It’s Not About Politics, It’s About Morality…
Common sense says that someone can’t legitimately have one personal opinion against abortion and a different political position on the same issue at the same time… that’s being “double-minded”.
In 1992, Bill Clinton’s political advisor James Carville famously said, “It’s the economy stupid!”. Carville was the strategist for Clinton's successful presidential campaign that year. It was a highly memorable soundbite that captured the public’s attention and helped seal the victory for Clinton.
Now, nearly 20 years later we need another soundbite…
Last month, U. S. President Joe Biden visited Pope Francis at the Vatican, bringing the president face-to-face with a leader he says he admires while Catholic Church officials back home are seeking to punish him for his political position on abortion. The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops has been weighing whether or not to deny him communion over his support of abortion rights, though Biden has long said he personally opposes the procedure.
Common sense says that someone can’t legitimately have one personal opinion against abortion and a different political position on the same issue at the same time… that’s being “double-minded”.
Biden has said he doubts the American bishops will deny him the sacrament because the Vatican has cautioned the Bishops against the move… arguing that the church should stay out of political matters. Perhaps the Pope doesn’t want to lose the millions of dollars the Catholic Church regularly receives from the U.S. government for their part in the facilitation of illegal immigration.
The President says Pope Francis told him to "keep receiving Communion" during his visit to the Vatican.
Conservative U.S. bishops voted in June to draft new guidance on the Catholic Eucharist, (holy communion), that could be used to deny the rite to Biden and other liberal politicians like Nancy Pelosi. The bishops have indicated the document, which will be considered at a meeting in November of 2021, will not specifically mention Biden, though it could still make a “clear political statement”.
They can’t have it both ways… Biden, Pelosi, and the Catholic Church seem to want to make abortion and communion political issues.
They are not political issues… they are moral ones.