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Billy email MADBillyD@aol.com on Friday, August 15, 2008 3:29:44 PM
A group of Catholic and evangelical leaders hailed new language for the Democratic Party’s platform that calls for reducing abortion as a way to create common ground with many traditional Republican voters.
The Rev. Joel Hunter, pastor of Longwood, Fla.-based Northland, A Church Distributed, was among those praising the new wording, to be presented for approval at the Democratic convention in Denver later this month.
"Pro-lifers of both parties can now support Sen. Obama on the basis that more lives will be saved than if they had just taken a moral stand hoping to overturn Roe versus Wade," said Hunter, a registered Republican who has not endorsed a presidential candidate. A local Republican Party spokesman found very little that was new or significant about the Democratic platform.
"I don’t think they’ve changed anything that is fundamental," said Orange County Republican Chairman Lew Oliver.
He noted the new language still asserts complete support for Roe v. Wade and proposes no new limits or restrictions on abortions, or how they are funded.
(Cal Thomas did a grea radio commentary related to this issue yesterday. In the commentary Cal says all the pro. life talk by Democrats is a trick to get enough numbers to vote for a Democrat. Cal adds nothing will change if a Democrat is elected president such no pro life nominee for the Supreme Court will be brought before the Senate. Amen Cal. It is sad that at least some spiritual leaders are being fooled. If Democrats truly have had a heart change let them remove their language of backing Roe vs Wade. Read more of the above story right here or listen to the radio commentary for August 14, 2008 that Cal Thomas did.)
