Hey, a public official who's not acting like a crazy person!

[moominmuppet]

Suozzi, a Catholic who supports abortion rights, in May 2005 proposed the plan to encourage adoption, promote information about contraceptives to reduce the number of unplanned pregnancies and provide homes for single mothers in the county. Suozzi has said he hopes the plan can "bring together opposing sides" to create a "world with fewer abortions" (Kaiser Daily Women's Health Policy Report, 5/12/05). He also appointed a 70-member task force to work on the proposal (AP/7online.com, 2/7). Members of the task force include representatives of public schools, universities, hospitals, social services, religious groups and not-for-profit organizations -- including Planned Parenthood of Nassau County and Catholic Charities USA, which support and oppose abortion rights, respectively -- the New York Times reports (Lambert, New York Times, 2/6).

Also:

National Politics & Policy | Male U.S. Representatives With Daughters More Likely To Vote in Favor of Abortion Rights, Women's Issues, Report Says

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and in other goodish news

[calebbullen.livejournal.com]

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5194527

Re: and in other goodish news

[moominmuppet.livejournal.com]

Ah, good to see! I've heard some evangelicals speaking up about the environmental issue previously. The ones who aren't dead certain we're already at the end-times can be very good on that sort of thing. "Stewardship" is a major thing in christianity. Evangelicals can be really good about a decent number of issues, although I'm not always pleased about the specifics of how they deal with them (since they do, after all, have evangelical goals). Poverty and some other social justice issues, especially.

Re: and in other goodish news

[calebbullen.livejournal.com]

yeah, I heard the story this morning and was struck by the difference between the two kinds. The way they had it on air, you went from them talking about how it's a moral issue because ecologic issues hit poor people harder to the other guy talking about God puts humans first in stewardship and going against business and economic interests is not putting humans first.

My brain did a spit take.

I mean there's a lot I don't like about religion and especially Christianity but how could you possibly be for Jesus and thnk that protecting the poor isn't putting people first but proctecting business is?

I'm no theologian but I have read a christian bible and Jesus didn't seem like a real pro-business cat.