Kerry -on abortion and other duplicities

John Kerry’s tortured response to the abortion question reveals a disturbing flaw in his personal moral code.

Kerry said: “I believe that I can't legislate or transfer to another American citizen my article of faith. What is an article of faith for me is not something that I can legislate on somebody who doesn't share that article of faith.”

I have a hard time comprehending this kind of thinking. In my view in our core makeup, religious or irreligious, we are virtually defined by our “articles of faith”. They are, indeed, our very essence –they form the root of our personhood-- they literally reflect who we are!

Kerry has no problem enforcing his “secular” articles of faith on everybody. Affirmative action, gun control, so-called civil rights, hiring quotas, hate crime legislation are just a few of the secular beliefs that come to mind which are regularly “imposed” on society by secular politicians like Kerry.

Often these “secular articles of faith” are imposed on us, against our will, and against the wishes of the majority of citizens, by people like John Kerry, who employ the tyranny of unelected judges who take upon themselves the “burden” of requiring everyone to comply with their own particular view of what is “good” for society. They have no other justification for imposing their will on all of us other than the notion that they “know” what is good, just, and noble. They are the enlightened, we are the benighted.

Forced busing is a good example. Left wing politicians like Kerry felt it was just, good and fair to require people of different races to be at the same school based solely on the belief that “being together” would remedy all the ills of disparate educational opportunities between the races. Never mind that it went against the beliefs and will of the majority of citizens, black and white. Never mind that numerous existing studies showed that forced busing would not achieve the “societal good” its backers claimed. They “knew” it was right and the “best thing for society”. They looked down on the benighted masses who weren’t sophisticated enough to understand the moral superiority of their position, and they just imposed their will by order of the court. The reality of forced busing showed that it did not achieve any of the “noble” goals listed. It only served to tear apart established communities, and waste a lot of resources which could have been better spent on real educational goals.

The vast majority of Americans know that “late-term” abortion is an abhorrent, brutal and totally unnecessary practice. Poll after poll confirms this. Yet Kerry supports it and would impose it on all of us! Why? Because in his core beliefs, –in his secular articles of faith– so to speak, he sees allowing late term abortion as right, just and beneficial to society. He has no compunction whatsoever about imposing this secular “article of faith” on others. Since he can’t achieve his “enlightened view” via legislation, he resorts to unelected judges to work his will. And yet, incredibly, he claims to hold “religious” views against it. He claims to “respect” the views of his religious leaders who strongly condemn it. In short, he wants to have it both ways.

Abortion is a troubling issue and many people disagree about rights, choices, and the propriety of the so-called choice. The only clear fact vis a vis abortion is that it is always fatal to the baby. My daughter and a coworker were recently having a political discussion with a patient who was railing against Bush, claiming that he didn’t see how any woman could support Bush, since he was against a woman’s “right to choose”. He fell silent when they pointed out that since they were both adopted, they would both have been dead if their birth-mothers had exercised that Kerry-backed choice. Clear thinking prevailed.

Kerry, and all politicians who feel it is their right to impose secular articles of faith, while refusing to allow societal mores and norms which have evolved from centuries-old religious tradition, need to be utterly rejected. A free society cannot long endure if we allow ourselves to continue to be oppressed by “enlightened” politicians and their activist secular judges. God save us from such!