Hi George,
You are indeed a member of a very loving giving family when it comes to your own personal generosity.
But why do you not feel the same responsibility to follow God's command to love your fellow man by voting. Through our vote we have the greatest opportunity to make some very real changes in the desparate lives of our fellow human beings.
On an aside--
I'm going to get a knee replacement so have patience with my response to you.
If you would like to send me your email address, I can notify you when I have a response for you. I do get notification when you post. My email is sg.mccarthy@verizon.net.
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Dear Susan,
I commend you once again for your great love for your fellow man. I hope and pray that many more will come to love as you do.
I am sorry to hear that you have need of a knee replacement, but I hope it brings you the relief for which I'm sure you are hoping. I also pray that your recovery will be quick.
I think when you ask, "Why do you not feel the same responsibility...to love your fellow man by voting?" you fail to recognize the love out of which I am working. There are two legitimate loves to which we are appealing and both are rooted in the love for our fellow man. Your love motivates you to vote with a great concern for the poor and downtrodden, the needy among us. My love motivates me to vote with great concern for unborn children. Both are laudable motivations rooted in love for our fellow man. Both loves are necessary in the practicing Christian.
What we are discussing is a choice between two candidates for office, one of whom loves the poor, but fails to protect the unborn; the other of whom upholds the dignity of the unborn, but (at least for some) fails to love the poor sufficiently. I realize these are gross caricatures of the candidates, but they seem to serve well for this discussion.
My point is that when we must choose between these two legitimate loves, the gift of life is prior to the quality of life. In order to ensure any level of quality of the lives of citizens, we must first be able to guarantee their right to life itself. That is why murder of the innocent is an intrinsic evil (born or unborn). That is why it must outweigh quality of life considerations in the political realm.
God bless,
George
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