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DLW
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Posted 9/5/2003 1:53 PM (GMT -6)

Here is a non-Christian's response to the above...

Interestingly enough...

In Colorado in the last presidential election, a bill was brought to the voters that would have required a waiting period for abortions, accompanied by the handing out of various literature by abortion providers.

Wait, that's not the interesting part. The interesting part was that the Colorado Right To Life organization opposed the bill! Their reasoning: it was not a complete ban on abortions. They couldn't reconcile supporting a bill that would still allow abortions to take place, even if it might reduce the number of abortions to some degree.

Needless to say, many other pro-life organizations were aghast. The bill was defeated. I suppose there's something to be said for sticking to your principles, but all or nothing often means nothing at all. Being too hard-line can be self-defeating.

Niebuhr thought that sustained moral energy in politics depended on religion's power to mobilize reason along with self-transcending love. The prophetic tradition, meanwhile, gave Jews and Christians some protection against the temptation to identify their social causes with God's will. Lincoln's second inaugural address expressed the prophetic insight, "The almighty has His own purposes."

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