Father Pavone, Priests for Life, of Schiavo fame, supports Miers.

[madfloridian]

http://releases.usnewswire.com/GetRelease.asp?id=54408

To: National Desk

Contact: Jerry Horn of Priests for Life, 540-220-0095

WASHINGTON, Oct. 3 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Fr. Frank Pavone, national director of Priests for Life and president of the National Pro-life Religious Council, thanked President Bush this morning for nominating a replacement for Justice Sandra Day O'Connor in a timely manner, and called upon the Senate to do its work in an expeditious way as well.

"Our prayers are with Harriet Miers this morning as she begins this important process. We trust the President's judgment and his determination to fulfill his promises about the kind of Justices he wants to see on the Court.

"It is the judgment of certain liberal Senators, however, that gives us more concern. The demand that some make for preserving the current ideological balance on the Court, or for more "mainstream" nominees, is ridiculous. Do we have a more "mainstream" Constitution in some generations but not in others? Or do they think it is up to the Justices to re-write the Constitution? In short, there is no Constitutional requirement that Justice O'Connor's replacement should be a clone of Justice O'Connor.

"The place for arguments about ideology and mainstream positions is in political races. For the purposes of confirming nominees to the Court, the focus should be on qualifications to be a Justice, not on personal views on controversial issues."

For more information, visit http://www.priestsforlife.org.

Would you like to know about Father Pavone? He was with Demccrats for Life when they met with Governor Dean at the DNC. Here are his lovely comments. If he supports Miers, I shiver.

http://www.californiarepublic.org/archives/Columns/Pavone/20050608PavoneLife.html

Recently, I was with some of the pro-life Democratic members of Congress at a press conference led by Democrats for Life and held at the headquarters of the Democratic National Committee in Washington. The topic was the "95-10" Initiative, which contains numerous legislative proposals aimed at reducing the numbers of abortion by 95% in the next ten years.

There are many proposals in this package, like women's right-to-know provisions, funding for promotion of alternatives to abortion, strengthening of adoption practices, and more. These are key goals for all of us to pursue. The precise way in which these and other proposals in 95-10 should be written into law will, of course, need to be carefully debated and refined. For example, we always have to avoid the trap of thinking that access to contraception is a solution to the abortion problem. The opposite, in fact, is true.

And in the end, we cannot be content to reduce the numbers of abortions. We have to acknowledge that laws permitting even a single abortion undermine the very fabric of our freedom and our republic. Abortion is an act of violence that no nation has the right to permit. But when anyone in our great nation, Democrat or Republican, wants to advance the Culture of Life to any degree, that deserves an "Amen!" from us all.

I believe that our party will sell out on women's rights. Frankly I don't know what to do about it. I have trusted our leaders on this before, but now I do not. I am afraid that since Schumer and Reid were so involved in the pick of Casey, and have been in others who are anti-choice...I think that the rights of contraception and abortion are going to be gone. If they take it to the limit, as my old church has been doing....women will be subjugated to men entirely. I don't think our party wants that necessarily, but I don't think they will fight it.

[AX10]

1. Remind me again why I left the "Roman Freak Show" a.k.a Catholic Church.

:eyes:

All we hear from the church is about the 'evils' of abortion and gays. The Catholic Church is the new 'Christian' Right. :argh:

[deadparrot]

3. Yeah, I'm pretty much done with it, too.

The RCC is nuts nowadays. I've been nonpracticing for years, but the last straw was when it came to light that a friend's older brother being molested by our parish priest as a kid.

I can't even look at a church now without feeling sick.

[AX10]

4. RATzinger said that the molestation scandal was....

merely a conspiracy by the media to make the RCC appear bad in public. :eyes:

[deadparrot]

5. Yeah, when he said that....

ohhh, you should have seen my mother and grandmother.

Now my mom's not devout, though she does bear some of the Catholic guilt crap, but my grandmother is going to be 86 next month, goes to Mass every day. You get the picture. They've both been absolutely sick over this molestation thing. When Ratzi said that...whoa. :wow: :grr:

[BurgherHoldtheLies]

2. My question to him then is this:

IF your god-appointed leader REALLY, I mean REALLY, wanted to overturn Roe, with a Republican majority in the Senate, why didn't he just pick an obvious Roe-hostile wingnut???? A Dem filibuster is no real concern since Frist already spelled out how they would get around one.

So, again, if the Republican party REALLY wanted to overturn Roe, as they promised the Rapturist Right, why didn't they just do it with an Owens/Brown/Luttig/Moore type candidate to replace Rehnquist and O'Connor????

Suckers!

[shenmue]

6. Creepy guy

I've seen him many times on the Catholic cable station, and the Schiavo hospice was just down the road from where I live. Definitely a there-is-no-other-way type person. Keep 'em barefoot and pregnant, eh...

I am very scared about the way things are turning in this country. I know there's a lot of anti-Bush sentiment, and I've read polls that say most Republicans, as well as almost all Democrats, are pro-choice, but still, we're not the ones who have the stranglehold on the legislature, the courts and the media. I have actually looked into moving. Hope it never comes to that, and it's awfully hard to do, but when I look at the future it doesn't exactly fill me with confidence.