The following comes from a Jan. 5 story in the Washington Times.
In an unprecedented show of opposition to abortion, Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus is delaying the start of the party’s annual winter meeting so he and other committee members can join the March for Life on the Mall, The Washington Times has learned.
Mr. Priebus, a plain-spoken Greek Orthodox lawyer from Wisconsin, will join members of his party’s national committee and thousands of other abortion opponents in the annual right-to-life march scheduled for Jan. 22, the anniversary of the Roe v. Wade decision that declared abortion a constitutional right.
“I saw that there was a real interest among a significant portion of our members to attend and support the Rally for Life,” Mr. Priebus said in an email to The Times. “This is a core principle of our party. It was natural for me to support our members and our principles.”
Mr. Priebus, in his second term as elected chairman of the Republican National Committee, chose to delay the start of the four-day winter meeting of the GOP governing body, also scheduled in Washington, to allow himself and RNC members to attend the march. The delay is unprecedented for a major U.S. political party, several state Republican Party chairmen and other RNC members said in telephone interviews.
Mr. Priebus also decided that the RNC will charter a bus to and from the march for those among the RNC’s 168 members who wish to attend, he said.
“I will attend the March for Life and am making a few simple modifications of the schedule and ensuring that the members have safe and adequate transportation to and from the rally,” he said in his email.
In an email circulated among other members, Alaska RNC member Debbie Joslin said, “I have served under a number of chairmen and not one of them ever made any opportunity for us to attend the March for Life, and they always scheduled critical meetings for the same time as the March for Life. Big thanks to Reince for standing up for the unborn!”
The chairman’s action is an example of the increasingly bottom-up instead of top-down way the RNC functions.
On paper, the RNC is quite democratic in structure — it is made up of an elected state party chairman and an elected committee man and a committee woman from each of the 50 states and five U.S. territories. But for almost its entire history, the national chairman, in an informal alliance with the GOP congressional leadership and top fundraisers, has called the shots.
But this act was different.
“When Reince got wind of what members were planning on their own, he emailed that he would shift our RNC schedule so we could attend, and he offered that the RNC would get transportation for us,” Missouri GOP Chairman Ed Martin said.
Oklahoma RNC member Carolyn McLarty, an evangelical Protestant, said the schedule change had its origins in an email reminder about the march from Virginia RNC member Kathy Hayden “about a week ago and that we could probably attend at least part of it prior to the start of the RNC meetings. … Things have snowballed from there.”
She said West Virginia RNC member Melody Potter had “contacted the bus company and the emails started flying with members wanting to attend.”
“I am pumped at the opportunity that we have as a party,” Mrs. Potter said. “There is nothing that we cannot accomplish together. We are Republican for a reason.”
The March for Life is one of the biggest events of the year for social conservatives. Although neither the National Park Service nor any other government agency publicly releases estimates of such demonstrations and rallies, organizers said about 650,000 people marched last year.
As testimony to the steady increase since the 1980s of social and religious conservatives — especially evangelical Protestants — in the Republican Party electoral coalition, House Speaker John Boehner, an Ohio Republican and a Catholic, addressed the rally last year.
“It wasn’t easy for my mother to have 12 children, but I’m sure glad she did,” Mr. Boehner said. “So I’ve never considered ‘pro-life’ to be a label or a position. It’s who I am, and it’s who we are as a people.”
The pro-life rally and march will run from noon to 1 p.m. with a warm-up event and concert in the hour before the rally begins its route up Constitution Avenue to the Supreme Court Building on Capitol Hill.
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In plain English, abortion is a mortal sin, a sin which if not confessed, will lead the soul to the everlasting fires of hell. For over fifty years, the Catholic Church has downplayed sin. But ignoring sin, will not make it go away. Until the Catholic Church once again fights sin, sin will continue to be the ruling factor in our decedent culture.
Ignoring sin will not make it go away indeed. But even more so, the consequence or punishment of sin will not be tempered if it is ignored and goes unrepented; right Father?
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My mother was born in Chihuahua, Chihuahua, Mexico, and I firmly believe that many Latin children who were destined for the cruel abortionist knife will be spared when their Latina mothers see these banners.
May God have mercy on an amoral Amerika!
Viva Cristo Rey!
God bless, yours in Their Hearts,
Kenneth M. Fisher
Thank you for standing up for life.
Lets pray that 2014 will be the year that America has woken up to the evils of Abortion. It is the Holocaust of the next generation.. This is not who we are as Americans. Our country has a history built on freedom of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. That’s what separates us from most countries and that’s what made America the country of immigrants. Abortion kills. That means no life. In the end we lose the soul of America.
Ah must be getting ready for election time…the Republicans are up to their “carrot on a stick” to hang in front of us pro-lifers yet again to extract the votes…at least with the Democrats we know where they stand.
Dante, I think the mistake you are making is that you are looking at abortion as simply a Federal issue.
We know that there is only one type of Democrat Representative which is Pro-Death and utilitarian. There are, however, several types of Republican Representatives; RINOs (the one’s you are referring to), Constitutional Republicans (i.e. tea party types) and Republicans somewhere in between those two. While it is true that on a Federal Level, little has been accomplished in ending or reducing abortion in this country, on the state level, there have been many accomplishments, so much so that there are now states with Republican super majorities, which either have no abortion clinics or only one. Since California has a Democrat super majority we see the opposite, where there is, as you would expect, an increase in the number of abortion clinics! Both of these results can be directly attributed to the policy law makers in these various states and the laws they have been enacting.
And where the Democrats stand is MURDER of the most innocent for the convenience of others.
Dante, you are right to a certain respect. And the RINO’s need to be extracted from the GOP. But I will still take my chances on the GOP; of whom I know several who are indeed true pro-lifers, rather than support the self-proclaimed party of death. Yeah, we know where they stand on life; and it (the pro-death ideology) is on the wrong side of the chasm (ref Luke 16:26).
Even many of the RINOS at least vote pro-life, pro family. One would be hard put to find any Demoncrats in high office who even vote pro-life, pro-family.
May God have mercy on an amoral Amerika!
Viva Cristo Rey!
God bless, yours in Their Hearts,
Kenneth M. Fisher
Congratulations RNC…for defending the right to life. It takes political courage to do this and your have proven courage in the defense of the defenseless is still alive and well.
Thank you
Look for Democratic Party operatives to be among hecklers at the march. And say a prayer of thanks that the RNC Chairman is doing the right things to support the march. Then, remember it when you vote !
Re. voting a properly formed Catholic conscience, it would be nice if mass attendees were reminded of that from the pulpit every election year. However, we wouldn’t want to upset anyone, would we?
Interesting!
Thank you — this has to be an ANSWER TO PRAYER –Mother Theresa (when she received the Noble Prize) said it so well – ABORTION starts WAR — That if we can attack a person in the womb – that we can Kill anyone who gets in our way. As an Obstetric Nurse – back in 1960 – LIFE WAS PRECIOUS!-
Abortion is what it is!!!!. The killing of human beings.
What is there to moderate? It is what it is.
I’m amazed at the comment, “It’s about time the Republicans started listening t people.” I would dare to say that if you are merely looking for a party pandering to “the people,” look to the Democrats. They encourage people to vote for them because they promise more government handouts (and the people forget that that means either higher taxes or bankrupt governmental entities). Democrats also listen to people by being wildly in favor of child murder, which they call “a woman’s right to choose” (thus putting babies at risk of being murdered before they are even born). This phrase also makes women seem to be the only ones in favor of aborting children, whereas usually it is because of men’s failure of the woman and child, the man’s abandonment of the woman and child, or outright male insistence on the abortion.
Republicans try to LEAD the people, not merely listen to them. The people are often wrong! Sorry to pop your bubble if you believe otherwise. Listening to the people is what led Rome down the self-indulgent road to perdition. We must listen to the teachings of Jesus Christ, the Son of God, who came here to teach us how to be better human beings, more worthy of eternal salvation than most of us would be if we just listened to ourselves bleating out our most base desires for pleasure and escaping our rightful responsibilities – to ourselves, to our families, to one another, and most of all, to God Himself, which is always the same as all of the above in the final analysis.
To the extent to which the Republicans stand up for goodness, for Godliness, and for responsible behavior toward ourselves, our families, one another, and most of all, to Go Himself, we should vote for that party. More so than Democrats, as a rule, Republicans generally do indeed endeavor to lead in all of those ways, as opposed to merely listening to the people.
If you’re insisting on perfection in your leader, follow Jesus. If while on this planet and living in this country, you’re compelled to choose a mere human being to lead our earthly society, vote for the human being who listens to Jesus and stands up for what He taught us are the pathways to righteousness. Voting for life and against child murder is one highly significant pathway to righteousness.
No moral person should support the ‘Democratic Party of Death’ and their policies on abortion and sodomy marriage.
And Bishops and Priests should never aid and abet scandalous Catholic politicians in committing sacrilege who clearly are in the state of Mortal Sin by publically voting for or supporting abortion and/or gay marriage
Oscar,
Please contact Archbishop Gomez of Lost Angels (Los Angeles) and ask him how he can stand for photo ops with pro-abortion, pro-sodomite Demoncrat politicos in the front page of his Tidings, and still expect us to believe he is pro-life. While your at it, and in a second communication, ask him about his heresy filled “Reiigious Education (dis-education) Congress in March!
May God have mercy on an amoral Amerika!
Viva Cristo Rey!
God bless, yours in Their Hearts,
Kenneth M. Fisher
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Oscar: What you say is absolutely fundamental. As long as liberals can count on 60% of the Catholic vote, we are doomed.