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Tim Kaine Compares Catholic Teaching on Abortion to ‘Sharia Law’

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mystery-ak:
Tim Kaine Compares Catholic Teaching on Abortion to ‘Sharia Law’

Thomas D. Williams, Ph.D. 22 May 2021

U.S. Sen. Tim Kaine, who identifies as Catholic, weighed in this week on Holy Communion for pro-abortion politicians, asserting that requiring Catholic legislators to oppose abortion is like imposing sharia law on the nation.

In an essay for the far-left National Catholic Reporter, Kaine suggested abortion is not a matter of the life and death of an unborn child, but merely of norms governing human sexuality.

For bishops to demand “Catholics in public life not only live according to church doctrine but additionally shape the law, even to include the threat of criminal prosecution and punishment, to enshrine church doctrine on sexuality as mandatory for all Americans is contrary to our basic liberty,” he declared.

“Why would government require that Catholic sexuality doctrine, or Sharia law, or Orthodox Jewish rules about Sabbath observance, be followed by all?” he asked.

Following on the same assumption — that abortion has nothing to do with defending human life — Kaine went on to declare that “a decision by U.S. bishops to elevate issues of human sexuality, however important, above all others seems contrary to the Gospel.”

“No reading of the life of Jesus would suggest these issues as his primary, or even secondary, concern,” he states. “His towering message is about love of neighbor as oneself with a special focus on the poor, sick, hungry, marginalized.”

By contrast, a number of U.S. bishops have recently pointed out that Catholic opposition to abortion is important precisely because it seeks to defend the poorest and most marginalized members of society: the unborn.

“Abortion is the axe laid to the roots of the tree of human rights: when our culture encourages the violation of life at its youngest and most vulnerable condition, other ethical norms cannot stand for long,” San Francisco Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone wrote in a recent pastoral letter.

Abortion “is not a ‘Christian’ or ‘Catholic’ issue,” the archbishop noted, because “the dignity of the human person is a value that is, or should be, affirmed by us all.”

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Absalom:
The Natural Law is derived from the behavior of Mankind, as Man intuitively grasps the distinction between right and wrong, no matter what his behavior or religion.
Natural Law, based on values intrinsic to Human Nature, can be deduced by
logic/reason; having nothing to do w/the customs, governance or rules
concocted/created by cultures/societies.
Consider two premises; Man can kill his fellow Man (and its contra) Man cannot kill his
fellow Man.
Adherence to which premise, betters Mankind, his Culture/Society and his Nation/State?
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What Kaine identifies as, is a monumental jackass, way beyond stupid, as Abortion
is the killing of Mankind w/o cause.
That he had a role in governance, due to politics, says volumes as to how utterly stupid
we have become as a people and how ignorant and shallow our judgement has become.

Hoodat:
Tim Kaine is a complete idiot.  He and Patty Murray are intellectual soul mates.

Sled Dog:
Oh.

So he should be willing to get on a stage with the with the Sister-Wife Congresscritter from Minnesota to discuss why Sharia law is bad for America, right?

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