on else is forced to have an abortion. No devoted Catholic will ever be forced to have the medical procedure if their faith opposes it. Why is it so difficult for Catholics to understand that they are free to practice their religion and their belief in opposition to abortion, while the rest of the country can practice their religion and their belief that abortion is permissible?
Why do they insist that no one can have an abortion under any circumstances even when the mother’s life is at stake! That, perhaps, is the most barbaric religious belief that I can ever imagine.
I ask again and again, why does the Catholic Church, why do Evangelicals insist on forcing their faith upon those of us who do not concur with their position on this matter of faith. The Constitution does not give them or any of the government’s arms the right to dictate the prohibition of the free exercise of my faith.
The U. S. Constitution is quite clear in the First Amendment: “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof…”
As I have reiterated many times, the most important portion of this First Amendment is the phrase, “Congress shall make no law…prohiting the free exercise thereof...”
Abortion is a matter of faith and for Congress, the Courts, or the President, according to the Constitution, shall make no law that prohibits the free exercise thereof.
Catholics or Evangelicals or any other religious groups will never be forced to have an abortion against their faith. On the other hand, those whose faith does not prohibit them from having an abortion can not be prohibited from having one.
Abortion is a matter between a woman, her doctor and where appropriate or possible her husband.
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