Ignatius the Kiwi
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- Mar 2, 2013
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Threatening to deprive her of something which she values very highly and doing it publically.
Well it's not a threat. It's something Bishop Cordileone has done. She's already barred from receiving communion. Who values the Eucharist more? Someone who would hand it out to everyone? Like your Church would? Or someone who understands communion to be closed, not subject merely to individual decision but oversight from the Church? Does the Church have no right to protect it's sacraments from people like Mrs Pelosi who deride Church teaching publicly by advocating against it?
What is the Church to do if it wants to maintain it's position on abortion? You won't let it act in it's interests in it's sphere of religious authority, so what now? Does Pelosi decide for Catholics what is true and what is not?
Subject to Constitutional safeguards, yes.
Do you think non-Christians should obey Christian laws put on them by Christians if they pass constitutional safeguards?
A law is a lay. All citizens must obey, subject to Constutional safeguards. If you've got the votes, pass a law against abortion. But remember that your religious views on the subject are not a justification for it any anybody else's eyes but yours.
My religious views are a justification for my views on abortion. Why should I subordinate my religious views to your secular or non-Christian morality?
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