The Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel published two idiots in its Letters to the Editor section today.  Coincidentally, they were both idiots on the same issue: abortion.

Let’s dissect these dumb mamma jammas one at a time.

First, we have Joe Geck from Waukesha.

As a fiscally conservative, progressive independent who thinks most wars are wrong (Iraq wrong, Afghanistan necessary) and who is pro-life, I am torn during elections. I tend to vote Democratic but haven’t been upset when Republicans win because I think at least one issue I support will get attention.

But even with the campaign hype on the importance of protecting human life - and even if Republicans win with large majorities - the abortion issue always seems to fall into oblivion until the next election cycle.

The most glaring example was 2004 where Republicans won handily with an intense September and October pro-life push. After the election, the priority became Social Security reform and preservation of tax cuts. Even the Christian Coalition called for tax cuts. Even after the appointment of two pro-life Supreme Court justices, no challenge to limit Roe vs. Wade was made by any red state.

That’s when I became convinced that the last thing in the world the pro-life movement wants is a repeal of Roe vs. Wade. Contributions and election-year polarization are too important.

Joe Geck
Waukesha

You call yourself pro-life but you tend to vote Democratic?  You’re “torn” during elections?  Let me clue you in on something, Joe Geck:  you’re not pro-life.

Protecting human life is not “campaign hype,” either.

By saying the pro-life politicians - mind you, Bush appointed two pro-life Supreme Court justices - haven’t done anything for the pro-life movement is just an excuse to vote for hippie Democrats.

It’s easy to be against wars.  Everyone wants peace.  It’s not easy to hold high standards for your leaders that include what people on the other side would have you believe is a morally ambiguous issue.

Let me tell you who real pro-lifers are.  Pro-lifers actually believe that UNBORN FETUSES ARE ALIVE.  Got that?  It means millions upon millions upon millions of these full human souls have died because abortion isn’t illegal in this country.

When you say it’s just one issue among many, you de-empasize the above fact.  You think that all of these fetuses dying are just as important as the 4,000 who have died in Iraq, or as important as providing healthcare for poor people.

In other words, you don’t really think those fetuses were fully alive and as significant as any other life.  In your mind, 40 million dead babies = 4,000 dead soldiers.  And in your mind, 40 million dead babies = not enough healthcare for the poor.

Anyone who can equate those things doesn’t value the life of the unborn fetus as it is:  a full sentient, soul-possessing being.
Which makes you not pro-life.  And an idiot.

Oh, but Dan, you’re name-calling those who disagree with you!

I’m calling idiots idiots because they claim to agree with me - and claim to be pro-life - and then vote Democrat.

I mean, with pro-choicers it’s simple:  they’re either uninformed or evil.  I already know that.  But when you claim to be on my side, and then explain why you’re voting for Barack Obama or any other Democrat, then you are an “idiot,” and, in fact, “idiot” is a light term here.

Next.  Lauren Leahy of Elm Grove.

In response to Timothy Dolan’s Sept. 29 Crossroads op-ed “How can anyone be silent on this key civil rights question?” which was written in response to the Brian Smith op-ed the previous week in Crossroads: By all means, preach and teach Jesus’ pro-life message, Archbishop Dolan and other Christian leaders. But as you do, make sure to include its full scope: Feed the poor, heal the sick, love the enemy, care for the imprisoned, welcome the stranger, forgive the sinner.

To preach just one aspect of Jesus’ pro-life message, at election time or any other, seems the very definition of “Cafeteria Christian.”

You just essentially called the Archbishop of Milwaukee a “cafeteria Christian.”

Please.

When you’ve done more than Archbishop Timothy Dolan to “feed the poor, heal the sick, love the enemy, care for the imprisoned, welcome the stranger,” and “forgive the sinner,” maybe we can talk.  Even then, your argument stands on a foundation of sand.

As for the high priority abortion issues receive from the Catholic Church, here you go:

The inalienable right to life of every innocent human person outweighs other concerns where Catholics may use prudential judgment, such as how best to meet the needs of the poor or to increase access to health care for all.

The Catholic Bishops of New York State wrote that.

In other words, the right to life does outweigh those issues, Lauren Leahy of Elm Grove.  Archbishop Dolan isn’t being a “cafeteria Christian,” he’s being a good Catholic.

Being truly Pro-life means to know that horrifying numbers of unborn fetuses have been murdered.  In other words, if you’re Pro-life, you give that issue priority.

Know why?

Because we actually believe that those babies are fully-alive human beings!  And we give the issue of their systematic murder high priority!  Because we actually think they’re alive!  Unlike phone Pro-lifers who want to rationalize voting for Obama and other Democrats!

If you think those babies are alive and don’t give this one issue highest priority, you are a phoney Pro-lifer.

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