Reading this marvelous book by Michael Burleigh reveals how deeply Catholicism has been openly woven through global politics over the past several hundred years, and how deeply the Church has suffered for that involvement.
The situation in the United States, where religion is openly not involved but surely expressed through the speechmaking of politicians, is built most clearly on the foundations of Christ’s gospel; that acceptance is always a matter of choice and to make it coercive, as has been done in so many countries (Catholic or not) is to lose that essence of free will.
As strongly pro life as I am, it would not be a matter of free will to pass a constitutional amendment banning abortion as that would make coercive the basic tenet of our faith, that each life is precious; while to the secular, virtually all life is expendable as it has no eternal value, only that given it by earthly powers.
Lampstand Foundation website, http://www.lampstandfoundation.org/
"The sinner is at the very heart of Christianity. Nobody is so competent as the sinner in matters of Christianity. Nobody, except the saint." Charles Peguy (1873-1914)
About
- David H. Lukenbill
- I am a California native, married, we have one daughter and live close to the American River with two cats and all the wild critters we can feed. I am a management consultant to nonprofit organizations and have an Associates of Arts degree in Administration of Justice from Sacramento City College, a Bachelor of Science degree in Organizational Behavior from the University of San Francisco and a Master of Public Administration degree, also from the University of San Francisco.