Abortion has the special appeal for today's Republican Party, that it is wholly disconnected from the quest for money and power that are the Party's real purposes.
Those millions of single-issue pro-life voters are satisfied that they are supporting morality even though they vote for a political party that has been relentlessly transferring wealth and power from average Americans to the richest and mightiest few. With its right hand pointing to abortion, the Republican Party distracts attention from the large-scale acts of immorality being carried out by its left hand.
In the Bible, while relatively little is said about the status of the unborn, the passages are many in which the prophets call for protecting "widows and orphans" and for giving justice to the weak.
In a nation where the task of aligning power with the good and against the evil is far from simple, the simplification of the tasks of citizenship into a single test can play directly into the hands of the kind of evil power the prophets railed against.
Those millions of single-issue pro-life voters are satisfied that they are supporting morality even though they vote for a political party that has been relentlessly transferring wealth and power from average Americans to the richest and mightiest few. With its right hand pointing to abortion, the Republican Party distracts attention from the large-scale acts of immorality being carried out by its left hand.
In the Bible, while relatively little is said about the status of the unborn, the passages are many in which the prophets call for protecting "widows and orphans" and for giving justice to the weak.
In a nation where the task of aligning power with the good and against the evil is far from simple, the simplification of the tasks of citizenship into a single test can play directly into the hands of the kind of evil power the prophets railed against.
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