Nate & Kristen’s Weblog

I got some good info from a radio program that had Tony Compolo and Robert George (co-author of the must read Embryo: A Defense of Human Life) as guests talking about abortion as it relates to the coming elections:

• If you identify more with Democratic policies please check out Democrats for Life of America to see if you agree with them enough to join their efforts.
• Don’t buy the argument that Republicans haven’t made any progress on this issue during Bush’s terms. There is the Mexico City Policy, Bush blocking federal funding for embryo-destructive research, and the two justices added to the Supreme Court that are confident strict constructionists. All major developments that McCain has promised to continue.
• If you do feel that the safe, legal, and rare direction is the best way to go at least consider the possibility that the politicians you support are playing lip-service to your concerns and using it as cover to solidify their pro-abortion agenda

I also though a question touched on by the caller at the end of the program was interesting. We all have a silly law that we love to hate. My new favorite is a law in California banning trans-fats in restaraunts. Perhaps due to silly laws like this combined with a  general disrespect for our institutions and traditions the law has lost it’s ability to play the role of teacher …