Single-Issue Extremist
An excellent letter to the editor from Leticia Velasquez appears in the June 3-9 issue of the National Catholic Register:
According to Time magazine, Giuliani has “decided that the reign of social conservatives is coming to an end. ‘He understands that there are a lot of Republicans out there who are sick of everyone kowtowing to the single-issue extremists,’ said one veteran Republican observer in Washington. ‘He’s breaking from the pack.’”(emphasis in original)
This might mean the end of the pro-life plank in the Republican Party platform, leaving pro-lifers no one to vote for in national elections.
I am proud to be a Catholic single-issue pro-life voter today.
I would be one of those single-issue extremists if I were in Germany in the time of the Nazis, when priests, Jews, Gypsies, Polish people, homosexuals and the handicapped were deemed, “life unworthy of life,” and sent to the gas chambers.
I would be a single issue extremist if I lived during the mid-1800s when the Supreme Court handed down the Dred Scott Decision stating that blacks were property and enslaved them.
It’s called respect for human life, Rudy. It’s called Catholicism.Leticia Velasquez
Labels: Catholic Social Teaching, Culture of Death, Dissident Catholics, Elections, Pro-Life, Rudy
posted by Pro Ecclesia 12:06 PM
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‘He understands that there are a lot of Republicans out there who are sick of everyone kowtowing to the single-issue extremists,’ said one veteran Republican observer in Washington.
Is that a Republican who observes or a guy of unspecified party affiliation that observes Republicans? The latter seems, upon reflection, to be the most natural interpretation, at least to me. Heck, if that's the case, Patrick Leahy might qualify as a "veteran Republican observer."
Everybody's a single-issue voter on some issue.
Most of us would oppose, for example, a candidate who advocated the repeal of the 13th amendment, even if he agreed with us on every other issue.
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