Dear Editor: It is agonizing to witness the failure of Catholic witness in our times. Barbara Bolton (Readers’ Forum, “The Choice for Life Is Clear,” Aug. 6) appears convinced that abortion is a trifling consideration in her contentions about the experience and preferable temperament of Hillary Clinton to her opponent, despite Clinton’s megalomaniacal criminally and temperamental mendacity.

Bolton suggests that past religious civil rights leaders opposing the customary bigotries of their times somehow means contemporary religious practice should submit to the demands of today’s anti-religious liberal bigots who insist that the religious abandon moral truth and embrace the same evil as everyone else. Concern for slaughtering babies, for some Catholics, is merely an idiosyncratic “custom” that causes political embarrassment.

I will not detail Bolton’s three errors of logic starting with the fallacy of the undistributed middle. Sufficient to say, it requires charity to note that the failure to make common sense distinctions between valuing good and opposing evil requires inexcusably bad reasoning.

Clinton’s imaginary “support for women and children” involves turning a blind eye to the killing and kidnapping of Americans oversea, accepting International graft money for her sham charity from governments that permit “honor killing” of female rape victims, and ignoring the genocide of Christians, including the crucifixion of children. You don’t accrue Clinton’s three hundred million dollar net worth from government salaries. Clinton promises a requirement that her judicial appointments would support baby slaughter and greater “criminal” prosecution of pro-life groups.

However, much habitual flippancy has masked a vastly greater knowledge of economics and political reality than his opponent, Donald Trump has a clear commitment to reigning in unconstitutional government overreach in promoting abortion, evidenced by his proposed list of very honorable judicial nominees.

The reasoning of Garrett Dempsey (Readers’ Forum, “The Republican Platform,” Aug. 13) is equally incongruous in chastising the Republican platform for repudiating Obama’s tyrannical and impeachable refusal to execute federal laws with which he disagrees.

Dempsey claims such a position obliges Republicans to support Roe v. Wade, a Supreme Court decision that he incorrectly labels a “law.” It is an unconstitutional negation of law and usurpation of democratic processes, and no one in the federal government has a mandate to promote any policy that is not within the Constitution’s restrictive enumerated powers for the federal government which it clearly reserves for the States. Dempsey’s understanding of the implications of value-added taxes is also misinformed as eliminating income tax with deduction systems would increase overall taxes paid by the affluent and reduce those paid by the less affluent.

Any willing instrumentality, including a single vote, that aids and abets slaughtering the unborn is an intrinsic grave evil.

KENNETH FARLEY

Boerum Hill

 

Dear Editor: In response to Barbara Bolton’s letter (Aug. 6), God hears the cry of the poor but I believe that God is weeping over His aborted babies.

It is a fact that those who intentionally promote and perpetuate the crime of abortion through their personal or political actions or their voting are complicit in the sin of murder.

The seeds of racism begin in the womb. More black and minority lives are lost by abortion than all other causes combined. Yet the platform of the “clear choice” party will make abortion a constitutional right, force(no choice there) all doctors to perform abortions and make everyone pay for it. God is truly weeping. A women’s right to chose is a slogan the gives cover to the racism that afflicts the abortion industry.

I admire the loyalty of the Democrat voter, but it is a misplaced loyalty when you put party before God’s laws. God, the Creator of the Universe, is the only One that deserves all your love. Remember your catechism” God made you to know Him, love Him and serve Him so that we will be happy with Him forever in heaven.

If you are a regular reader of The Tablet, you will have read George Weigel’s column about this years election and basically he suggests that you don’t have to vote for a presidential candidate.

I suggest that you pray the rosary daily for this country that the Blessed Virgin Mary will come to our aid.

 

MARY BEEKMAN

Leesburg, Fla.