Catholics in Alliance for the Common Good is an organization whose purpose is convincing Catholics to vote for pro-choice Democrats. The sleight of hand they employ in this task is to claim that such candidates align so well across the board with Catholic teaching on the common good, that their support for legalized abortion can be fairly overlooked. In fact, the group does not even call for the repeal of the Roe regime and is constantly critical of those who do, preferring to praise those pro-choice politicians who claim to reduce abortions by adjustments in social policy.The post goes on to say that Ray Flynn was asked to be part of their initiative to spin their pro-abortion platform as "reduction in abortions platform", and he declined.
Cardinal George attacks that notion today in a letter posted to the Archdiocese of Chicago website (excerpt):
"The unborn child, who is alive and is a member of the human family, cannot defend himself or herself. Good law defends the defenseless. Our present laws permit unborn children to be privately killed. Laws that place unborn children outside the protection of law destroy both the children killed and the common good, which is the controlling principle of Catholic social teaching. One cannot favor the legal status quo on abortion and also be working for the common good."
Cardinal George does not call out Catholics in Alliance by name, but he has previously banned their deceptive material from parishes in his diocese.
Eradicating slavery is the only acceptable platform. A platform supporting it with a pretense you'll assist slavemasters to help keep slavery to a minimum isn't a cogent argument. It's intolerable, dishonest and just plain dumb. Same goes for a platform endorsing killing people for some of us.
James Salt and Chris Korzen are now frantically doing damage control by way of accusing their detractors of lying.
"Jack- James Salt here. Your reporting is factually inaccurate. I know this is a blog, but what you claim is not true and should be edited"
and on another blog here.
Like Oprah, Catholics United believes in Democracy, so long as everybody unwilling to accept their platform isn't in it.you blatantly misrepresent our organization when you suggest that we favor the legal status of abortion. We do not. See http://catholics-united.org/?q=node/201 for more information. I believe Alexia would have similar words to say about Catholics in Alliance.
Finally, neither Alexia nor I publicly support Senator Obama or any other candidates for public office. I would appreciate if you would correct these factual inconsistencies immediately....
...I'm frankly a bit concerned that you keep getting the facts wrong about our groups. I have no problem with you disagreeing with us on the substance of our arguments, but please, at least tell the truth about who we are. I'm happy to speak with you in advance of future writings to avoid any further misrepresentations.
It's not surprising, then, they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations. Barack Obama
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http://www.catholics-united.org/
>>and that in the future he would speak with me and Catholics in Alliance director Alexia Kelley before writing about our organizations – so as to provide the Key’s readers with a balanced, well-researched, and unbiased account of the facts. This seemed to me a reasonable request. Unfortunately, Mr. Smith indicated to me he has no intention of engaging in this sort of dialogue.>>
Before we publish their shrills for Obama and justify it with misrepresentations of the Faith and bully tactics, we're supposed to let them edit?
Gimme a break.
Can anybody say "communist"?
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