“I know your
works; I know that you are neither cold nor hot. I wish you were either cold or
hot. So, because you are lukewarm, neither hot nor cold, I will spit you out of
my mouth.”
Shortly before
Virginia Attorney General and gubernatorial hopeful was routed by Clinton
bagman Terry McAuliffe I posted The Abortion Truce Trap. In it I
noted that while Cuccinelli was being bombarded with, as it turned out, several
million dollars in ads attacking his position on abortion, he was refusing to
attack McAuliffe’s support for unbridled infanticide.
I quote Maggie Gallagher who summarized
the problem of conservative candidates running away from an issue that has
roughly 70% support in the electorate:....... The decision should be easy.
Abortion is criminal. There is no medical reason for abortion. Late term
abortion is indistinguishable from infanticide. Abortion has nothing to do with
women’s rights and everything to do with how we value the most vulnerable
members of our society. Every culture that has embrace abortion has inevitably
moved on to embraced post-partum infanticide and euthanasia. There is no reason our candidates should
refuse to take a stand against abortion, but especially against late term
abortion. It is not only moral, it is good politics......The 17th century French mathematician, Blaise Pascal, devised an interesting argument for moral behavior now called Pascal’s Wager:
“God is, or He is not.” But to which side shall we incline? Reason can
decide nothing here. There is an infinite chaos which separated us. A game is
being played at the extremity of this infinite distance where heads or tails
will turn up. What will you wager? According to reason, you can do neither the
one thing nor the other; according to reason, you can defend neither of the
propositions.....To Read More...
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