This man whose patron saint is St.Francis Xavier voted against a ban on partial birth abortion. In other words, he voted to allow doctors and mothers to murder a baby in the most diabolical way as the baby is being born. Shocking is not the term to describe this callousness.
This man is morally bankrupt and a mortal sinner. He needs our prayers for his conversion. Could you imagine a pedophile who voted against banning the sexual exploitation of children saying I think we can find common ground on this, yet, this man says the same about a baby being murdered in the most gruesome way as she is being born. And President Biden, a Catholic, condones this.
I wonder if this man considers himself a devout Catholic as President Biden describes himself?
From the Salt Lake Tribune:
Utah Sen. Mitt Romney tussled Tuesday with Xavier Becerra, President Joe Biden’s nominee as secretary of Health and Human Services, over his stand on abortion and Democratic proposals to expand a nearly bankrupt Medicare system.
During Becerra’s confirmation hearing, Romney asked the nominee — who is the current California attorney general and a former member of Congress — why he once voted against so-called “partial-birth abortion,” but didn’t get a direct answer. It is a form of late-term abortion where a fetus is partially delivered before it is aborted.
“There’s a division in our country with regards to the issue of abortion,” Romney said. “But most people agree that partial birth abortion is awful. You voted against a ban on partial birth abortion. Why?”
Instead of a direct answer, Becerra said he has worked for decades to protect the health of men and women. On abortion, he said, “I understand that people have different deeply held beliefs on this issue and I respect that” — and said he hopes to help seek common ground.
Romney responded, “I think we can reach common ground on many issues, but on partial birth abortion, it sounds like we’re not going to reach common ground there.”
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Father McDonald,
Sort of off topic but I thought you would find this of immense interest:
A resolution in Canada's parliament to declare China’s human-rights abuses against Uighur Muslims a genocide passed unanimously on Monday.
The 266-0 vote opens the door to further policy action from the Canadian government. Though the resolution received resounding support in parliament, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and most of his cabinet declined to attend the vote. One cabinet member, foreign affairs minister Marc Garneau, abstained on behalf of the government.
Perhaps Pope Francis could make a statement on Xavier Becerra‘s suitability as secretary of HHS? Or maybe a bishop or cardinal of Washington DC or the USCCB? It would be nice if a public statement was made and published.
Anonymous at 10:33 am,
They would if he were a faithful Catholic adhering to Church teaching by condemning him for being “mean” with no compassion for “diversity” of viewspoints.
If ever there was a time to teach and admonish is now but they won’t
If he was against illegal immigration, the bishops' would have made a statement yesterday
Oh, I just realized Rachel Levine would be the Assistant Secretary of HHS. What policies is that agency responsible for?
And yet, "catholics" voted Democrat even though:
Sen. Ben Sasse (R-NE) repeatedly pressed President Joe Biden’s nominee to lead the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Xavier Becerra, on issues related to religious liberty and abortion during his Wednesday confirmation hearing.
“Mr. Becerra, you said a little while ago that you never sued the nuns, which is a pretty interesting way of reframing your bullying,” Sasse began. “You actually sued the federal government who had given an exemption to the nuns. Can you explain to us what the Little Sisters of the Poor were doing wrong?”
For the next few minutes, Sasse repeatedly had to repeat the question to Becerra because he repeatedly dodged it, claiming he was suing the federal government and not the nuns. Sasse pointed out he was evading the question.
“You say you didn’t sue the nuns, you sued the federal government that was keeping you from making sure that the nuns had to buy contraceptive insurance,” Sasse pressed. “Were the nuns gonna get pregnant?”
After another couple of minutes passed, Sasse grew increasingly frustrated with Becerra, noting that “for the fifth time, you did not answer the question.”
Yes, finding a sufficient number of Democrats who support even the most minor restrictions on abortion is unfortunately a fruitless exercise. Can anyone even think of just one restriction Pelosi would support? This Baccera guy is bad news---makes me wonder what religious instruction he ever got?!?
Anonymous at 10:42 PM,
Yet we have "catholic" bishops and priests who vote Democratic. I wonder when they are sitting in the flames of Hell they will understand they made a huge mistake.
Anonymous at 849:
If I am correct, the Church has never made a determination that any particular person is in Hell, not even Hitler, Stalin or Chairman Mao. So are you changing doctrine by saying that anyone voting Democratic is in Hell? If you are so certain of that, then can you tell me what the stock market will be at in a month? And when the first 90-degree day this season in Georgia will be recorded? Some districts are so overwhelmingly Democratic, you either vote that way or waste your vote on a Republican. (Think like John Lewis's old district in Atlanta, which often voted 80 percent+ Democratic.) Sometimes you have to vote in the D primary in order to get the "lesser of evils"---like in 2002 and 2006 when a lot of Republicans in DeKalb County voted in the D primary to get rid of looney Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney. As for Biden winning, maybe if Republicans had chosen someone who was less inflammatory, not prone to 3 am tweets, not so much a divider in chief, the outcome could have been different. But I am not convinced Republicans have learned much from Trump's defeat.
I guess little Anonymous at 10:58 PM is feeling the heat!
I doubt Trump lost based on the legal votes (not those pulled out of sacks after midnight in 5 battleground states where he was comfortably ahead at midnight). It is strange that a senile grifter who previously lost in 3 presidential campaigns because of his knack for plagiarism and exaggeration was all of a sudden a "winner."
I will take competency over "mean tweets" any day. If mean tweets kept you for voting for one of the most competent presidents in decades (no new wars, record economic record until the China flu curiously arrived, and fighting for the working man for the first time in decades) it shows how shallow some voters are. I hope you are happy with one of Biden's first acts putting union workers out of work.
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