John Kerry turned a few heads on July 4, when he told the Dubuque, Iowa Telegraph Herald the followng:
“I oppose abortion, personally, I don’t like abortion. I believe life does begin at conception…I can’t take my Catholic belief, my article of faith, and legislate it on a Protestant or a Jew or an athetist. We have separation of church and state in the United States of America.”
The statement made by Senator Kerry, a Massachusetts Democrat who has long supported legalized abortion, means ones of several possibilities is true:
- Sen. Kerry fully understands that abortion is murder, but he supports abortion anyway.
- His cognitive ability is so unhinged that he is unable to connect the dots between life beginning at conception and abortion.
- He is willing to talk out of both sides of his mouth-sometimes virtually in the same breath-to appeal to various constituencies, regardless of whether or not he believes what he is saying.
Of course, it doesn’t make any sense to claim to be personally opposed to abortion while supporting the righ to have one. That’s like saying you oppose the war while voting ‘for it’. Wait a minute. He did that, didn’t he?
Kerry’s statement about “separation of church and state” –a phrase not found anywhere in the Constitution or any of its amendments, is also interesting. Kerry’s position is essentially that it’s acceptable in a modern society for a person to have a religious faith, so long as it has no impact on the person’s public actions.
In that respect, his view mirrors that of the ACLU, an organization that basically holds that it’s okay to be a Christian, so long as you never act like one.
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