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Rethinking the Abortion Debate from a Liberal Christian Perspective (Updated)

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January 8, 2012

 

Rethinking the Abortion Debate
from a Liberal Christian Perspective (Updated)

By Placing Obsessive Emphasis on a Fetus’ Life
Many Christians Demean Women and Potentially Weaken Our Society

Logos57: A Caring Community, Rewritten and edited, January 8, 2012, originally published May 13, 2011, by Paul Evans:

I have been searching my soul and re-examining the whole debate on abortion for the last couple of years, and thought it was time to let my readers have my thoughts on this divisive issue.

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In the past, Evans Liberal Politics has generally but conditionally come out on the side of life, as Christian opponents of abortion generally understand the term. Let me go back to an article we featured on May 28, 2010, TN GOP proves that “pro-life” ends at birth, which was from Daily Kos, by benintn. At that time, I was basically holding a liberal sort of conception of an anti-abortion stance, and I said:

This article gets at the heart of the reason I have a problem being anti-abortion (as I have been), even though a developing fetus has a measurably human brainwave at eight days after conception. If we eliminate first trimester abortions, this will dump about 300,000 unwanted infants annually, into the social services pool. Caring for that many children is a huge burden on the system. However even though I remain basically anti-abortion insofar as my own personal ideas, I believe that something so personal as abortion should be a matter between a woman, her counselor of choice, and God. In other words, upon reflection, I would let Roe v. Wade stand.

I generally cannot STAND these righteous Republican moralizers who rant against abortion, or incite or threaten violence over the issue. These are the last people on earth who would be willing to cut out one of their vacations each year in order to pay for the costs of caring for the infants who would be born if there were no abortion. They rave on against abortion, but they are not willing to pay the social costs for not having it. It’s truly root hog or die with these hypocrites. That is NOT to say that many Republicans aren’t willing to pay these costs, but the Grand Old Party is kneejerk and lockstep in opposition to programs to care for our people. (So far as I can see, Republican’s major push, as it has been for several years, is to slash entitlements, and then put the money saved into tax cuts for the rich and very rich.)

Far from wanting to alleviate suffering in the worst economic turn-down since the Great Depression (voting almost in lockstep against extending unemployment benefits any further), Republicans are now preparing an onslaught against tried and tested safety net programs such as Social Security and Medicare. Watch for this one folks: right wingers are now saying we can’t afford to pay for these programs and it will be a big campaign issue in 2012.

So if I were to speak my own conclusive summary on abortion, I might say: “If you want to do the crime, ya got to do the time (and pay for the social, costs).”

I have been doing a lot of soul searching, as a person who is both very liberal and also committed to Christianity, and I also did a lot of reading on the subject around the net. We are in the midst of a big time austerity push where Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid as currently constituted are under determined attack by the wealthy in this nation, and their agents, the GOP, as well as some conservative Democrats.

I can’t see America ever putting out the kind of resources it would take to care for 300,000 unwanted infants in any kind of coordinated, funded program that would establish federal rules for these infants to be cared for by society. Nor will the individual states deal with abortion fairly or at all uniformly. If society doesn’t care for the newborn infants, who will? Are we going to sell them? To whom? It is simply a fact that there are not that many people willing to adopt and care for that many unwanted infants each year. To think otherwise is wishful, delusional thinking.

I have always put the mother’s life first. Forcing a mother that is the victim of rape or incest to carry an unborn fetus to term is highly morally repugnant to me. I also think that forcing a 15 year old to carry an developing fetus to term is not something that should be legally required. It should be up to the parents, in consultation with their doctor and any spiritual advisers they wish to consult. And for God’s sake, let’s have realistic sex education as early as junior high school, realizing that these kids have bodies which are in many or most aspects adult and will engage in adult sexual behavior. While we’re at it, let’s give high school kids condoms through the agency of the school counselors or else the kids’ parents. All this to me has always been moral, realistic as well as Christian in its direction.

The real hang-up I have had is over more “standard” first-trimester abortions, and in the past, I have been generally against them after eight days after conception, because at that time a fetus develops a recognizably human brainwave, as scientifically measured. Yet the fact remains, looking at the matter stone cold realistically, society is not going to expand the social safety net to care for the additional 300,000 infants a year that would result if first trimester abortions were outlawed.

I guess it’s that simple to me. I look at it in terms of a sort of “overall misery index” and at this point, very reluctantly, I would let Roe v. Wade stand and continue with first trimester abortions staying legal. By the way, I would make free “morning after pills” available all over the place and have the government pay for them.

There are those fundamentalist Christians who go so far as to say that birth control itself should be illegal since it might deny a potential life that would come to be if birth control were not available. And there are those pharmacists who will not fill prescriptions for the morning after pill or even birth control, citing religious grounds. Moreover, some state laws have supported a pharmacist’s right to refuse this to people. Thank God, this is not prevalent and we do not live in a theocracy yet. And I DO mean “thank God.”

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I’m going to let my arguments and thoughts end at this point, providing some of the articles I have read which helped bring me to my current viewpoint. To summarize the reasons for my position, it is driven by 1.) the compassion I feel for all living beings, in this case putting the life of the pregnant woman ahead of that of the unborn fetus, 2.) a general conclusion based on what is possible politically to care for potential unwanted infants and thus 3.) an overall feeling of compassion and regard for the misery versus the health of women and unborn fetuses as well as society. For those of you who might question my credentials as a true Christian, I suggest you read my article, My Christian Religious Views.

I also have one last thing to say: abortion is a very difficult issue. I KNOW the seriousness of aborting a fetus and I have thought about this a lot. I can honestly say, I don’t know what’s right, yet these are my thoughts on the matter. It really bothers me that a fetus has a scientifically measured, recognizably human brainwave at eight days after conception, but I am not really convinced that this means that aborting such a fetus is killing a human being. It is alive, it has a human brainwave, but is it a human being? I guess such fetuses… well we need to think long and hard about this as individuals before we would decide to have an abortion. I might make some kind of law requiring counseling, but then the question is, who does the counseling, for that would determine what gets done, wouldn’t it? And finally, it has to be a woman’s right to choose an outcome. Although I have written this article from logical and compassionate analysis from one man, it is women who must make such difficult decisions, and so for the first trimester, I would leave it up to them.

I pray to God that my thinking here has some kind of decent validity and moral correctness. But I don’t really claim to know for sure. We certainly shouldn’t kill each other over this, nor threaten violence. Here are some of the articles which have contributed to my viewpoint on abortion:

I have been thinking about this for a long time. See The Rise of the Religious Left — Why Christianity Isn’t Just for Conservatives, AlterNet on Evans Liberal Politics, October 17, 2009, by Anna Hartnell.

See The Human Sacrifice Encouragement Act of 2011 (Updated), Daily Kos on Evans Liberal Politics, February 5, 2011, by dengre: In this bill, Republicans wanted to turn pregnant raped women who are about to die during pregnancy away from hospitals and out in the streets rather than allow abortion of any kind, ever. I’m not quite sure what ever happened to this legislation.

See John Stewart on Sen. Kyl’s ‘political strategy known as lying’, The Raw Story on Evans Liberal Politics, April 12, 2011, by Kase Wickman:

… one of the last sticking points in reaching a budget deal to avoid government shutdown was whether Planned Parenthood would receive federal funding or not. Sen. Jon Kyl (R-AZ) argued that abortion is “well over 90 percent of what Planned Parenthood does,” when abortions actually account for only 3 percent of PPFA’s services. When confronted, his office said that it was “not intended to be a factual statement.”

One of the best religious articles I read on the subject of abortion was Liberal Christians and Abortion, Anitra.net, no date:

One thing to understand about Liberal Christianity is that it tries to adhere to the spirit of scripture and not necessarily to the letter. There are often no specific scriptural texts on a particular subject. Or the specific texts may say the opposite, taken literally, than what a Liberal Christian would understand to be the spirit of scripture as a whole.

If you ever go back to look at the 19th century debates about abolishing slavery, you will see what I mean. Not a single text in the bible says that slavery ought to be abolished. On the contrary there are specific instructions to slaves to be diligent and obedient to their masters. So the supporters of slavery had lots of scriptural backing for their position, and the abolitionists had very little. But the abolitionists based their case on what the bible teaches overall about the nature of human beings, and God’s love for each and every one, and drew the conclusion, in spite of what a surface reading of scripture seems to say, that slavery was morally wrong and ought to be abolished.

When it comes to abortion, I cannot speak for all Liberal Christians, but this is my take on it.

1. Every conception creates a human life and God loves and honors that human life and wants it to develop to its full potential. Every abortion is tragic insofar as it ends a human life.

2. Every woman’s life is dear to God as well. God loves the mother as much as the child and wants childbearing to be a joy for her. God never values the child above the mother (as most anti-choice advocates do) nor the mother above the child.

3. In some circumstances, bearing a child would bring great hardship to the mother and to others in her family. In such a case, one may have to weigh whether the cost of bringing a new life into the world is justified when the impacts on other lives are considered. This is a never a judgment to be made lightly, nor is there a simple rule one can follow, as the circumstances vary so much from one situation to another. All things considered, in some circumstances it is better not to continue the pregnancy. (Just as, in some circumstances it is better not to continue a marriage.)

Also see Sex and the Liberal Christian, National Sexuality Resource Center, July 10, 2006, by Timothy F. Simpson.

Also see Abortion Access: Current beliefs by various religious and secular groups, Religous Tolerance.org, no date, which has a pretty complete listing of mainline and liberal Christian denominations which support a woman’s right to choose.

Also see Abortion Issue Again Dividing Catholic Votes, September 16, 2008, by David D. Kirkpatrick, which discusses how the abortion issue contributed to splitting the Catholic vote in the Presidential election of 2008.

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Another Face of the US Recession: Homeless Children

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December 26, 2011

 

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As her mother sat in a homeless shelter in downtown Miami, talking about her economic struggles and loss of faith in the U.S. political system, 3-year-old Aeisha Touray blurted out what sounded like a new slogan for the Occupy Wall Street protest movement.

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“How dare you!” the girl said abruptly as she nudged a toy car across a conference room table at the Chapman Partnership shelter in Miami’s tough and predominantly black Overtown neighborhood.

There was no telling what Aeisha was thinking as her 32-year-old mother, Nairkahe Touray, spoke of how she burned through her savings and wound up living in a car with five of her eight children earlier this year.

But how dare you indeed? How does anyone explain to kids like Aeisha and countless others how they wound up homeless in the world’s richest nation?

In a report issued earlier this month, the National Center on Family Homelessness, based in Needham, Massachusetts, said 1.6 million children were living on the streets of the United States last year or in shelters, motels and doubled-up with other families.

That marked a 38 percent jump in child homelessness since 2007 and Ellen Bassuk, the center’s president, attributes the increase to fallout from the U.S. recession and a surge in the number of extremely poor households headed by women.

Recent data from the U.S. Census Bureau provided a sobering backdrop. Based on new or experimental methodology aimed at providing a fuller picture of poverty, the data showed that about 48 percent of Americans are living in poverty or on low incomes.

Under the bureau’s so-called Supplemental Poverty Measure for 2010, issued last month, the poverty level for a family of four was set at income anywhere below $24,343 per year.

“I see it every day,” said Alfredo Brown, 73, a retired army officer and deputy director of the non-profit Chapman Partnership, when asked about child homelessness.

The organization, funded largely by a 1 percent food and beverage tax on larger restaurants to bankroll homeless programs, operates two sprawling homeless shelters in Miami-Dade County.

“I see so many children and mothers that are homeless and sleeping in their car or an abandoned building, an old bus. It’s a sad situation that we live in a country that has so much and many people have so little,” Brown said.

Child homelessness is a relatively new social problem in the United States, where being on the street and the stigma attached to it has long been associated with adults with alcohol or drug dependency issues.

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Families accounted for less than 1 percent of the U.S. homeless population in the mid-1980s, according to Bassuk, but they now comprise about a third of the homeless population. A lot of children are dependent on poverty-stricken single moms.

“There’s sort of a Third World emerging right in our backyard. You know, we talk about developing countries but look at what’s going on here,” Bassuk said.

To put a face to the breadth and depth of the homeless problem, a team of Reuters journalists fanned out across the country in the past week, for interviews with parents and children who are down on their luck.

From Skid Row in Los Angeles to the South Bronx in New York, a common thread of economic devastation from the recession ran throughout many of the stories these people told. ….

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Why People Stay On Welfare or Disability: My Story of Disillusionment

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December 16, 2011

 

Why People Stay on Welfare or Disability:
My Story of Disillusionment

Evans Liberal Politics, December 16, 2011, origninally publbished on June 13, 2011, by Paul Evans:

I don’t really know how to introduce this true story of mine. I have real difficulty accepting it, or believing that the Federal and State of Ohio governments are this incredibly stupid — or evil. Frankly, my conclusion is that this is the way the deck is stacked for people like me. Once you are down on disability, and reach some age in the 50-year-old range, you simply are not supposed to recover from that. The financial rules and regulations which Social Security and the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services are supposed to enforce, do not allow anybody like me to make a comeback and lead a normal life.

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I have been on full disability since 1987, for mental illness. In the last year that was paying me $307 in SSI and $387 in (earned) SSA from Social Security, for a total of $694 a month. Everything was OK for many years because I lived with my nuclear family and we were all doing O.K. Then my sister, who as a veterinarian was making good money, passed away unexpectedly, and soon after, my mother died. I had cared for Mom and Dad for two years before Mom passed on, and then cared for Dad for 3 years, until the beginning of 2010. Then, at the very end of 2009, with me having a short spell in a mental hospital, there was no one to care for Dad. The first call I made from the hospital was to the local Hospice, begging them to please look after Dad, but they did not, and Dad soon ended up in the emergency room, for eight days, and almost died there.

Since then Dad has lived in a local nursing home. As a mental patient, and I might add as one who has never been arrested and one who very strongly loves his Dad, at this point someone in power decided I was not fit to look after Dad, whose senile dementia was growing worse. So they appointed a guardian for dad, I might add, a guardian who has never helped me with one cent of the bills he promised to pay for me at a meeting in May, 2010 (but not in writing, alas).

And here’s a warning for all those whose parents are getting older: Medicare will pay for only two months of physical therapy. But all the health insurance contracts providing nursing home insurance are rigged. After two months, when the physical therapy stops, there is a clause in all the health insurance contracts that physical therapy stopping means that the health insurance provider stops paying for the nursing home stay. In our case, Dad had nursing home insurance for one full year, but they stopped paying when the physical therapy stopped, two months into his stay at the nursing home.

Insofar as I can tell, this sort of clause is in all the health insurance policies that I am aware of. So beware!

So anyway, at that point we eventually get Medicaid to pay for Dad to stay in the nursing home, but at least in Ohio, when Medicaid is used to pay for an elderly person’s nursing home stay, this cuts off all access to the patient’s funds, even by his or her family. In other words, Dad has three small retirements coming in, but as soon as Dad went on Medicaid, I could not hope to have the use of any of Dad’s money at all. Using Medicaid to pay for a nursing home stay, in the state of Ohio at least, cuts off all access to the patients’ funds for all family members.

I badly needed these funds to take care of Dad’s home, where I live. A water heater and a cold water well tank had to be replaced. A couple of electrical outlets blew up. I could not use Dad’s money to pay for needed repairs to his own house. I have not been able to pay these bills and some repair people have already sued me. Some states (14 so far) now allow for jail for failure to pay your debts.

By this time, I had taken in two people who needed help, from a homeless shelter in Akron, but we were flat broke most of the time, and the three of us were living just on my disability checks. These two new people who were living with me had past records which made it especially hard for them to find jobs.

Then, about five months ago, my old car died and we were stranded except for the kind decency of a few friends who gave us rides. We are still looking for a car as charity as of the publication date of this article. We live six miles out in the country. We cannot even afford to heat the whole house. A few rooms are warmed with electric heaters, although of course that makes the electric bill something we often cannot afford to pay.

So, getting back to my attempts to get off disability, I thought, perhaps and hopefully the time had come that I would be able to hold down a job myself. I worked six to seven weeks about 20 hours a week at my new job of website design and telemarketing to get website design customers, for a good man who took a chance and hired me, despite my lack of much of an employment history.

Then came the bad news. Despite the fact that I had worked through the Bureau of Vocational Rehabilitation, Social Security did NOT give me any time to get back on my feet before they informed me that each month, after $65 dollars free and clear, they were deducting HALF of what I made from my SSI check. Then the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services kicked in. Those kind folks reduced my food stamps benefit from $480 a month to $277 a month. They also initiated a monthly medical spenddown, starting at $36 a month, before I would receive my Medicare or Medicaid benefits at all.

The long and the short of it is that I found myself making about the SAME in wages and benefits while working about 20 hours a week than I was if I just sat there and stayed on full disability, doing nothing.

Absolutely incredible, crazy and stupid as hell, I know, but that is the truth.

To complete the picture, making no more money than I did while I was disabled, I could not at that point pay my phone and internet bill. I needed this very much for my job, not to mention for Evans Liberal Politics.

Ah, but there is still more. At the beginning of October, which is about three months after I had to quit my job, Social Security informed me that they had made an overpayment to me, so that for October, November and December of this year, my SSI payment would not be the usual $307 but only $239 a month. I thought that was a nice touch, don’t you?

So there you have it. I have apologized profusely to my boss, Tom, who is a wonderful Christian gentleman and understood completely. But without phone and internet, I could not do my job, and so I told Tom that I would be unable to work for him.

I just find it so incredible that this is the way the government encourages people to get off of disability/welfare, taking so much away in reduced benefits that the disabled person is actually making less than if he/she simply stayed on welfare. This is no rant, I simply wanted to get the truth of my own situation out there. I don’t expect that any change or help will come to me by writing this post, but I very much DO want all the “pull yourself up by your own bootstraps” and “take personal responsibiilty” people out there to realize: our own government is making it impossible for disabled people to get back to work. I want to work, I am well enough to work, but there is NO PROGRAM for a disabled person to gradually get back on their feet.

Guess I’m headed back to the welfare dime. Seems like that’s where the government wants me. I really have no choice in the matter. No one will hire me for a good paying, full time job, and if they did, I would lose my Medicare and Medicaid benefits for good. Do you think some prospective employer is going to replace THAT??? Do you really think that at age 54, having been on disability since 1987, I am going to take a chance like that (assuming I could get hired at a good paying job)??

No, like the song says, “when you’re down, that’s where you’ll stay”. That seems to be the way the government wants it.

How about you, my readers? Have any of you experienced similar horror stories in trying to get off of the welfare dime and getting back to work? If so, please feel encouraged to leave a comment below. ~ Evans Liberal Politics owner Paul Evans

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Georgia Immigration Law: Thousands Protest For Reform At State Capitol

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July 2, 2011

 

Georgia Immigration Law: Thousands Protest For Reform At State Capitol, The Huffington Post, July 2, 2011, by HuffPo.

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ATLANTA (AP) — Thousands of marchers stormed the Georgia Capitol on Saturday to protest the state’s new immigration law, which they say creates an unwelcome environment for people of color and those in search of a better life.

Men, women and children of all ages converged on downtown Atlanta for the march and rally, cheering speakers while shading themselves with umbrellas and posters. Capitol police and organizers estimated the crowd at between 8,000 and 14,000. They filled the blocks around the Capitol, holding signs decrying House Bill 87 and reading “Immigration Reform Now!”

Friends Jessica Bamaca and Melany Cordero held a poster that read: “How would you feel if your family got broken apart?”

Bamaca was born in the U.S., but her mother and sister are from Guatemala. She said she fears they will be deported.

“I would be here by myself,” said Bamaca, 13. “I have a feeling (the governor) doesn’t know the pain affecting families. If he were to be in our position, how would he react?”

Adelina Nicholls, executive director of the Georgia Latino Alliance for Human Rights, said the crowd was sending a message.

“They are ready to fight,” Nicholls said. “We need immigration reform, and no HB87 is going to stop us. We have earned the right to be here.” ….

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Welcome to the New Evans Liberal Christian Politics

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June 30, 2011

 

Welcome to the New
Evans Liberal Christian Politics

Evans Liberal Christian Politics, June 30, 2011, by Paul Evans:

Evans Liberal Politics, first as a Dreamweaver CS3 and then CS4 website, began at the time of the last Presidential election. Then we emerged in the fall of 2009 as a WordPress site, and always had pretty much the same theme. We have always covered the news from a liberal (and progressive) perspective, and tried to provide interesting political analysis. We have tried to provide subject matter that is truthful, so far as I am capable of knowing the truth. And increasingly, we have looked at current evens, news and politics from a Christian perspective.

I am now motivated and inspired to take Evans Liberal Politics in a new direction: thus the new name of “Evans Liberal Christian Politics.” We are hoping to move our coverage to social justice issues, as well as economic justice issues, and the political reality concerning them, and to do so through the eyes of a committed liberal Christian.

Bear with me, as I am more inspired and spiritually led to change the direction of Evans Liberal Christian Politics, than I am knowledgeable in terms of the topics of social and economic justice. On the other hand, there certainly have been a lot of articles on these topics, even if they were not the main subject of the articles I wrote or posted. Yes, I am fairly knowledgeable politically, but if you look at my Guide to Liberal News and Politics on the Web, you can begin to see that there must be 1,000 or more websites, providing news and politics of interest to liberals and progressives.

However, if you think about it, exactly how many websites or blogs come to mind which provide liberal news and politics coverage, concentrating on social justice (and economic justice) issues, and do so from a liberal Christian perspective?

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My own Christian faith burns strongly within me these days, so that the moment I thought of this perspective, I knew that this is where I want to take my website/blog. Besides providing coverage as mentioned above, we will try to emphasize our flash-based chat room, as a place for fellowship and respectful discussion of the issues of the day. There will remain, essentially the same pages on the menu at the top of the blog, but I’m sure some will be replaced, and others rewritten.

At first, at least, the blog will see the major change, over to an emphasis on social and economic justice from a liberal Christian Perspective. And just as you might expect from a liberal Christian website, you can expect articles about the intersection of religion and politics. I am certainly not doing this for me, but as I feel led by God. I want to do a great job with this attempt, but I surely could use some help. If you might want to help me out, enthusiasm is far more important than is experience. Anyone interested should be encouraged to email me.

Those of you interested in where I’m coming from might feel encouraged to read my Christian religious views, and also the article I wrote called Straight talk on caring.

Postscript: I have had a few people object to my new emphasis on an intersection between a liberal view of politics and any Christian basis for that, and mostly the objection was based on a strong view of separation of church and state (a view with I heartily share). So let me just provide my answer to one such objection, made by a friend of mine of many years:

I certainly apologize about the new title and emphasis on a Christian lens through which I try to bring a focus on the nation’s political news. I also really realize strongly that any connection between Christianity (or any other religion) and politics is offensive to many people and I apologize with all due honesty about offending those of you who object. For me, really, bringing the word “Christian” into the title is basically a new and stronger emphasis on caring in terms of Christian sorts of (agape) love for our brothers and sisters, and this is meant in terms of having a caring political system in which we “feed our sheep” and take care of our fellow man. My own faith is the very reason, in fact, that I am so strongly liberal. I speak a lot about this on the “My Christian Religious Views” page.

Party, also, this new emphasis on the interconnection of faith and politics is an attempt to reach out to Christian Reagan democrats and Independents and to try to show them and other Christians my reasoning: why for me, as I Christian, I cannot be anything other than a liberal. I hope people realize that nonetheless I am very much also in favor of a strong separation of church and state. But still, I make no apologies about the fact that this website is both liberal and Christian. I do not know of any other voice on the internet that specifically takes this point of view, and this is the point of view that I am promoting.

I hope that might make some of you feel at all better about the new emphasis. ~ owner Paul Evans

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June 11, 2011

 

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Press Release: POE Calls for Investigations Into Justice Thomas in Light of New Financial Disclosures

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June 8, 2011

 

Press Release: POE Calls for Investigation
Into Justice Thomas in Light of New Financial Disclosures

Press Release: POE Calls for Investigations Into Justice Thomas in Light of New Financial Disclosures, Protect Our Elections, June 1, 2011, by CD, excerpt quoted verbatim:

New Information Reveals Thomas Invested In Lobbying Firm Tied To Tea Party and Engaged In “Judicial Insider Trading” To Enrich His Wife.

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WASHINGTON, June 1, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — ProtectOurElections.org, a campaign finance watchdog, has asked the FBI and Department of Justice to investigate Justice Clarence Thomas and his wife, Virginia (Ginni) Thomas for financial and judicial corruption partly based on the Justice’s newest financial disclosures.

First, the organization alleges, Justice Thomas falsified 20 years of judicial financial disclosure forms by denying that his wife had income sources; second, he engaged in judicial corruption by receiving $100,000 in support from Citizens United during his nomination and then ruling in favor of Citizens United in 2010 without disclosing that fact or disqualifying himself; and third, he apparently conspired with his wife in a form of “judicial insider trading” by providing her with information about the result of the Court’s decision in Citizens United prior to its issuance, which she then used to launch a new company to take financial advantage of that decision to benefit her and her husband.

On Friday, May 27, 2011, Clarence Thomas’ 2010 Financial Disclosure Forms were released showing that he had invested thousands of dollars in Liberty Consulting Inc. a lobbying and consulting firm founded by his wife to cater to the “tea party.” The disclosure also revealed that his wife received “salary and benefits” from Liberty Consulting and Liberty Central.

Today, ProtectOurElections.org is calling on the DOJ’s Public Integrity Section and the FBI to consider this new information in their investigation of Justice Thomas and his wife. ….

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See Bringing Breitbart (And Thomas) To Justice (Action Alert!), Daily Kos, June 2, 2011, by Stranded Wind.

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