via Pewsitter...
Tom Brokaw put Biden in the hotseat on abortion in this video.
The Senator gets all worked up in a tizzy saying that he's a good, devout Catholic, who believes what the bishops teach, but merely votes against it because he can't let his personal belief that human beings are being murdered influence legislation for people who are ignorant of the murders they commit.
Like Pelosi, he tries to defend his position based on outdated philosophical debates, summoning (summa-ing?) Thomas Aquinas's questions on the quickening as defense that the Church doesn't really know what she is talking about, and therefore is no basis for imposing its views on others. My favorite part is when, if I heard him correctly, he asserts that there are even more devout people in other faiths who are cool with abortion.
The clip ends, of course, with Biden making an angry, forceful proclamation that he and Obama are going to be the candidates who reduce the number of abortions because they are going to be the ones to provide women with the resources necessary to bring pregnancies to term.
He might really believe this (and if they are elected, I certainly hope they are sincere).
But, especially given the Mass readings this Sunday, I have to wonder what is the more charitable, more neighborly, more democratic thing to do...1) avoid imposing one's religious views on one's neighbor, or 2) prevent one's neighbor from committing murder?
Comments