{"id":872,"date":"2008-11-11T09:03:14","date_gmt":"2008-11-11T09:03:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/viamedia\/2008\/11\/the-cardinal-interviewed.html"},"modified":"2008-11-11T09:03:14","modified_gmt":"2008-11-11T09:03:14","slug":"the-cardinal-interviewed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2008\/11\/the-cardinal-interviewed.html","title":{"rendered":"The Cardinal Interviewed"},"content":{"rendered":"

Cardinal O’Malley, interviewed by Michael Paulson:<\/a><\/p>\n

When I was in high school (in Ohio) I joined the NAACP and did voter registration in black neighborhoods, when I wasn\u2019t old enough to vote myself. And I was there at Resurrection City after Martin Luther King was murdered, and living in the mud with thousands of people on the lawn of the Lincoln Memorial and having off-duty redneck policemen throwing canisters of tear gas at us and shouting obscenities. So, to me, the election of an Afro-American is like the Berlin Wall falling. I mean, for my generation, I suppose young people today can\u2019t appreciate that, but to me it is something very big.
\nMy joy, however, is tempered by the knowledge that this man has a deplorable record when it comes to prolife issues and is possibly in the pocket of Planned Parenthood which in its origins was a very racist organization to eliminate the blacks, and it\u2019s sort of ironic that he\u2019s been co-opted by them. However, he is the president, and everyone wishes him well, and we will try to work with him. However, I hope he realizes that his election was not a mandate to rush ahead with a pro-abortion platform. And the fact that in states like Florida and California, where he won, the referendums on marriage showed that the people who were more socially conservative voted for him, but voted for him for other reasons than for issues like this.
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\nQ: There\u2019s been a lot of conversation about whether there\u2019s another strategy on abortion, whether trying to reduce the number would be more effective at this point. What do you think about that idea? <\/em>
\nA: We\u2019re always for reducing the number. But we cannot turn our back on the obligation to work for just laws that protect human life, from the first moment of conception until natural death. So obviously we want to do all that we can to reduce the number of abortions, but as long as those unjust laws are on the book, human life is threatened. Now they\u2019re talking about pushing this FOCA, which doesn\u2019t sound to me like it\u2019s going to try and reduce abortions, but simply make them much more accessible to people, and pay for them, at home and abroad. So we must work diligently and tirelessly to change the laws, and work diligently and tirelessly to change people\u2019s hearts, so that there\u2019s a greater realization of the seriousness of this, and how our humanity is diminished when we are not respectful of human life.
\nQ: Is there anything you would like to see the conference do? Is there some action that you think should be taken?<\/em>
\nA: I would just like to see us have a united voice, and a strong response, one that will reinforce that there\u2019s no new way of being prolife, and that we must work on both tracks, trying to reduce the number of abortions and trying to change the laws.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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