Cardinal Sean O’Malley is urging the Democratic Party to be more open to anti-abortion viewpoints.The head of the Boston archdiocese says Democratic leaders aren’t making space in the party for abortion opponents. He says that’s a serious problem in a state like Massachusetts that is politically dominated by the Democrats.
O’Malley spoke to The Boston Globe during a meeting of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops in Baltimore. He said abortion is the most important moral issue facing policy makers and that Catholic support for Democrats who favor abortion rights "borders on scandal."
A spokesman for the Democratic National Committee says the party is "a big tent," and that Congress has two Democrats who are vocally anti-abortion.
Comments? The Democrat insistence on abortion (including opposition to a ban on partial-birth infanticide, opposition to parental consent and informed consent, opposition to waiting periods, opposition to any protection limits whatsoever concerning the preborn baby, opposition to conscience clauses, opposition to abstinence-based sex education...and a passion for government funding of abortion and the promotion of abortion in other nations) does not "border on scandal," Cardinal O'Malley; it has crossed that line a long time ago.
Also, don't you love the A.P. reporter repeating (apparently with a straight face) the unnamed DNC spokesman's claim that two "vocally anti-abortion" congressmen (2 out of 233) prove the Democrats are a "big tent" party?
Cardinal O'Malley's point couldn't have been made any clearer than that.
