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Article: Consistent life ethic.(LETTERS)(Letter to the editor)
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- National Catholic Reporter
- Article date:
- June 12, 2009
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Swatting at gnats and swallowing camels? As a Catholic who works for an international service agency governed by 31 Protestant, Orthodox and Anglican denominations, I often hear adulation for the Catholic church's "consistency" in advocating for life across an entire spectrum of right-to-life issues. Included in the church's teaching on the sanctity of life are its opposition to capital punishment, preemptive invasion of other countries, euthanasia, child slavery and sexual slavery, genocide, abortion, nuclear arms and the destruction of the world's ecosystem. In "Partisanship and the pulpit" we read that some Catholics make abortion the preeminent evil in the ...