A fair amount has been said about retooling the environmental message to 
appeal to voters with traditional moral standards with the idea that 
liberal candidates would sway voters over into their camps.  I have gone 
into the voting booth more than once determined to vote for environmentally 
friendly candidates and been unable to because of their "pro-choice (and by 
extension, infanticidal)" stances.

Think what the choice would be for you, if the only pro-environmental 
candidate would save forests and owls, but exterminate blacks and 
homosexuals.  That is the nature of the choice facing pro-lifers, which 
include Catholics.  A recent statement made on the Vatican email 
publication listed the environment right along with stem cell issues as an 
extension of the Catholic pro-life stance.

As long as candidates are committed to abortion on demand, a large 
contingent of the pro-environmental vote will be lost and it seems to me 
that Democrats are inextricably committed to the pro-choice stance right up 
to and including infanticide, and it is hopeless for liberals to think of 
tapping the true strength of the pro-environment vote.

Could it be possible to re-frame these issues in terms of self interest, 
profit and patriotism as someone recently suggested?  Moral conservatives 
are not going to flock to the environmental cause unless the other issues 
are taken out of the equation.

Peggy Murdock


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