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Related: About this forumA Catholic priest put an aborted fetus on the altar in an appeal for Donald Trump
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/acts-of-faith/wp/2016/11/07/a-catholic-priest-put-an-aborted-fetus-on-the-altar-in-an-appeal-for-donald-trump/During an already heated and divisive campaign season, Pavones video has raised questions for some about what is appropriate antiabortion and political activism in the church. As of Monday afternoon, the video, which is 44 minutes long, had 236,000 views. In it, he holds up a poster of graphics of abortion procedures.
In Pavones Facebook appeal, he wrote, we have to decide if we will allow this child killing to continue in America or not. Hillary Clinton and the Democratic platform says yes, let the child-killing continue (and you pay for it); Donald Trump and the Republican platform says no, the child should be protected.
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This plays into the narrative so many people have of us, that this is a bunch of wild extremists who will put an aborted fetus on Facebook Live. Come on! said Camosy, who noted that Priests for Life was one of the earliest organizations to support Trump. This is the death rattle for the culture-war-focused pro-life movement.
This is the death rattle for the culture-war-focused pro-life movement. - I sure hope so.
RedCloud
(9,230 posts)So that would make God the world's #1 abortionist!
Then we have to add in reabsorbed fetal members and the list grows with spontaneous abortions.
anoNY42
(670 posts)God allowed all of the "man-made" abortions to happen, even though He had the power to stop them!
Kittycow
(2,396 posts)Anyway nice outreach you got goin there mr. priest. Plus what are the odds this dude will be exposed as a child molester. Unfortunately my Catholic family eats this stuff up; I'll probably get a link in my emails today.
ETA: I see I'm not the only one with this thought about natural abortion in this situation.
TrogL
(32,822 posts)The Pope could use a heads up
Full disclosure: I've sat behind the desk at a formal Inquisition.
matt819
(10,749 posts)Churches and religious institutions engaging in political speech need to have their tax exemptions removed. This seems pretty simple, and yet nothing happens.
I don't care if it's mosques or synagogues or Catholic or Evangelical, or any brand of Protestant, or anything else. Political talk in the pulpit, no tax exemption.
No, this is not curtailment of free speech. You are free to speak. No one is stopping you. But there are consequences.