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Monday, March 12, 2018

Dick Durbin: America is About ‘Flag, Family, God’---and Late-Term Abortion

By CNSNews.com Staff | March 8, 2018

(CNSNews.com) - Sen. Dick Durbin (D.-Ill.) said in a speech on the Senate floor yesterday that he believes American culture is about “flag, family, God.” This comes just five weeks after he voted against cloture on the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act, thus helping to block a final Senate vote on a bill that would have prohibited aborting a baby after 20 weeks into pregnancy.

Durbin made his point about "flag, family and God" while arguing that legal immigration should not be diminished and that people who came to the United States illegally as minors—so-called “Dreamers”—should be allowed to stay in the United States.

Durbin started the concluding part of his speech by talking about his grandmother, whom he said came to America “with her Catholic prayer book from the country of Lithuania.” “All these people who have come to this country—every single one of us brings a story, a family story,” Durbin said.

“In most cultures, in the American culture, the family unit is our strength—flag, family, God,” he said. After Durbin voted to block the prohibition on late-term abortions, Bishop Thomas John Paprocki of the Diocese of Springfield publicly declared that Durbin was barred from Holy Communion until he repented...........To Read More....

My Take - Since abortion on demand is the platform of the Democrat Party, and abortion is clearly murder under Judaic/Christian ethic (irrespective of the heretical stance some of the main line churches have taken) it's clear if you're a Democrat and profess to be a Christian or a Jew - you're a heretic!  It's good to see someone in the leadership of one of these churches stating what should be an international stance.  The question is - will all the priests around the country honor that position? 
 

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