The following comes from a January 26 Stream article by Jason Jones and John Zmirak:
If you were pro-life in the same way that the head of the NRA is pro-gun rights, would you settle for a candidate who had spent most of his life as a radical anti-gun advocate, supporting the seizure of all private weapons? Well, Donald Trump favored abortion on demand until … some point after he decided to run for president.
In 1999, he expressed support even for partial birth abortion, the destruction of near-newborns who could survive outside the womb. By 2011, Trump claimed to be pro-life, recalling that he knew “a friend had a child who they were going to abort, and now they have it, and the child is incredible.”
The greatest disappointment to social conservatives of three Republican presidents has been their mixed record of choosing Supreme Court appointees. Notice that Democratic presidents never, never disappoint the abortion lobby. Why do you think that is? Because they wouldn’t get away with it. Republican candidates know that they can, so they do. Since up to four Supreme Court seats might become vacant in the next presidential term, this issue matters more than ever, and more than most. The next four (or eight) years of presidential Court appointments could change America radically, revoking gun rights and gutting the First Amendment’s free exercise of religion.
So you’d think that the fervent pro-life convert Donald Trump would be keenly attuned to the need for appointing solid Constitutionalists to federal courts, especially the Supreme Court. But you would be wrong. When asked about this issue, Trump didn’t offer some mealy-mouthed speech about avoiding “litmus tests,” as too many weak pro-life politicians do. No, he didn’t hint with a wink that he might betray us. He outright promised to. Trump cited as the kind of judge he’d appoint to the Court his left-wing, judicial activist sister, who in the Trump tradition supports partial birth abortion. Some were tempted to write this statement off, even excuse it, as a mere example of charming, roguish nepotism. Really? Would Wayne LaPierre of the NRA settle for such an excuse? So why should we?
If pro-lifers accept at face value Donald Trump’s half-hearted, fingers-crossed, nod-and-a-wink conversion, then they really are as clueless as Donald Trump thinks all Republican voters are. He boasted just this weekend that he “could stand in the middle of 5th Avenue and shoot somebody and I wouldn’t lose voters.” If voters choose such a man as the legal champion of innocent unborn life, then they deserve to be betrayed. But those unborn babies don’t.
Pro-life conservative leader – Phyllis Schlafly has endorsed Trump.
Trump has promised not to fund Planned Parenthood.
The current majority GOP Congress has funded PP in the Dec 18, 2015 –
$1.1 Trillion dollar Omnibus spending bill. So PP is funded through 2016.
Trump’s positions from 1999 – were 17 years ago. Many people have become pro-life since then.
Wake up America and all you Republicans who are falling for Donald Trump’s
lies. If you elect “the Donald”, we will have 8 more years of Obama…..but with an R after his name. Finally someone has had the courage to tell everyone what Trump is really like. He is not an honest man – not even to his wives and children. He is a bully and will do the same to the American public IF elected.
Please provide documentation. I really dislike unfounded statements to backhandedly promote other candidates.
Prove he is not an honest man, and will bully the American people if elected.
Links please. I would like to know what laws he broke.
I am interested in the most recent 6 or 7 years.
Correct, these are all thinly disguised “hit” pieces, as in hit and run, no balance, no context.
He also recently stated Scott Brown is a candidate to be his running mate. Senator Brown is Pro-Choice and was for Same Sex marriage.
That is a lie. I watched it live stream. Someone from the audience brought up Brown, not Trump.
While I prefer Cruz, Rubio, Carson, and Carli, I would still vote for Trump because I believe he has changed his views and is now pro life.
True. Trump has changed his position over the past 6 or 7 years.
In his pandering for votes, Marco Rubio attends both a Catholic and Baptist Church.
https://religion.blogs.cnn.com/2012/02/23/sen-marco-rubios-religious-journey-catholic-to-mormon-to-catholic-to-baptist-and-catholic/
” Billionaire Who Funded Same-Sex Marriage Endorses Rubio ”
https://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/11/02/kiss-of-death-billionaire-who-funded-gay-marriage-endorses-rubio/
Answer: Not-One-Little-Bit.
But I will bet you voted for Obama ..
“Pro-life” is just a political show for these people, including Trump and even Carly Fiorina https://www.creativeminorityreport.com/2010/09/pro-life-fiorina-outraged-when-called.html
Trump had nothing to do with your link. Please stop trying to deceive people.
Btw, I have changed my mind about abortion in the last 4 years, since I educated myself. Now I am pro-life.
Trump is an accomplished showman. He talks about what he wants to make better but there is very little in his line that speaks to how he plans to do it. He’s obviously not “up to speed” on many issues but says he can fix things.
When I can find a program of the things he might actually plan to do other than fix anything that he believes needs to be fixed, I won’t consider him To me, he’s not a crook, he’s a snake oil salesman or a carnival barker. He is applying for a job, folks. It’s proper to tell people interviewing you what you plan to do to if you’re hired. Donald Trump reminds me of the con men W.C. Fields played in those old movies. He’s an empty suit.
Don’t be lazy. And don’t lie.
Go to Trump’s web site for accurate information.
https://www.donaldjtrump.com/positions
In addition you might want to educate yourself more by reading his book –
“Crippled America, How to Make America Great Again”.
What few understand, including the USCCB, is that the open borders pro immigration stance of Rubio, et al, will permanently enshrine abortion, its total unmitigated expansion, and every single left wing Democratic party agenda item, and this is the reason the Demos want the borders open. They will never lose another election. All they have to do is promise free benefits and money on the backs of American taxpayers to the world’s destitute, and they will be elected forever, with total freedom to annihilate tens of millions unborn children forever. Schafly is dead on when she calls Trump the last hope for America.
I believe Judy Brown has endorsed Trump. Even if Trump looses, Cruz, Rubio, Carly, Carson and Christi are also pro-life. I would gladly support any of them in order to stop the murder of the unborn.
It is always a good idea to keep in mind that politicians bow to the base in the primaries and then go centrist for the general election. Everything we hear now is positioning for the general election. What does the Church teach and what do the candidates preach. The Roman Catholic Church encourages basic health care for everyone regardless of wealth, the ability to belong to unions to work on their behalf, the right to good housing and food to feed their families from the money they earn from their jobs, good education for the children, service to the poor, the right to life from conception to death, just laws derived from the people, etc. Do any of the candidates running for office now support Church teachings?
Activist documents Trump’s support for LGBT causes
https://www.onenewsnow.com/politics-govt/2016/01/29/activist-documents-trumps-support-for-lgbt-causes
Randy Thomasson of SaveCalifornia.com says GOP frontrunner Donald Trump has a record of supporting issues pushed by homosexual activists…
“Trump wants a new federal law punishing private business owners for not hiring homosexuals. He wants open homosexuality and transsexuality in the U.S. military,” Thomasson says of the billionaire real estate mogul.
The conservative activist says Trump has voiced support for other homosexual causes, too, which are described in a six-page document compiled by Thomasson.
Donald Trump is the candidate that stands against One World Government. He sees America as one nation. That is the common thread of his positions on trade deals, job flight and migrations. The Supreme Court is of supreme importance too, and Trump will likely address this as the campaign progresses. I am sure that Trump would be better than the Clintons and think has the persuasive powers to beat them. Our American Church, and Rome, are leftist on most other issues except life. Maybe we better concentrate on saving individual souls for Heaven so as to avoid Hell.
Gratias, with all due respect, I’ve got a bridge to sell you. I’m still waiting for him, and I do agree that we need a major shake up in this country, to come forth with one single policy that can work or be implemented. He is running a campaign of fear and blaming it on whomever he doesn’t like at the moment. I would like to hear him tell us what he is going to do about the three legs of our defense system, how he is going to build the wall (Mexico won’t pay for it), how is will keep all Muslims out of the country (that includes our members of the armed forces, etc. Does anyone really think you can round up three million people and send them packing? We need real solutions not personalities.
We need personalities that will aim high so that something will actually get done, Bob One. As to Mexico paying for the wall, try the United States reducing the $$$ we GIVE Mexico. That’s how. As for running a campaign of fear, the GOP has been running a campaign of fearing that problems might actually get solved removing the favorite bones with which voters are lured to one’s camp. “We’ll tackle immigration” – NOT. “We’ll combat the crime of abortion” – NOT. “We’ll get the economy back on track” NOT.
The only fear here is the fear the GOP has of being exposed as being nothing but the other side of the Dem coin. The “illusion” of choice between Dem/Republican has got to stop before we’re deluded right into…
…destruction.
The mythical bridge has got to go, Bob One. No matter who the salesman purports to be.
Good comment. World government is the end game of political correctness. It takes but a moment of thought on each PC policy to see how it advances world government. As John Lennon proclaimed, “Imagine there’s no country, it’s easy if you try.” Open borders (i.e., no borders) is an easy one – it’s probably the clearest path to destruction of national sovereignty. Dilution of culture, religion, creed, history, law, all contribute to the destruction of nations, most specifically, the United States, which still at this date has strong cultural Christianity. PC open borders is doing everything it can to destroy this.
Ralph, don’t forget the first verse:
Imagine there’s no heaven
It’s easy if you try
No hell below us
Above us only sky
Imagine all the people
Living for today…
This is why the song cannot be used in a Catholic church.
It has been said Lennon burns in hell forever repeating “imagine there’s no heaven”…never liked him anyway
…the ‘song’ may not be allowed, Bob One, but the principles of the song most defintely are allowed. That’s why we have the pan-religion movement of we’re-all-the-same and don’t convert. Coupled with the push for ZERO borders and a reckless invasion – I mean immigration – policy, there is no denying what is being preached.
But the song isn’t allowed. Good grief, man. That’s like preaching Lucifer, but suppressing his name to something like Smith so that the people won’t get flustered. But hey, “Lucifer” is banned – wink, wink.
I dont believe him
I believe Donald Trump more than I believe the Catholic hierarchy. If Trump has lied, or broken promises, it is nothing compared to what the Church has been doing for the last fifty years. Priests who refused altar girls, who refused to wash female feet, etc, have been betrayed by having these practices made legal. While Trump is human, and a Protestant, I am sure God’s judgement will be harsher on the Catholics who have denied their faith and compromised with evil.
Except for the schismatic governor of Ohio (who quit the Catholic Church, and joined a Protestant one), all the Republican candidates are better than Hillary or Sanders. And O’Malley, a Catholic (in name only) who supports abortion and sodomy, look how he denied his faith. At least he received hardly any votes, so he quit. All we hear about is the Evangelical Christians; what about the Catholic vote? I guess they have all become Protestants like Ohio’s governor.