Comments for The Pelvic Left and the Heartless Right at http://www.thecatholicthing.org , comment 1 to 5 out of 5 comments http://www.thecatholicthing.org Thu, 20 Jun 2013 06:30:59 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.3 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2010/the-pelvic-left-and-the-heartless-right.html#comment-5310 "We urge you to stay focused on the issues that got you and your colleagues elected to resist the urge to run down any social issue rabbit holes in order to appease the special interests.” This said by....special interest groups, what a joke, LOL! Also I agree with Patrick's above statement. It would be in helping gay marriage that the politician would be going down a social issue rabbit hole. Not the other way around. Great article Mr. Ruse, I hope this new congress will be pro-life, among other things as well. And on a side note.....Newly elected Congressmen Mike Fitzpatrick goes to the same church that I do! In fact, just last Sunday Mass, I was sitting right behind him. I got to meet him in person after the mass ended. He seems like a very genuine man, and someone who is very Catholic. Glad to have him back in congress. Here's hoping that Fitzpatrick and the other recently elected officials do well! - Aeneas Fri, 19 Nov 2010 22:58:40 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2010/the-pelvic-left-and-the-heartless-right.html#comment-5309 First, I want to thank Mr. Topfer for his comments, I too am a recent (2009 Easter Vigil) convert from Anglicanism to Catholicism. I occassionally graze through LIBERTY, the libertarian monthly, and am often enlightened but also periodically troubled by what often seems an anti-religious inclination. I was pro-life long before becoming a Catholic and often felt like a libertarian at an AFSCME rally. Out of place and suffocating under the feverish rhetoric. Second and lastly, I work for a well-known bookstore chain notorious for its leftist bent. Today, and not for the first time, I was verbally assaulted for my conservative views and Catholic beliefs complete with hateful -- yes hateful -- looks. But this was one of the rare times I talked back. Never a pleasant experience and mostly a waste of time, but the culture of death and contempt for constitutional rights is deeply imbedded in corporate American these days. As it was in law school. I sometimes wonder if the Church understands what it is like outside her walls and sancuaries. The hatred and slander of the pro-life movement as well as the profound desire to completely neutralize the Church in this country. How can one be a "progressive" Catholic given what I and others like me endure in the secular and business world? I can only say that it is a lonely and disspiriting engagement and one that I always lose. And yes, it does have career consequences. So much for employee rights. But I can do no other. The stakes, as Mr. Ruse and Mr. Topfer explain, are high indeed. - Graham Combs Fri, 19 Nov 2010 16:16:36 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2010/the-pelvic-left-and-the-heartless-right.html#comment-5307 When gay Republican groups ask the newly elected "to resist the urge to run down any social issue rabbit holes in order to appease the special interests" -- the most straightforward interpretation of that statement would seem to me to be to take a conservative position on marriage (although I am of course aware that's not what they meant). - Patrick Fri, 19 Nov 2010 11:58:52 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2010/the-pelvic-left-and-the-heartless-right.html#comment-5306 Well, i find it interesting that you find it intriguing that I find it interesting! - Austin Ruse Fri, 19 Nov 2010 09:28:44 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2010/the-pelvic-left-and-the-heartless-right.html#comment-5305 Mr. Ruse, I find it intriguing that you think it "interesting" that people who are libertarian should "think one of the ways government should be limited is to get it out of the sanctioning of abortion." As an essentially libertarian (although I prefer Hayek's choice of Old Whig) Catholic (a recent convert from Episcopalianism), allow me to explain my confusion. One way of summing up libertarianism is as a political philosophy that believes the law should be largely confined to the protection of fundamental human rights, the rights which are given us by our Creator, including "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness." Once a sentient person recognizes that the fetus is a person from the moment of conception, the rest of the argument against abortion becomes virtually automatic, barring willful refusal to exercise one's moral and intellectual integrity. Why should this be so surprising? Pax et bonum, Keith Töpfer - Martial Artist Fri, 19 Nov 2010 08:19:30 +0100