Abortion Advocates Promoting Religious Bigotry For Political Purposes.

Campaign To Stigmatize Mormons

Life News is reporting that abortion supporters are planning to descend on parking lots of large evangelical churches with literature and to make telephone calls to Catholics in swing states to try to dissuade them from voting for pro-life Governor Mitt Romney because he is a Mormon.  

When we consider the racial component in abortion where the vast majority of abortion clinics are in areas that are disproportionally Hispanic or Black and considering that black women have 30-35 percent of all abortions and Hispanic women have 25 percent and other minorities have 9 percent, no pro-lifer should be surprised at these attempts to promote religious bigotry.  Almost nothing is as pathetic as promoting religious bigotry for political purposes.

The pro-life movement is made up of millions of religiously unaffiliated people, millions of Mormons, millions of Catholics, evangelical, reformed, Pentecostal, charismatic, holiness, fundamentalist, independent Christians as well as people from other religious faiths.  Our commitment to the sanctity of life and to the protection of the unborn transcends our theological disagreements.

Nevada pro-life advocacy includes many Mormons.  We are all deeply aware as to how instrumental Mormons have been, along with other pro-life Catholics, evangelicals and others in promoting the pro-life cause in Nevada.  Together we have kept Planned Parenthood from establishing abortion promoting statewide sex education in our schools, from getting abortion referring school based clinics into our schools and we’ve protected conscience rights for pro-life pharmacists.  We’ve also crushed an attempt to pass ERA in Nevada four years ago which, if successful, could have amended the US Constitution to wipe out all abortion laws and regulations.  Mormons have been a huge and faithful part of that coalition preventing these evils.

That’s why it is always a shock to hear any pro-lifer say they would not support a pro-life Mormon because of his or her religious beliefs.  Our common cause of stopping another 56 million abortions dwarfs whatever differences we have.  Is any pro-lifer really willing to let theological differences get in the way of electing someone who will appoint pro-life justices to the Supreme Court, wipe out the Obama abortion policies, veto abortion legislation, sign pro-life legislation, remove abortion from Obama care etc?

The pro-life movement is starring into the abyss of another generation of abortion.  Right now the balance on the Supreme Court is at least 5-4 in support of abortion rights.  If President Obama were to win re-election he will likely replace retiring pro-life justices and protect Roe v Wade for another generation.  He will keep pursuing federal funding of abortion, increase abortion in Obama care, oppose abortion limitations and move to roll back our gains.  We are facing another 50 million abortions and no pro-lifer could possibly go refuse to vote for another pro-lifer based on his religion.

Abortion advocates are going to engage in religious bigotry.  Don’t give them an inch.