[Superman]

Maybe I can help here. I am a practicing roman catholic. Started my career as an altar boy roughly forty years ago. Today I am a Eucharistic Minister, CCD teacher, etc. And a liberal. So those of you who think liberals are also satan worshippers should just pull the covers back over your heads and return to your sleep.

I believe the administrative/managerial arm of my faith is crossing the line. It seems to be bullying elected officials using the communion rail as a bludgeon. I believe abortion is wrong. Very very wrong. But I also believe that my Lord set these decisions up as individual decisions. If we take away the personal decision, we are not necessarily making good people out of bad people. Dealing with pregnancy and having a child (choosing not to have an abortion) avoids sin. Not being able to have an abortion does not avoid sin. In fact, it takes away the opportunity to make a decision that pleases God. In a perfect world, all children would be wanted, and abortions would not be popular. But making them illegal does not bring this perfect world about.

So, I don't happen to believe that legislation has any impact on sin, other than perhaps to strip people of their opportunity to make a free choice to reject sin and please God. I don't think you can legislate morality, even if you try.

But I'm looking for the really astonishing finding here. I suspect that the same geniuses who believe that dropping bombs on Muslims makes us safer from terrorists, also believe that avoiding jail time is the same as pleasing God.

And I just want to hear it directly from them.