President Biden then: “My wife said I was the most socially conservative man she had ever known […] When it comes to issues like abortion, amnesty, and acid, I’m about as liberal as your grandmother. I don’t like the [Roe v. Wade] decision on abortion. I think it went too far. I don’t think that a woman has the sole right to say what should happen to her body.”
President Biden now: “I’m a practicing Catholic. I’ve supported Roe vs. Wade. And the reason I support Roe vs. Wade is the most rational basis upon which confessional faiths can agree: No one knows precisely when does human life begin.”
So which version of the president is correct? That’s what I explore in today’s piece for Catholic Answers. Check it out (and also, go vote!)
Can any honest person buy the “personally opposed, but don’t want to enforce my views” line anymore. Biden means to tell me that he holds the Catholic faith whole and inviolate, he believes that it is murder of an innocent human being and of the gravest of sins. And yet, he is just so brimming and overflowing with a conviction of human liberty and a fear of enforcing his views top down. He is Thomas Jefferson reincarnated x10. The Patrick Henry of our time. It is so unfathomable for him to force others by the power of law, to submit to the decisions that are in line with his if they disagree. Apply this description to Biden on gun control, taxation, school choice, religious liberty and LGBT, mask mandates etc. and Joe the Libertarian, somehow disappears.
Nope! That’s a cop-out for sure. A sure sign of a weak leader! Imagine William Wallace with such a passive viewpoint. Instead of yelling “Freedom!”, Braveheart would build up to the moment and he would come riding in on his horse and yell “Personally, I think we should yell freedom, but in this moment, I think I’ll yell “Retreat!”
How you liking the synod on synodality? Have you found a synodal buddy to get synodal with yet? Or are you one of those anti-synod bigots? Francis wants to know.