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Entry: Who's Infallible Here, Anyway? The Human Life Review Chooses Party Over Church Link: http://www.takimag.com/site/article/wars_and_rumors_of_war#5445 Post contents: Last fall I waged a futile, one-man battle with Catholic personal friends on the board of my state's official, affiliated "Right to Life" organization for including on their "pro-life" sample ballots some notorious Republican pro-aborts. Two such--"preferred", not "endorsed" (so what's the difference?)--are equally notorious for their years of joint effort to drive real pro-life Republicans out of the party and to marginalize or co-opt those who able to withstand their attacks. The "preferred" pro-abort Republican congresswoman was re-elected by such a razor-thin margin (there was a mandatory recount) that one can reasonably--without being able to prove it--attribute her margin of victory to "pro-lifers" who voted for Republican pro-aborts at the bidding not only of the state RTL, but of National "Right to Life." Thus was the power and influence of her incumbency preserved, and the door of opportunity to run a real pro-life Republican for the seat in two years slammed shut. Since her re-election, Congresswoman Pryce's every related vote has been pro-abort, pro-homosexual and anti-family. Her defeated Democratic opponent would have voted identically. I predicted all of this ahead of the election to my Catholic Pryce supporters and I have grown weary ever since the election of saying "I told you so." Thankfully, at least one has listened and intends to mend his endorsement ways and, hopefully, those of his RTL colleagues. However, I waged a totally futile war of words recently with a young Catholic friend and father over his persistent support of the war on Iraq, regardless of its current form and manifold, morphing justifications. In addition to the Constitution, I invoked Catholic just war theory ("Op. Iraqi Freedom" doesn't fit). I asked him what possible moral standing any nation can have for unprovoked aggression on another when the aggressing nation daily murders over 3,000 of its unborn and doggedly preserves and protects--through both political action and inaction--the "right" to do. Finally, I invoked empathy. I won't ask you to sign up to fight, or even which of your children is worth sacrificing to this unholy cause, I said. Rather, I asked him, which of your friends or close relatives with children would you look in the eye and say that you would approve the sacrifice of the life of any one of his offspring to Bush's Iraq war? Without blinking (i.e. no hesitation or equivocation in his emailed reply), he told me he would approve the sacrifice of one of his own children or any of his friends'. This is no raving yahoo, but an intelligent, well-educated Catholic man who is besotted and dazzled by the likes of the "pro-life"/pro-war Catholic influence-makers cited by my brother Kirt, above. Where do you go with with someone who "thinks" that way? Nothing to do but shake the dust off your feet and move on. Sent at: 2008 11 22