Catholic Exchange Forums Topic: One Through Nineteen

Catholic Exchange Forums Topic: One Through Nineteen http://forums.catholicexchange.com/ Catholic Exchange Forums Topic: One Through Nineteen en Tue, 02 Dec 2008 13:28:54 +0000 Jakes on "One Through Nineteen" http://forums.catholicexchange.com/topic/727#post-12457 Sun, 02 Mar 2008 13:11:30 +0000 Jakes 12457@http://forums.catholicexchange.com/ For convenience of reference, the following list of 19 fundamentals occupies the lead space of this new thread. ***** Valid, perceptive supporters of God’s gift of life recognize many fundamentals that others miss. An enumeration of some of these fundamentals follows. 1. In our political system of checks and balance, no single elected official imposes, nor can quell a national culture of death. That culture is sustained through deliberate collaboration of multiple agents, at multiple levels, both within and outside of government. Politics, however, is the lynchpin by which that culture was imposed initially through government, and is continually maintained thereby.2. Accordingly, certain realities present themselves very clearly. The following seem such.3. Restricting one’s life-supporting aspirations to just electing a president isn’t enlightened thinking.4. Waiting till election day to "send a message" isn’t, either.5. Candidates for all political offices at all levels need be made aware, early, of constituent resolve.6. Such resolve need be consistent with moral convictions that guide individuals’ lives.7. Whether well observed or not, the Ten Commandments fill that purpose in the lives of most.8. God’s Great Commandment "Love God .. Love your neighbor as yourself" underlies the Ten.8a Persistently and actively collaborating with associates, "smoke out" publicly, all candidates’ truly held positions on Love of neighbors in the womb and Love of the mothers who bear them.9. Innocent, defenseless human beings in the womb are our neighbors.10. Mothers of these unborn are our neighbors, too. Yet they occupy a uniquely precarious status.11. As the agent legally free to order her baby killed, she’s vulnerable to 3rd-party pressures to do so!12. Back to #8, above. At a minimum, "to Love" is to care about and help a neighbor in need.13. (Well numbered?). God isn’t likely to forget those who won’t love neighbors with a simple vote!14. Perenially, 50% of all eligible to vote fail to do so, allowing 3,000 human beings killed each day!15. Others ignore the abortion-facilitating actions of candidates, voting for them for other reasons!16. Assuming God’s records are pretty good, those related to His Great Commandment surely are.17. Eternity’s a long time for anyone to pay for election day indifference (lack of caring) to neighbors.18 . Pro-life groups need put these ideas as 1st priority, aided by clergys’ teaching obligations to Love.19. Learning well God’s intent expressed in #8, citizens need actively initiate #s 3, 4 & 5 pronto!